My Sports, Your Sports, Blind Sports - With OBSA President Glen Wade
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\\nEver\\nwonder about getting more physically active or participating in a team sport?\\nThis episode aims to answer all your questions about sports participation for\\npeople who are blind.\\xa0 Our guest is Glen Wade, President of the Ontario Blind Sports Association. Glen established his\\nlove of sports as a young boy, and it was at the Ontario School for the Blind\\n(now W. Ross MacDonald School) where he was able to try out and compete in many\\nsports such as hockey, baseball, football, wrestling and goalball. He would go\\non to pursue goalball professionally, representing Ontario 12 times at the\\nnational championships, and was named to the Canadian team 4 times with 2 trips\\nto the Paralympics in 1984 and 1992.
\\nAfter several decades as an amateur athlete, he decided to\\nturn his attention over to sports administration. He began assisting with\\nevents run by the Ontario Blind Sports Association (OBSA) in 2011, and was elected president in 2012. He attributes his success and quality of life largely to the lessons he has learned through sports, including drive,\\npreparedness, persistence and leadership.
\\nIn addition to explaining how the sport of goalball is\\nplayed, and learning about his sporting career, Glen gives some helpful advice on\\nhow to make sports like baseball, hockey and running accessible for children\\nand adults who are blind.
\\nOur guest host for this episode is Madeleine Sommerville.\\nDuring her student occupational therapy placement at BALANCE, Madeleine was\\ngiven the opportunity to conduct an interview on the topic of her choosing for\\nthe show. As a long-time soccer player and sports fan, she decided to bring these two passions together, and reached out to the Ontario Blind Sports\\nAssociation, and before long she found herself sitting down with the President!\\nMadeleine currently works as an Occupational Therapist in school-based\\nrehabilitation services in Parry Sound Ontario.
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\\nLearn more about The Ontario Blind Sports Association by\\nvisiting their nicely designed \\xa0Website.
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\\nFind Madeleine Sommerville on LinkedIn.
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\\nEmail Glen Wade at glenw@rogers.com,\\nOBSA program manager Richard Amelard at Richard@Blindsports.on.ca, and\\nExecutive Director Randa Gohary at randa@blindsports.on.ca.
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