Excellence

I participated in the All Abilities Butler Sports Camp at Hinkle Field House. At this event, we teamed up with the Butler Men and Women’s basketball teams to play games with local Indianapolis children with disabilities. We were split up into four teams (Bulls, Pacers, Fever, and Sky) before we did a short dynamic warmup and a shoot-around. The teams each started at a different station and performed at that station for 20 minutes. One of the stations was going into the Men’s locker room with the players and watching some highlights from their past seasons which the kids really seemed to enjoy. I could tell the kids had a lot of fun playing basketball. This event captures excellence because it embraces the advancement of sports to an underserved community as well as advancing my knowledge of this population and how to better serve them. I also practiced integrating the client perspective by being receptive to what the kids needed and responded well too. Overall, this experience was very fulfilling for me to be able to spend time with these kids and their parents as well as the players and I know that the kids enjoyed their time as well. This experience helped my understanding of excellence grow by giving me an opportunity to integrate the campers' perspective on how therapy can be fun and it helped me understand by personal limits of working with patients with disabilities because I did not have a lot of experience with that at this time.