Impact Stories

A woman wearing pink shorts and a pink print shirt with a blue bike helmet rides a three-wheeled cycle on a crushed stone pathway alongside the Erie Canal. A woman in a white RAA shirt rides a two wheeled bike along with her.

Erica

Challenge: Erica missed riding her bike; something she did when she was younger. She had not ridden it in many years because her balance is not what it used to be, and she fell the last time she attempted to

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Close up of a man and woman in hockey helmets and jerseys, on an outdoor ice rink, smiling

Steve and Suzanne

A guy goes in to a gym…and comes out a sled hockey player! Well, it wasn’t quite like that, but close! Steve had been working out at a crossfit gym in Dansville when a gym friend told him about sled

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A person in an aqua blue jacket and multicolored pants with holiday lights, is seated on a hockey sled on an outdoor ice rink. Behind her, others are skating.

Kadie

Challenge: Staying active and connected to nature for a country girl living in the city is something that Kadie has to work at. For Kadie, born with a spinal condition that affects her ability to walk for long periods of

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A person seated in a wheelchair, dressed in fencing shirt and helmet, posed with a weapon at an artistic rendering of a fencer on the wall

Luticha

Challenge: Luticha loves to be active – indeed, her body does so much better when she maintains an active pace. Finding things she can do and wants to do, though, may not always be as easy for her as it

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An Afridan=American woman in an adaptive kayak on the water; kayak has outriggers and a high seatback for support.

Nicole

Challenge: Nicole missed summers the way she used to spend them. Prior to becoming paralyzed, she used to play basketball and go running. Now she was looking for something that could be her ‘thing’ again. Nicole learned about an Open

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A man and woman are on an indoor pickleball court; the man is stepping forward to hit the pickleball with his paddle.

Mike and Sue

Challenge: Staying active and finding activities that they can do with their family. Mike and Sue are an active, retired couple looking for more activities they could do together and with their family and that would accommodate Mike as he

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