As CUNY’s first director of inclusive and adaptive sports, Ryan Martin has quickly built a program featuring men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball teams that compete against colleges from around the country. Martin is a national leader and advocate for adaptive sports and a veteran wheelchair basketball player himself. Born with spina bifida, he lost both his legs when he was two years old but went on to play in college and then professionally in Europe.  His focus is on bringing athletes with disabilities to CUNY, but he says it’s ultimately not about the game.
“I can talk all day about the numbers of wins and losses and the percentage of shots I want to take,” Martin says on the CUNYcast, “but being an individual with a disability, I think the number one thing is what are they doing three or five years from now — are they in a better position than they would have been had they not participated in this program?”
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CUNAC Wheelchair Basketball on the web
More about Ryan Martin: Changing the Landscape of Adaptive Sports
Learn about Ryan Martin’s foundation for athletes with disabilities
Ryan Martin huddles with his team during a recent tournament hosted by CUNY.