EDMOND, Okla. (KOKH) — Younger athletes in Oklahoma with cerebral palsy may have an opportunity to coach alongside a member of the USA Males’s Nationwide Group throughout a specialised soccer clinic hosted via Bethany Kids’s Well being Heart’s Oklahoma Youth Parasports program.

Shea Hammond, a Clemson College alum and co-founder of Cerebral Palsy Soccer in the USA, will lead a hands-on clinic designed particularly for youths with cerebral palsy.

Organizers say CP Soccer is without doubt one of the fastest-growing adaptive sports activities within the nation.

It gives athletes with hemiplegia, diplegia, or comparable bodily manifestations of cerebral palsy, together with these ensuing from stroke or traumatic mind damage, a possibility to coach, compete and be a part of a crew.

The clinic is described as a uncommon alternative for Oklahoma households to attach instantly with one of many sport’s founding figures and a present nationwide crew athlete.

To take part, athletes have to be independently ambulatory and in a position to stroll with out a walker or crutches, cognitively unbiased sufficient to observe directions, and in a position to participate with out requiring one-on-one help. Households fascinated with collaborating are requested to contact Oklahoma Youth Parasports upfront to find out whether or not the clinic is an efficient match for his or her athlete.