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Skiers with Disabilities Learn Life Lessons

Skiers with Disabilities Learn Life Lessons - Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 5:30PM EST

Reported by: Laurie Monteforte
Wednesday, Feb 3, 2010 @ 05:30pm EST
TANNERSVILLE, MONROE COUNTY - Kids can teach us how to overcome whatever challenges life throws at us. They're proving it a Camelback Mountain Resort in Monroe County.

Skiing is difficult enough to begin with. But Alexandra Capellini skis with just one leg and Hesham Nassar uses no legs at all. He said, "It was difficult than after a couple more rounds you got used to it."

Alexandra and Hesham are two of about a dozen kids at a special ski camp. It's part of the Pennsylvania Center for Adapted Sports Ski Program. Jeff Mcginnis is Program Director. He said, "We are just showing them what they can do."

The kids learn if they can overcome obstacles on the slopes then they can overcome obstacle in their lives. Mcginnis said, "If you can do this, you can do anything."

This is Alexandra's sixth year at camp. She first came when she was eight, shortly after doctors amputated her leg. She explained, "I was very sick with cancer so i just think you need to take every chance you have."

At first she fell a lot. She said, "I was very nervous...I didn't really feel like I could balance myself." But Alexandra didn't give up. She leaned on her new friends, other kids with disabilities, for support. Now she zips down the slopes with the best of them. She smiled, "It's ok to fall the first time - the first ten times but if it's something you want to pursue you just have to get up and keep trying."

The ski program is funded in part by donations. Organized said it's been difficult to raise money in this economy. If you'd like to help contact the Pennsylvania Center for Adapted Sports at 215-765-5118.
 


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