Our Wheelchair Basketball Tournament was great!

We wrapped up our “March Madness” events Saturday with our 13th annual Wheelchair Basketball Tournament at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church. We had 14 teams from local businesses take to the court Saturday morning to duke it out for the championship, with the Hershey Company’s Team Icebreakers defeating the Twizzler Tweeterz to claim the trophy (pictured to right).

We want to give special recognition to all the other teams that participated as well. They were:

• Sam’s Club of Bartlett


• Sam’s Club on Getwell


• Sam’s Club on Winchester


• Sam’s Club on Covington Pike


• Sam’s Club Southaven


• Shelby Residential & Vocational Services (SRVS)


• Shelby County Sheriff’s Office


• Hershey’s Company


• FedEx (Internal Audit Division)


• Tact Unit


• Memphis Fire Department


• The Arc of the Mid-South

We want to give a special thanks to The Rollin’ Grizzlies, who not only participated as a team, but also donated the wheelchairs for our teams to use. We certainly couldn’t have pulled off such a great event without their support.

All in all, March Madness was a big success for us. We met with our legislators on Capitol Hill, received recognition from local government, exposed area high school students with disabilities to job opportunities, and helped raise awareness and funds with the Wheelchair Basketball Tournament over the weekend. Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time, energy, and talents to help make all these events possible. You really did help make a difference in somebody’s life.