April 15, 2013
(April 13, 2013 - MONTREAL, Que.) - Wheelchair Basketball Canada proudly announced the names of its major award winners and inducted the Canadian Men’s London 2012 Paralympic Team into the Hall of Fame Saturday evening at its 2013 annual awards banquet as part of the festivities of the 2013 Canadian Wheelchair Basketball League (CWBL) Open Championship in Montreal, Que.
April 15, 2013
The Douglas College Royals finished fifth at the 2013 CWBL Open Finals this weekend in Montreal, Quebec.
April 10, 2013
Come to Cloverdale and try Wheelchair Basketball! The program offered by BC Wheelchair Basketball and the City of Surrey includes fun activities designed for participants with disabilities including spinal cord injury, spina bifida, CP, amputee, etc. and without disabilities! Sport wheelchairs will be provided to those that require them.
April 9, 2013
"On Saturday March 30th, many young athletes took to the court to demonstrate their skills. The Steve Nash Youth Challenge held at the Langley Events Centre offered a chance for young athletes to show their basketball and leadership skills with a 3 on 3 format. It was also a great experience for some of the Basketball BC athletes to try out Wheelchair Basketball for the first time.
March 18, 2013
The 2013 Junior West Regional Wheelchair Basketball Championship is taking place at the Duchess Park Senior Secondary School in Prince George, British Columbia, March 22-24, 2013.
March 8, 2013
March 5, 2013
This Saturday, we celebrated the achievements of our members at our annual awards night. The banquet took place at the Executive Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Coquitlam, and was hosted by BCWBS provincial coach Marni Abbott-Peter.A large congratulations to our winners.
February 25, 2013
On the weekend, Feb 23 and 24, a team from Seattle and a team "BC Selects" consisted of Paralympic Gold medalists Richard Peter and James Treuer and our young rising stars played against our Division 1 teams Douglas College Royals and Douglas College Lions.
February 21, 2013
Fun and skill development were the two goals of this Sunday’s (Feb 17) wheelchair basketball clinic in beautiful Comox. I had the pleasure of heading to Vancouver Island to work with ten very enthusiastic athletes.
February 20, 2013
BCWBS is excited to host the BC-CWBL Provincial Finals 2013 at Pinetree Community Centre in Coquitlam on March 1-3. Six Division 2 teams and two Division 1 teams will be competing for respective provincial title.
February 19, 2013
BCWBS is excited to host a Junior Wheelchair Basketball Division again in 2013 Steve Nash Youth Basketball Challenge hosted by Basketball BC.
February 1, 2013
In February and March, viaSport will be opening a number of grant programs that will encourage sport participation across the province. Funding will be available for new and exisiting sport programs, communtities in northern BC, Aboriginal sport programs and provincial to international events hosted in BC.
January 31, 2013
The City of Surrey is hosting a free "Try It" Day for wheelchair tennis and sitting volleyball on Sunday, February 10.
January 31, 2013
January 29, 2013
Please note that the Surrey Junior Program's start date has been postponed to next Tuesday. It was originally scheduled to start today (Jan 27) but it has been rescheduled to February 5. We apologize for any inconvenience.
January 28, 2013
Learn to Ski Day - Cross-country skiing for people with disabilities
January 11, 2013
BCWBS and the City of Surrey are partnering up and starting a new junior program in Surrey.
January 9, 2013
(Las Vegas, NV) Wheelchair Basketball Canada is pleased to announce the names of the 24 athletes selected to represent Canada in 2013 as members of the Senior Men’s and Women’s National Wheelchair Basketball Teams.
January 8, 2013
Avril Harris from Prince George won the Healthier You Award for his outstanding contribution to youth through "Let's Play" Nothern BC Program.
January 8, 2013
The Canadian Active After School Partnership wants to better understand how children between 5 and 17 years of age spend their time after school in the 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm time period. It would be very helpful to us if parents and caregivers complete this 10 minute survey to help us learn more about this topic. We want to know how children spend their time after school; what parents think about after school programs that their children are now in; and what children who are not in after school programming do during this time period.
December 13, 2012
Santa and the Let’s Play crew visited Sunny Hill and participated in an afternoon of fun games including modified versions of baseball, basketball, rugby and hockey. Laughter and carols echoed in the hospital halls as the children, parents and therapists played. Let’s Play in partnership with BC Wheelchair Sports Association is planning on providing a regular program at Sunny Hill for in-patients and age appropriate community members.
December 13, 2012
19 junior athletes gathered in Langley last weekend for the 3rd annual Centre for Performance camp hosted by Wheelchair Basketball Canad and BCWBS and led by Coach Steve Bialowas.
December 12, 2012
Like most people, a lot of basketball players are looking for that one thing that will create an impact for themselves and their team right away. Let’s take a look at five things that any player can do immediately to improve:
December 11, 2012
If you are a wheelchair basketball athlete born on January 1, 1991 or after, there are two great sport events coming up for you in next few years. Learn about these games and you could be one of the atheltes on a team that will be playing in these games!!
