January 2004 Table of Contents

Island Hopping

Are you looking for a trip where you can not only enjoy the beautiful outdoors and see incredible wildlife but also move your muscles and meet new people? If this sounds appealing, check out this great Florida canoe experience.

Par for the Course

Whether you're a bona fide professional or a weekend hacker, golf is a sport for everyone�with or without a disability.

Fantastic Flying Machines

An event that could be looked at as just an excuse to party, Red Bull Flugtag is all that—and much more.

Hard Hitter

This quad rugger took a tough break and turned it around to give back to others.

Court's In Session

Who would reign at this year's U.S. Open Tennis Championships? Many came and gave it their best shot, but only a select few made it to the winner's circle.

In My Opinion

"I just read the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation newsletter on my e-mail," says Editor Cliff Crase, "and I thought, Wow, ol' Stoke ain't what it used to be." In this month's column, Cliff reflects on the transformation of this venerable—and groundbreaking—organization.

Basketball

Springfield, Mass., home of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, hosted the first annual Hall of Fame Day on October 18, 2003. Fourteen wheelchair-basketball legends were honored during the day's activities, where readers will enjoy a front-row seat, thanks to the vivid narrative by this month's columnist, Hall of Famer Tip Thiboutot.

Fishing

There's lots of fishing news in this month's issue. Read about the big fish (and big prizes) on the final two stops of the PVA National Bass Tour, a BASS-Sanctioned Event. There's also information about a tournament in New England that is free for all anglers—disabled or able-bodied—and a tip of the hat to the fishing group Team Challenge: Half the team's members qualified for the PVA Grand National Championships in Arizona.

Rugby

Wheelchair rugby is alive and well in the U.S.A.—as evidenced by this month's articles on the Alamo City Andy Beck Classic Rugby Tournament, four rugby clinics put on by BlazeSports Clubs of America and the U.S. Quad Rugby Association, and the 13th annual Beast of the East tourney. The USQRA Early Season Top 20 ranked the Hoveround Lightning as the number-one team, and plans were announced for the Arizona Paralyzed Veterans Association to host the 2004 USQRA Division I and II National Championships and Annual General Meeting on April 22-25.

Tennis

Wheelchair-tennis great David Hall, the ace from Down Under, added another victory notch to his belt at the 2003 PTR/ROHO $12,000 Wheelchair Championships in South Carolina. In this month's issue you'll read all about the upset that stripped the title from the defending champ, France's Michael Jeremiaz.

Scorecard

Reports on the Open European Cycling Championships, the 2003 World Wheelchair Games, the first-ever U.S. Wheelchair Curling National Championship, the Twin Cities and New York City Marathons, the 8th Annual International Friendship Ice Sports Games for the Disabled, and Atlanta Motor Speedway's Brawny 150 give you plenty of action-packed reading in this month's Scorecard.

Juniors

When he’s not playing soccer for the Clayton Eagles in Atlanta, 16-year-old Joshua Evans loves to go to the beach. Josh also enjoys scuba diving, canoeing, and rugby. Born with spina bifida, Jared Rehm, 17, is the second oldest of seven children. He is a senior at McGill-Tollen Catholic High School in Montgomery, Ala., where he is Student Government Association (SGA) president. He made academic all-American honors last year and is one of five in Alabama to receive the ATP Young Heroes of Alabama Scholarship.Read about these active and involved junior wheelers in this month's issue. (If you send us information and photos to run in our Juniors section, we'll send you a free SPORTS ’N SPOKES T-shirt. Click here.)

Playbook

This month, Ernie Butler writes about an Alaska hunting trip on which three wheelers didn't get a trophy, but their adventure was prize enough (to read more, click here). There's also a story about a former motocross racer who uses a custom Jeep Cherokee to do a little rockcrawling and off-roading, along with information about qualification/selection procedures for the 2004 Athens Paralympics.

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