Philadelphia, PA—The Kids Sports Spectacular was a major success — a sporting event held August 4th for children with disabilities at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, PA.
Children explored a variety of adaptive sports that included wheelchair softball, basketball, tennis and handcycling—many for the first time. This year’s event also featured, Power Soccer — this sport is played using a power-operated wheelchair. An over-sized soccer ball is pushed with the lower part of the wheelchair from player to player and over the goal line. This game is contested primarily on an indoor basketball court.
Comcast-Spectacor, the Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment firm, provided use of the Wachovia Center to United Spinal Association and Shriners Hospitals for Children, to encourage children with disabilities to learn more about the wide variety of adaptive sports.
“This is truly a unique experience for everyone,” said Bill Hannigan. “To see parents become emotional while watching their children participate in adaptive sports says a lot to United Spinal and our supporters. We look forward to next year’s event and the expansion of Kids Sports Spectacular .”
Participants came from surrounding suburbs of Philadelphia to participate. Some of the sponsors included, Comcast-Spectacor, Pepsi Bottling of Philadelphia, Wegman Supermarket of New Jersey and New Mobility Magazine.
ABOUT UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION
United Spinal Association is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization formed in 1946 to provide expertise, create access to resources and strengthen hope, thereby enabling people with spinal cord injuries and disorders (SCI/D) to fulfill their potential as active members of their communities. United Spinal advocated for and drafted significant portions of landmark federal legislation including the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Amendments Act, and we continue to provide critical health care and benefits counseling to military veterans from all wars with spinal cord injuries through our Vets First program. Membership is free and open to individuals with disabilities of the spinal cord of all ages. For more information, please visit www.unitedspinal.org or call 800-404-2898.
ABOUT COMCAST-SPECTACOR
Comcast-Spectacor (comcast-spectacor.com) is the Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment company which owns the Philadelphia Flyers (NHL), the Philadelphia 76ers (NBA), the Philadelphia Phantoms (AHL), the two arenas in which their teams play, the Wachovia Center and Wachovia Spectrum, four Flyers Skate Zone community ice skating and hockey rinks and Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia. In addition, Comcast-Spectacor is also the principal owner of Global Spectrum, the fastest growing firm in the public assembly management field with more than 70 facilities throughout the United States and Canada; Ovations Food Services, a food and beverage service provider; New Era Tickets, a ticketing and marketing company for public assembly facilities; Front Row Marketing Services, a commercial rights sales company; and 3601 Creative Group, a full-service in-house advertising agency. In a partnership with Disson Skating, Comcast-Spectacor annually produces 10 nationally televised figure skating spectaculars on NBC.
