join prairie Grit
Discover your potential and become a PG Athlete. We specialize in adapting sports and activities so anyone can enjoy them regardless of ability. Our program offers nearly 50 unique activities including sled hockey, wheelchair basketball, hunting, tennis, and gymnastics. Find out how you can get started.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
Any person, 3 years of age through adult, with a disability can participate. Our participants include but are not limited to, those with cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries, spina bifida, Down syndrome, autism, stroke, amputations, etc.
Eligibility Guidelines
Prairie Grit Adaptive Sports’ Participant Eligibility Guidelines are used to confirm a participant is eligible and appropriate for involvement in programming.
Qualifying Primary Disability and/or Diagnosis:
Prairie Grit Adaptive Sports uses these guidelines to establish eligibility for our programming and services. Qualifying disabilities and/or specific diagnoses must be confirmed by a medical expert on the PGAS Eligibility Approval Form by September 1, 2024.
Physical disability such that adapted accommodations, teaching approach, or adaptive equipment is required for individuals to participate in sports or recreational activities. The disability must consistently prohibit the individual from playing mainstream sports. Examples may include but are not limited to: those who use mobility aides (walkers, wheelchairs, crutches, canes (temporary of life-long use)), limited or no use of an extremity or extremities as well as hearing and vision impairments. Diagnoses such as spina bifida, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injury, blindness, or amputation for example.
Developmental/Intellectual/Cognitive Impairment such that adapted accommodations, teaching approach, or adaptive equipment is required for individuals to participate in sports or recreational activities. The impairment must consistently prohibit the individual from playing mainstream sports. Examples may include, but are not limited to: autism, Down syndrome, traumatic brain injury, genetic disorders, and non-specific developmental delays.
Sensory processing disorders such as adapted accommodations, teaching approaches, or adaptive equipment is required for individuals to participate in recreational activities. These disorders alone (without at least one of the above in addition) do not meet the minimum requirement for participation in competitive sled hockey tournaments.