Redefining Disability: Move United’s Adaptive Sports Podcast
Real stories. Real athletes. Redefining what's possible.
About
Let’s be real—people are unfamiliar with people with disabilities. At Move United, we believe sports have the power to change the world, pushing people further and bringing people closer. Sports make us more. Through adaptive sports, we show what people with disabilities are capable of.
We fuel candid conversations and incite the action it takes to build a world where everyone’s included. As a result, Move United launched “Redefining Disability,” an award-winning podcast that focuses on the power of sport. Through this podcast, we look forward to sharing how sports have made it possible for our nation’s top adaptive athletes, training tips from the best coaches and program leaders, and news on latest technology, equipment, and trends in the industry through this platform.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts or check out one of the links below. Be sure to subscribe!
Listen now to our latest episodes!
Gabriel Cardier: Running For Me Was Practical
Gabriel Cardier is an adaptive athlete, entrepreneur, and amputee advocate who lost his left leg in a 2014 motorcycle accident in Los Angeles. His athletic achievements include completing the Las Vegas half marathon and summiting Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano with Range of Motion Project (ROMP), where his team became the first all-amputee expedition to successfully reach the summit. Drawing from his MBA background and personal experience navigating the challenges of amputation recovery, Cardier is launching Aurushi, an adaptive apparel company to make functional, stylish apparel for people navigating recovery, prosthetics, or movement challenges.
Katherine Hayes Rodriguez: We're Not Going to Go Away
Katherine Hayes Rodriguez has been a pioneering force in adaptive skiing for nearly five decades. Beginning in 1976 as a volunteer with a program for visually impaired skiers in the Tahoe Basin, she became instrumental in professionalizing adaptive ski instruction across the United States. Katherine was an early leader of an organization that is now known as Achieve Tahoe, Move United’s first chapter, and served as a lead author of the first adaptive technical manual. She led clinics across the country and her work was crucial to the Professional Ski Instructors Association’s adoption of adaptive skiing as an official discipline in 1986. Click play below to hear her story!
Gaby Wake: Discovering Flight All Over Again
Marine Corps Veteran Gabby Wake was injured when a vehicle hit her motorcycle at a red light, resulting in a traumatic brain injury and damage to her back. Through the Wounded Warrior Battalion, she tried numerous adaptive sports. Gabby would medal at the DOD Warrior Games and Invictus Games in track and field as well as cycling events. But it is the sport of sled hockey that has really clicked and she is the goalie for the U.S. Women’s National Team.
Listen now to our latest episode!
Redefining Disability goes beyond the highlights to bring you real conversations with the people shaping adaptive sports. Each episode offers an intimate look at the journeys, expertise, and innovations driving this community forward. Tune in to hear from athletes with physical disabilities about how they’ve adapted and achieved, get practical guidance on starting or excelling in a particular adaptive sport, learn training techniques from elite coaches and program experts, explore the latest in adaptive technology and equipment, and stay current on upcoming events and programs across the country.
| Date | Title | Guest | Link | Summary | Sport |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-10 | Running For Me Was Practical | Gabriel Cardier | Listen | Gabriel Cardier is an adaptive athlete, entrepreneur, and amputee advocate who lost his left leg in a 2014 motorcycle accident in Los Angeles. His athletic achievements include completing the Las Vegas half marathon and summiting Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano with Range of Motion Project (ROMP), where his team became the first all-amputee expedition to successfully reach the summit. | Track & Field |
| 2026-01-27 | We're Not Going to Go Away | Katherine Hayes Rodriguez | Listen | Katherine Hayes Rodriguez has been a pioneering force in adaptive skiing for nearly five decades. Beginning in 1976 as a volunteer with a program for visually impaired skiers in the Tahoe Basin, she became instrumental in professionalizing adaptive ski instruction across the United States. | Skiing (General) |
| 2026-01-12 | Discovering Flight All Over Again | Marine Corps Veteran Gabby Wake | Listen | Marine Corps Veteran Gabby Wake was injured when a vehicle hit her motorcycle at a red light, resulting in a traumatic brain injury and damage to her back. Through the Wounded Warrior Battalion, she tried numerous adaptive sports. | |
| 2025-12-29 | They're All Adrenaline Junkies | Kim Seevers | Listen | Kim Seevers has spent nearly three decades in winter adaptive sports, including serving as the sighted guide for an alpine ski racer who competed in the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi Russia. Later that year, she developed the first bobsled and skeleton development camp for athletes with disabilities in Lake Placid, NY and has created a premier grassroots program for developing elite para bobsled and skeleton athletes that is now a decade old. | Bobsled |
| 2025-12-15 | It's a Combination of Hockey, Nordic Skiing and Bumper Cars | Josh Pauls | Listen | Josh Pauls was born without a tibia in both legs and had them both amputated at 10 months old. At age eight, he would be introduced to the game of sled hockey. | Sled Hockey; Nordic Skiing; Skiing (General) |
| 2025-12-01 | I Really Didn't Know What Was Possible | Pearl Outlaw | Listen | Pearl Outlaw's journey with vision loss began at age nine with a diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Now 27, she's experienced the full progression of RP—from night blindness in childhood to using a cane in high school, to a rapid transition in 2018 that left her almost completely without vision within months. | |
| 2025-11-17 | You Get Pushed Off the Top and It's Go Time. | Bob Balk | Listen | Bob Balk is a 6X Paralympian and Paralympic medalist, representing the U.S. in both summer and winter games for over three decades. | |
| 2025-11-03 | My Brothers Saved My Life | Gene Calantoc | Listen | Gene Calantoc joined the U.S. Army as a Combat Engineer in 2011 and deployed to Afghanistan in 2012-2013 with the 101st Screaming Eagles. | |
| 2025-10-20 | My Reflexes Weren't Up to Cat Standards | Shawn Meredith | Listen | Shawn Meredith attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was a varsity athlete on their world-renowned wheelchair track team. He earned numerous national championships, national records, and four world records while at Illinois, and represented Team USA twice at the Paralympic Games in 1992 and 1996, winning a total of 5 gold and one silver medals. | |
| 2025-10-06 | I'm Not Worried About Anything Else | Kenley Teller | Listen | Kenley Teller was five years old when she started with adaptive sports, after going on a ski trip with Outdoors For All, a Move United member organization in Washington State. There, she was told about a swimming program and she has been swimming at the club level ever since. | Swimming |
| 2025-09-29 | Competition Was Not My Ride or Die | Kate Brim | Listen | In 2017, Kate Brim sustained a spinal cord injury when she went in for a routine surgery for a herniated disc. She was introduced to adaptive sports through Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, a Move United member organization based in Grand Rapids. | |
| 2025-09-22 | You’re All In or You’re Not | Dominic Norris | Listen | Dominic Norris started playing ice hockey at three years old, having his jersey retired in Maryland after having the most points scored in state history (244 points in 58 games). He continued to play in college at Franklin Pierce University and Stevenson University, where he is finishing a master’s degree, as well as in Europe. | Sled Hockey |
| 2025-09-15 | Football Was a Lifeline For Me | Alabama National Guard | Listen | JD Drinkard enlisted in the Alabama National Guard as the result of September 11th and would be deployed to Iraq with his unit. As the result of injuries sustained in country, he would be medically retired. | |
| 2025-09-08 | I Bounced Back Pretty Quickly | Tyler Merren | Listen | As a teenager, Tyler Merren was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease which causes gradual deterioration in sight. He was introduced to goalball in 1999 at a sports education camp hosted by U.S. | |
| 2025-09-01 | When There is Chaos, I Find My Calm | Mason Symons | Listen | In 2009, Mason Symons was on his way to the Armory to report to duty with the PA Army National Guard when he had a motorcycle accident and broke his neck. After that, he would discover the sport of wheelchair rugby. | Wheelchair Rugby |
| 2025-08-25 | If You Can't See What's Possible, You Don't Know What's Possible | Rob Rodriguez | Listen | At 10 months old, Rob Rodriguez had his right leg amputated below-the-knee. A gifted athlete, Rob has been a member of the para-elite triathlon team and the amputee soccer team for Team USA. | Triathlon |
| 2025-08-19 | Iron Will | Roderick Sewell | Listen | Roderick Sewell is a swimmer who represented Team USA on three national teams. In 2019, he became the first bilateral above-the-knee amputee to complete the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. | |
| 2025-08-11 | Reclaiming My Own Voice and Narrative | Maggie Baumer | Listen | Maggie Baumer is an attorney licensed to practice in both New York and Massachusetts. She currently serves as Area Clinic Business Manager for Hanger Clinic. | |
| 2025-08-05 | Did You Imagine Yourself in a Wheelchair? | Brendan Downes | Listen | Brendan Downes was born with spina bifida and started playing sports early in life. He now plays wheelchair softball for the Minnesota Twins and has been involved with adaptive sports through the Courage Kenny Center, a Move United member organization. | |
