Hello MWABA,
DC Goalball continues to grow! The men fielded two teams at the recent Mid-Atlantic Goalball Tournament in Philadelphia, with Sisay Senbet And Elvis Donkor helping bring home the silver for the DC Stripes in the developmental bracket. In addition, two of our volunteers attended the referee clinic put on the night before, and Jackie Hoglund coached both teams for a total of 7 games in one day! The women of the DC Corruption and the men of the DC Stars will be competing at the Southeast Regional Tournament in Atlanta on Memorial Day weekend .
Our Saturday practices are open to everyone. 16 players got a chance to sling the ball at each other this weekend! Come to the Columbia Heights Community Center on May 4 to try Goalball out for yourself! Practice runs from 10 AM until 1 PM. Contact Kurt Sloopat 202-525-9524 if you are interested.
Our next tandem bike ride is this Thursday in Eastern Market, sign up here (and for our other upcoming Thursday night rides through May 30th): https://forms.gle/PKddWb1SwLRneBXn7
A couple of tandems are doing the Bloom Ride in DC this Saturday, May 4th. The Bloom Ride costs $75 per tandem team, and is 20 miles. If you’re interested, sign up here by this Tuesday (April 30): https://forms.gle/Qj cYgkcGbxgn bu7
We will also table after the ride and do tandem demonstrations, so email us if you want to help out, or stop by anytime between 11 until around 3:30 in Franklin Park. You can also text or call Shira (847-217-9505) or Chris (480-276-3256) if you have trouble finding us or if you want to check that we’re still there.
Congratulations to MWABA member David Kosub for finishing the BlueRidge marathon!
https://www.wdbj7.com/2024/04/19/first-blind-runner-takes-blue-ridge-marathon-with-determination/
Are you blind from birth or from infancy?Are you curious about how your brain reorganized to hear, touch or remember better than your sighted friends? Come take part in a new behavioral and imaging (fMRI) study at Georgetown University Medical Center, and let’s learn together about how the brain can plastically change. The study takes two sessions of 90 minutes to complete in the fMRI scanner, and one more session outside the scanner. You will be compensated at a rate of $50 per hour of fMRI and $25 per hour of non-scanner experiment. For more detail, contact Prof. Ella Striem-Amit (Preferably – by email: SAMPLab_recruitment@georgetown.edu, Office phone 202-687-8329).
See you out there!
Metro Washington Association of Blind Athletes
Sports and fun for everyone!
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