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THE HARTFORD has been a leader in the Adaptive Sports Movement for three decades – and in partnership with Move United, supports adaptive sports events, equipment donations and athletes.
Every winter since 1993, THE HARTFORD serves as the title sponsor of THE HARTFORD Ski Spectacular, the largest winter festival for youth and adults with disabilities. The programs offered during this week-long event include learn to ski and snowboard lessons, a week-long race camp, Level I Race (Ski Spec Challenge Race), Nordic skiing, free clinics (in Nordic skiing, biathlon, curling, and sled hockey), PSIA-AASI National Adaptive Academy for Instructors, banquets, and other social/networking events. THE HARTFORD Ski Spectacular strengthens and expands adaptive snow sports programs in communities throughout the U.S. and helps identify and train youth, wounded warriors, and others with disabilities who strive to be winter Paralympians. A week of ski and snowboard race training prepares athletes for national and international competitions.
Summer events include title sponsorships of five of the most prominent adaptive sports competitions in the United States: the UCO Endeavor Games, Desert Challenge Games, Texas Regional Games, Great Lakes Games and THE HARTFORD Nationals. These events provide hundreds of youth and adults with disabilities the opportunity to compete in 12 adaptive sports, participate in learning clinics and receive national classification.
Often, the biggest barrier to adaptive sports participation for youth and adults with disabilities is equipment, which can be very expensive. THE HARTFORD’s Human Achievement through Adaptive Sports program launched in 2019 to make adaptive sports and equipment more accessible to youth and adults with disabilities. Since program inception five years ago, the program has donated more than 5,000 pieces of adaptive sports equipment.
As a leading disability insurer, the company has a long-held belief that sports are an important part of physical rehabilitation following a disabling illness or injury.
The Hartford’s commitment to adaptive sports is wide-ranging, and includes support for adaptive sports events, equipment and athletes at all levels. Learn more details by clicking the links below.
Each December for more than 30 years, The Hartford Ski Spectacular brings 800 people together for the largest winter sports festival for people with disabilities. The programs offered during this week-long event include learn to ski and snowboard lessons, a week-long race camp, Level I Race (Ski Spec Challenge Race), Nordic skiing, free clinics (in Nordic skiing, biathlon, curling, and sled hockey), PSIA-AASI National Adaptive Academy for Instructors, banquets, and other social/networking events.
Providing adaptive sports equipment to more than twenty Move United chapters as well as dozens of individual athletes across the country.
A weeklong national sport championship event open to athletes through the age of 22. Sports on the program include archery, paratriathlon, powerlifting, shooting, swimming, and track and field.
The University of Central Oklahoma's annual Endeavor Games for Athletes with Physical Disabilities provides children, adults and military service members with physical disabilities an opportunity to display their talents in a proper and competitive setting against individuals with similar disabilities.
Join in virtual adaptive fitness taught by top adaptive sports instructors from around the country. Classes offered will focus on strength, cardio and yoga, with beginner, intermediate and advanced classes.