2050 Tilden Avenue, New Hartford, NY 13413 | Phone 315 797-3114 | Toll-Free 1 888 578-8807
2050 Tilden Avenue, New Hartford, NY 13413 | Phone 315 797-3114 | Toll-Free 1 888 578-8807
Please tune into NBC’s Today Show on Wednesday, November 4 to watch three members of the Sitrin STARS (Success Through Adaptive Recreation and Sports) Program, who are representing the United States as Team USA at the Paralympic Games in Vancouver, B.C., in March, 2010.
Paralympians James Joseph of New Hartford, New York, Augusto Perez of Syracuse, New York, and Jacqui Kapinowski of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, will share their talents with a national audience as they provide a demonstration of wheelchair curling on the ice at Rockefeller Center. Their appearance marks the 100-day countdown to the 2010 Olympic Games.
Joseph, Perez, and Kapinowski, along with their teammates James Pierce of Syracuse, New York, and Patrick McDonald of Orangevale, California, will participate in the 2010 Paralympic Games beginning March 12. The team has garnered worldwide attention over the last few years, winning the bronze medal at the 2008 World Wheelchair Curling Championships held in Switzerland, and narrowly missing the bronze in the 2009 World Wheelchair Curling Championship held in Vancouver. The team has been gearing-up for next year’s competition by practicing at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY, and competing internationally in Norway and Scotland.
Sitrin created the STARS program in 2001 to provide individuals with physical disabilities opportunities to engage in a variety of sports on a recreational or competitive basis. Members of the wheelchair curling program have competed throughout the country, and around the world. In addition to curling, the STARS program includes adaptive golf, wheelchair basketball, adaptive paddling, and wheelchair road racing. Sitrin’s wheelchair curling program is in partnership with the Utica Curling Club.
Sitrin is a not-for-profit corporation located on Tilden Avenue in New Hartford, New York. In addition to its adaptive sports program, Sitrin provides an array of services including long-term care, independent living, assisted living, residences for people with developmental disabilities, adult day health care, medical rehabilitation, and child care.
