Jordan is a current world champion having competed in the Special Olympics in Los Angeles last summer. He arrived at Oak Grove College in 2010 as a shy nervous boy with very little speech. It did not take long to realise that he was a talented sports man. He learnt to swim and went to his first SWB swim gala where he won a medal. The look of achievement on his face was amazing. His confidence grew and he was keen to get involved in other SWB events. At the Indoor Athletics his talent was discovered as he excelled at jumping recording the longest jump of the day. This was the start of his athletics career; he was invited to join the Special Olympics squad in Worthing where he trained incredibly hard. He now travels over the country to compete at regional and national level.

Jordan has:

1. Gained National standards in Long jump, High jump 1500m 800m 400m
2. Won gold medals in all these at National competitions.
3. Been invited to the Sainsbury’s talent ID program 2013
4. Been invited to the Parallel Success Academy 2014
5. Competed in the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015
6. Is the current world High Jump Champion 2015
7. Is the current U20 Long Jump champion 2015
8. Received a Silver medal in Long Jump at the Sainsbury’s School Games 2015
9. Holds the Sussex Sports Man of the year award

He presently is aiming for a world ranking in Long Jump.

He is a most modest and determined young man who has done incredibly well. Thank goodness he had the competitive opportunities provided by SWB as this helped this young man on a fantastic sporting journey … which hopefully will result in him one day representing TEAM GB at the Paralympics.

Morgan is a 13 year old boy with DejerineSottas, he has been at main stream school, all his school life, and has found it difficult to fit it to P.E.

Morgan loves sport, any sport, he will have a go. When he was in his 2nd to last year of middle school, I asked his teacher for help as I had been unsuccessfully trying to find clubs who would take a disabled child. His teacher found a club which had just started up called STARS. It was run by a lovely lady called Sandy Fell. It was with other disabled children, Morgan felt part of a group, and made friends very quickly, he gained confidence. I had to wait in the car, so he could go in on his own.

Sandy told us about SWB (formally SADG), and what they did. The next day I went back to school, and told them all about SWB, and we have not looked back. Morgan and his classmates went to every event that year and they all grew with confidence. The smiles on their faces during each event and especially if they won was fantastic. At one of these events, Morgan was asked to come along to a racing wheelchair club, in Worthing. He took to it like a duck to water.

Morgan has only been going wheelchair racing for a year, and he has already been picked up by the Weir Archer Academy. He trains Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at Weir Archer (Kingston), and Tuesdays at his old club in Worthing. He has done many races, Worthing 1k, BUPA 1 mile, London 1 mile, etc which he has done by borrowing a racing wheelchair, (which is to big for him) he is soon to get his own.
The London mile, Morgan was the first Man/boy over the line.

Morgan is ranked 10th in Great Britain. From doing no sports he is now being trained by the best Paralympic Coach, Jenny Archer, the coach of Paralympian David Weir. She predicts great things for him.

His journey would never have started if it was not for Sandy Fell and the efforts of all of the team involved with SWB.

Louis has been hugely influenced by sport, and the chances he has had with Sport Without Boundaries has lead him to places he could never imagined, culminating with him winning a silver medal in the Russian open in Moscow in 2016. He has been a keen to try many wheelchair sports, but now concentrates on Boccia and even helps run a social Boccia club in his spare time.

“Sport without boundaries gave me the opportunity to compete on a fair level playing field. They even hosted my first ever Boccia competition. I finished in 9th place but because of the fun, inclusive, competitive atmosphere sport with boundaries created I fell in love with Boccia and haven't stopped playing it since."

Boccia; more than just throwing balls. A sport that includes, excites and inspires. I’ve been playing Boccia for around the last three years, since I started I was gripped by the tactical nature, the freedom and confidence it gave me.

I wasn’t strong enough for wheelchair basketball, not fast enough for wheelchair racing, and not agile enough for wheelchair tennis. I love sport, I want to be the best and sadly I didn’t really have that chance, that opportunity, because of the nature of my disability. But that was before Boccia, now I’ve been given a chance and I’ve made the most of it.

I’m a BC4, England athlete, I train 4 to 5 times a week, and I love it. I play at school, I play at home and I play against anyone, I like Boccia because there is so much too it, when to attack? When to defend? What shot to play next? Lay-up? Lob? Knock on? But you also need the technical ability to pull off your desired shot.

Boccia is a target sport, you have to propel your six coloured leather balls closer to the Jack than your opponent, it is mostly played by people with severe disabilities. In Boccia there is different classifications BC1-4s, BC1’S and 2’s are players with cerebral palsy, BC3’s use a ramp to propel the ball and BC4’s are like BC2’s but have a different disability to cerebral palsy however Boccia can be played by everyone and anyone.

If you’re interested in Boccia, get some balls, find a court, and play. Then go on the Boccia England website, find the club finder, enter your postcode then all the Clubs near you will be shown. Also once you have gained a bit of experience, you can enter a brand new completion, the Heathcoat Cup. This tournament enables new players to play in a competitive atmosphere and gives the opportunity to reach the BE cup final. The Heathcoat cup is also brilliant as it allows classifications BC1-BC8 to play meaning not just people with severe disabilities can get involved. My final advice is to play with confidence, have fun and give Boccia a chance, because as you can see, it’s not just throwing balls.                  

I first became familiar and involved with SWB when I was at my primary school West Park, where I participated and competed in disability sports events such as Boccia and New Age Curling. When I joined my Secondary school Angmering, I continued to attend and compete in SWB disability sport events/festivals. Attending SWB competition’s, inspired me and gave me great confidence to regularly participate in competitive sport and I’m grateful for the opportunities SWB gave me. I play Boccia at national and international level and last year won gold in Russia which was an incredible achievement (I’m on the left in the picture) SWB have been very much part of my Boccia journey and have been a great foundation for me. I’ve previously helped out at SWB events as a leader, which has been a great opportunity to stay involved in and help out at SWB events and to most importantly give something back to the organisation.