| 2025-07-28 | Let's Go with Option B, I Want to Live. | Option B | Listen | After surviving a traumatic boating accident that resulted in the amputation of his right leg, Parker Byrd became the first NCAA baseball player to attempt to play with a prosthetic. But his story doesn’t stop at physical recovery — he’s now a sought-after speaker and advocate for resilience, mental health, and purpose-driven living. | |
| 2025-07-21 | It Was The Right Thing To Do | Tatyana Mc | Listen | Tatyana McFadden is the most winning American track and field athlete of all time, Olympian or Paralympian! Some of Tatyana’s remarkable accomplishments include 22 Paralympic medals (including eight gold medals), 24 World Major Marathon wins, 7 Paralympic Games, 5 World Records, and 4 Grand Slams. | Track & Field |
| 2025-07-14 | I Try to Have Non Zero Days | Genevieve Rohner | Listen | Genevieve Rohner initially began riding horses for therapy at age four and fell in love with the sport the moment she sat on Sadie, the first horse she rode. The connection between horse and rider provides a sense of calmness and freedom for her and feeds her system in a way nothing else does. | |
| 2025-07-07 | The Guy With One Leg Outlifted You | In June | Listen | In June 2017, Garrett Schoonover was involved in a severe motorcycle accident. After four months and 13 limb-salvage surgeries, he decided to have his left leg amputated above the knee. | |
| 2025-06-23 | Full Speed Bumper Cars | Sarah Adam | Listen | Sarah Adam first discovered wheelchair rugby as a volunteer while in school studying occupational therapy with the program at DASA, a Move United Member organization in Missouri. After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, she would get classified into the sport in 2019 and earned a spot on the national team in 2022. | Wheelchair Rugby |
| 2025-06-20 | All The Noise, Busyness, and Chaos In The World Just Goes Away | Air Force Colonel Jacqui Marty | Listen | U.S. Air Force Colonel Jacqui Marty was in a motor vehicle accident in October 2015, while on temporary duty assignment in Abilene, TX. | |
| 2025-06-16 | It's Not the Right Time for Me to Have Fun | Navy Petty Officer Third Class Gabriella Zamora | Listen | U.S. Navy Petty Officer Third Class Gabriella Zamora, or Gabby, was diagnosed with compartment syndrome and has a spinal stimulator to manage her injuries. | |
| 2025-06-09 | She's Always Been A Little Fishy | Kari Treat | Listen | Kari Treat is an assistant swim coach at Reach Aquatics and has been involved with GLASA, a Move United member organization in the Chicago area. She received her Level 1 Para Swimming Coaching Certification and is passionate about celebrating incremental improvements and emphasizing the journey of learning and growth. | Swimming |
| 2025-06-03 | I Know I Had to Give Myself Some Grace | Bryce Ewing | Listen | Bryce Ewing played a lot of sports growing up. She then enlisted in the U.S. | Rowing |
| 2025-05-26 | Skiing With A Purpose | Marc Mast | Listen | Marc Mast started as a supervisor of Achieve Tahoe’s adaptive ski school in 1986 and earned his level 2 adaptive instructor certification in 1990. As one of the early pioneers in alpine adaptive winter skiing, he has decades of experience as a national and international clinician. | Skiing (General) |
| 2025-05-21 | A Look Back at the History of Para Alpine Skiing | Kathy Chandler | Listen | Kathy Chandler has been a pioneer in the adaptive sports space for decades, particular in para alpine skiing. She was one of the first individuals to become certified as an adaptive ski instructor and founded the program at Waterville Valley. | Alpine Skiing; Skiing (General) |
| 2025-05-12 | I Don't Have My Legs, But I'm Still Standing! | Purple Heart | Listen | Army veteran JP Lane was injured during a deployment to Afghanistan in 2010, sustaining 26 injuries and losing both legs. In addition to being a singer, author, and speaker, the Purple Heart recipient is also an athlete, winning three gold medals at the DOD Warrior Games. | |
| 2025-05-05 | I Skied Before I Walked Again | On April | Listen | On April 15, 2013, Marc Fucarile was supporting a friend running the Boston Marathon when his life immediately changed. He was feet away from the second bomb when it went off, which took his right leg above the knee, nearly his left leg, and he was covered in burns and had shrapnel in his body. | Track & Field |
| 2025-04-28 | Is This Going to Destroy the Thing I Love? | In July | Listen | In July 2009, Kevin Mather was on a training ride in the foothills of Los Angeles with a group of friends when he was hit by a truck. A few years later, he would win the wheelchair division of the Los Angeles Marathon and finished second at the 2012 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. | |
| 2025-04-21 | My Life Can Continue | Eden Schroeder | Listen | Eden Schroeder was a swimmer growing up and played other sports as well. At the age of 18, she became paralyzed after diving into shallow water. | Rowing |
| 2025-04-14 | Having One Leg Didn’t Stop Me From Doing Anything | Mikinzie Adams | Listen | Mikinzie Adams-Davis is an active 15-year-old adaptive athlete involved in a number of sports and recreational activities. But para cheer caught her attention, so she tried out for the team. | Adaptive Cheer |
| 2025-04-07 | There is Always Something Going On | Lee Trudell | Listen | Lee Trudell has been involved in cheerleading for over 30 years, starting back in high school. He had a job working cheer camps for 15 years and then starting judging and coaching. | Adaptive Cheer |
| 2025-03-31 | A Turning Point in My Life | Geoff Krill | Listen | After a snowmobile accident in 1995 that resulted in a spinal cord injury, Geoff Krill began skiing again and soon became a professional ski instructor. Since his injury, he has competed both nationally and internationally in downhill mountain biking and skiing events. | Skiing (General) |
| 2025-03-24 | I Was a Dancer Before My Accident | Keely Icardi | Listen | Keely Icardi had an accident shortly after graduating from high school. She started in adaptive archery and dabbled over time in different sports. | Archery |
| 2025-03-17 | The Nerves Are On the Wall | Noah Bury | Listen | Noah Bury had his ankle amputated when he was just 12 months old. He wasn’t introduced to adaptive sports until he was 18 years old, when he connected with Ogden Valley Adaptive Sports, a Move United member organization in Utah. | |
| 2025-03-10 | Just a Girl in a Wheelchair | Mia Emory | Listen | Mia Emory is a high school student who started her adaptive sports journey in 2019 playing wheelchair basketball. She also competes in track, swimming, and other sports through the Navigators Adaptive Sports Club, a Move United member organization based in New Jersey. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2025-03-03 | This Is All About Freedom | Sandy Dukat | Listen | Sandy Dukat was born with a limb deficiency in her right leg, leading to an amputation above the knee at four years old. She started out competing in swimming, but switched to alpine skiing after finding her love for speed on the slopes. | Alpine Skiing |
| 2025-02-24 | I'm the Brains, He's the Brawn | Listen | JJ O’Connor played ice hockey growing up. When he was 16 years old, he was injured during a game that left him paralyzed. | Sled Hockey | |
| 2025-02-17 | The Gentle Way | Nina Cutro | Listen | Nina Cutro-Kelly joined the Move United staff in 2023 as a Competition Manager, directly supporting Move United sanctioned competitions and Nationals. She represented Team USA at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. | |
| 2025-02-10 | It's Easy to Hate it When You Take it for Granted | Adam Popp | Listen | Adam Popp is a 12-year combat veteran of the Air Force with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2007, while working to disarm a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, Adam was injured by a secondary IED resulting in the amputation of his right leg above the knee. | |
| 2025-02-03 | I'm Going To Make This My Sport | Trevon Jenifer | Listen | Trevon Jenifer was born with a congenital amputation. He was a successful track athlete in his early years and a top wrestler in high school, finishing third in his weight class at the Maryland state tournament his senior year. | |
| 2025-01-27 | What Does Perfection Look Like? | Troy Davis | Listen | Troy Davis was born with a brittle bone disease and would be introduced to wheelchair sports in 1989. He would earn numerous national records in the sprints, would compete at the World Championships in 1994, and would be a member of Team USA for the 2000 Paralympic Games in Australia. | |
| 2025-01-20 | I Got the Mulligan | Marine Corps Master Sergeant Todd Smalenberg | Listen | U.S. Marine Corps Master Sergeant Todd Smalenberg has suffered a number of injuries throughout his military career. | |
| 2025-01-13 | Sometimes Things Happen Out of the Darkest Hours | Sarah Bettencourt | Listen | Sarah Bettencourt graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2005 and earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University while serving with the 23rd Marine Regiment. | |
| 2025-01-07 | More Than Mountains | Todd Huston | Listen | At the age of 14, Todd Huston’s legs got caught in the propeller of a boat and would eventually lead to one of them being amputated. Todd became a psychotherapist and clinical director of the Amputee Resource Center in California. | |
| 2024-12-30 | CP Has Always Kept Me On My Toes | Zach Miller | Listen | Zach Miller was born with cerebral palsy. He was introduced to para snowboarding at Winter Park through the Children’s Hospital in Denver. | Snowboarding |
| 2024-12-23 | Things Were Rolling My Way | Eddy Hutchens | Listen | Eddy Hutchens has bowled out of a wheelchair since 1990. In 2003-04, he started subbing in a league and then was hooked. | |
| 2024-12-16 | Skiing is about Community | Cecile Brown | Listen | Cecile Brown had her foot amputated around the age of four or five and started skiing around the same time with Central Maine Adaptive Sports, a Move United member organization. She got into race skiing with Maine Adaptive Sports, another member organization, and has also started racing with her high school ski team. | Skiing (General) |
