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The Sports and Recreation initiative promotes active and healthy lifestyles by providing an athletic outlet for Guatemalans with disabilities. The program offers adaptive sports equipment, clinics by North American Paralympians, weekly basketball scrimmages, custom-made sports chairs for the women's national basketball team, and country-wide tournament organization in collaboration with the Guatemalan government.
Transitions' athletes make up the majority of the Guatemalan national basketball team, the reigning Central America & the Caribbean champion, and act as regional leaders in the sport. Future expansion plans include the construction of a fully accessible training court and better organized wheelchair basketball league.
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LATEST NEWS: Sports & Recreation
Team introduced at the tournament
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The Central American Wheelchair Basketball Title was safely returned to Guatemala in October when Transitions players took their country's colors to a tournament in Mexico. It was a turbulent road, sometimes literally, though the Guate. . .
Tyler Garner, a former University of Texas at Arlington wheelchair basketball standout and current Assistant Coach, visited Antigua to conduct a two week training seminar with the Transitions team. The players enjoyed working with him and learned a variety of terrible English phrases,. . .
The championship team, with trophy in hand.
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In late December, the Transitions Wheelchair Basketball Team traveled to El Salvador to participate in the Central American & Caribbean National Championship Tournament. Transitions was pursuing a title that had eluded th. . .
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