LOWELL SUN: Love of the Game Offers Sports to Differently Abled
10/14/2015 12:55:00 PM | General, Community Engagement
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LOWELL, Mass. -- For UMass Lowell students Daniel Schmith, Rachel Silk and Jessica Dion, exercise is the name of the game.
While walking around campus, you may see Schmith flying around the track, Silk kicking a soccer ball or Dion teaching a Zumba class.
Now these fitness buffs are trying to pay it forward, and provide exercise opportunities to those who don't have as many options for physical activity.
Through the sports and recreation nonprofit they helped start, Love of the Game, they're planning to have college athletes teach sports to individuals with disabilities.
Their community outreach program has received rave reviews from the community and university sports teams, leading to their first sports clinic coming up on Oct. 18 with the UMass Lowell basketball team.
"It's about using sports as a vehicle for social change," said Schmith, a sophomore studying business entrepreneurship, who started a program similar to this at his high school in Bellingham, in which veterans with disabilities played power-chair soccer.
Using college athletes as instructors, they will teach a variety of sports to individuals with disabilities through clinics held on campus.
Read the full story by Rick Sobey HERE.
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LOWELL, Mass. -- For UMass Lowell students Daniel Schmith, Rachel Silk and Jessica Dion, exercise is the name of the game.
While walking around campus, you may see Schmith flying around the track, Silk kicking a soccer ball or Dion teaching a Zumba class.
Now these fitness buffs are trying to pay it forward, and provide exercise opportunities to those who don't have as many options for physical activity.
Through the sports and recreation nonprofit they helped start, Love of the Game, they're planning to have college athletes teach sports to individuals with disabilities.
Their community outreach program has received rave reviews from the community and university sports teams, leading to their first sports clinic coming up on Oct. 18 with the UMass Lowell basketball team.
"It's about using sports as a vehicle for social change," said Schmith, a sophomore studying business entrepreneurship, who started a program similar to this at his high school in Bellingham, in which veterans with disabilities played power-chair soccer.
Using college athletes as instructors, they will teach a variety of sports to individuals with disabilities through clinics held on campus.
Read the full story by Rick Sobey HERE.
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