Registration for the 10th annual DisAbility Sports Festival at Cal State San Bernardino, set for Saturday, Oct. 1, is still open online, event organizers said.
Registration is free to participants, ages 8 months to 84 years old, of all abilities at the DisAbility Sports Festival, which will run from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the CSUSB athletic fields and nearby facilities. Participants may register online at or download the registration form – available in English and Spanish from the event web page.
Registration will also be held on the day of the festival starting at 8 a.m.
Organizers expect as many as 1,000 participants, including more than 100 disabled military veterans, competing in at least 20 different sports, including wheelchair and standing basketball, tennis, soccer, wall climbing, swimming and hand cycling. Each sport and activity will be coached by an athlete with a disability, including Paralympians, and other elite-level coaches, which, organizers say, really is a display of all the participants’ abilities.
The purpose of the festival is to increase the sports opportunities for athletes with disabilities and thereby increase their quality of life and health, says festival director Aaron Moffett, professor of kinesiology at Cal State San Bernardino.
The festival has quickly emerged as one of the largest sporting programs for people with any disability in the country. Moffett said that the growth is a testament of the need for such programs especially for wounded warriors.
'The reason that we do this is because it helps people focus on success and their abilities when sometimes people focus on perceived inabilities. One of our military participants said that the event made him feel alive again since being back from Afghanistan,” Moffett said. “The power of sport can touch everyone's life and that is why we have the DisAbility Sports Festival.”
Also featured will be more than 30 information booths from community programs and services that are available for people with disabilities and their families. Including volunteers, supporters, spectators and athletes, an estimated 2,000 to 2,500 will come to the university on Oct. 1 for the event.
Molina Healthcare serves as the top sponsor of the DisAbility Sports Festival.
For more information about the festival, visit the DisAbility Sports Festival website or e-mail sportfes@csusb.edu, or contact Aaron Moffett at (909) 537-5352.
California State University, San Bernardino is a preeminent center of intellectual and cultural activity in Inland Southern California. Opened in 1965 and set at the foothills of the beautiful San Bernardino Mountains, the university serves more than 20,000 students each year and graduates about 4,000 students annually. CSUSB reflects the dynamic diversity of the region and has the most diverse student population of any university in the Inland Empire, and it has the second highest African American and Hispanic enrollments of all public universities in California. Eighty percent of those who graduate are the first in their families to do so.
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