Dallas Junior Wheelchair Mavericks teaches disabled youth that challenges aren't roadblocks

The program serves physically disabled children ages 5-18, providing essential competitive sports opportunities that are severely limited for youth with disabilities in most communities.

In Flower Mound, Texas, a program four decades in the making continues to offer something rare and necessary: a place where disabled children are not accommodated into sport, but welcomed into it as athletes. The Dallas Junior Wheelchair Mavericks, serving more than twenty young players between the ages of five and eighteen, asks nothing less of its participants than full competitive effort — and in doing so, quietly challenges a world that too often mistakes difference for limitation. Where most communities leave disabled youth without a court to call their own, this program builds one, and f

Dallas Junior Wheelchair Mavericks teaches disabled youth that challenges aren't roadblocks

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