Every Body Can!
Adapted Physical Activity Video Contest
Promoting Adapted Physical Activity & Education
Every Body Can! is a nationwide video contest that promotes, celebrates, or teaches adapted and inclusive physical activity while raising awareness about the opportunities for and accomplishments of people with disabilities.
Every Body Can! offers general and adapted physical educators and physical activity leaders of all kinds—teachers, university faculty, recreation leaders—ideas, inspiration, specific lessons, and support for increasing disability awareness and creating effective inclusive lessons and programs.
Every Body Can! advocates AAPAR and its Adapted Physical Activity Council (APAC), thus promoting AAPAR's mission to encourage lifelong and inclusive physical activity.
Deadline for the 2011 contest: December 7, 2010.
Adapted Physical Activity Video Contest Winners & Runners-Up 2010
| Category | Video | Winner |
| Disability Awareness | "Inspiration" | Jennie Lee |
| Effective Instruction | "Just Another Day at School" | Mira Shved |
| Good Games | "Inspirational Message" | Marc Griffin |
| Public Service Announcement | "3 Turkey Trot" | Linda Cornman |
| Wild Card | "Adapted Hunting" | Amanda Perl |
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Category |
Video |
Runner-Up |
|
Disability Awareness |
Delynn Orton | |
|
Effective Instruction |
Texas State U. Students | |
|
Good Games |
Texas State U. Students | |
|
Wild Card |
"Move Along, Inc., Creates Opportunities for Physically Disabled" |
Gregory Callen |
2010 winners were recognized and celebrated at AAPAR's Awards Evening at the AAHPERD National Convention & Exposition in Indianapolis in March. Flaghouse donated prizes. Winners and runners-up received the DVD "Heart of a Dragon," donated by Associated Film Producers and Michael French. More about the film. All entrants received a fitness DVD from HOPSports.
Special thanks to our 2010 judges: AAPAR members Luis Columna and Steve Yang, both assistant professors at the State University of New York, Cortland; Kristi Roth, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point; and Dallas Jackson, assistant professor at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. Sheryl Flynn, clinical director of research at Precision Rehabilitation in California, was also a judge.