Jim Winthers Volunteer Award (Recreation)
About Jim Winthers Volunteer Award (Recreation)
The Jim Winthers Volunteer Award recognizes life-time contributions and significant achievements in furthering recreational adaptive sports. Nominees for this award must have contributed a minimum of 10 years of volunteer service to Move United or one of its member organizations.
The Jim Winthers Volunteer Award is named in honor of Jim Winthers, a WWII veteran who was a member of the U.S. 10th Mountain Division- the Skiing 10th- an elite group specifically trained for alpine warfare. He eventually became a pioneer in teaching adaptive skiing, beginning with two friends who became amputees in the war; he taught them to ski on one leg using techniques he saw in Europe. Jim Winthers, with the support of other veterans, was one of the early founders of a predecessor organization to Move United in 1967.
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