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The Maverick : Summer 2019

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MIRACLES ON A MOUNTAINSIDE Students gain practical experience and more volunteering at disabled veterans clinic BY KATLIN BIRDSALL PHOTOS BY CAMERON FOSTER, CMU SPORTS MANAGEMENT MAJOR “Miracles on a Mountainside” is more than a motto for the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic. “It was probably one of the most incredible experiences that I’ve ever had,” said exercise science major Ashlynn Cichella, who volunteered at the clinic for the first time this past April with 16 other CMU students. For 25 years, Professor of Kinesiology Jill Cordova, PhD, and her students have volunteered at the clinic. Teamed up with physical therapists from around the country, the volunteers assisted nearly 450 disabled veterans in winter and other adaptive activities including Alpine and Nordic skiing, sled hockey, snowmobiling, scuba diving and rock wall climbing. “The real purpose of the clinic is to empower the veterans to realize that regardless of how long they have been injured or what their injury is that there are so many things that they can still do,” said Cordova, who has not missed a single clinic in the past 25 years.

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