Adaptive Sports Foundation and Windham Mountain to Host 5th Annual ASF Awareness Day

WINDHAM – The Adaptive Sports Foundation and Windham Mountain are teaming up to host the Fifth Annual ASF Awareness Day on Saturday, January 14, which will include festivities celebrating the foundation all day, highlighted by a free concert by The Nerds that evening. 

The ASF will have a tent at the Windham base lodge from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., where skiers, snowboarders and passersby can learn about the organization’s mission, how to get involved and donate. The tent will also have games for people to play and will have raffle prizes and giveaways. At 10 a.m., the ASF Race Team will compete in the ASF Awareness Day race, with the award ceremony for the participants occurring at 2 p.m.

After the day of skiing ends, the ASF and Windham Mountain will hold a concert at SEASONS featuring rock ‘n’ roll cover band The Nerds at 4:30 p.m. General admission to the show is free.

During the band’s first set break at 5:30 p.m., the ASF will conduct a very special torchlight parade down Windham Mountain’s trail Whiteway as a tribute to the memory of former Chairman of the ASF Board of Trustees Harvey Silverman. Silverman, the foundation’s first-ever chairman, played an integral part in building the Adaptive Sports Foundation from a small winter program based out of a room in the Windham base lodge to what it is today; a year-round service for the disabled community that operates out of its own slope-side lodge. Silverman passed away in the summer of 2022. 

After the torchlight parade, Windham Mountain will put on a fireworks show before The Nerds hit the stage again to perform until 7 p.m. For more information about this day of celebrating the athletic abilities of the ASF’s adaptive athletes, visit www.adaptivesportsfoundation.org/awareness-day-2023.

The Adaptive Sports Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides profound and life changing experiences for children and adults with physical disabilities, cognitive disabilities and chronic illnesses through outdoor physical activity, education, support and community. For more information about the ASF, visit adaptivesportsfoundation.org.