More than three hundred severely disabled Veterans will benefit from rehabilitation programs in winter sports and recreation through a more than $376,000 grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA). Activities will be conducted as part of DSUSA's Warfighter Sports program. This VA grant to DSUSA will provide free adaptive sports opportunities to severely disabled Veterans in alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, snowboarding, sled hockey, biathlon and wheelchair curling through 21 DSUSA chapters in the following 20 states around the country: California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. For more information about the organization, visit the Disabled Sports USA website.
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