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Wheelchair Basketball Tournament HuffGytn University of Illinois ,.. Chatnpaign, Illinois February 27-28,, 1993 J WHEELCHAIR SPORTS, Inc ... Cutting Edge Technology That WINS! THE ELIMINATOR - World's ;rl Racing Chair won 27 medals at the IX Paralympic Games 1992. THE TERMINATOR QR - The choice of the #l Tampa Generals 1992 Quad Rugby ational Champions. THE TERMINATOR - Chosen by the etherland Basketball Paralympic Team, Gold Medal Winners Barcelona '92. THE T-3 - The revolutionary performance court chair that will change the world of wheelchair sports in the next decade. THE PREDATOR HANDBIKE - Models available for the recreational, serious cyclist, and racing enthusiasts. Call Now: THE WAVEJAMMER - Jams with incredible stability for all 1-800• levels of inju1y, stunts, and easy-up starts, plus the unique footing system. 532-TOPP All TOP END products are custom built using the finest quality parts and materials available on the market. Innovation, performance, and functional styling are the trademark of designer, builder Chris Peterson. 1993 National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament Huff Gym University of Illinois Champaign, Illinois February 27•28 Cover Design By Tony Iniguez .L 1993 National Invitational Wheelchair Basketball Tournament Friday, February 26 Team Arrivals -All teams in by 7:00 p.m. 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. CIC Conference meeting at the Radisson Hotel in the Champaign room. Saturday, February 27 9:00 a.m. Game 1, Temple University vs. Southern Illinois University 11:00 a.m. Game 2, University of Whitewater vs. Wright State 4:00 p.m. Game 3, Fighting Illini vs. winner of Game 1 6:00 p.m. Game 4, UTA, Movin' Mavs, vs. winner of Game 2 8:00 p.m. Game 5, loser of Game 1 vs. loser of Game 2 Sunday, February 28 12:00 p.m. Game 6, Third Place (loser of Game 4 vs. loser of Game 3) 2:00 p.m. Game 7, Championship, winner of Game 4 vs. winner of Game 3 6:00 p.m. Banquet Social Hour (Savoy Room at the Radisson Hotel) 6:45 p.m. Dinner is served Awards Ceremony following dinner Monday, February 29 Departures 2----------------------------- 1993 National Invitational Wheelchair Basketball Tournament Game Schedule UTA II UTA BYE I Game 4 - 6 p.m. uww Feb.27, 1993 Game 2 - 11 a.m. Feb.27, 1993 wsu Game 7 - 2 p.m. Feb.28, 1993 Champion TU Game 1 - 9 a.m. Feb.27, 1993 SIU Game 3 - 4 p.m. I Feb. 27, 1993 BYE UI UI I Consolation Games Ll Game 5 - 8 p.m. Feb.27,1993 L2 5th Place L4 Game 6 - 12 p.m. Feb. 28, 1993 L3 3rd Place -----------------------------3 Greetings · University of Illinois Office of the Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign Swanlund Adminislralion IJuilding 217 333-6290 601 East John Streel 217 244 -4121 fax Champaign, IL 61820 January 15, 1993 Greetings: As Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign, I am pleased to wel=ne athletes and fans to the 1993 National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament. At this campus, we are proud of our pioneering commibnent to wheelchair sports. For more than four decades, our students in wheelchairs have had the opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities and their capacity for excellence, both in the classroom and in athletics. It is an opportunity of which many have taken full advantage, to the benefit of all of us. Best wishes and best of luckyoard-fought and well-played tournament. l/zh1a11~,Sincerely, Morton W. Weir Oi.ancellor University of Illinois Division of Rehabilitation Education Services at Urbana-Champaign 1207 South Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 217-333-4600 Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We are particularly excited that the NIWBT has chosen the U of I for this tourney and we are proud to serve as hosts. The Division of Rehabilitation Education Services is especially pleased that you are here, for the Division has a long tradition related to sports and recreation for students with disabilities. As most of you know, the mission of the DRES is to ensure full access by students with disabilities to all of the programs of the U of I. I would invite all of you to visit the Division's Rehabilitation Education Center, as well as the campus while you are here. I want to take this opportunity to welcome all of the participants and to wish all of the teams well in their performances. Participation in competition is itself an achievement in which all can take pride. Please feel free to let me or our staff know what we can do to make your stay at the U of I, and the Urbana-Champaign community an enjoyable one. Sincep7/ / Paul~ Professor and Director 4----------------------------------- Greetings · MARVIN LAPICOLA DEBOR/\H DILLON I National President Secretary ARMAND THIBOUTOT MORRIS GARDNER ~ Wheelchair First Vicc•Prcsidcnt Trl'.!asurcr RALPH SMITH STAN LABANOWICH