ParaSports was created by 3 experienced wheelchair basketball
athletes: Lorenzo
Thomas, Mike Hernandez and Willie Jackson. These athletes, all
spinal cord injured,
have been involved in the sport for combined total of almost 60
years. They
have traveled internationally and competed at all levels of the
sport...and they
are still playing and coaching.
Together they formed a non-profit organization called Wreckers
Inc. Later they added the name ParaSports since it more
clearly expresses the nature of the organization. Since
its inception, Wreckers Inc.dba ParaSports has enabled
wheelchair sports athletes to train, compete and excel!
ParaSports athletes have a variety of disabilities and not all
of our athletes use wheelchairs all the time.
The most experienced ParaSports athletes compete nationally as
the San Antonio Wheelchair Spurs. This team is ranked the
National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) Division III.
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Wreckers Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization and its funding
is almost exclusively
from private donations. The ability to continue and expand our
program is
largely due to the generosity and goodwill of individual donors.
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"To Create Fully Integrated, Self-confident People With
Disabilities Through Wheelchair
Sports" |
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