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“It sounds cliché,
but adaptive sports
saved my life.”
Laurie Wood, Navy Veteran
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U.S. Air Force Reservist Aims High at Annual Winter Sports Clinic
By Medina Ayala-Lo SNOWMASS, Colo. – For U.S. Air Force Reserve Citizen Airman Maj. Monica Riggs, “aiming high” isn’t a belief that’s...
Apr 7, 2024


Adaptive sports offers soldier new sense of purpose
By Janelle Beswick, Acting Public Affairs Officer VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. - Command Sergeant Major...
Apr 6, 2024


Army Veteran and amputee focuses on Paralympic dream, future goals
By Donna J. Bell, communications director, VA Office of Integrated Veteran Care “Anger is not a perfect circle of stages you work through...
Apr 4, 2024


Clinic shows disabled Army Veteran she can ‘do anything’
BY ELIZABETH DEPOMPEI Brenda Reed out-processed from the Army on crutches. Reed had injured her foot while running in ill-fitting combat...
Apr 4, 2024


Army Veteran nearly killed in Iraq personifies determination
BY BRIAN BUCKWALTER When Army Veteran Erik Castillo came out of a nearly two-month coma, he was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in...
Apr 4, 2024


U.S. Army Veteran, VA recreation therapist Foster Enduring Bond on Miracle Mountain
By Medina Ayala-Lo Winter Sports Clinic writer SNOWMASS, Colo. – It’s been nearly three decades since U.S. Army Veteran Brent King and...
Apr 3, 2024


Disabled Air Force veteran to others: ‘Life doesn’t suck’
Matthew Kosto has an honest, if not blunt, catchphrase: Life doesn’t suck. It’s a mantra that took on a new meaning for him after he lost...
Apr 1, 2023


Veteran, Cyborg or both?
SNOWMASS, Colo – John Wade, or Big John, as he is known to the Winter Sports Clinic community, also goes by his own self-proclaimed...
Mar 31, 2023


Combat-wounded veteran finds peace in fly-fishing
The first time combat-wounded Army veteran John Thomas went fly-fishing, he found peace. “It was [like] no other feeling,” he said. “I...
Mar 31, 2023


Happy trails
On a cold clear morning, sunlight glints off snowbanks as a line of snowmobiles zip through groves of aspens and towering firs. Pyramid...
Mar 30, 2023


Winter Sports Clinic: National Guard Veteran, amputee wants to ‘live not just survive’
For nine years, doctors tried to repair Sandi Braunstein’s leg. She injured it twice in back-to-back incidents in 2007 while she was in...
Mar 30, 2023


Second time’s a charm at Winter Sports Clinic
Army Veteran David Pettigrew first attended the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in 2003, just six months after he lost...
Mar 30, 2023


Retired Air Force pararescue takes to the slopes
Air Force Veteran Francis “Frankie” Reilly grew up loving sports. Reilly loved to play baseball, football and hockey. He also had a...
Mar 29, 2023


Army Veteran found joy wasn’t just on slopes
Army Veteran Jeff Grieves said he lost something after his 2013 retirement. But he found it again after a friend nudged him to try the...
Mar 28, 2023


Winter Sports Clinic - Day 1
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Mar 27, 2023


Medically retired Navy nurse finds healing on the ski slopes
When Lisa Veres enlisted in the Navy in 1984, she had planned on making a career out of the military. “I was on a good path,” she said....
Mar 27, 2023


‘No one ever felt good after giving up’: Airman to compete in sports clinic for disabled vets, troop
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2023-03-26/disabled-veterans-winter-sports-clinic-9611011.html WASHINGTON — Airman 1st Class Lauren...
Mar 27, 2023


Local VA host National Winter Sports Clinic
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — “We are one of the largest if not I believe we are the largest rehabilitation clinic in the world” voiced...
Mar 23, 2023


Henrico Veteran participating in National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic
https://www.henricocitizen.com/articles/henrico-veteran-participating-in-national-disabled-veterans-winter-sports-clinic/ Henrico...
Mar 20, 2023


More than 400 disabled Veterans to take on Snowmass Mountain for adaptive sports challenge
WHAT: The Department of Veterans Affairs and Disabled American Veterans will host its 37th annual National Disabled Veterans Winter...
Feb 8, 2023
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