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NEWS & OTHER EVENTS

Aside from the annual tournament, The Ohio Buckeye Blitz and OU DPT students enjoy other networking and fundraising events. Check out some previous events as well as upcoming events!

2022 Red, White & Boom

Members of the OU DPT Classes of 2024 and 2025 worked several tents selling food and beverages to raise money for the Columbus Adaptive Sports Club.

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2019 Kayaking

Members of the OU DPT Classes of 2020, 2021, & 2022 kayaked the Hocking River with Buckeye Blitz team members and family.

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2019 Red White & Boom

Ohio Buckeye Blitz Team Members and OU DPT students worked beer and alcohol tents to fundraise for Columbus Paralympic Sports.

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2019 OSU Pay to Play

Buckeye Blitz team members and OU DPT students participated in OSU's annual Pay to Play fundraising event

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ABOUT THE BLITZ

ABOUT THE EVENT

In 2006, Ohio University Doctorate of Physical Therapy students began the Battle the Blitz event, an annual tournament between Athens and Ohio University community members and the Buckeye Blitz Wheelchair Rugby Team. This tournament was started as a way to raise funds to offset the high cost to compete, as well as to raise awareness for adaptive sport programs.​ Our 2022 event will continue as an in-person tournament!

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ABOUT THE TEAM

The Ohio Buckeye Blitz are a co-ed, semi-professional wheelchair rugby team based in Columbus, Ohio. Quadriplegic Rugby is a full-contact sport where all players exhibit some level of dysfunction in all four limbs, often due to spinal cord injuries. To play the sport, teams must come up with enough funds for registrations, lodging, and competitive equipment. Chairs alone can cost up to $7,000, and when combined with other fees can cost the team more than $17,000 annually.

CONTACT US

Julia Karas and Emily Taylor

OUqrugby@gmail.com

Co-President's of Battle the Blitz Tournament

Ohio U. - Dept. of Physical Therapy

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Jeremy Finton

paralympicsportsclubcbus@gmail.com

Ohio Buckeye Blitz Wheelchair Rugby

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