{"id":135427,"date":"2025-09-11T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135427\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:44:08","slug":"free-youth-adaptive-wheelchair-basketball-pickleball-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135427\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Youth Adaptive Wheelchair Basketball\/Pickleball Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 11, 2025 <\/p>\n

\"Free<\/p>\n

\"Free<\/p>\n

\n Jessica Mathews \/ news@whmi.com <\/p>\n

The first-ever adaptive sports night and demonstration is planned next week. <\/p>\n

Howell Recreation is partnering with UMAISE for a night of wheelchair basketball and pickleball. <\/p>\n

UMAISE is the University of Michigan Adaptive & Inclusive Sports Experience. <\/p>\n

The free program is open to everyone of all ages and abilities. <\/p>\n

Officials said they\u2019re excited to bring the new program to the community and provide more adaptive programming in the future. <\/p>\n

Participants will be learning how to use a sports wheelchair and the basics and adaptations needed to play both sports. That includes picking up a basketball using the wheel, dribbling, passing etc. At the end, participants will practice shooting and participating in a scrimmage. <\/p>\n

UMAISE will be bringing adult size sports chairs as well as a mix of pediatric chairs. <\/p>\n

Youth and adults will be playing on the court and participating together.

\nOrganizers say it\u2019s a great way to \u201cget out, get active, and try something new\u201d. <\/p>\n

The event takes place on Wednesday, September 17th from 6 to 7pm at the Oceola Community Center off Latson Road. <\/p>\n

Registration is needed to account for the pediatric sized chairs. That link is provided. <\/p>\n

A video about the event is also posted on the Howell Recreation Facebook page, provided bottom link. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 11, 2025 Jessica Mathews \/ news@whmi.com The first-ever adaptive sports night and demonstration is planned next week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,69976],"class_list":{"0":"post-135427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-whmi-radio-93-5-livingston-michigan-news-weather-traffic-sports-classic-rock-howell-brighton-fenton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}