On June 6-8, 2024, World T.E.A.M. staff traveled to upstate New York to coach the 14th installment of ATC: NY alongside volunteers from partners TCFD and the Dolber Family Foundation.
Adventure Team Challenge Begins September 7
By Richard Rhinehart Eagle, Colorado, September 5, 2018 – National non-profit World T.E.A.M.’s inclusive Adventure Team Challenge begins Friday, September 7 in the rugged high Gore Mountains northeast of Eagle. Able-bodied and adaptive athletes from across the United States will compete in the outdoor adventure race that includes mountain biking, river rafting, rock sports and […]
Colorado’s Adventure Team Challenge Tests both Adaptive and Able-Bodied Athletes
By Richard Rhinehart Eagle, Colorado, August 29, 2018 – Adaptive and able-bodied athletes will travel from across the United States to Colorado’s Gore Mountain range northeast of Eagle for the September 6-9 Adventure Team Challenge Colorado. Hosted annually since 2007, each team includes five athletes, two being adaptive athletes with disabilities ranging from blindness to […]
World T.E.A.M.’s Inclusive Adventure Team Challenge Returns in September
By Richard Rhinehart Eagle, Colorado, July 20, 2018 – Considered to be one of the toughest back country team competitions in the United States, national non-profit World T.E.A.M.’s annual Adventure Team Challenge this September 6-9 will see teams of adaptive and able-bodied athletes competing together in Colorado’s high Gore Mountain Range. Registration opened online for […]
World T.E.A.M. Sports Names Jonathan Brideau as Executive Director
By Richard Rhinehart Holbrook, New York, October 2, 2017 – National nonprofit World T.E.A.M. Sports announced today that Jonathan Brideau has been named as the organization’s Executive Director. He joins CEO and President Van Brinson in the growing organization’s management. Brideau is a seven-year veteran of Best Buddies International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing […]
Chilly Colorado Temperatures Doesn’t Cool Hot Adventure Team Challenge Team
By Richard Rhinehart Eagle, Colorado, September 20, 2017 – Comfortable autumn racing conditions helped a Colorado team to a record winning pace at national non-profit World T.E.A.M. Sports’ Adventure Team Challenge. Held in the high Gore Mountains northeast of Eagle, Colorado September 15-17, the three day event saw 50 competitors. Shattering the 2011 course record […]
Adventure Team Challenge Colorado Encourages Athlete Cooperation
By Richard Rhinehart Eagle, Colorado, September 13, 2017 – Adaptive and able-bodied athletes from across the United States will gather in Eagle September 14 for national non-profit World T.E.A.M. Sports’ annual Adventure Team Challenge. Ten teams of athletes will complete three outdoor sporting stages beginning September 15 at the rustic Rancho del Rio resort along […]
Pearl Meyer Athletes Inspired by World T.E.A.M. Sports’ Adventure Team Challenge
By Richard Rhinehart Eagle, Colorado, August 24, 2017 – It’s not the finish that matters; it’s the journey to successfully complete the sporting event. For participants of national non-profit World T.E.A.M. Sports’ annual Adventure Team Challenge, an inclusive outdoor multisport competition to be held in the high mountains north of Eagle, Colorado this September 15-17, […]
Outdoor Sports to Thrill Disabled Teens at Dralla Foundation Adventure Team Challenge D.C.
