{"id":126728,"date":"2022-11-14T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=126728"},"modified":"2022-11-14T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:48:09","slug":"new-wheelchair-basketball-teams-created-in-the-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/new-wheelchair-basketball-teams-created-in-the-northwest\/","title":{"rendered":"New wheelchair basketball teams created in the northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two new wheelchair basketball teams have formed in the northwest to promote inclusivity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Northern Adapted Sports Association (NASA), which originated in Prince George five years ago, has decided to expand further northwest following postponed plans due to COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Programming Director for NASA Rob Stiles says that the original plans to start the Terrace wheelchair basketball team was delayed due to the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stiles says that they now have a team of about five or six people with 9 wheelchairs available in Terrace and encourages those that are able-bodied to give it a try. Encouraging able-bodied people to join, according to Stiles, is to show people that sport is universal and adjustments can be made to include everyone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the Terrace Skeena Spinners was started in September, there was interest that stemmed in Kitimat, leading to the establishment of the Kitimat Killer Wheels in late October.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stiles explained that because his wife is in a wheelchair, basketball became a family favourite activity. Eventually, they decided to establish NASA after finding inspiration in the Kamloops Adapted Sports Association.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stiles says that they hope to have enough teams in close enough proximity to each other to hold a tournament in the northwest by spring time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though they hope to keep competition light, \u201cas long as everyone\u2019s having fun we\u2019re happy,\u201d Stiles says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFNR story with Rob Stiles below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new wheelchair basketball teams have formed in the northwest to promote inclusivity.\u00a0 The Northern Adapted Sports Association (NASA), which originated in Prince George five years ago, has decided to expand further northwest following postponed plans due to COVID-19.\u00a0 Programming Director for NASA Rob Stiles says that the original plans to start the Terrace wheelchair&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":126736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223,204],"tags":[7684,17753,13637,5107,20687,20685,20686,20684],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126728"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126768,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126728\/revisions\/126768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126728"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=126728"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=126728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}