Skiers to Attend Clinic

Week of March 15, 2010

Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion Alpine skier Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett will join Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs L. Tammy Duckworth at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Village, Colo. on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The Clinic teaches adaptive Alpine and Nordic skiing to more than 400 disabled Veterans annually. In its 24th year, veterans with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, amputations, visual impairments and neurological challenges will take to the slopes at the Clinic using the latest adaptive ski equipment. For more information, visit the VA's National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic website at www.wintersportsclinic.va.gov.