ASC Sailing Volunteering

The Adaptive Sports Connection (ASC), a chapter of Move United (formerly Disabled Sports USA), helps Ohio veterans, children, and adults who need adaptive equipment or instruction to participate in various sports including skiing, kayaking, sailing and cycling. ASC maintains a modest fleet of sailboats. Trained Sailing Volunteers assist expert instructors in giving 2-3 hour lessons to students with various handicaps. Volunteers help assess students, select and adjust life jackets before the lesson and help during the lesson. One COUNT member, the second to get involved with the sailing program, participated in a training day to learn how to help adaptive students sail. 2 COUNT volunteers have worked 10 hours at 3 ASC Sailing events divided between work days, training, and lessons with students. COUNT members have participated in 91 ASC Cycling, Winter Sports, Kayaking and/or Sailing events, contributing 666 hours since we started working with ASC in August 2018.