| 2024-12-09 | So You’re Saying There’s A Chance | Keith Gabel | Listen | Keith Gabel was introduced to snowboarding in 2000 and he quickly developed a love for the sport. In June 2005, he was involved in an industrial accident that crushed his left foot, ultimately leading to amputation. | Snowboarding |
| 2024-12-02 | My Story Doesn't Really Start Until I Had My Accident | Alex Godowksk | Listen | As a first generation American, Alex Godowksk’s family were all into skiing, but he wanted to snowboard. While in high school, Alex was involved in a motorcycle accident, which caused him to lose his right foot. | Skiing (General) |
| 2024-11-25 | I Don’t Need To Buy Shoes | Debra Freed | Listen | Debra Freed enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at age 23. | |
| 2024-11-18 | Always a Baller | National Guard | Listen | rank Goebel II is a military veteran who served 11 years in a National Guard infantry unit. He’s been a bowler all of his life, becoming fascinated with the sport by age 5. | |
| 2024-11-11 | Down A Leg, Up A Life | Sam Schaefer | Listen | Sam Schaefer injured his foot during an Air Force training exercise. After 9 years of pain, he opted for amputation to get his quality of life back. | |
| 2024-11-04 | I Thought That Dream Went Away | Emily Oberst | Listen | Emily Oberst was diagnosed with bone cancer when she was in eighth grade, which required surgery on her left leg. Sports was her life and basketball was her favorite sport. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2024-10-29 | Nobody Cares If I Fall | Tracy Danzey | Listen | Tracy Danzey competed in track and swimming in high school. While attending Shepherd University and upon graduating, she kept an active lifestyle with activities like kayaking and hiking. | Swimming |
| 2024-10-21 | In My Mind, I Was Wiggling My Toes | Emi Perry | Listen | Emi Perry grew up in Japan, but moved back to the United States in 2011 to attend college, where she studied exercise science. She was a runner before sustaining a spinal cord injury in 2017. | |
| 2024-10-14 | Reinventing the Wheel | Judge Patricia Broderick | Listen | After a life-changing car accident as a teenager, Judge Patricia Broderick had two choices: remain in the safe haven of her parents or reinvent herself and find a new path through life as a woman in a wheelchair. She chose the latter. | |
| 2024-10-07 | It's Not Why Me. It's Why Not Me? | Jason Tabansky | Listen | Jason Tabansky grew up in South Texas. He spent over 15 years in the U.S. | |
| 2024-09-30 | Sports Were Sports To Me | Chris Hammer | Listen | Chris Hammer was born with one hand, the result of a congenital condition. He grew up playing multiple sports such as baseball and ice hockey, but ran cross country in high school. | Sled Hockey |
| 2024-09-24 | An Athlete and An Advocate | Courtney Ryan | Listen | Courtney Ryan was playing on the women’s soccer team at Metropolitan State University in Denver when she suffered an injury that left her paralyzed. She would be recruited by and transferred to the University of Arizona to play wheelchair basketball and finish her degree, winning a national title there as well. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2024-09-17 | It's Invisible, Until It's Not | Casey Orndorff | Listen | Casey Orndorff was born with cerebral palsy. He got started in sports by joining his track team in high school and then the cross country team his senior year. | |
| 2024-09-09 | It Was Game on From There | On August | Listen | On August 27, 2007, an IED destroyed the vehicle that U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Matthew Scholten was riding in near Bagdad, Iraq, causing a spinal fusion, traumatic brain injury, and more. | |
| 2024-09-03 | A Leg Up On Life | Kendra Herber | Listen | Kendra Herber had a birth deformity when she was born that resulted in becoming an amputee at the age of 2. It's a title that she has both struggled with and felt extreme pride in throughout the years. | |
| 2024-08-26 | Everyone Is On An Equal Playing Field | When Zion Walker | Listen | When Zion Walker was in fifth grade, he started attending the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind in Staunton, Virginia. Around the age of 12, his older brother Sean was playing the sport of goalball and he wanted to follow in his footsteps. | |
| 2024-08-19 | Finding The Sport That Works For You | Samantha Heyison | Listen | Samantha Heyison was born with constricted band syndrome impacting the formation of some of her limbs. She started playing sports early on, including soccer, softball, and basketball but eventually focused on track and field. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2024-08-12 | These Guys Are Really Athletes | Eric Newby | Listen | Eric Newby was injured in a car accident on the night of his high school graduation, Eric found independence and freedom when he was introduced to wheelchair rugby 5 weeks afterwards. He credits the sport for rebuilding his confidence and independence, for pulling him out of depression and realizing his full potential. | Wheelchair Rugby |
| 2024-08-05 | Breathing Into Others | John Register | Listen | John Register is a combat veteran and Paralympic Silver Medalist in long jump. He founded the United States Olympic Committee’s Paralympic Military Sports Program and served as the Acting CEO of the Amputee Coalition. | |
| 2024-07-30 | It Felt Like We Didn't Matter | Cortney Truitt | Listen | Cortney Truitt has paralysis in the left side of her body due to cerebral palsy. In 1998, at the age of seven, she would take up the sport of swimming. | Swimming |
| 2024-07-22 | Tread Setter Josie Fouts | Josie Fouts | Listen | Josie Fouts is a congenital amputee, which means she was born without her left hand. In December 2018, Josie won two national championships and set a national record at her first par cycling competition. | Cycling |
| 2024-07-15 | Disability Friendly: How to Move from Clueless to Inclusive | Lakeshore Foundation | Listen | John D. Kemp is President and CEO of the Lakeshore Foundation, a Move United member organization in Birmingham, Alabama. | |
| 2024-07-09 | There is No Off Season | Sam Bosco | Listen | Sam Bosco was six years old when she first got on a bike, riding to and from school with her dad. When she was 11, she had a limb lengthening surgery go awry that left her with a stunted left leg. | |
| 2024-07-01 | The Appearance of Normal | Jessica Heims | Listen | Jessica Heims was born with amniotic band syndrome that can compromise an unborn babies’ limbs. As a result, at the age of one, she would have her right leg amputated below the knee. | |
| 2024-06-24 | I Didn't Find Adaptive Sports, Adaptive Sports Found Me | Brandon Lyons | Listen | Brandon Lyons, from Mechanicsburg, PA, graduated from Penn State University in 2012 and started his career with Ernst & Young in the Washington, D.C. region. | |
| 2024-06-17 | Being a Goofy Rider | Shianti Lee | Listen | fter September 11, Shianti Lee enlisted in the Army Reserves after graduating from college. She would deploy to Iraq almost immediately. | |
| 2024-06-10 | Sports Are a Pathway to Life | Harsh Thakkar | Listen | In 2005 Harsh Thakkar had just started classes at the University of Maryland, Baltimore when he was robbed and shot, leaving him paralyzed at T12-L1. A strong athlete in high school he rediscovered his athletic identity through adaptive sports. | |
| 2024-06-03 | Learning On The Fly | Gregg Baumgarten | Listen | As an Adaptive PE teacher in the 1980’s, Gregg Baumgarten saw there were no competitive opportunities for many of his students who had physical disabilities. So he founded what is now Arizona Disabled Sports with his good friend Mark Grant. | |
| 2024-05-27 | Maybe One Day I Could Play One of Those Sports | Dan Castillo | Listen | Dan Castillo served for six years in the Armed Forces and was medically retired as a quadriplegic with a C4 spinal cord injury. He plays power soccer and was named to the U.S Boccia National Team back in October. | |
| 2024-05-20 | We Are a Great Team on Paper | Brian Bell | Listen | Brian Bell lost his leg at the age of 10 due to a train accident. After rehabilitation, he wanted to get back to playing basketball and football, his two favorite sports. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2024-05-13 | I Got a Rush | Julius Lee | Listen | Rev. Julius Lee is the Founder and President of SMCL Foundation & Associates. | |
| 2024-04-22 | Deal With This | Open Adaptive Surfing Championships World | Listen | The U.S. Open Adaptive Surfing Championships World-Wide Tour, with a prize package of $200,000, kicked off last month and have events coming up in Hawaii and California in the coming months. | |
| 2024-04-15 | I Can Do Hard Things | David Sarbonnet | Listen | After graduating from high school, David Sarbonnet followed in his father’s footsteps and became a Navy Seal. But his military career was cut short after a parachuting accident left him paralyzed. | |
| 2024-04-08 | A Culture of Yes | De Rama | Listen | At age two, RJ De Rama survived cancer but as a result lost some of his vision. By age 30, he was legally blind in both eyes. | |
| 2024-04-01 | I'm Not the Only One | Emily Hoskins | Listen | Emily Hoskins has been involved with wheelchair basketball for much of her life. She was a member of the St. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2024-03-25 | Living in the Closet About My Disability | Jamal Hill | Listen | At age 23, Jamal Hill discovered he had a condition known as CMT disease, a neurological condition that affects the muscles in his arms and legs. His love of swimming, which he developed at a young age, continues to this day. | Swimming |
| 2024-03-18 | The Art of Kicking and Punching | Brad Deminck | Listen | Brad Deminck is a 4th degree black belt in taekwondo and is the master instructor and head coach at Lakeshore Taekwondo Academy in Michigan. He also coaches the para taekwondo team. | |
