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Northeast Passage’s summer adaptive sports schedules have been released – and some events are filling up! Please contact us at 603-862-0070 or northeast.passage@unh.edu to register for any of these events. Adaptive Golf Schedule Adaptive Kayak Schedule Adaptive Cycling Schedule Adaptive Water Ski Schedule  

From: NECN -April 4, 2013 Victoria Arlen was an 11-year-old athlete when she was diagnosed with a disease that put her in a coma for three years. While she was sleeping, her parents stoked the competitive fire within their daughter by playing sports events on TV with the hope that it would help her wake up. When Arlen woke up she found she was paralyzed from the waist down, but even then, [...]

Published & Aired: February 27, 2013. CBS Boston. BOSTON (CBS) – Five months ago, Victoria Arlen won a Paralympic gold medal in London. It was an accomplishment few people thought was possible just a few years ago. “Three to four years ago, when most of my competition and rivals and teammates were training for the London games, I was in a coma,” Arlen told WBZ-TV’s Dan Roche from her Exeter, [...]

Published: 2/21/2013, Bauer Blog, Company News Bauer Hockey would like to recognize and congratulate Victoria Arlen, an 18-year-old from Exeter, NH, whose achievements already include four medals from the London Paralympics, a world-record in the 100-meter freestyle swim and a spot on the Women’s National sled hockey team. Read Full Blog>>

Published in Seacoast Online: Feb. 13, 2013. PORTSMOUTH — A local nonprofit specializing in providing adapted sports and therapeutic recreation to individuals with disabilities has been named the winner of a beverage coaster contest created by Portsmouth-based social startup LocalCoaster. Read More>>   Note from Northeast Passage: Thank you to our supporters and clients for voting for us to win this contest. We appreciate your support!

Published NHL.com, Hockey is for Everyone: 2/12/13 It’s hard to keep Victoria Arlen down. It’s even more difficult to keep up with her. The 18-year-old high school senior from Exeter, New Hampshire, is already an accomplished hockey player, swimmer, actress, model and motivational speaker. And she does it all without the use of her legs. Read More>>

DURHAM, N.H. – Operation Hat Trick (OHT), the University of New Hampshire athletics department and Northeast Passage (NEP) announced Monday the creation of the NEP Athlete Opportunity Fund, a collaborative partnership that will be funded in part by OHT to provide supplemental programmatic support for recruiting, training and coaching of student-athletes with disabilities and disabled veterans. The NEP Athlete Opportunity Fund will prove critical in administering much-needed resources to attract [...]

Published: Valley News, Saturday, January 19, 2013 Lebanon — Thanks to several New Hampshire-based nonprofits, disabled veterans had quite the workout in the Upper Valley this week. On Monday at Campion Rink, volunteers from the Dartmouth College men’s and women’s hockey teams joined personnel from Durham-based Northeast Passage for an afternoon of sled-hockey instruction and a scrimmage for wounded veterans. Read More>>

From August 2000: If you build it, they will come. And they did. Three hikers in wheelchairs and two on crutches, with incredible effort and determination, completed a 9.2 mile round-trip journey this month to the Gale Head hut in the White Mountains. They proved wrong critics who said they would never use the Appalachian Mountain Club facility — the first made accessible for people with disabilities. Their journey was [...]

DURHAM, N.H. – Bauer Hockey, headquartered in Exeter, recently partnered with the University of New Hampshire Northeast Passage’s sled hockey program to outfit 40 athletes with new hockey equipment, including shin pads, shoulder pads, helmets, gloves and roller bags. This donation benefits the participants of Northeast Passage’s youth and competitive adult teams. Northeast Passage’s sled hockey program runs from September to April and includes a youth and development component and [...]