Staying active is important year-round. When you’re not at CNIB Lake Joe, here are some great accessible sport-related resources that will help keep your heart pumping. This is not an exhaustive list and we encourage you to get involved in any local sport opportunity that you wish to try, outside of blind-specific sports. If you know of additional resources we should add, kindly email emilee.schevers@cnib.ca or ryan.vanpraet@cnib.ca to locate a sport near you.

Organizations

Adaptive Climbing Canada

Website: https://canadianadaptiveclimbing.com/ 

Blind Sailing Association

Website: https://blindsailing.ca/ 
Email: info@blindsailing.ca

Canadian Blind Hockey Association

Website: https://canadianblindhockey.com/
Contact: Matt Morrow
Email: mattmorrow@blindicehockey.com

Ontario Blind Sports Association

Website: https://blindsports.on.ca/
Contact: Richard Amelard 
Email: richard@blindsports.on.ca

Ontario Curling Council – Visually Impaired Curling

Website: https://ontariocurlingcouncil.com/blog/parasport/vision-impaired-curling/ 

Ontario Visually Impaired Golfers

Website: http://ontarioblindgolf.ca/ 
Phone: (905) 547-9420

Soccability

Website: https://soccability.ca/
Contact: Matt Greenwood
Email: inquiries@soccability.ca

Sports

5-A-Side Soccer

London Whitecaps SC

Contact: Abbi Lezizidis 
Email: abbi@whitecapslondon.ca 

North Mississauga SC

Contact: Ekaterina Alfutina 
Email: ealfutina@nmsc.net

Pickering FC

Contact: Matt Greenwood 
Email: mattgreenwood@rogers.com

Beep Baseball

Toronto Blind Jays

Contact: Arthur Pressick
Email: torontoblindjays@gmail.com 

Blind Curling

Toronto Blind Curling Club

Contact: Ann LaFontaine
Email: Ann.lafontaine8@gmail.com

Blind Hockey

Toronto Jr Ice Owls

Contact: Luca DeMontis
Email: Lucademontis@blindicehockey.com

Ottawa 67's Youth Program

Contact: Luca DeMontis
Email: Lucademontis@blindicehockey.com

Windsor Blind Hockey Program

Contact: Luca DeMontis
Email: Lucademontis@blindicehockey.com

Blind Tennis

Toronto Blind Tennis

Contact: Jerome Chan
Email: jerome@changethroughsportcanada.com 

Goalball

Brantford Honey Badgers

When: Weekly during school programming 
Contact: Richard Amelard 
Email: richard@blindsports.on.ca

Kitchener Rolling Rangers

When: Every other Tuesday, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Contact: Richard Amelard 
Email: richard@blindsports.on.ca

London Fearless Phantoms

When: Fridays 8:15-10 p.m.
Contact: Katie Schneider 
Email: mrs_katie_schneider@hotmail.com

Ottawa Bytown

When: Thursdays 6-8 p.m. and Saturdays 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. 
Contact: Richard Amelard 
Email: richard@blindsports.on.ca

Sudbury Nickel City

When: Tuesdays 6-7:30 p.m.
Contact: Chantal Simard 
Email: Chantal.simard@vlrehab.ca

Toronto Terminators

When: Sundays, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Contact: Pablo Talavera through Richard Amelard 
Email: richard@blindsports.on.ca

Rock Climbing

CCB Rocks Toronto

Contact: Myra Rodriguez
Email: myrarodrigues@rogers.com

Rise Above Adaptive Climbing London

Email: riseaboveadaptiveclimbing@gmail.com
Website: https://riseaboveadaptiveclimbing.org/

Workout Resources

Equipment

Don’t see a sport listed? Email emilee.schevers@cnib.ca to have a program listed or ryan.vanpraet@cnib.ca to locate a sport near you.

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