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Teaching Individual Lifetime Sport Skills

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Breaking Barriers to Set Goals, Achieve Successes, and Build Dreams

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Providing Integrated Experiences for Youth and Veterans with Disabilities

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Inspiring Courage, Strength, and Healthy Determination

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Enjoying Life without Limitations

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Creating Unforgettable Experiences

STRIDE Adaptive Sports

OUR MISSION is to educate and empower individuals with disabilities in life-changing sport and recreation programs to sustain healthy, active and fun lifestyles.


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a sled skier with helper
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Program Calendar

July 2026

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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  • Adult Competitive Bowling
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  • Adult Competitive Bowling
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11
  • Music and Movement Camping Weekend
  • East Greenbush Bowling
12
  • Music and Movement Camping Weekend
  • Golf
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15
  • Adult Competitive Bowling
16
17
  • Veterans Retreat
18
  • Veterans Retreat
19
  • Veterans Retreat
  • Golf
  • iCan Shine Bike Camp Orientation - Capital Region
  • Wheelchair Basketball
20
  • iCan Shine Bike Camp - Capital Region
21
  • iCan Shine Bike Camp - Capital Region
  • STRIDE Night at The Joe
22
  • iCan Shine Bike Camp - Capital Region
  • Adult Competitive Bowling
23
  • iCan Shine Bike Camp - Capital Region
24
  • iCan Shine Bike Camp - Capital Region
25
  • East Greenbush Bowling
26
  • Golf
  • Wheelchair Basketball
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  • Adult Competitive Bowling
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STRIDE’s  Warfighter Program

Provides integrated adaptive sports and recreation activities to men and women of the armed forces who have been injured in deployment, including programs in snow sports, marksmanship, sled hockey, watersports, cycling, social activities, and camping.

Leveling the playing field for ALL!

Mary Ellen Whitney at Bocce

“STRIDE not only makes the highest possible impact on Capital Region youth with disabilities at just a fraction of larger organizations’ budgets, but we are also a national leader recognized as an industry expert in knowledge and best practices.”

– From the Desk of Mary Ellen Whitney, Founder, Why We Do What We Do
Mary Ellen Whitney at Bocce