CHARLOTTESVILLE–The Charlottesville Cardinals wheelchair basketball team embarks on a whirlwind schedule starting next Tuesday, October 7th, when the team travels to Durham, NC to play in a demonstration game as part of North Carolina Central University’s “Disability Awareness Fest.”
The team then will spend the entire school day on Friday, October 10th at the Thornburg Middle School in Spotsylvania, VA, working with all of the school’s physical education classes as the players demonstrate the sport and let the students give it a try.
The following week will find the Cardinals at Virginia State University in Petersburg, VA on Tuesday, October 14th for a featured demonstration game as part of the school’s “Midnight Madness” event. The team will then appear at Piedmont Virginia Community College the next day for a demonstration game with students there, and on Thursday the team will be at the University of Virginia working with the adaptive physical education and kinesiology students there. The team’s busy week wraps up on Friday, October 17th at Fluvanna High School in Palmyra, VA for another demonstration game against the students and faculty there.
In their spare time, the team members will continue their regular practice schedule on Sundays at Carver Recreation Center as they prepare for the opening of the regular season at the “Shepherd Shootout” tournament in Atlanta, GA, which kicks off on Halloween night, October 31st.
The team will barely catch its breath before traveling north the following weekend, November 8th-9th, to compete in the “Boro Shootout” at the University of Pennsylvania–Edinboro.
The Cardinals will be hosted the Herman Key, Jr. Memorial Holiday Tournament in Charlottesville the weekend of December 5th–7th, at Carver Recreation Center and at Tandem Friends School.