U.S. Paralympic Team Blogs

"Golden" memories await

Thu Feb 11 11:38:00 -0500 2010

With more than half of the national team living and training in my home town of Buffalo and the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games just around the corner, there are a lot of things to be excited about. Our national team won an award for 2009 U.S. Olympic Committee Paralympic Team of the Year with our… Read More

Brad Emmerson Blog - The end of the road?

Tue Oct 13 17:09:00 -0400 2009

With less than six months to go before the start of the Paralympic Winter Games and our team having high hopes to be the first ever American sled team to win back to back gold medals (world championships and Paralympics) the pressure is on. The only difference this time, besides a few new players,… Read More

Brad Emmerson Blog - World Champs!

Tue Jun 09 18:25:00 -0400 2009

Going into my third world championships there was only one thing on my mind:  getting the one medal that had eluded me throughout my international career, and that was gold. This year's world championships were held in Ostrava, Czech Republic.  After traveling for what seemed like a week… Read More

Brad Emmerson Blog - Homecoming

Wed Apr 01 12:43:00 -0400 2009

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to do something that I never thought would happen. I got to participate in two games against Team Canada and the first game was played in Amherst, N.Y. in the rink in which I had grown up.  This gave all of my family and friends, most of whom had never seen… Read More

Brad Emmerson Blog - A Test Run in Vancouver

Tue Mar 10 11:55:00 -0400 2009

In our preparation for the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, Canada invited three teams to come in to do a test run of the facilities that will be used in Vancouver. This tournament was going to be a huge step in helping to grow our sport because something was going to happen that had never been done… Read More

Brad Emmerson Blog - Japan Challenge

Tue Jan 27 18:08:00 -0500 2009

For the first time in the New Year the team was getting back together and ready to try to take the next step toward bringing home gold in Vancouver in 2010. On January 8, we started our long trip to Nagano, Japan for the second annual Japan Challenge. We all had arrived in Chicago where I learned… Read More

Brad Emmerson Blog - They Call Me "The Penguin"

Thu Dec 18 11:33:13 -0500 2008

After our last tournament in Prince Edward Island we didn't have a lot of time to rest and relax before our camp in Rochester that ran December 4-7. Even though we didn't have much time in between trips, I was really excited to spend a few days with the guys. It was a rather short drive up… Read More

Brad Emmerson Blog - Game Time!

Wed Nov 26 13:10:49 -0500 2008

After several weeks of intense training on and off the ice since our camp in Colorado Springs our first national team competition was about to get under way. Things were a little crazy, I was waiting for my new sled to arrive so I could get it ready for some game action since my old one was so… Read More