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   Far West Wheelchair Sports

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Sports

A wide variety of competitive sports are offered, including track and field, pentathlon (2 track and 3 field events), swimming, archery, fencing, weightlifting, air pistol and rifle marksmanship, table tennis, basketball, water-skiing and tennis. Each sport follows the rules of the respective National Governing Body (example: U.S. Table Tennis Association), with adaptations made for the use of the chair.

From local Wheelchair Sports, USA (WSUSA) sanctioned meets to the annual Far West Regional Games, athletes are provided the opportunity to qualify for the annual National Wheelchair Championships. Far West is proud of the fact that many of its members consistently earn berths on the WSUSA Teams which travel to international competition including the Paralympics.

Programs

Far West Wheelchair Sports conducts, sponsors and actively supports a number of sports-related programs.

	Sponsors the annual Far West Regional Qualifying Meet held at different sites throughout the region, supports the Desert Challenge Games which have become the largest multi DSO competition in the western U.S. for people with physical disabilities. The games are sanctioned by WSUSA; National Disability Sport Alliance; and Disabled Sports, USA.
	Co-sponsors the Northern California Junior Sports Camp for the Physically Disabled, a camp designed to introduce and instruct youth in both recreational and competitive wheelchair sports.
	Sponsors major national events (the 2000 Junior National Wheelchair Championships).
	Conducts and co-sponsors monthly sports training clinics and sanctioned single and multi-sports events.
	Provides information and referral on wheelchair sports and recreation and other topics of interest to the community.