City University of New York women’s wheelchair basketball student-athletes
Seira Larrauri Garcia and
Crystal Jones were featured in The New York Amsterdam News, New York City’s oldest Black newspaper, following the team’s inaugural season in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA).
The team recently concluded the campaign at the 2022 National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball National Championships at the University of Texas-Arlington. The women took on the host Mavericks and the
University of Arizona.
Joining the ranks of the NWBA is yet another notch on the journey towards national and global prominence as the program continues to make strides since its inception. The wheelchair team is a result of a 2017 initiative, CUNY's Inclusive and Adaptive Sports platform, providing an opportunity for 11,000 CUNY students with disabilities to participate in four sports — track and field, swimming, tennis and basketball, the first sport the University has adopted as part of this collegiate model. To date, the CUNY Inclusive and Adaptive Sports platform has over 35-students across 14 CUNY campuses. The CUNY wheelchair team is the first of its kind on the Eastern Seaboard.
With CUNY as a member of the NWBA, this idea has turned into a reality, as CUNY is now being represented on a national stage.
Below are the links to read each feature:
CUNY’s Seira Larrauri Garcia Breaks Barriers with Team USA invite
Crystal Jones Is a Star on CUNY's Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team
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