Author Archive for: BridgeIISports
Entries by Ashley Thomas
At wheelchair basketball tourney, fierce game faces can’t hide the exuberance of play
By Anne Blythe ablythe@newsobserver.com
February 12, 2017 RALEIGH
The clank of wheelchairs colliding and sound of basketballs springing off the Carmichael Gymnasium floor echoed throughout the N.C. State University recreation center over the weekend.
Ashley Thomas, founder and executive director of Bridge II Sports, was on the sidelines, watching with pride as two teams competed Sunday morning, racing up and down the basketball court at all-out speed.
Sooey! BIIS Hosts Hog Wild Tournament to Declare Carolina Braggin’ Rights
On Saturday January 28, the three varsity youth wheelchair basketball teams in North Carolina collided at the Smithfield Recreation and Aquatics Center for a full day of competitive hoops to determine who would take home the Pig Trophy this year and earn Carolina braggin’ rights.
The Untold Bathroom Story
Are you ready for some potty talk? There has been a lot of conversation about bathrooms in North Carolina lately, and I would like to add the perspective of the members of our communities with disability.
BIIS Invitational Team Showing Off Skills at NCState Halftime
Bridge II Sports will be invading Wolfpack Nation on Thursday December 22, 2017 to give the crowd at PNC Arena a taste of wheelchair basketball.
U.S. Paralympics recognizes Bridge II Sports for excellence
December 5, 2016
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado ― U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, today announced that Bridge II Sports has been recognized as a GOLD level club as a part of the Paralympic Sport Club Excellence Program
New Lake Crabtree dock offers access to athletes with disabilities
By Abbie Bennett
abennett@newsobserver.com
About 20 years ago, Carol Rogers fell and injured her spine, paralyzing her from the waist down. She has been using a wheelchair since then.
Fast-forward about 14 years, and Rogers found herself out of her wheelchair and in a kayak for the first time, and not a regular one either – a racing kayak, far more narrow and unstable than the traditional craft.