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 Society Overview |
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| Mission | • To promote and develop the sport of wheelchair basketball while providing competitive opportunities for all athletes regardless of physical ability or gender. | |
| Board of Directors | Objectives |
• provide wheelchair basketball opportunities appropriate to all members' talents and desired commitment levels |
| President: Danielle Peers | ||
| Treasurer: Tara Feser | ||
| Director: Karla Tritten | • create integrated spaces for members to compete and socialize with people of different ages, genders and abilities | |
| Director: Kylee Evjen | ||
| Director: Jennifer Krempien | ||
| • promote the sport of wheelchair basketball to potential members as well as to the general public | ||
| • support motiviated athletes to reach the pinnacle of the sport | ||
| • create recreational wheelchair basketball opportunities that help promote activity, health and confidence in their participants | ||
| • promote the ability of disabled people through integrated athletic competition | ||
| Values | • sport is a vehicle for social change, through community awareness and being an active model of inclusion | |
| • inclusion is fundamental in achieving equity in access to sport | ||
| • athletes, coaches and volunteers are our greatest resources | ||
| • athlete and participant needs will guide this society and remain integral to all decisions | ||
| • sustainability through the continual recruitment and development of new athletes and the implementation of sound financial management | ||
| • transparency of financial information and decision making processes | ||
| • ethical conduct and behaviour of both officers and athletes | ||
| • co-operation and collaboration with other institutions with similar mandates | ||