Around Queens: Youth Wheelchair Basketball Clinic

World Champion Wheelchair Basketball Player Matt Scott and New York Knicks Legend John Starks Join The Hartford To Surprise Youth Athletes With More Than 50 Sport Wheelchairs

Company partners with City University of New York (CUNY) to host wheelchair basketball clinic; contributes $500,000 to improve access to adaptive sports including donation of wheelchairs and grants to CUNY and Fly Without Limits Foundation

WHAT: The Hartford, in partnership with CUNY’s Inclusive and Adaptive Sports Program, will host, for a second year, a youth wheelchair basketball clinic featuring World Champion Wheelchair Basketball Player Matt Scott and New York Knicks Legend John Starks. The Hartford along with Scott and Starks will surprise 32 youth athletes with custom-fit sport wheelchairs. Another 20 wheelchairs will be donated to support area adaptive sports programs.

Scott, along with coaches from the clinic, will participate in a competitive wheelchair basketball game. This event builds on The Hartford’s mission to make adaptive sports more accessible.

WHO: World Champion Wheelchair Basketball Player Matt Scott

New York Knicks Legend John Starks

National Wheelchair Basketball Association Junior program youth players, coaches and leaders

Representatives from CUNY Inclusive and Adaptive Sports Program

Representatives from The Hartford

WHY: Adaptive sports equipment is often a barrier to people’s participation in sports. Adaptive athletes pay approximately 15 times more for equipment than non-adaptive athletes. Over the past six years, The Hartford, a leading disability insurer and an advocate of the adaptive sports movement for more than 30 years, has gifted more than 6,300 pieces of adaptive sports equipment.