Adaptive Sports Northwest has three wheelchair basketball teams: the Portland Wheel Blazers, the Junior Wheel Blazers, and the PNW Reign regional women’s team. Learn more about each of these teams below, including information about upcoming events and how you can support the teams.

Wheelchair basketball is a fast-paced form of basketball. Based on the able-bodied version of the sport, most of the rules, tactics, and plays are the same: court dimensions, basket heights, number of players, playing time, shot clock, scoring, and 3-point line.

As the name of the sport implies, athletes in wheelchair basketball play from a seated position in a chair specialized for the sport. Some rules differ from the sport’s able-bodied counterpart: dribbling, traveling, and fouls all have rules specific to wheelchair basketball.

Teams play games against other teams from around the Northwest and West Coast at tournaments each year, including regional cities such as Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, and Spokane.

ASNW Wheelchair Basketball teams are members of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association.