As the United States’ sole member of IWAS, Adaptive Sports USA fields a team of exemplary junior athletes (between 14 and 22 years of age). Congratulations to the Team GLASA Track & Field athletes Ethan Burkhart (Libertyville), Stella McMillan (Chicago), and Brian Nelson (Chicago) who were among 7 athletes selected to represent Team USA this […]

GLASA congratulates our athlete Aubrey Headon who will be training at the Paralympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA. She is training in preparation of the track and field trials for selection of TEAM USA for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro taking place September 7-18, 2016!

Here is GLASA’s program offerings for Winter-Spring of 2016:  GLASA Winter-Spring 2016 Program and Events Guide  !  Sign up today, as many of these programs fill up quickly!

United States Paralympics has just announced the 29 members of Team USA’s 2016 Swimming National Team, and former GLASA swimmer Alyssa Gialamas has been chosen for this tremendous honor.  Alyssa graduated from Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, and currently attends Loyola University in Baltimore.  In 2012, she surprised the paralympic sports world by suddenly emerging as a […]

In January of 2016, GLASA will be moving its offices to a new location, and into its own space! GLASA has rented office space at the Gorton Center in downtown Lake Forest for years, but has stored its large collection of adaptive sports equipment at a variety of other locations.  Now, the sports equipment, the GLASA van […]

Diana Helt, GLASA’s Grants and Program Evaluation Director, has been selected to participate in the ADA25 Chicago Leadership Institute for People with Disabilities. Helt was one of 16 leaders chosen from a field of nearly 60 applicants. The Institute, the first of its kind in the country, featured 4 days of intensive leadership training in early […]

GLASA has just been recognized as one of only 10 Paralympic Sport Clubs in the United States as qualifying for Gold Status by the United States Olympic Committee / US Paralympics!  The committee’s Paralympic Sport Club Excellence Program evaluates the quality and impact of an agency’s adaptive sports programming, including athlete identification and coaching education, and their […]

Congratulations to Sam Grewe, Jessica Heimes and Ciera Jervier who were selected to US Paralympics’s World Championships Team. These GLASA athletes earned the right to represent the USA at the International Paralympic Committee – Track and Field World Championships in Doha, Qatar in late October. Sam Grewe won the Gold Medal in the High Jump T42, stunning the Paralympic […]

Congratulations to GLASA athlete Sam Grewe for winning GOLD at the IPC Track and Field World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Grew, age 17, won the gold medal in the High Jump T42 competition by jumping an impressive  1.81 meters.  Read about his amazing accomplishment and his personal story.