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Day 2: Challenged America and the 2011 Veterans National Summer Sports Clinic Team Apollo vs Team Olympus
You only have to look at the smiles to understand why we volunteer share: Share on bebo Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit … Continue reading
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Day 1: Challenged America and the 2011 Veterans National Summer Sports Clinic Team Poseidon vs Team Mercury
The NVSSC is back in San Diego for the fourth time. Today, at the Challenged America sailing venue, Team Poseidon and Team Mercury took to the water sailing on Stars and Stripes USA11 and the Martin 16s of Challenged America … Continue reading
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A Veteran’s Story of “Veterans Supporting Veterans @ Challenged America”
Once again, veterans from all over America are converging on San Diego for the annual National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic for recently injured veterans. In late September Challenged America (CA) will provide the sailing venue at the Marriott Marquis Hotel … Continue reading
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Recently injured veterans heal at Summer Sports Clinic
San Diego’s Challenged America therapeutic sailing program has a long history of healing veterans, both recently injured from combat and those acquiring a disability from other causes. And at this year’s 4th National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic, September 18 to … Continue reading
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Blind war vet shares vision of hope
NBC’s Mike Leonard profiles Urban Miyares, a blind California Vietnam War veteran who has made it his mission is to encourage other disabled people to test the tricky waters of entrepreneurship — and themselves. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world … Continue reading
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TELLY AWARD
You can now add the prestigious “Telly Award” to the long list of honors and recognition bestowed upon the Challenged America program. With 11,000 entries from 50 states and five countries, the Port of San Diego entered their in-house produced … Continue reading
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National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic Sept 23 to 28
Challenged America will host the sailing venue for the National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic for the fourth time. Challenged America will welcome over 100 disabled and injured veterans for a week of sailing and competing on San Diego Bay The … Continue reading
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Urban Miyares, co-founder of Challenged America to speak at the VA’s Winter Sports Clinic
Urban Miyares, co-founder of Challenged America will be speaking at the VA’s Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass-Aspen, CO, on March 29 about Challenged America, “Sports and Successful Employment and Self-Employment Outcomes.” More than 400 disabled vets, plus their families, are … Continue reading
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Challenged America in the 2005 Transpac
Overcoming their individual disabilities to complete the 2005 Transpac, a grueling, 2,225-mile yacht race from California to Hawaii, the six members of the Challenged America team arrived in Honolulu Sunday evening at 23:31:50 local time. They had raced their yacht, … Continue reading
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VA National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic (NVSSC) is back for the fourth year
For the fourth year in a row Challenged America will host the VA National Sports Clinic in San Diego. After the success of the Winter Sports Clinic, Urban Miyares and Challenged America have been instrumental in the creation and in … Continue reading
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