ONEONTA - Sophia Wakin, of Delhi, was one of was one of 19 SUNY Oneonta students who volunteered at the annual Adaptive Basketball Clinic on campus, created through a partnership between the Sport and Exercise Science department and EDD Adaptive Sports. The event, held April 14, allowed individuals with varying intellectual and adaptive disabilities to hone their basketball skills through different technical and shooting drills.
Wakin is studying Sport Management and is part of the class of 2025.
Over the past few years, SUNY Oneonta’s Sport and Exercise Sciences department has developed a relationship with EDD Adaptive Sports, a non-profit organization that offers adaptive sports programs to children and adults with any disability. EDD Adaptive Sports’ programs allow people of all ages to participate in a variety of free athletic and sport-related activities, including basketball, biking, kayaking, soccer, swimming, pickleball, rowing and yoga. This was the second year that SUNY Oneonta and EDD Adaptive Sports worked together to make the basketball clinic a successful day for everyone involved.
SUNY Oneonta is a public, four-year university in Central New York, enrolling about 5,500 students in a wide variety of bachelor’s degree programs and more than a dozen graduate certificate and degree programs. The university is known as both an exemplary residential campus that values inclusion, service and sustainability, and a nurturing community where students grow intellectually, thrive socially and live purposefully. Learn more at https://suny.oneonta.edu/
