Member coaching Special Olympics team.NRPA NRPA National Recreation and Park Association NRPA Natural Resources Protective Association (Staten Island, NY) NRPA Niagara Regional Police Association (Canada) NRPA National Rifle and Pistol Association member Sherrie Izban from Joliet, Ill., will be packing her bags for China next year. She was recently chosen as a track and field coach for Team USA
Team USA (also known as Team NWA or Team TNA) is a wrestling faction brought together as part of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's X-Cup Tournaments, which at the Special Olympics World Games The Special Olympics World Games are an international sporting competition for athletes with intellectual disabilities, organized by Special Olympics. Like the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games, the Special Olympics World Games include summer and winter versions, and held there in October 2007. Currently, Izban serves as therapeutic supervisor for the Joliet Bolingbrook Special Recreation Association, where she has coached track and field for more than five years. Izban is a certified coach in track and field, basketball, volleyball, bocce, softball and soccer. She came to the Bolingbrook Park District from Gateway Special Recreation Association in Burr Ridge where she served as superintendent of recreation. "Special Olympics Special Olympics International sports program for people with intellectual disability. It provides year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type summer and winter sports for participants. give me a sense of pride," she said. "It allows me to help others and feel really good about it. There is just nothing better than seeing your athlete smile when he or she is about to receive a medal or ribbon." Izban is one of only five assistant coaches selected from Illinois. She will attend Team USA Training Camp in July next year, then fly to Shanghai, China for the World Games
The World Games, first held in 1981, are an international multi-sport event, meant for sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games. . |
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