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World T.E.A.M. Sports Annual Review
TABLE OF
2013
Parts of a Greater Whole
CONTENTS
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Letter from the President
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Our Mission & Sporting Events
05
Adventure Team Challenge
06
Face of America
12
Participatory Events
17
Thanks to Our Supporters
18
2013 Board of Directors
23
2013 Sponsors
24
2013 Individual Donors
25
2013 Leading Fundraisers
26
2013 Financial Statement
26
LETTER FROM THE
PRESIDENT
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“We are Marshall” is the rallying cry of West Virginia’s Marshall College.
In 1970, Marshall College suffered a tragedy when the players, coaches, and boosters
of the college’s football team died in a horrific plane crash. A 2006 film puts forth the
concept that the team, the college, and the town are not separate entities. Rather, they
are all intertwined through a complex web of relationships, with each one being stronger
through the support of the other and each one in turn relying on the other for support.
World T.E.A.M. Sports started as an idea. It was an idea that people with and without
disabilities could work together, on a team, in a challenging environment. It was founded
on the belief that every team member provides value and receives value in return.
Ultimately, we set out to prove that “The Exceptional Athlete Matters.”
The result has been nothing short of astounding in scope and promise. When we work
together, side-by-side, the line between who has a disability and who does not becomes
blurred…and then disappears. Every one of us has something different to contribute
and benefits from the contributions of those team members around us.
World T.E.A.M. Sports is not a group of sponsors, athletes, volunteers, and spectators
who exist independently of each other. We are a team. We are thankful for and dependent
upon our sponsors and their support, but we do not exist solely for them. Likewise, we
are motivated by each athlete who participates in our events, but without our sponsors
and volunteers there would be no events. And without the tireless work of our volunteers, we could never manage these events. Each contributes and each receives something in return. We exist because of each other.
I would like to personally thank each and every one of you for putting your energies into
our organization. World T.E.A.M. Sports belongs to you and is better because of you.
Together, we are World T.E.A.M. Sports.
Van P. Brinson III
President and CEO
Letter from the President
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