U.S. Paralympic Team Events

The 2010 Developing Amazing Leaders Paralympic Conference is scheduled for April 30-May 3.  REGISTER NOW!  The theme for this year's conference is Innovation, Collaboration, Alignment.

The primary goal of the conference is to provide "key" Paralympic audiences including community leaders, military personnel, sport and recreation program specialists, coaches, therapists, researchers, educators, college students, and other interested parties from across the USA, the tools and the inspiration to implement and support successful Paralympic sport programs in their communities.

Interactive conference sessions offer attendees opportunities to learn how to build a community program or grow the program you're already running, teach the basics of a variety of Paralympic sports so you can include them in your programs and develop leadership skills that will help you take your program to the next level.

Special working sessions are offered specifically for organizations that work with military members with physical injuries and open conference sessions offer tips and insight into how to incorporate service members into your ongoing community programs.  

The 2010 conference will also offer a special working session targeted to our Paralympic Sport Club partner organizations.

Speakers
U.S. Paralympics is pleased to announce that Olympic gold medalist Nikki Stone and April Heinrichs, coach of the gold medal winning 2004 U.S. Olympic soccer team will be featured speakers at this year's conference!  Additional speakers will be announced soon.

Amazing Awards Nominations
Each year, through its Amazing Awards, U.S. Paralympics recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations making major contributions to the Paralympic movement in the United States.

The Amazing Sport Club Award recognizes a Paralympic Sport Club partner organization that has made outstanding organizational contributions to the Paralympic movement. Amazing through innovation! Amazing through impact! Amazing through daily promotion of the Paralympic ideas!

The Amazing Leader Award recognizes an individual or organization whose leadership in the Paralympic movement has been transformative and who has mobilized and unified athletes, programs and organizations to improve the lives of people with physical disabilities.

Winners of both awards will be recognized during the 2010 Developing Amazing Leaders Paralympic Conference, April 30-May 3, at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Please complete the appropriate nomination form by clicking the link on the right-hand side of this page and click the "Submit Form" button in the upper right-hand corner of the form when finished.

Submit a nomination

Deadline for nomination is Monday, March 15, 2010