Lady Panters Collaborate with CARE
For the eleventh year, the Pitt-Bradford Lady Panthers basketball team has collaborated with CARE for Children to provide the opportunity for both boys and girls with motor and learning deficiencies to learn to play basketball.
The annual camp began in 2001, and has remained one of the most popular of CARE’s therapeutic recreation events. Each year, between 40 and 60 children throughout McKean County participate. The event remains unique in that it focuses on basketball skills that campers may not have experienced because of perceived limitations. CARE’s physical and occupational therapists are on hand to help the Lady Panthers players adapt components of the game and to work with the kids as an extension of traditional school based therapy.
In 2011, the University’s athletic department received the Jostens Community Service Overall Winner Award from the National Association of Division III Athletics, in part for its long-standing relationship with CARE for Children. Since the inception of the basketball camp, numerous other Pitt Bradford athletic teams have worked with the organization, offering adaptive soccer, volleyball and baseball camps throughout the year.
The basketball camp is sponsored annually by the Bradford Rotary Club, which provides each child in attendance with a t-shirt and a basketball.
Saturday’s event also gave participants and their families the chance to get a sneak-peek at the building plans for the CARE for Children Community Center for Children of All Abilities. CARE is promoting the project and campaign through existing programs, with the public fundraising efforts to kick-off in early May.
CARE for Children has been providing services to children of all abilities since 1924. For more information, visit the organization’s website at www.careforchildren.info.
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The annual camp began in 2001, and has remained one of the most popular of CARE’s therapeutic recreation events. Each year, between 40 and 60 children throughout McKean County participate. The event remains unique in that it focuses on basketball skills that campers may not have experienced because of perceived limitations. CARE’s physical and occupational therapists are on hand to help the Lady Panthers players adapt components of the game and to work with the kids as an extension of traditional school based therapy.
In 2011, the University’s athletic department received the Jostens Community Service Overall Winner Award from the National Association of Division III Athletics, in part for its long-standing relationship with CARE for Children. Since the inception of the basketball camp, numerous other Pitt Bradford athletic teams have worked with the organization, offering adaptive soccer, volleyball and baseball camps throughout the year.
The basketball camp is sponsored annually by the Bradford Rotary Club, which provides each child in attendance with a t-shirt and a basketball.
Saturday’s event also gave participants and their families the chance to get a sneak-peek at the building plans for the CARE for Children Community Center for Children of All Abilities. CARE is promoting the project and campaign through existing programs, with the public fundraising efforts to kick-off in early May.
CARE for Children has been providing services to children of all abilities since 1924. For more information, visit the organization’s website at www.careforchildren.info.
The news leader of the Twin Tiers ...since 1947
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