Brock Niagara Penguins http://www.niagarapenguins.org/beta Swim & gym team for youth with a disability Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:13:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Summer Wheelchair Basketball Pick-up Dates To all who are interested, the Brock Niagara Penguins will be having two summer dates for wheelchair basketball pick-up:

July 25th and August 22nd from 2-4pm in Bob Davis Gym and Gym 2 (respectively) at Brock University.

All Welcome!

]]> http://www.niagarapenguins.org/beta/2010/06/15/summer-wheelchair-basketball-pick-up-dates/ June 8 – Swim Meet Penguins had 2 swimers at the local swim meet (James & Madison). Both James and Madison swam 2 freestyle races and 1 backcrawl race. Madison swam all 3 in lane 1 without any swimming assistive device!! A first and a huige accomplishment! James did especially well on this back and jumped off of the wall for his start in [...]]]> http://www.niagarapenguins.org/beta/2010/06/09/june-8-swim-meet/ Buy-In a Success at Colleigiate High School Special thanks to Kristy, Adam and all the participants at St. Catharines Collegiate High School. On Thursday April 15th a Buy-In Wheelchair BBall game between the staff and students was organized. Students paid 2$ to watch and 5$ to play. A portion of the funds raised was donated to the Brock Niagara Penguins! Thanks to [...]]]> http://www.niagarapenguins.org/beta/2010/04/19/buy-in-a-success-at-colleigiate-high-school/ April 10th First Annual Wheelchair Basketball Tournament Saturday April 10th, Brock Niagara Penguins hosted their first  tournament at Brock University. The Penguins team are proud to report their first win versus the Burlington Vipers (18-10). At the end of the round robin play, and after 4 games, Penguins were tied with the Brampton Cruisers, but missed out on the bronze medal game [...]]]> http://www.niagarapenguins.org/beta/2010/03/24/april-10th-first-annual-wheelchair-basketball-tournament/ Welcome to the Brock Niagara Penguins Website

In September we will start our first session and start of the wheelchair basketball season.  The wheelchair basketball team will practice on Saturdays and the swim program will be on Thursdays. See calendar for dates. Junior gym program will be offered to all applicable athletes and their friends / siblings the last Saturday of every [...]]]> http://www.niagarapenguins.org/beta/2010/03/13/welcome-to-the-brock-niagara-penguins/ Half-Time Pictures Click here Pictures from Half-Time game (Feb 2010)

 

]]> http://www.niagarapenguins.org/beta/2010/02/26/half-time-pictures/ Lots of things happening… February 20th – Badgers vs. Guelph Men’s Baskteball – Halftime 5 on 5

February 27th – Wheelchair Basketball tournament in Brampton

March 6th – Swim meet at Brock

March 11th – Last swim of this session & Volunteer Thank you social

March 13th – Last gym program of this session

March 21st – First Wheelchair basketball practice of 3rd session

April [...]]]> http://www.niagarapenguins.org/beta/2010/02/12/lots-of-things-happening/ Session 2 – January 14th to March 13th Click here to view the:Athlete / Parent January Newsletter 2010

Click here to view the:Volunteer January Newsletter 2010

]]> http://www.niagarapenguins.org/beta/2010/01/05/session-2-january-14th-to-march-13th/ Swim Meet – Congratulations Congratulations to Madison Lafontaine and Brendan Bonyan for competing in the Brock University swim meet on November 21st.

]]> http://www.niagarapenguins.org/beta/2009/12/08/swim-meet-congratulations/ Results from Tournament in London -Dec 5th Congratulations to the 9 players representing the Brock Niagara Penguins at the 2nd D-League Wheelchair Basketball tournament:

London Dragons 24 Brock Niagara Penguins 19

Burlington Vipers 27 Brock Niagara Penguins 8

Brampton Cruisers 34 Brock Niagara Penguins 15

The next tournament in Feb 27th in Brampton!

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