These organizations offer sports activities for people with disabilities:

 

This nonprofit organization creates opportunities for children and adults who are physically challenged to play team and individual sports. Bridge II Sports offers equipment, development of sports teams and coaching. Programs include tennis, wheelchair basketball, goalf, goal ball, track and field and sitting volleyball, among others.

 

For more information call (866) 880-2742.

 

Bridge II Sports

2106 Greenwich Place

Durham, NC 27705

Special Olympics North Carolina (SONC)  

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.

 

You can contact the local program coordinator for Wake County at (919) 807-8378 or (919) 831-6470.

 

SONC Headquarters Office

2200 Gateway Centre Blvd., Suite 201

Morrisville, NC 27560

The Raleigh Sidewinders  

The Raleigh Sidewinders is eastern North Carolina’s wheelchair Rugby team. The Raleigh Sidewinders are official members of the U.S. Quad Rugby Association. 

 

The team is made up of individuals with disabilities that preclude their play in competitive, able-bodied sports. To qualify, players must have mobility impairments in their arms and legs.

 

For more information, email raleighquadrugby@yahoo.com

 

Raleigh Sidewinders Office

3701 Wake Forest Road

Raleigh, NC 27609

 

Triangle Thunder  

 

Triangle Thunder is a recreational and competitive wheelchair basketball team representing the Greater Triangle Area Community of Central and Eastern North Carolina. Its goal is to foster participants’ social and societal well-being through vigorous physical exercise, skill formation, and healthy fellowship with other persons with disabilities.

 

For more information call (919) 215-6038 or (919) 696-2811 or email trianglethunder@gmail.com.