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United Spinal Association and PepsiCo Host “Sports Spectacular” for Kids With Disabilities
| Purchase, NY–PepsiCo’s campus in Purchase, New York was the most recent site of United Spinal Association’s “Kids Sports Spectacular”––a fun-filled and exciting event for children with varying disabilities that teaches the importance of self-esteem, teamwork, and friendship through participation in wheelchair sports including basketball, softball, tennis, and handcycling. |
| The event, held on Tuesday, October 16th, was hosted by PepsiCo and its in-house EnAble Leadership Council––which puts a focus not on the person’s disability, but rather on the individual’s abilities, whether it is as an employee, a supplier, a partner or a consumer––in collaboration with United Spinal Association’s wheelchair athletes and staff who provided instruction and assisted with sports clinics and other activities. |
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| “This was another successful event thanks to United Spinal’s longstanding commitment to provide adaptive sports to children and adults with disabilities and PepsiCo’s EnAble Leadership Council’s community mindfulness in reaching people of varying abilities,” said Marlene Perkins, United Spinal Association’s vice president of Corporate Outreach and Major Gifts. “The Kids Sports Spectacular clinics and other activities and efforts between the business and disability community are clear examples of the importance of teamwork and collaboration on having a positive impact in the lives of people with different abilities. The kids’ smiles and their laughter was enough evidence of a job well done.” |
| Participants, who ranged in age from 7 to 18, were from the local area schools of UCP of Westchester, Westchester School for Special Children, Isaac Young BOCES, and Rye Lake Campus BOCES. After everyone had an opportunity to try out each wheelchair sport and receive instruction from United Spinal athletes, an award ceremony was held that provided each participant with a medal for outstanding participation and a gift bag courtesy of PepsiCo’s EnAble Leadership Council. United Spinal Association President Paul J. Tobin believes that these clinics have a positive lifelong impact on the kids who participate. “Introducing children with disabilities to wheelchair sports helps to build their life skills and self-esteem, and more importantly, a realization in them that there is life with a disability,” Tobin added. |
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