| 2024-03-11 | Following the Black Line | Mallory Weggemann | Listen | In 2008, Mallory Weggemann underwent a medical procedure that left her paralyzed from the waist down. But three months after the injury, she returned to the sport of swimming that she loved. | Swimming |
| 2024-03-04 | What Sports Haven't I Tried? | Zion Redington | Listen | Zion Redington started playing wheelchair basketball as a youth in Tennessee and played a number of adaptive sports as well, competing at the Endeavor Games and other competitions. He is now the youngest member of the national wheelchair rugby team with the hope of making Team USA for the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. | Wheelchair Rugby |
| 2024-02-26 | My First Word Was Ball | Zack Shattuck | Listen | Zack Shattuck discovered swimming in 2015, but didn’t start swimming competitively until college, where he swam for four years at Frostburg State University. The Mount Airy, Maryland native went on to compete at the 2020 Paralympics and recently earned a silver and bronze at the Parapan American Games in Chile. | Swimming |
| 2024-02-19 | The Girl Who Figured It Out | Minda Dentler | Listen | As an infant in India, Minda Dentler contracted polio, resulting in the paralysis of her legs. As a young adult, she discovered the sport of handcycling. | Cycling |
| 2024-02-12 | Ponies and Swords | Victoria Isaacson | Listen | Victoria Isaacson is a wheelchair fencer with a goal of competing at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. In addition to being an elite athlete herself, she also coaches fencing and has recently completed her doctorate degree and is an occupational therapist. | Fencing |
| 2024-02-05 | Sports Saved My Life | In June | Listen | In June 2021, US Marine Corps Captain Andrew Hairston entered his first event as a handcyclist while still rehabbing at Walter Reed Hospital from an accident that resulted in the amputation of his leg. Later that year, he entered his first marathon. | |
| 2024-01-29 | Having to Evolve the Way You Fight | Army Staff Sergeant Michael Kacer | Listen | Army Staff Sergeant Michael Kacer was injured as a result of a mortar attack in Afghanistan on June 18, 2008. In 2017, he started competing in Taekwondo, to help improve his mental health and confidence. | |
| 2024-01-22 | 90 Miles An Hour On Ice | Will Castillo | Listen | Will Castillo was born in Colombia, South America and immigrated to the United States when he was five years old, living in Queens, New York. After 9/11, Will joined the US Army and served for ten years, including two deployments. | |
| 2024-01-15 | I Felt Like a Mermaid | Sarah Bofinger | Listen | Sarah Bofinger began swimming before she could walk. At age six, she joined the Frederick Area Swim Team in Frederick, Maryland. | Swimming |
| 2024-01-09 | I Needed To Be a Physical Being | On October | Listen | On October 28, 1989, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2 Rhonda Liddell was struck by a drunk driver, resulting in a permanent loss of range of motion and neuropathy in her right arm as well as damage to her shoulder and traumatic brain injury. | |
| 2024-01-01 | I Can Be Whatever I Want | Max Togisala | Listen | Max Togisala is a rising professional golfer who most recently placed 17th overall in the 2023 U.S. Adaptive Open at Pinehurst. | Golf |
| 2023-12-25 | This is My Thing | David Horvath | Listen | David Horvath, who was born with spina bifida, discovered the sport of powerlifting through a gym class in high school and realized that it was the sport for him. He would then learn about DASA, a Move United member organization based in the St. | Powerlifting |
| 2023-12-18 | Golf Literally Saved My Life | Navy Chief Petty Officer Charlene Williams | Listen | While in Bahrain in 2001, U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Charlene Williams experienced the onset of a detached retina, hearing loss, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury. | Golf |
| 2023-12-11 | Love the Wind in My Hair | Coast Guard | Listen | While serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, Chris Young was paralyzed in a plane crash in Alaska. | |
| 2023-12-04 | Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable | Being Uncomfortable | Listen | Saylor O’Brien was born with spina bifida. She started skiing with Wasatch Adaptive Sports, a Move United member organization when she was just four years old. | Skiing (General) |
| 2023-11-27 | I Was Dragging Around This Leg | Derick Byrd | Listen | In 2003, and at 8 years old, Ohio native Derick Byrd was treated for osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer in his left tibia that required a knee replacement with 8 inches of titanium implanted into his femur. The implant replaced his shin bone, until 2008 when he had his left leg amputated above the knee. | |
| 2023-11-20 | Number One Rule is Don’t Fall | Kimber Cross | Listen | Kimber Cross was born with one hand—she has adapted and modified to excel in sports as a kid and now climbing as an adult. She is an adaptive climber who uses a custom prosthetic ice tool to climb waterfall ice around the country as well as alpine ice routes in her home state of Washington. | |
| 2023-11-13 | Most Growth Occurs When We Are Uncomfortable | Allie Johnson | Listen | Allie Johnson was born with a limb deficiency, and began therapeutic horseback riding at age five. That eventually led to her becoming a part of the equestrian staff at NSCD, a Move United member organization based in Colorado. | |
| 2023-11-06 | Taking the Tools for a Walk | Sam Sala | Listen | After moving to Colorado in 2006, Sam Sala began hiking and climbing CO’s 14ers. He began volunteering with Paradox Sports in 2015 and now serves as the organization’s program manager. | |
| 2023-10-31 | Sports Can Challenge Stigmas | Nico Calabria | Listen | Nico Calabria started playing amputee soccer when he was 16 years old. He has served as the team captain for the U.S. | |
| 2023-10-23 | The Power of Sports for Amputees | Marci Krown | Listen | Marci Krown attended Kent State University, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Recreation Management. She then moved to Atlanta, where she got involved in the 1996 Paralympic Games. | |
| 2023-10-16 | Helping Other People Win | Adam Bleakney | Listen | Adam Bleakney has served as the Head Coach of the University of Illinois Wheelchair Track and Road Racing team since 2005. In that time his athletes have won 55 medals across four Paralympic Games while setting 14 world records on the track and winning a number of major marathons. | |
| 2023-10-10 | Preventing a More Severe Onset | Laura Root | Listen | After earning a master’s degree in international affairs, Laura Root was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy. | |
| 2023-10-02 | I Found an Outlet in the Outdoors | Brian Von Herbulis | Listen | Brian Von Herbulis spent nearly 17 years leading special operations units with the US Marine Corps, including a number of combat deployments. So nature, and being outdoors, has always been therapeutic for him. | |
| 2023-09-25 | Life is Not Going to Stop for Me | Cristian Martinez | Listen | Sports have always played a role in Cristian Martinez’s life. He served in the Marine Corps, including two combat tours but had his leg amputated below the knee as the result of a motorcycle accident. | |
| 2023-09-18 | Meet the New Cracker Jill | Lindsey Zurbrugg | Listen | Lindsey Zurbrugg was unsure of what a future in sports would look like for her when she became disabled at the age of 13. But then she found wheelchair basketball. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2023-09-11 | I Was Missing Sports in My Life | On October | Listen | On October 23, 2005, Army Sergeant Bryan Anderson was nine months into his second deployment to Iraq when his vehicle went over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). The Purple Heart recipient and triple amputee has always been an athlete, but after his rehabilitation at Walter Reed he got away from sports a bit, doing stunt work, acting, writing a book, and other activities. | |
| 2023-09-04 | The iBOT | Dawn Hameline | Listen | After studying occupational therapy in college, Dawn Hameline went to work with the VA and is still involved with summer and winter adaptive sports clinics for disabled veterans. She is now a Clinical Education and Outreach Specialist with Mobius Mobility. | |
| 2023-08-28 | It Wasn't Boring, It Was Peaceful | Jay Martin | Listen | SFC Jay Martin was medically retired from the Army after a bicycle accident left him paralyzed. As an adaptive athlete, he has picked up air rifle as a sport and competes in Move United’s Adaptive Shooting League. | |
| 2023-08-21 | A Whole New Freedom For Me | Barbi Baum | Listen | Barbi Baum competed in swimming and track and field at the international level in the 1980’s and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1982. She was president of their Disabled Sports Organization and a Paralympic athlete. | Swimming |
| 2023-08-16 | Similarites between Snowboarding and Skateboarding | Darian Haynes | Listen | Darian Haynes is an adaptive athlete who competes in para snowboarding, surfing, and skateboarding. Growing up surfing in Hawaii, she was a fixture on Team Hawaii and then Team USA, earning 8 individual & team World Championship medals. | Snowboarding |
| 2023-08-07 | Shredding on the Snow or the Streets | Noah Elliott | Listen | At age 17, Noah Elliott had his left leg amputated above the knee. He would learn about Paralympic snowboarding through attending a camp for children with cancer. | Snowboarding |
| 2023-07-31 | Taking Off the Arm and Leaving it Off | Natalie Grazian | Listen | Natalie Grazian has a congenital limb difference, meaning her right arm did not fully develop before birth. Exercising has always been a passion and that prompted her to find modifications to help her do the activities she cares about. | |
| 2023-07-24 | I Love Pickleball! | Pete Peterson | Listen | Pete Peterson, aka Pickleball Pete as he is known at GLASA, is a certified pickleball instructor and helps lead the adaptive pickleball program at Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association, a Move United member organization in the Chicago area. So we chat with him about the sport. | |
