Sports Camp

In 2021 the SA School for Vision Impaired offered it's first blind and low vision sports camp. The concept of the camp was to introduce the 21 students aged 12 years of age and above to a wide range of blind and low vision sports. These included:

Goalball - Presented by Craig Muller and Olivia Muller, both key members of national goalball coaching teams

Blind and Low Vision Football (Soccer) - Presented by Bess Hepworth and Andrew Whisson, both goal guides in the national B1 soccer team

Blind Golf - Presented by Cameron Murray and Anne-Marie Knight, state champion and golf professional

Blind and Low Vision Tennis - Presented by Tennis SA and Nicholas Bradley, national blind and low vision tennis coach

Blind Cricket - Presented by Lachlan Wallace and Michael Zanis, South Australian Cricket Associations Young Leader of the Year and Australia's most capped player

The camp also allowed SASVI and the individual organisations to offer some of state and national firsts in the blind sports. These included Australia's, and possibly the world's, largest ever junior blind tennis tournament, South Australia's and potentially Australia's first game of junior blind cricket players and Australia's first junior blind and low vision soccer tournament These outstanding achievements have shown what is possible in blind and low vision sport in South Australia. We have had some incredible outcomes from this with students from the camp now being actively involved in blind sporting clubs.

Alongside this fantastic sporting opportunities the students were treated to a range of guest speakers including one of the Australian Rules Football Hall of Fame and AFL duel premiership player and 2x Norm Smith medal winner Andrew McLeod, Australia's greatest ever off spin bowler, Nathan Lyon, World Power Lifting Record Holder Pekx Nanai and vision expert Lynn Loh.

To inquire about our 2022 Blind and Low Vision Sports Camp please email Andrew Whisson at andrew.whisson585@schools.sa.edu.au