All Sports Camp

The Therapeutic Recreation Department’s annual AllSports Camp features three days of valuable athletic instruction and fun scheduled each October at the Roosevelt Sports Training Complex in Warm Springs, Ga. The event is sponsored by Shepherd Center.

The camp is designed for people ages 16 and up with spinal cord injury or disease, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida, post-polio syndrome, amputation, Guillain-Barré syndrome, transverse myelitis or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Participants will get hands-on training in 10 sports: track and field, basketball, rugby, tennis, golf, handcycling, football, canoeing/kayaking, fencing and over-the-line.

Instructors include some of the world’s top coaches and nationally ranked athletes, including Shepherd Center alum and Paralympic gold medalist Curtis Lovejoy and national record-setting wheelchair racer Rafael Ibarra.

The registration fee for participants is $150, which covers meals, lodging, activities, instruction and a T-shirt. The fee for attendants is $140.

Date
October 17 - 19, 2008

Location
Roosevelt Sports Training Complex in Warm Springs, Ga.

More Information
Contact Matt Edens by phone at 404-367-1287 or email Matt.