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Students ' Knowledge Of Adaptive Sports On Campus

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Statement of theme (Sean) In the beginning phases of our video project, we struggled to find a theme specific enough to embody all of the ideas we had as a group. We were very set on a certain direction, but that direction included a lot of different subsections that would make our task even more complicated. Accessibility on college campuses and beyond is a very important topic and one that aligned with our passion. But the likelihood for us to travel to another campus to conduct interviews & collect data was very low. This centered our focus on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In our own community there are many improvements necessary. The University of Illinois is home to some of the finest athletes with disabilities, but …show more content…

Being a student-athlete is even more demanding. The distance that people with disabilities have to go to practice, train, go to class & utilize DRES is ridiculous. The locations of these areas are not close in proximity. Wheelchair athlete should be able to have their own facility in which they can operate efficiently and effectively. In athletics, athletes should be compensated for the hard work that they put in. Even as a walk-on athlete for a DIA recognized team, there are my added benefits. When the quality of life for wheelchair athletes increases, we will be able to recruit better athletes and place the University of Illinois ahead every other program in the nation. After conducting interviews we have learned that this will be a hard and difficult process, but with willing and passionate individuals, it is possible. Relevance to RST professions with social context that justifies its relevance (Vince) Our topic of bringing notice to adaptive sports programs at the U of I is very much relevant to RST professions. Adaptive sports and those who participate on our campus are extremely passionate about what they do, and it is the same for those participating around the nation. Our campus and the following we have built here at the U of I only makes up a small percentage of what can be found elsewhere. After doing this project, we determined that not too many students are aware of the sports programs available for disabled athletes. For RST

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