By Richard Rhinehart Washington, D.C., June 26, 2017 – Developmentally-, intellectually-, and physically-disabled young athletes from the greater Washington region are scheduled to participate in the inclusive Dralla Foundation Adventure Team Challenge this September 9 at Washington D.C. Hosted by national nonprofit World T.E.A.M. Sports, the Challenge is patterned after the organization’s inspiring Adventure Team […]
Center for Discovery to Host Eighth Adventure Team Challenge New York
By Richard Rhinehart Harris, New York, June 5, 2017 – Twelve teen-aged adaptive athletes from The Center for Discovery will join with 20 able-bodied coaches in the June 8-9 Adventure Team Challenge New York from national non-profit World T.E.A.M. Sports. Athletes in the eighth annual Challenge will participate in three stages of the inclusive event, […]
Colorado’s 2016 Adventure Team Challenge Documented in New Videos
By Richard Rhinehart Grand Junction, Colorado, November 14, 2016 – Videographer Ed Shank has released three new videos featuring action from World T.E.A.M. Sports’ inclusive Adventure Team Challenge Colorado. The videos, including interviews with participating athletes, are part of a series of short films Shank is creating in support of the challenging event. Held in […]
Adventure Team Challenge Washington D.C.: A Conversation with Karen Glasser
By Sarah Bell Washington, D.C., October 4, 2016 – On September 17, 2016, World T.E.A.M. Sports partnered with Best Buddies Capital Region to produce its fourth Adventure Team Challenge, Washington, D.C. Presenting sponsor, New Jersey-based Dralla Foundation teamed with sponsors SUBWAY of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Edible Arrangements to provide generous […]
Zack Bastian: An Endless Ability
By Sarah Bell Photographs by Sarah Bell and Steph Lavallee Grand Junction, Colorado, October 4, 2016 – “I hadn’t done a lot of mountain biking,” says Zack Bastian sheepishly, “and there I was on a single-track mountain biking trail, with high grass on either side of me, trying to physically and technically control this new […]
Adaptive Athletes Excel at Tenth Annual Adventure Team Challenge
By Richard Rhinehart Grand Junction, Colorado, September 30, 2016 – Under picture-perfect sunny skies September 25, the 11 teams competing in national non-profit World T.E.A.M. Sports’ tenth annual Adventure Team Challenge Colorado paddled to the sandy Highline Lake shore and triumphantly passed underneath the arched finish line. For many of the participating adaptive and able-bodied […]
Colorado’s Scenic McInnis Canyons host of World T.E.A.M. Sports’ Adventure Team Challenge
By Richard Rhinehart Grand Junction, Colorado, September 21, 2016 – National non-profit World T.E.A.M. Sports’ inclusive Adventure Team Challenge returns to Grand Junction and Mesa County this September 23-25 with 12 teams of adaptive and able-bodied athletes undertaking off-road bicycling, river rafting, rock climbing, hiking and orienteering. Considered by experienced adventure athletes to be one […]
Global Advisory Services Leader Ernst & Young Supporting Colorado Adventure Team Challenge
By Richard Rhinehart Holbrook, New York September 19, 2016 – National non-profit World T.E.A.M. Sports welcomes global advisory services leader Ernst & Young as a partner in the organization’s annual Adventure Team Challenge in western Colorado September 23-25. Selected EY staff members will travel to Grand Junction September 22 to participate in the three-stage, multi-sport […]
American Portfolios Financial Services Returns as Adventure Team Challenge Sponsor
By Richard Rhinehart Holbrook, New York, September 16, 2016 – New York’s American Portfolios Financial Services, an independent broker/dealer that serves affiliated financial advisors nationwide, returns as a leading financial sponsor for national non-profit World T.E.A.M. Sports’ September 23-25 Adventure Team Challenge near Grand Junction in western Colorado. A sponsor for the inaugural Adventure Team […]
Dralla Foundation Adventure Team Challenge Washington D.C. Brings Together Athletes
By Richard Rhinehart Washington, D.C., September 15, 2016 – National non-profit World T.E.A.M. Sports’ inclusive Dralla Foundation Adventure Team Challenge Washington D.C. is returning to the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park on Saturday, September 17. The outdoor adventure race will include adaptive and able-bodied athletes from the Washington region competing in a three-stage, […]
ATC Colorado Athlete Kelly Nagel Joins World T.E.A.M. Sports Board of Directors
By Richard Rhinehart Holbrook, New York, September 14, 2016 – World T.E.A.M. Sports welcomes Kelly Nagel, regional Vice President of Development for Aimco Apartment Homes in Bethesda, Maryland, as a member of the organization’s board of directors. The San Antonio native became involved with World T.E.A.M. Sports and the organization’s inclusive Adventure Team Challenge Colorado […]
Rutgers University Department of Athletics and Napier Park Global Capital Team up to Support Adventure Team Challenge Colorado
By Richard Rhinehart Holbrook, New York, September 9, 2016 – A unique partnership between New York’s Napier Park Global Capital and New Jersey’s Rutgers University Department of Athletics will sponsor a team of athletes in Colorado’s September 23-25 Adventure Team Challenge from national non-profit World T.E.A.M. Sports. “I am excited to get out to Colorado […]