| 2023-07-17 | Adaptive Skateboarding is Knarley | Daniel Gale | Listen | Daniel Gale is a founder and current executive director of Adaptive Action Sports, a Move United member organization based in Colorado. He has been a sports organizer for ESPN and the Summer X Games, the Adaptive Skateboard Park Jam, Adaptive Sno-Cross, and more. | |
| 2023-07-10 | Throwing it Away | Justin Phongsavanh | Listen | Justin Phongsavanh made his international debut for the United States at the 2019 Parapan American Games, where he won a gold medal in javelin. He represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal. | Rowing |
| 2023-07-03 | Tenacious | Paralympian Patty Cisneros Prevo | Listen | 3X Paralympian Patty Cisneros Prevo, who won two gold medals as part of the national women’s wheelchair basketball team and is a disability advocate focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, has published a new children’s book called “Tenacious: Fifteen Adventures Alongside Disabled Athletes.” She is on a book tour now and will be signing copies at The Hartford Nationals on Sunday, July 9th. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2023-06-26 | Pickleball for All | Michael Rosenkrantz | Listen | Michael Rosenkrantz is the Executive Director of So Cal Adaptive Sports, a Move United member organization. He has coached wheelchair basketball at the collegiate level, serving as an Assistant Coach with the University of Arizona women’s team and is a Level II Certified Archery instructor. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2023-06-20 | Racing is My Passion | Hannah Dederick | Listen | Born with spina bifida, Hannah Dederick was abandoned at the steps of a hospital in China and adopted from an orphanage by a family in the United States. Through Shriners Children’s Hospital, she learned about wheelchair track in 2015 and connected with ParaSport Spokane, a Move United member organization in Washington. | |
| 2023-06-12 | Sport is a Universal Language | Mary Hums | Listen | Dr. Mary Hums is a professor of Sport Administration at the University of Louisville. | |
| 2023-06-05 | Will I Ever Play Basketball Again? | When Bailey Moody | Listen | When Bailey Moody was 10 years old, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma and underwent an amputation of her leg. Within just two months of completing chemotherapy, she was back on the basketball court. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2023-05-29 | Fall in Love with the Sport First | Jonathan Clemins | Listen | Earlier this year, Jonathan Clemins was appointed to the position of the USA Archery Paralympic Head Coach. Clemins served as an Assistant Coach for the 2022 World Archery Para Championships and as the Head Coach for the 2022 World Games para team and the Para Pan Am Championships. | Archery |
| 2023-05-22 | All You Have to Do is Go For It | Alycia Anderson | Listen | Alycia Anderson is an international TEDx motivational speaker, CEO, inclusion champion, and advocate. She received a master’s degree in adapted physical activity and has been an avid wheelchair tennis player and cyclist. | Wheelchair Tennis |
| 2023-05-15 | Everyone Should Have Access to Sport | Oluwaferanmi Okanlami | Listen | Dr. Oluwaferanmi Okanlami is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as the Director of Student Accessibility and Accommodation Services, Division of Student Life and oversees the Adaptive Sports & Fitness program. | |
| 2023-05-08 | Disability Justice | Dayne Law | Listen | Dayne Law is a Coast Guard veteran, social worker, queer/transgender man, kayaker, and a member of Move United’s DEI task force. In 2002, Dayne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and found that his passion for paddling could help him on his journey to healing and wellness. | |
| 2023-05-04 | I Want to Do Everything That Everbody Else Is Doing | Ricardo Castaneda | Listen | Ricardo Castaneda became blind at the age of 15 and has participated in judo, wrestling, goalball, track & field, and beep baseball. He earned MVP honors at the Northwest Regional track competition in 2017 and was defensive MVP in beep baseball at a tournament in Chicago in 2021. | |
| 2023-04-26 | Chasing a Little Ball Around | Dana Mathewson | Listen | Dana Mathewson was 10 years old when she contracted a rare autoimmune disease which impacted her spinal cord. Dana's mom wanted her to give adaptive sports a try and she ended up falling in love with the sport of wheelchair tennis. | Wheelchair Tennis |
| 2023-04-18 | The Armless Archer | Matthew Stutzman | Listen | Matthew Stutzman was born without arms and uses his legs and feet for most of his activities, including archery. Matt is a 3x Paralympian, winning a silver medal in 2012. | Archery |
| 2023-04-10 | Athlete First | Nicky Nieves | Listen | Nicky Nieves started playing sports in the 6th grade, including volleyball, track and field, and cheerleading. In volleyball, she earned Conference Player of the Year honors her senior year of high school and went on to play at the college level. | Track & Field |
| 2023-04-03 | The Opportunity to Talk Trash | Brandon Rush | Listen | Brandon Rush became paralyzed at the age of 14 as the result of a biking accident. He was introduced to the sport of wheelchair basketball during his rehab and hasn’t looked back since. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2023-03-27 | Your Circumstances Don’t Define You | Tracy Otto | Listen | Tracy Otto became paralyzed from the chest down when an ex-boyfriend attacked her in 2019. She was in a really bad place for a long time and wanted to find something to lift her up. | |
| 2023-03-20 | What is Possible? | Shawn Cheshire | Listen | Shawn Cheshire served in the US Army for eight years as a helicopter systems mechanic and was honorably discharged in 2002. Shawn lost her vision in 2012 as a result of traumatic brain injury she suffered while working on an ambulance after becoming a paramedic. | |
| 2023-03-13 | My Second Family | Mackenzie Soldan | Listen | Mackenzie Soldan has had an amazing sports career, representing Team USA at two Paralympic Games in two different sports: wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball. At one point, she was the #1 wheelchair tennis player in the U.S. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2023-03-06 | On the Fence | Marine Corps | Listen | Marine Corps veteran Jataya Taylor was injured during training, ultimately ending her military career and eventually leading to the amputation of her left leg. She has explored a variety of adaptive sports, but the one that has caught her attention is wheelchair fencing and she is now pursuing a different dream... | Fencing |
| 2023-02-27 | One Arrow At a Time | Lia Coryell | Listen | Lia Coryell is a two-time Paralympian for Team USA and 2022 World Archery Para Champion. She became a first-time Paralympian at the age of 51 and is a veteran of the U.S. | Archery |
| 2023-02-20 | Hitting Tennis Balls With My Friends | Casey Ratzlaff | Listen | Casey Ratzlaff is the #1 Male in U.S. wheelchair tennis and recently had a career high ranking of 15 in Singles, which is unheard of for the US wheelchair tennis program. | Wheelchair Tennis |
| 2023-02-13 | Beating the Disability Inclusion Drum | Anna Johannes | Listen | Born without her left hand and forearm, Anna Johannes began to fight for disability rights and social justice from a young age. After several years competing in para swimming as an elite athlete, including winning a bronze medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games, Anna has taken her skills from the pool to the realm of business to continue that work as a strategist for Interbrand’s Inclusive Design Practice. | Swimming |
| 2023-02-07 | Anything is Possible | Patrick Sweeney | Listen | As an adaptive athlete, Patrick Sweeney has competed in three half Ironmans in Atlantic City about 50 or more triathlons. He also played with the national team in the sport of 7 v 7 Soccer. | Triathlon |
| 2023-01-30 | One Extra Bounce | Kaitlyn Verfeurth | Listen | Kaitlyn Verfeurth played wheelchair tennis professionally and represented Team USA in that sport at the 2004, 2008 and 2016 Paralympic Games. Kaitlyn would become a dual sport athlete and competed in paracanoe at the 2020 Paralympics. | Canoe/Kayak |
| 2023-01-23 | Going the Distance | Liz Willis | Listen | Liz Willis was a distance runner in high school. When doctors were forced to amputate her leg below the knee in 2010, she pursued her passion for running and set her sights on becoming a U.S. | Track & Field |
| 2023-01-16 | I Just Wanted to Play | Kaitlyn Verfeurth | Listen | Kaitlyn Verfeurth was involved in a car accident when she was just 7 years old, sustaining an L2 incomplete spinal cord injury. She found adaptive sports through a summer camp and would go on to play wheelchair tennis professionally and represented Team USA in that sport at the 2004, 2008 and 2016 Paralympic Games. | Wheelchair Tennis |
| 2023-01-09 | Choreography = Strategy | Conner Lundius | Listen | Conner Lundius has been a dancer since the age of 5. She danced competitively for almost a decade, and continued to dance through college. | |
| 2023-01-02 | One Step at a Time | Navy Corpsman Max Rohn | Listen | Navy Corpsman Max Rohn was serving in Iraq as part of a U.S. Marine Corps convoy and was injured when his Humvee was hit by a rocket propelled grenade. | |
| 2022-12-26 | Not Walking Like John Wayne Anymore | Army Specialist Richard Dyer | Listen | In 2010, U.S. Army Specialist Richard Dyer was injured as a result of an Airborne operation where he impacted a tree at nearly 30 miles per hour. | |
| 2022-12-19 | Life is Like Lemonade | Garrison Redd | Listen | Garrison Redd became paralyzed in 2005 after being struck by a stray bullet outside his home. He has participated in and excelled in several adaptive sports, including climbing, CrossFit, and has been a member of the US Paralympic Powerlifting team. | Powerlifting |
| 2022-12-12 | Amy Purdy on the Power of Dance | Amy Purdy | Listen | Amy Purdy lost her legs below the knees when she was 19 years old. Throughout her recovery, she vowed to ride again. | |
