Boccia experience at the World Dwarf Gamer
I had a quick turnaround after the table tennis tournament; the next day was the boccia ball tournament. Boccia ball is essentially lawn bowling, where there’s a target ball and the two players try to throw their six balls as close to the target ball as possible.
As I said before, I didn’t practice much for boccia ball, and as a result, did not have extremely high expectations for the 40-player tournament.
The tourney was set up just like table tennis, where I had to win my pool to reach the single-elimination round.
As luck would have it, my first opponent in my four-person pool didn’t show up, so I won by forfeit. I was able to revel in my 1-0 pool-play record for about 10 minutes before I had to play my next match, which just so happened to be against my best LP friend, who is from Kansas.
Countdown to 2015 Parapan Am Games in Whitby
Boccia at the Parapan Am Games • Made its official Paralympic Games debut in 1992 in Barcelona. • This sport is strategically similar to lawn bowling. • Open to athletes with severe locomotor disabilities of a cerebral or non-cerebral origin, including individuals with cerebral palsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury, high-level spinal cord injuries, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, ALS and arthrogryposis. • Objective is to throw, kick or use an assistive device to propel leather balls as close as possible to a white target ball on a long, narrow field of play. • Canada led all nations with five boccia medals at the 2011 Parapan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Gardner teen competing at Americas Cup boccia tournament
“You don’t not know her,” said Americas Cup Competition Director Cathy Drobny, who coached Flora-Swick early in her career.
Flora-Swick, a 19-year-old sophomore at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark., is reaching for international success at the Americas Cup held Aug. 3-9 at the New Century Fieldhouse in Gardner.
Flora-Swick has already established herself as one of the best boccia players in the state and nation in her nine-year career.
via Gardner teen competing at Americas Cup boccia tournament in her hometown – KansasCity.com.
Boccia athletes from 9 countries in 2013 Americas Cup
A total of 78 competitors from nine different countries are set to compete at the 2013 Boccia Americas Cup tournament which is taking place in Kansas City starting tomorrow.
The line-up includes medallists from the London 2012 Paralympic Games and the Parapan Amercian Games.
The United States will have the biggest squad at the event, with 13 athletes competing across the four classes of BC1, BC2, BC3 and BC4.
The home squad is relatively inexperienced however on the international stage, with only one competitor from London 2012 taking part in Kansas, Austin Hanson, who competes in the BC3 category.
Ballina students to represent North Coast in NSW boccia comp
THREE students from the Southern Cross K-12 School Support Unit in Ballina will represent the North Coast in the NSW State CHS Boccia Championships next month.
Similar to bowls, boccia is a Paralympic sport designed for people with disabilities, including cerebral palsy.
Head teacher, Support, Kellie Gough said that Anthony “Anno” Pitt (Year 9), Jayden Watson (Year 11) and Liam Hourigan (Year 10) played well in defeating Lismore High 2-0.
via Ballina students to represent North Coast in NSW boccia comp | Coffs Coast Advocate.
Biddle makes Boccia national team
Devine, who stands a mere 137cm, will represent Australia in basketball at the World Dwarf Games in East Lansing, Michigan next month.
It will be his second Games, after Northern Ireland four years ago, but his first with boccia-playing partner Alyssa Biddle, 22, also in the national team.
The Hallett Cove couple are the only South Australians to make the 32-strong squad. Australia’s basketballers lost the gold-medal game to the US in 2009.
Worksop: Olympic legacy lives on at SAND sports club
Worksop’s Olympic legacy is still going strong a year on from the 2012 London Games.
While the world’s elite athletes recover from competing at the Olympic Stadium in the London Anniversary Games, grassroots sport in Bassetlaw is being boosted by free disability sports taster sessions.
The events at Worksop College and Outwood Academy Valley were part of a series which gives young people to chance to get active and try new sports.
The first session introduced Wheelchair Basketball and the skills involved, while on 6th August children had the opportunity to hone their precision with target sports Boccia and New Age Kurling.
Boccia is a game similar to bowls. Great Britain’s won one individual silver medal and a team bronze at London 2012.
via Worksop: Olympic legacy lives on at SAND sports club – Local news – Worksop Guardian.
Boccia helps provide respite for Chernobyl children
T
he 11 youngsters from Belarus visited Ponds Forge International Sports Centre as part of a four-week holiday in Sheffield, away from the fallout of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The children, aged nine to 12, played games of boccia – a ball sport related to bowls – with the Ponds Forge-based Smashers Club, and were also treated to free swimming at the venue’s leisure pool.
via Games provide respite for Chernobyl children – Local Health – The Star.
Bermuda Boccia Athletes To Compete In Americas Cup
WindReach Bermuda has announced that four of its Adaptive Sports participants will be travelling to Kansas on August 1, 2013, to represent Bermuda in the Americas Cup Boccia Tournament. The tournament will take place from August 4 to August 8.
The Bermuda team will compete against elite athletes from South, Central and North America and the competition is expected to be fierce. Bermuda will be represented by Yushae Simmons, Steve Wilson, Jamal Bean and Jaime Brangman. The Americas Cup is the first of several Paralympic Qualifying Events in the lead up to the Paralympics in Rio in 2016 which the athletes are hoping to qualify for.
via Boccia Athletes To Compete In Americas Cup | Bernews.com.
Billings man takes Boccia role in World Dwarf Games
As a partner in the Rimrock Subaru and Rimrock Kia auto dealerships, Ernie Lee is a busy man.
But the Billings resident is also is busy in another pursuit, as a board member and active participant in the Dwarf Athletic Association of America. For the past four years he has worked on organizing the 2013 World Dwarf Games.
That work will culminate Aug. 3-10 with a week of athletic competitions that will bring nearly 500 participants from 17 countries to Michigan State University in Lansing, Mich.
Lee, 44, will wear a couple of hats at the games.
He will compete in both air pistol and boccia, a sport similar to lawn bowling. More important, he will serve as the assistant Chef de Mission for the U.S. team of 250 competitors.
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