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The Adaptive Athletics Association is a community sports association catering to disabled athletes and their families in order to provide a sporting outlet for disabled individuals located in the Southern California
area. Any disabled individual or abled bodied supporter is eligible to participate.
The Adaptive Athletes Association is raising funds to provide several quick start programs introducing the sport to both disabled children and adults; enhance and grow USTA wheelchair tournament participation throughout southern California; to provide tennis equipment; to cover costs for annual liability insurance; and to use funds for advertising, marketing, and the creation of a web site to reach more participants throughout southern California which will provide information on all national and regional USTA wheelchair tournaments and special events.
It is also the goal of the Adaptive Athletics Association to raise additional monies to partner with area tennis clubs, certified in wheelchair tennis training to create a national tennis training center for training of nationally ranked Open level players and to develop training and wellness programs for all players. In addition, to provide physical fitness and nutrition guidance to these individual disabled players; Expand the participation levels of the annual Desert Prosthetics and Orthotics Wheelchair Classic by including prize money to all divisions, improving services to players, and to acquire 1-2 sports chairs
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