| 2022-12-05 | Gifting Moments | Keith Gabel | Listen | Keith Gabel was introduced to snowboarding in 2000 and he quickly developed a love for the sport. In June 2005, Gabel was involved in an industrial accident that crushed his left foot. | Snowboarding |
| 2022-11-28 | A Different Type of Freedom | Cheryl Angelelli | Listen | Cheryl Angelelli sustained a spinal cord injury from a diving accident in 1983. 15 years later, she took up swimming again and would become a 3x Paralympian and 4X Paralympic medalist in the sport. | Swimming |
| 2022-11-21 | Being an Athlete is Core to My Identity | Rebecca Johnston | Listen | Rebecca Johnston was just beginning her freshman year at Whitman College, where she was planning to play volleyball at the Division III school. But bone cancer would impact that plan. | |
| 2022-11-14 | Loud and Proud | Marine Staff Sergeant John Edward Heath | Listen | Marine Staff Sergeant John Edward Heath was struck by a vehicle on New Year's Day in 2016. After 12 limb salvage surgeries he decided to amputate his left leg. | |
| 2022-11-07 | I Feel Like a Kid Out There | Jonathon Stone | Listen | Jonathon Stone was a three sport athlete in high school. After being severely injured in the Marine Corps, he thought his days as an athlete were over. | |
| 2022-11-01 | Chase the Yes | The Hammer | Listen | Steph “The Hammer” Roach has been motivating herself and others her entire life. Born with cerebral palsy, she started into sports when she was three years old. | |
| 2022-10-23 | Being Called to Coach | Jason Sfire | Listen | By day, Jason Sfire is president of The Fidelity Group, a family owned commercial real estate development company in Illinois. When he is not running a business, he is playing wheelchair tennis with the Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association, or GLASA, which is a Move United member organization based in the Chicago Area. | Track & Field |
| 2022-10-17 | You Will Never Master the Sport of Golf | Ty Campbell | Listen | A retired military veteran, Ty Campbell used golf as a form of physical therapy after suffering an injury while deployed with the United States Coast Guard. Ty uses his passion for golf to create a fun learning environment while concentrating on the fundamentals to increase confidence. | Golf |
| 2022-10-10 | Disability Doesn't Take Away the Itch | Jacob Tyree | Listen | Jacob Tyree serves as a training coordinator for Move United, overseeing the management of VA Adaptive Sports Training Grant funded programs. He brings with him a vast amount of experience in the adaptive sport space as an athlete, coach, and sport professional. | |
| 2022-10-03 | A Slice of Humble Pie | Retired Army Staff Sergeant Rico Roman | Listen | Retired Army Staff Sergeant Rico Roman had his left leg amputated above the knee after being wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED) while serving his third tour in Iraq in February 2007. A Purple Heart recipient, Rico was introduced to sled hockey in 2008 by Operation Comfort, a Move United member organization in San Antonio, TX. | Sled Hockey |
| 2022-09-26 | Feeling Free in the Water | Alyssa Gialamas | Listen | Alyssa Gialamas was encouraged to try swimming by coach Glen O'Sullivan. Once she started, she found that she felt free in the water because she did not have to wear braces and was not sitting in a chair. | Swimming |
| 2022-09-19 | Reflecting About "Bring It On" and on Getting Smoked | Lacey Henderson | Listen | Lacey Henderson was just nine years old when her leg was amputated above the knee. Although she played various sports growing up, she particularly became fond of cheerleading, earning a scholarship to participate in the sport at the University of Denver. | Rowing |
| 2022-09-12 | Don't Quit on Me | Chris Kaag | Listen | Chris Kaag served in the United States Marine Corps for almost five years. At the age of 21, Chris was diagnosed with a rare degenerative condition affecting his nerve cells and was discharged from the Marine Corps. | |
| 2022-09-05 | Ironman, Alpine Skiing, and Archery... Oh My! | In July | Listen | In July 2009, Kevin Mather was on a training ride in the foothills of Los Angeles with a group of friends when he was hit by a truck. His athletic pursuits continued on. | Alpine Skiing; Skiing (General); Archery |
| 2022-08-29 | On College and Adaptive Sports | Myranda Mishler | Listen | Myranda Mishler was born with spina bifida. Growing up, she played a couple of different sports but really found her calling when she was introduced to wheelchair racing while in high school. | Rowing |
| 2022-08-23 | U.S. Marine Eric Alva and Radical Courage | Marine Staff Sergeant Eric Alva | Listen | US Marine Staff Sergeant Eric Alva’s unit was among the first to cross the border into Iraq for the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Three hours into the ground war, near Basra, while stepping out of his vehicle, Alva triggered a landmine, throwing him 15 feet that left him with a broken left leg, severely nerve-damaged broken right arm and a badly injured right leg that was later amputated. | Rowing |
| 2022-08-12 | Kim Moore Wins U.S. Adaptive Open Golf Tournament at Pinehurt | Kim Moore | Listen | Born without a right foot and a severely clubbed left foot, Kim Moore would play various sports as a youth. But then she found golf and realized she could compete in that sport at a high level, earning a scholarship to play collegiate golf at the University of Indianapolis. | Golf |
| 2022-08-03 | You Can't Reach The Finish Line if You Can't Get to the Starting Line | Rudy Garcia | Listen | Rudy Garcia-Tolson endured 15 surgeries by the age of five before telling his parents he'd rather have a double leg amputation...By age 8, he had already become active in swimming, running and triathlons...At that age, he stated that he wanted to compete at the Paralympic Games and eight years later, Rudy made good on his promise when he swam to gold at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens. Now he is a 5X Paralympian and 5X Paralympic Medalist. | Swimming |
| 2022-07-18 | Joe Stone on Outdoor Recreation and Disability | Joe Stone | Listen | In 2010, Joe Stone nearly died after crashing into a mountain at almost 50 MPH while speed flying, a form of paragliding. The accident left him with a spinal cord injury leaving him paralyzed from the chest down and with impairment in both his hands. | |
| 2022-07-11 | To Redefine Disability for Others, You Must First Redefine it For Yourself | Mandy Willmore | Listen | Mandy Willmore received a scholarship to play basketball at college. While in Hawaii for a tournament, she would become paralyzed while surfing. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2022-07-01 | From Tennis to Fitness | Lauren Haneke | Listen | Lauren Haneke-Hopps just graduated from the University of Alabama, earning a master’s degree in exercise and sports science. Not only did she excel as a student, being on the Dean’s List and named as an Academic All-American, but she is an elite wheelchair tennis player, winning several single and double competitions, medaling at at the ITA World Team Cup, and being named a Collegiate National Champion multiple years. | Wheelchair Tennis |
| 2022-06-27 | David Kiley Inducted into Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame | David Kiley | Listen | Just two years after a spinal cord injury, David Kiley made the USA National Team in basketball. At his first Paralympic Games in 1976, he would win gold medals in all five of his events, including one in basketball but also four in track. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2022-06-20 | Learning to Walk Three Times | Steve Martin | Listen | Steve Martin served in the U.S. Army. | |
| 2022-06-13 | Taekwondo, Soccer, and Track and Field | Catarina Guimaraes | Listen | Catarina Guimaraes is a second-degree black belt, won 2 silver medals at the 2018 International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports competition in Ireland, was recently named a CP Soccer World Cup All-Star and has held various national track and field records. And at 18 years old, she is just getting started. | Track & Field |
| 2022-06-06 | Hitting the Sticks | Barry Weintraub | Listen | Barry Weintraub is an activity-based exercise specialist at Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, a Move United member organization based in Minneapolis. He has coached wheelchair softball and basketball. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2022-05-31 | Trekking 2,653 Miles | Sam Maddaus | Listen | Sam Maddaus is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. | |
| 2022-05-23 | Being a Rolling Mammoth | Daniel Hersh | Listen | Daniel Hersh co-founded the Colorado Rolling Mammoth wheelchair lacrosse team in 2011 and has been highly involved ever since. In addition to serving as the team’s captain, he also serves on the board of Wheelchair Lacrosse USA. | |
| 2022-05-16 | Competition Builds Character | Jessie Cloy | Listen | Jessie Cloy is a 4X Paralympian in the sport of track and field, earning 7 medals at the Paralympic Games over her career. She first got involved in wheelchair racing through Children’s Lightning Wheels in New Jersey after a car accident. | Track & Field |
| 2022-05-09 | Row, Row, Row Your Boat: The Sport of Para Rowing | Ellen Minzner | Listen | Ellen Minzner is the Director of Para High Performance for US Rowing, where she focuses on athlete identification and development. Previously, she served as the Director of Inclusion and Advocacy at Community Rowing, a Move United member organization in Boston, where she and her team of coaches and staff pioneered a model for serving people with disabilities, military veterans, and underserved youth that has become a national standard. | Rowing |
| 2022-05-02 | The New Sport of Wheelchair Lacrosse | Norm Page | Listen | In 1999, Norm Page started working as a volunteer coach with the Buffalo Sabres sled hockey team when his 7 year old son Adam started playing. As president of the program he helped build the first sled accessible rink in Buffalo and over the years would see some of their local players make the USA National Sled Hockey Team, including Adam. | Sled Hockey |
