Athletics: Team and Individual Sports
During 2024/2025, the Institute's sports teams include Goalball, Soccer, Swimming, Wrestling, Cheerleading, and Track and Field, all adapted to accommodate students' visual impairment or blindness. Students must maintain their academics to participate.
One of seven schools that combined make up the Eastern Athletics Association for the Blind (E.A.A.B.), the Institute's teams compete in local and national competitions, allowing students to travel (some for the first time), compete, and socialize with their athletic peers. E.A.A.B. schools alternate hosting tournaments and competitions, and teams are divided into boys, girls, or co-ed, ensuring all can benefit from participating.
One of seven schools that combined make up the Eastern Athletics Association for the Blind (E.A.A.B.), the Institute's teams compete in local and national competitions, allowing students to travel (some for the first time), compete, and socialize with their athletic peers. E.A.A.B. schools alternate hosting tournaments and competitions, and teams are divided into boys, girls, or co-ed, ensuring all can benefit from participating.
Team tryouts are at the start of each sports season, and practices occur Monday - Thursday, between 3:00 - 5:30 PM, differing in frequency based on the sport. As per E.A.A.B. requirements, students must be 13 years of age or in the seventh grade before September 1st to compete.
To hear about the Institute's Athletics program's impact on students, listen to Assistive Physical Education Teacher Carina Cam.
To hear about the Institute's Athletics program's impact on students, listen to Assistive Physical Education Teacher Carina Cam.
To learn more about our Adaptive Physical Education programming, follow this link:
Student Skill Development
Annual Sports Calendar
Eastern Athletics Association for the Blind Schools
Learn More: Sports for Blind and Visually Impaired Athletics