Water skiing program provides wondrous opportunities for people with disabilities

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– Republished via the Worcester Telegram –  article here:  https://www.telegram.com/news/20200808/water-skiing-program-provides-wondrous-opportunities-for-people-with-disabilities

Charlton resident Ryan DesRoches has been water skiing for almost 30 years, and has had many exhilarating runs on local lakes and ponds, but few compared to the experience he had last summer while volunteering with the Leaps of Faith Adaptive Skiers.

LOF, which is based in Sandy Hook, Connecticut and was founded in 1992, provides recreational and competitive water (and snow) skiing opportunities for children and adults with disabilities.

“One of the people I skied with was a 40-year-old woman with cerebral palsy,” DesRoches, who is president of the Webster Water […]