We are a sled hockey team that serves people with physical disabilities. Our athletes have disabilities such as spinal cord injuries, amputations, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, post-polio syndrome, and other disabilities that make it difficult or impossible to skate. Some of our athletes are disabled veterans, some are cancer survivors, and some have received injuries or were born with their disabilities. There is a wide range of disabilities we serve. Our athletes' ages are currently 8-78 years old.

Our athletes use special sleds that have ice skate blades on the bottom. They also use special hockey sticks that have ice picks on the bottom so athletes can dig into the ice to move their sleds and hit the puck. Athletes who lack the arm strength or hand dexterity to move their own sled with their own sticks have a pusher bar on the backs of their sleds and we have volunteer skaters who skate behind them and push them so they can play hockey too!

Our team currently practices once-a-week in Riverside, California. In California, ice rinks charge a lot of money, and our ice time is over $500 for that weekly hour of ice time. We would eventually like to add a second hour of practice, but we are having difficulty funding the one hour we currently have. We have 22 athletes currently registered with the team, and every week we have an open invitation so people can try out a sled and join the team for practice. 

Because there are no other sled hockey teams nearby, every game is a travel game. The closest team is in San Diego, CA, and that is a 2-3 hour drive for our athletes. Again, that's the closest. We are part of a sled hockey league that consists of our team, the team in San Diego, along with teams in Seattle, Reno, Las Vegas, Denver, San Jose, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Albuquerque. Even our "local area tournaments" require travel costs and hotel stays. And we also attend two national tournaments every season. One is in November and the other is in April/May. The location of those national tournaments changes every year, but they have only been held in California two times since we started the team in 2012. 

We appreciate all donations to help our athletes. Some have never been on a sports team before in their lives; others were injured and crave the competition they once knew when they were able-bodied. The camaraderie and the athleticism these athletes have is truly breathtaking, and we hope you can find a way to support this very worthy cause.