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Our team\u00a0recently wrapped up a five-week exchange program to empower international leaders in the field of disability sport.\u00a0The program was implemented as part of the Center’s\u00a0cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State.<\/p>\n

The Center has collaborated with the State Department to run the Global Sports Mentoring Program, developed in 2012 by then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton and ESPN President John Skipper, for the past four years. While the original GSMP (now known as GSMP: Empower Women through Sports) focused on women’s empowerment, this revitalized initiative includes a second program concentrated on leaders in the disability sport movement.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Hillyer, director of the center, with participants and partners in the program: Ann Cody, program officer for the U.S. Department of State (bottom left), Beth Curry, chief program officer for Lakeshore Foundation (top right), and emerging leaders Olesya Vladykina (top middle) and Adeline Dumapong (bottom right).<\/p><\/div>\n

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The spring\u2019s program included 15 sport leaders from 13 countries (Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, Kosovo, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Philippines) who formed the first class of Sport for Community.<\/p>\n

Our directors, Drs. Sarah Hillyer and Ashleigh Huffman, who are also clinical assistant professors in the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies, worked side by side with the participants and their mentors, selected from leading disability sport organizations such as the US Olympic Committee, Lakeshore Foundation, Ability 360, and the University of Texas at Arlington.<\/p>\n

Using Hillyer and Huffman\u2019s \u201cBetter World\u201d curriculum as the framework, leaders, mentors and the UT team worked together to develop individualized action plans\u2014sports-based business proposals to promote inclusivity and social change in their local communities.<\/p>\n

The international leaders selected included two-time Paralympic gold medalist Olesya Vladykina, mentored by Jeff Underwood and Beth Curry at Lakeshore, who developed a campaign called #HowISwim to promote inclusive swim lessons and accessible sports facilities for people with disabilities in Russia.<\/p>\n

There were also grassroots workers like JP Maunes, founder of Philippine Accessible Deaf Services, which provides sign language translation and deaf rights advocacy to the hearing-impaired community in Cebu, and Anderson Gama, the marketing manager for Obra Social Dona Meca, an organization that provides sports opportunities for hundreds of children with disabilities in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

At the executive level, five leaders from National Paralympic Committees\u2014Bayron Lopez (Ecuador), Njomza Emini (Kosovo), Priyantha Peiris (Sri Lanka), Deepak KC (Nepal), and Yerlan Suleimenov (Kazakhstan)\u2014developed plans to raise awareness of the Paralympic movement in their countries and increase participation at both the grassroots and elite levels.<\/p>\n

\"Participants<\/p>\n

Participants in the GSMP: Sport for Community program class of 2016. Top: Alemayehu Teferi (Ethiopia), Adeline Dumapong (Philippines), Julio Rueda (Guatemala), JP Maunes (Philippines), Valeria Filiaeva (Belarus). Middle: Yerlan Suleimenov (Kazakhstan), Bayron Lopez (Ecuador), Agwang Christine (Uganda), Priyantha Peiris (Sri Lanka), Oleksandra Nasadiuk (Ukraine). Bottom: Olesya Vladykina (Russia), Anderson Gama (Brazil), Njomza Emini (Kosovo), Eyasu Hailu (Ethiopia), Deepak KC (Nepal).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cFor me, Sport for Community was better than I ever could have imagined,\u201d Huffman said. \u201cTo work with men and women in the disability sports space was eye-opening and inspiring. Through sport, there is adversity, but there is also hope and healing. To research and facilitate such an incredible global initiative is important for the University of Tennessee as we seek to ignite change and promote equality throughout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to its work with the GSMP, the Center partners with the UT\u2019s Athletics Department and Center for Leadership and Service on campus for the\u00a0VOLeaders Academy<\/a><\/strong>, a yearlong sports and leadership program for student-athletes. The inaugural VOLeaders class of thirteen students will travel with Hillyer and Huffman to Brazil for a service-learning trip June 30.<\/p>\n

To learn more about GSMP: Sport for Community visit the official website<\/strong><\/a> or the program\u2019s\u00a0social media accounts on Facebook<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Flickr<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/strong>. To find or share more Sport for Community news use the hashtags\u00a0#S4C2016 and #Sport4All.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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