It’s similar to any summer season day camp: there’s video games, actions and an opportunity to attempt one thing new. But that “new” factor might find yourself altering a life.

That’s daily on the Ivan Lendl Adaptive Sports Camp, placed on by the Hospital for Special Care.

For greater than 30 years, children with completely different talents have gotten the prospect to attempt adaptive basketball, tennis, monitor and discipline. Over these a long time, it’s been the place future Paralympians have first tried their sports activities. But for former professional tennis participant Ivan Lendl, “world class athlete” isn’t the aim.

“I don’t really care so much what the sport is as long as the kids get to be active in the sport,” Lendl mentioned.

Lendl, who has eight Grand Slam titles to his identify, takes simply as a lot satisfaction within the camp that bears his identify. When he visited the camp this 12 months, he as soon as once more linked with the child who began all of it: Jonathan Slifka.

Slifka’s mother began the camp 33 years in the past with the identical objective it has right this moment: give all children an opportunity to attempt completely different sports activities and alongside the best way, hopefully study some even greater classes, too.

“When we look back at the track record of the counselors that we’ve had come through, many of them have been world class athletes, they’ve been role models,” Slifka mentioned. “Not simply from an athletic standpoint however from a life expertise and life standpoint. They’re profitable of their careers, they’ve an schooling, they’re the very definition of unbiased, that is life altering.”

The camp is all the time free to all campers. You can learn more about it here.