| 2022-04-25 | Making an Impact On and Off the Court | Steve Serio | Listen | Steve Serio started playing wheelchair basketball when he was 14 years old and went on to play at the University of Illinois where he led the team to a national championship. He would play professionally in Germany for a few years and also in four Paralympic Games for Team USA, bringing home back to back gold medals in 2016 and 2020. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2022-04-18 | Rowing in the Present | Jennifer Fitz | Listen | Jennifer Fitz-Roy is training with the high performance team at US Rowing and is hoping to make the national team this year. She learned to row at Community Rowing Inc. | Rowing |
| 2022-04-11 | Making History for Puerto Rico | Army Private First Class Orlando Perez | Listen | Retired U.S. Army Private First Class Orlando Perez became paralyzed as a result of a training accident. | |
| 2022-04-04 | Turning Adversity Into Asset | Jacob Pacheco | Listen | Jacob Pacheco is a content creator, entrepreneur, model, speaker, professional surfer, and he also adapts to life with Cerebral Palsy. Jacob’s platform often focuses on empowerment and optimization. | |
| 2022-03-28 | Paralympian Nicole Roundy and the Evolution of Para Snowboarding | Nicole Roundy | Listen | Nicole Roundy spent six years as a member of the U.S. Paralympic Snowboard Team, being one of the first athletes to compete in the sport of para snowboarding. | Snowboarding |
| 2022-03-20 | Climber Jim Ewing on Being Augmented | Jim Ewing | Listen | Jim Ewing has been an avid climber most of his life. He would injure his foot during a climbing trip in the Cayman Islands. | |
| 2022-03-14 | The History of Adaptive Sports | David Davis | Listen | David Davis is a Los Angeles based journalist whose work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He is also the author of six books, including Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation. | |
| 2022-03-05 | Tragedy on the Mountain | Brent Poppen | Listen | An accident at age sixteen caused a spinal-cord injury that left Brent Poppen paralyzed. This was a beginning to journeys he never dreamed as he became one of the top disabled athletes in the world. | |
| 2022-02-27 | Making Sure No One is Left on the Sideline | Kari Miller | Listen | Kari Miller-Ortiz is a retired U.S. Army Sergeant who lost both her legs when a car she was in was hit by a drunk driver while she was on leave from military duty in 1999. | |
| 2022-02-21 | Who's Up for Para Speed Skating? | Caitlin Conner | Listen | Caitlin Conner has taken up a number of sports, including cycling, boxing, triathlon, and cross-fit. As an amputee, she is now interested in building up para speed skating as a new winter sport. | Cycling |
| 2022-02-14 | Retired Marine Tim Brown Working to Show Others The Power of Sport | Tim Brown | Listen | Tim Brown is a retired U.S. Marine, who suffered a significant injury after stepping on an IED during his third deployment to Afghanistan. | |
| 2022-02-07 | Wheelchair Rugby Player Chuck Aoki Excels in More Than Just Sport | Chuck Aoki | Listen | Chuck Aoki is regarded as one of the best wheelchair rugby players in the world and has played on the U.S. team in 3 Paralympic Games, even being named one of two flag bearers for Team USA at the Summer Paralympics last year. | Wheelchair Rugby |
| 2022-01-31 | Curiosity Led Paralympic Medalist Mohamed Lahna to Compete | Mohamed Lahna | Listen | Mohamed Lahna was born in Casablanca, Morocco with Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency, leaving him without a femur in his right leg. As a young child, his mobility was limited by crutches or foam inserts made by a shoe cobbler. | |
| 2022-01-24 | U.S. Sled Hockey Player Noah Grove & the Pursuit of Gold | Noah Grove | Listen | In 2004, Noah Grove developed bone cancer in his left leg that resulted in an amputation. He was only five years old. | Sled Hockey |
| 2022-01-17 | Exploring Winter on Skis | Ann Chamberlain | Listen | BethAnn Chamberlain grew up in northern Minnesota and was introduced to cross country skiing when she joined her high school team. She would continue competing in the sport and biathlon through college. | Skiing (General) |
| 2022-01-10 | Wheelchair Curling is Like Shuffleboard on Ice | Marc De | Listen | Marc DePerno is an occupational therapist and serves as an outreach coordinator for Sitrin Health Care Center. He was instrumental in establishing the STARS (Success Through Adaptive Recreation and Sports) program for individuals with physical disabilities. | |
| 2022-01-03 | Disability Is Not an Excuse for Darlene Hunter | Darlene Hunter | Listen | Darlene Hunter is a 3x Paralympian and Gold Medalist for the US Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team. At 4 years old, she would suffer a spinal cord injury as a part of a tragic accident but would discover adaptive sports just a few short years later through para track & field. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2021-12-28 | Monoskiing is freeing for Blake Eaton | Blake Eaton | Listen | Blake Eaton started bi-skiing with Courage Kenny, a Move United member organization based in Duluth, Minnesota, when he was three years old. When he was 8, he was encouraged to give monoskiing a try. | Skiing (General) |
| 2021-12-20 | Navy Seal and Paralympic Gold Medalist Dan Cnossen on the Value of Getting Outside | Dan Cnossen | Listen | Dan Cnossen graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and became a Navy SEAL. | |
| 2021-12-11 | Wheelchair Basketball World Champion Matt Scott and the Indescribable Feeling of Being on the Court | Matt Scott | Listen | Matt Scott was diagnosed with spinal bifida at birth. He started playing wheelchair basketball when he was 14 years old. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2021-12-06 | Becoming the Hero of Your Own Life with Paralympian Steve Emt | Paralympian Steve Emt | Listen | Sport has always been an integral part of Steve Emt’s life, even making the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team as a walk on. But at age 25, an automobile accident left him paralyzed. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2021-11-29 | Paralympic Gold Medalist Ryan Neiswender on the Power of Belief | Ryan Neiswender | Listen | Sports allowed Ryan Neiswender to feel free. At an early age, he discovered wheelchair basketball and would receive a full scholarship to play at the University of Illinois, where he was named a 4-time All-American. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2021-11-22 | 2X Paralympic Silver Medalist Jaleen Roberts | Jaleen Roberts | Listen | Jaleen Roberts was born with cerebral palsy. She was encouraged by her high school coaches to compete in the ambulatory races at the Washington state track meet. | |
| 2021-11-16 | Veteran Bart Salgado Talks about the new USA Wheelchair Football League | Bart Salgado | Listen | Bart Salgado served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was on the ground during the liberation of Kuwait. | |
| 2021-11-09 | Paralympic Medalist Melissa Stockwell on the Power of Choice | Retired Army Officer Melissa Stockwell | Listen | Retired Army Officer Melissa Stockwell is proud to wear the United States uniform. She did so as an Army officer and, after a roadside bomb in Iraq led to her left leg being amputated above the knee, she wore the Red, White, and Blue for Team USA. | |
| 2021-11-01 | Relearning how to walk again wasn't enough for Jami Goldman Marseilles | Jami Goldman Marseilles | Listen | Jami Goldman Marseilles is an elementary school teacher, a motivational speaker, an author of two books, and has been featured a highly acclaimed Adidas foot wear tv commercial. At the age of 19, she was driving home from a ski trip in New Mexico with her friend Lisa when they found themselves on a deserted Arizona logging road in a blinding snow storm. | |
| 2021-10-25 | U.S. Air Force Captain Sarah Evan's “No Quit” Mentality | The Citadel | Listen | A graduate of The Citadel, Sarah Evans was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. | |
| 2021-10-18 | 7X Paralympic Medalist Amanda McGrory Was Tricked into Wheelchair Racing | Amanda Mc | Listen | Amanda McGrory attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a dual sport athlete to play wheelchair basketball and compete as a member of wheelchair racing team. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Library and Information Science. | Wheelchair Basketball |
| 2021-10-12 | Wheelchair Racer Daniel Romanchuk is On Fire | Wheelchair Racer Daniel Romanchuk | Listen | Wheelchair Racer Daniel Romanchuk has been on fire the past couple of years. He has won the Chicago Marathon, the London Marathon, the New York City Marathon (he earned the title of youngest athlete to do so) and many more. | |
| 2021-10-05 | Alana Nichols on Getting Women Into Adaptive Sports | Alana Nichols | Listen | Alana Nichols is a world-class athlete with a passion for challenging herself and others. After suffering a spinal cord injury at age 17 while attempting a back flip on her snowboard, Alana quickly transitioned to adaptive sports. | |
| 2021-09-27 | It's Just an Arm | Logan Aldridge | Listen | Logan Aldridge is a leader with the Adaptive Training Academy. As the director of training for the ATA, Logan teaches adaptive CrossFit to both disabled and abled body athletes all over the world. | |
| 2021-09-22 | The Art of the Throw | Erica Wheeler | Listen | Erica Wheeler went to Stanford University, and not only set the school women’s javelin record but a Pacific-10 Conference mark as well. She left there as a four-time All-American. | |
| 2021-09-13 | The Importance of Inclusion in Play | Jill Moore | Listen | Jill Moore would describe herself as a bonafide play addict. Born with spina bifida, she tried a number of adaptive sports growing up from wheelchair rugby and basketball to track and field. | Wheelchair Rugby |
| 2021-09-06 | Ian Seidenfeld Wins Gold in Para Table Tennis in Tokyo | Ian Seidenfeld | Listen | Ian Seidenfeld just followed in his father’s footsteps by winning a gold medal in para table tennis at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. His father Mitch, who is also Ian’s coach, did the same at the 1992 Games. | Wheelchair Tennis |