lBasketball Snr:01,d Virn Pr(l<:irlr>nl Commissioner +"4 r.4f Association !i''.)bruary 26, 1993 Welcome to the 16th Annual National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament. As a former Jlllni, Class of '53, 1 am thrilled that the University and the cities of Champaign and Urbana have gotten behlnd thls event. Those entities enjoy a special place in the hearts of all wheelchair basketball afficfanados stemming from the knowledge that the sport was nurtured in thls environment dating back to the early 1950s . On behalf of the NWBJ\, I wish to express our admiration of the manner in which thls annual championship tournament has developed into a premiere competition among collegiate teams. The coaches are to be commended for their dedication and commitment and they have served the sport and their athletes well. Our thanks to the University and its Rehabilitation-Education Center for hosting this prestigious event. Good luck to all the participating athletes and coaches. Sincerely, '11,{~ ,1_1"/,,.~·c',c Marvin J. Lapicola President 110 Seaton Building • University of Kentucky • Lexington, KY 40506 • 606/ 257-1623 Pulmocare Medical Supply, Inc. We would like to express our utmost support in word and A C T I O N. Sp art • Quickie Ch airs For • Eagle Every Purpose • Kuschall 1207 South Mattis Avenue Champaign, IL 61821 1-217-352-7483 or 1-800-383-4114 5 The follawillg is all adaptation of all article writtt:11 by the late Harry A. publicity and popularity of wheelchair basketball, and therefore, in Schweikert, Jr., which appeared origillally i11 the May 1954 issue of many ways, for paraplegics and other severely disabled persons. Paraplegia News. It has appeared i11 updated form i11 almost all NWBT The Second National PVA Championship was won by the Bronx programs from 1954 to the presellt and rcprcse11ts the u11official history of Rollers of Bronx VA Hospital in 1949. In 1950, because of the close­ the game. ness of teams' records, the Helms Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, which had been awarding the annual National Trophy, There were a lot of guys who returned from the Second World could not make a decision. The third and last PVA Championship War pretty well paralyzed and confined to wheelchairs for the rest of was won by the New England Clippers from Cushing VA Hospital their lives. They were in the same bracket, had the same problems in Boston. They were the first team to go through a regular season and frustrations, and the same unbridled and tmchanneled energy. tmdefeated, but placed fourth in the third NWBA tourney. They had to find an outlet somewhere. Where better than in the red­ IBE NWBA IS BORN blooded province of sports? The PVA Tournament, which was It started with such sports as ping­ loosely structured and open to para­ pong, catch and pool, then from bowl­ plegic (or spinal cord injured veterans) ing, swimming and volleyball to the only, was slated to slide into history, more energetic waterpolo, softball, touch however, with the creation of the more football and basketball. While many inclusive National Wheelchair other sports have been added since that Basketball Association (NWBA) this time, it was basketball that in a few years did not occur. far outshadowed the others in populari­ The paraplegics felt at the time ty. that competition in the open tourna­ While the California Chapter of ment was a little rugged, and in many Paralyzed Veterans of America has been cases too severe for many paraplegic popularly credited with the birth of players. Amputees, polios, and ortho­ wheelchair basketball, the New England pedica II y disabled players were Chapter of the same organization offered thought to have many advantages over documentary evidence antedating the the paraplegic - advantages of balance, California's claim to fame. Both will speed and the free use of arms at all agree, however, that it started sometime times. Until later experience tended to in 1946 in the Veterans Administrations dispel the idea, it was popularly Hospitals. Thereafter, it spread across the thought that "the paraplegic must nation to VA hospitals in Boston, always use one arm for balance and Chicago, Memphis, Richmond and New one arm for throwing," and the York. Before long the sport had spread inevitable consequence was that this across the border to Canada and across "minimized accuracy, control and the ocean to England. speed, all important in affecting the IN TWO YEARS, SIX TEAMS overall ability of the team." By 1948, there were six teams in the But with a newer tournament United States, all members of the opening a tougher field of competition, Paralyzed Veterans of America and all it wasn't long before the paraplegics hmctioning from VA hospitals. That was wanted in - and the PVA Tourney was the year the Birmingham, California a thing of the past.
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