Whenever we look at professional sports, sometimes even college sports, one thing is obvious: media coverage, funding and attention are handed to the male athletes 95% of the time. It is so strange to me why so little is done to change this. I strongly believe that this needs to change. Uneq…
It’s homecoming week for the Herbert Hoover Huskies as we look into Thursday's senior vs. staff volleyball game. Students and teachers have signed up to go head to head to promote school spirit. Who will win? Let’s find out!
Herbert Hoover High school faced Ripley High in a pre-season basketball scrimmage at Sissonville High School on Wednesday.
Cross country season has started, and to run a mile in this humidity is not for the weak.
Track and field events are some of the most popular adaptive sports. Track and field is a spring sport in Kanawha County, while cross country running is a fall sport. Track and field events were included in the first Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, and have the largest number of athletes a…
The Winter 2022 Paralympic Games will be held in Beijing, China from March 4 through March 13.
What is the fastest growing wheelchair sport in the world? It is wheelchair tennis. Tennis is played year-round, but at the local middle and high schools, it is a spring sport, so I choose it as my adaptive sport for March.
What is your favorite winter sport? Mine is basketball. And guess what? You can play basketball using a wheelchair.
We are in the middle of hockey season right now. I wrote earlier for FlipSide about my Cincinnati sled hockey team. We also have a sled hockey team in Charleston, the Charleston Thunder. This team does not travel but practices every Monday night at the South Charleston Memorial Ice Arena. We…
New in 2020-21, a wheelchair football league is taking the adaptive sports field by storm. Move United, the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the National Football League started a competitive wheelchair football league for adults with qualifying disabilities. It is played in a manual sports wheel…
The ice rink in the early morning is cold, very cold. It is so cold you can see your breath sometimes. It is so cold you wonder why anyone in the world would want to be there. But you want to be there. The sounds of pucks being hit off the boards and blades swishing across the ice. You also …
Excitement, adrenaline, that competitive rush, a little bit of normalcy — all things I was able to feel after a year away from the competitive environment I have grown so used to.
Imagine telling a baseball team they can play the game, but you are not permitted to use a bat. Imagine informing the football team that this season you can play but will not be allowed to tackle. Imagine playing a basketball game in which you were not allowed to dribble.
Alex Miller was a young man. A normal boy, from Roane County, West Virginia. A guitar player, a church member, and one of the 30 million teens and children who play an organized sport. Now he is part of a different number — those who died while playing sports.
Charleston has a deep-rooted community, bound by compassion for our neighbor. Creating a welcoming atmosphere begins with a common interest; thankfully, our community brings many resources that provide this, with food, music and sport-centered events. On July 12, Charleston’s 60th snnual Pub…
Elijah Sutton and Chance Anderson are senior co-captains of the 2018 state champion George Washington High School varsity soccer team.
