Leveling the Playing Field: Bringing Adapted Sports to Campus Recreation

Rebecca is an educator and researcher dedicated to creating inclusive sport and recreation opportunities through experiential learning. With nearly a decade of teaching experience in Adapted Physical Education and Sport Management, she engages students in hands-on work that prepares them to design and deliver adapted sport and recreation programs. She also serves on the board of Functional Performance, a nonprofit adapted fitness organization, and her research explores inclusive practices that expand access for individuals with disabilities.

Lindsay has over 15 years of experience working with Paralympic athletes as a volunteer and former national event director for Paralympic shooting sports (rifle, pistol and shotgun) at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. She has a certificate from WVU in Disability Studies and spent five years assisting in the preparation of pre-service physical education teachers in Monongalia County WV.  Lindsay taught classes that provided students with both theoretical knowledge and practical opportunities to implement adapted physical education strategies, design individualized modifications as well as detailed lesson plans to create inclusive environments in the school PE setting. In her current faculty position at PennWest, she incorporates an adapted sports lab into her Sport and Society class to provide students with an opportunity to play sports such as goalball, blind running and sitting volleyball.