My Final Project

For my final project, I want to focus on an organization here on campus that provides great opportunities to students.

I want to do my project on the Northeast Passage Organization, a group that allows disabled athletes to compete at a high level of competition, just like any other college athlete. Last semester, I wrote a story in Advanced News Writing on Ted Broderick, a student here who won the giant slalom national championship race at Big Sky, Montana. He trains with the Northeast Passage, because he is a single-arm amputee, but his condition is congenital, so he's had it since birth. He will be competing again this year.

He practices with the UNH varsity ski team, and does mainly the same type of training that they do. The team practices everywhere around the state, but the closest mountain is Pats Peak in Henniker.

I think this organization doens't get nearly as much credit as they deserve for their hard work in putting together special training regimens and overseeing the whole operations. I want to shed light on this, and show more people that having a disability doesn't mean anyone should be excluded.