| 2021-08-30 | Tahl Liebovitz on the Sport of Deception | Tahl Leibovitz | Listen | Tahl Leibovitz is competing in his sixth Paralympic games in Tokyo in the sport of para table tenns. To date, he has brought home three medals for Team USA, including 1 gold and 2 bronze. | |
| 2021-08-23 | Lex Gillette Jumping Into Life and the Record Books | Lex Gillette | Listen | Lex Gillette is the current world record holder in the long jump, a four-time Paralympic medalist, a three-time long jump world champion, and an 18-time national champion. He is the only totally blind athlete to ever eclipse the 22-foot barrier in the long jump. | |
| 2021-08-16 | Erik Weihenmayer is Living a No Barriers Life | On May | Listen | On May 25, 2001, Erik Weihenmayer became the first blind person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. | |
| 2021-08-10 | Paralympic Gold Medalist McKenzie Coan is Breaking Free | Kenzie Coan | Listen | Never expected to sit, stand, walk, or even possibly live, McKenzie Coan, who was born with brittle bone disease, has spent her life defying the odds. At 8 years old, she would set out on a successful swimming career. | Swimming |
| 2021-08-05 | Candice Caesar On Target to Compete in Para Archery | Candice Caesar | Listen | Candice Caesar’s father and grandfather both served in our country’s military. She knew that she wanted to serve as well, enlisting in the U.S. | Archery |
| 2021-07-28 | Army Veteran Michael Simon Still Serving Others | Michael Simon | Listen | Michael Simon was impacted by the events that happened on 9/11 twenty years ago this September. It moved him to join the Minnesota Army National Guard and was called up to Iraq about two years later and was deployed there for nearly two years. | |
| 2021-07-19 | Parafencer Terry Hayes Proves There Are No Limits | Terry Hayes | Listen | Terry Hayes served as a heavy equipment operator in the U.S. Army. | |
| 2021-07-12 | Paratriathon Medalist and Team Hartford Athlete Hailey Danz | Hailey Danz | Listen | Hailey Danz is a six-time Paratriathlon World Championships medalist and won a silver medal at the 2016 Games in Rio. She is a Team Hartford athlete and has had the opportunity to be a part of presenting adaptive sports equipment through The Hartford’s Ability Equipped program in partnership with Move United over the past couple of years. | Triathlon |
| 2021-07-06 | Para Badminton is Not Just a Backyard Sport | Listen | You may be familiar with the game of badminton. Many schools teach the sport in physical education class. | ||
| 2021-06-28 | Grind Leads to Glory for Jeremy Boyd | And Jeremy Boyd | Listen | Grind leads to glory. And Jeremy Boyd keeps on grinding. | |
| 2021-06-21 | Shelby Jensen and the Game of Physical Chess (aka Parafencing) | And Shelby Jensen | Listen | The sport of parafencing has been equated to a game of physical chess. And Shelby Jensen would know. | Fencing |
| 2021-06-15 | Wheelchair Rugby is all about collisions and camaraderie | James Gumbert | Listen | James Gumbert would describe wheelchair rugby as an incredible game, something he was missing since he’d been injured. He was first introduced to the sport in 1992 by Hall of Famer Steven Scott and helped start a club team in Austin, Texas. | Wheelchair Rugby |
| 2021-06-07 | Team USA Para Badminton Player Amy Burnett | Listen | Badminton is more than a backyard sport. In fact, it is considered the 2nd largest sport in the world, although there is definitely some room for growth in the U.S. | ||
| 2021-05-31 | Para Triathlete Ashley Eisenmenger | Ashley Eisenmenger | Listen | Ashley Eisenmenger is considered the first NCAA triathlete with a disability that required some sport specific adaptation. As a blind triathlete, Ashley raced varsity women’s triathlon her junior and senior year at North Central College. | Triathlon |
| 2021-05-24 | Wheelchair Tennis is About Problem Solving for Paralympian Dana Mathewson | Dana Mathewson | Listen | Dana Mathewson was 10 years old when she contracted a rare autoimmune disease which impacted her spinal cord. After being in the hospital for about a month, her mom wanted her to give adaptive sports a try. | Wheelchair Tennis |
| 2021-05-17 | Bobby Bones and Lonnie Bedwell | National Geographic | Listen | A new show premieres on National Geographic on May 31st called Breaking Bobby Bones. In each half-hour episode, Bobby pursues his own mantra—Fight. | |
| 2021-05-10 | Joe Delagrave Sees Opportunity in Obstacles | Joe Delagrave | Listen | Joe Delagrave was a three sport athlete throughout high school, which led him to play Division II football at Winona State University. But on July 10, 2004 a casual boating adventure with some friends on the Mississippi River turned into a life altering accident. | |
| 2021-05-03 | Parafencing is a Game of Physical Chess | Mickey Zeljkovic | Listen | Mickey Zeljkovic is a five-time Serbian National Champion as a fencer and a former Paralympic National Head Coach for Kuwait. Now, he runs his own fencing club in the Philadelphia area and has developed multiple club programs for Paralympic fencers on the East Coast. | Fencing |
| 2021-04-26 | Team USA Wheelchair Rugby Player Chuck Melton | Chuck Melton | Listen | In 2002, Chuck Melton acquired a C7 spinal cord injury from a diving accident. Five years after his accident, he began to play wheelchair rugby in at a local program in St. | Wheelchair Rugby |
| 2021-04-19 | U.S. Para Powerlifting Coach Mary Hodge | Mary Hodge | Listen | Mary Hodge has coached four Paralympic Games. When she first started, she was the only female para coach in the U.S. | Powerlifting |
| 2021-04-12 | Paralympian Desmond Jackson is Blazing Trails | Desmond Jackson | Listen | Desmond Jackson is considered the fastest above knee amputee in the United States, currently holding the national record in the 100m dash. Throughout his life, Dez has been blazing trails. | |
| 2021-04-05 | Navy Veteran Jared Lenahan is Climbing His Way to the Top | Navy Veteran Jared Lenahan | Listen | Sports have been a huge part of Navy Veteran Jared Lenahan's life. As he gets older, he continues to find himself more involved in sports. | |
| 2021-03-29 | Patience is a Virtue for Parafencer Ellen Geddes | Ellen Geddes | Listen | Ellen Geddes was actively competing in the equestrian sport of dressage when a car accident left her paralyzed at 22 years old. While she rehabilitating at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, she was introduced to different adaptive sports. | |
| 2021-03-22 | Skiing Helps Free the Mind for Retired Warfighter Kyle Moxley | Army Specialist Kyle Moxley | Listen | After suffering injuries from a roadside bomb in Iraq, retired Army Specialist Kyle Moxley tried different sports. Each new sport led him to figure how his true abilities and narrow down what he wanted to do. | Skiing (General) |
| 2021-03-15 | Sports Have Made Paralympic Silver Medalist Sophia Herzog Confident | Sophia Herzog | Listen | Growing up, sports was difficult for Sophia Herzog as she felt it was not really a level playing field for individuals like her. But now the Paralympic Silver Medalist, who is an athlete ambassador for the Women’s Sports Foundation and served as a guest speaker for National Girls and Women in Sports Day this year, is inspiring the next generation to find their passion and have confidence to know that they can do whatever they put their mind to. | Rowing |
| 2021-03-08 | Lera Doederlein- Making Headway Sled Hockey and Nordic Skiing | Lera Doederlein | Listen | Lera Doederlein was 14 when she underwent amputation of her legs to ultimately help improve her mobility and gain some independence. Within six months, she would give sled hockey a try. | Sled Hockey; Nordic Skiing; Skiing (General) |
| 2021-03-01 | Kelli Anne Stallkamp | Kelli Ann Stallkamp | Listen | Kelli Ann Stallkamp has played sled hockey for the Columbus Blue Jackets Sled Hockey Team and the USA Women's National Sled Hockey Team. She started lifting weights as part of her cross training and fell in love with that sport. | Sled Hockey |
| 2021-02-22 | Parafencer Byron Branch Aiming to Compete in Tokyo | Byron Branch | Listen | Byron Branch was an elite able-bodied foil fencer. While on duty as a police officer, he was struck by a car along Interstate 75 in Ohio just before the holidays in 2016. | |
| 2021-02-11 | Wounded Warfighter Tony Drees: Skiing is His Jam | Army Veteran Tony Drees | Listen | Army Veteran Tony Drees would survive the deadliest missile attack of the Gulf War. But in February 2018, the Purple Heart recipient’s right leg was amputated at the hip due to complications from his wounds. | Skiing (General) |
Many ways to tune in!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts or check out one of the links below. Be sure to subscribe!
Nominate yourself or someone else to be a guest on the podcast!
Nominate a guest for the podcast!
Do you (or someone you know) have a story to share from the world of adaptive sports? We’d love to hear from you! Use this form to nominate yourself or someone else to be considered as a guest on a future episode of the Move United podcast. We’re always looking to highlight athletes, veterans, coaches, and community members who inspire others through sport and recreation. All submissions are reviewed by our team. While not every submission will result in an interview, we truly appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us.
About the podcast
Award-Winning Platform for Adaptive Sports Stories
Since launching in February 2021, Redefining Disability has featured more than 245 guests — from emerging athletes and Paralympians to coaches, innovators, and advocates pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in adaptive sports.
In 2022, the podcast earned a Silver w3 Award in the General Podcast Series: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion category from The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts.
Connected to Move United Magazine
Redefining Disability is the audio companion to Move United magazine, the nation’s leading adaptive sports publication. If you discovered an athlete or story in the magazine that you want to explore further, chances are the full interview is available right here on the podcast.