From abey.finklea at gmail.com Tue Feb 4 16:38:48 2025 From: abey.finklea at gmail.com (Abey Finklea) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 10:38:48 -0600 Subject: [SportsandRec] Blind Cricket Tryouts and Training: National Men's and Women's Teams Message-ID: Hello NFB Family! Are you ready to embrace a new sport and represent the United States on the global stage? Welcome to blind cricket?a unique version of cricket crafted especially for visually impaired athletes. Originating over 100 years ago, blind cricket began when two blind factory workers in Melbourne transformed a tin can filled with rocks into a game, creating a pathway for visually impaired players to engage in competitive sports. Today, this incredible legacy continues under the World Blind Cricket Council, and you have the chance to become part of it! Blind cricket is now expanding across the United States, and we?re calling on passionate, adventurous individuals to join the national team. With no state teams to navigate, you?ll step directly into representing America on an international level! Training camps will be held in the late spring and summer of 2025 to teach the basics of blind cricket to interested individuals. Following the training camps, participants will compete in a selection trial to determine who will make it onto the national men?s and women?s blind cricket teams. Those selected for the national teams will continue their training throughout the coming year in preparation for international matches with the blind cricket teams of other countries, including India, Australia, Nepal, England, and many more. In the fall of 2025, the women?s national team will travel to India to compete in the world?s first Women?s Blind Cricket World Cup tournament. Meanwhile, the men will compete in bilateral and trilateral matches with other countries in preparation for the 2027 Men?s Blind Cricket World Cup. If you want to learn more about this opportunity, please get in touch with any of the individuals listed below. *Contact Information* Abey Finklea Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled USA (608) 404-0420 abey at samarthanamusa.org Drew Finklea Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled USA (608) 408-8938 drew at samarthanamusa.org Shruti Shree Tyagi Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled +91 (989) 924-7108 (WhatsApp only) shrutishree at samarthanam.org From loriannecoley at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 11:50:59 2025 From: loriannecoley at gmail.com (Lori Anne Coley) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:50:59 -0500 Subject: [SportsandRec] Fwd: [NFBofSC] Fwd: ***IMPORTANT: GOALBALL EVENT @ GMS*** References: <10A721C1-016C-4008-8ADB-4474DD71B5D1@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4705172E-55AD-45D4-9306-987AD15C9334@gmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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So, I have a question for those of you who do. My friend and I were wondering if any of you have gotten a group together and played laser tag? If so, how did you make it accessible? Did you go to an establishment that has laser tag or did you rent the equipment and host it yourself? Thanks and I lookk forward to hearing from you all. From bookwormahb at earthlink.net Tue Feb 18 22:44:05 2025 From: bookwormahb at earthlink.net (Ashley Bramlett) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:44:05 -0500 Subject: [SportsandRec] sports and rec meetings Message-ID: <001001db8256$9df2e060$d9d8a120$@earthlink.net> Hello, We used to have the monthly sports and rec meetings on zoom. Usually a speaker would present their story such as their journey through a certain sport or activity. Will these be happening again? If so, when? Unfortunately, I know that attendance was low so that may be why it was discontinued. If you have another one, you might consider doing it on a Saturday. It was on a Sunday and often Sundays people have religious or family activities to do. I enjoyed the ones I was on and in fact have some follow up questions for Ron which I'll post soon. Thanks, Ashley -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com