My Adaptive Sled Hockey Journey
Mason Berry |
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Updated 2 months ago
My adaptive sled hockey journey started spring break 2017 when I was 5yrs old at a free sled hockey clinic at the RDV in Maitland, Fl. run by the Space Coast Blast. My mom was asked then if I would like to come to sled practices anytime with the team. We lived so far away at the time and my mom couldn't commit to the financial costs. The next free sled hockey clinic I attended the summer of 2018 I was noticed by another coach and they contacted my mom asking if I would be interested in continuing to play sled hockey. My mom wouldn't have to worry about the equipment cost. She just needed to get me to practices. It all came at the perfect timing because I had been having a very hard time adjusting to life in the 1st grade especially with the disabilities with my Spina Bifida, losing my beloved Grandma Cindy and not having the love and support from most of my immediate family. I myself told my mom I didn't want to live anymore and I was becoming an angry kid not understanding how to handle my frustrations. My mom knew she needed to find me an outlet. Being a volleyball coach herself she knew sports could be the outlet I needed to feel free from the bondage of my birth defect. Free to feel normal and independent. When that faithful call came from Cameron Gomes at the Central Florida Dreamplex, it changed my life.
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