AAASP sanctions the following core sports in the following seasons.

Fall — Wheelchair Handball
Winter — Wheelchair Basketball and Power Soccer
Spring — Wheelchair Football, Track and Field and Beep Baseball.

Just as in able–bodied high school sports, all sport rules have been adapted to support positive educational outcomes.

Essentials to effective interscholastic sports:

• The standardization of rules
• The standardization of seasons
• Regular mandatory practice and competition
• Maximizing numbers: sport rules accommodate multiple types of physical disability
• 1st grade through 12th grade eligibility
• Focus on and commitment to educational outcome based amateur school sports
• Coaches & referee training & certification

Q: Why do many of the sports use court or sport wheelchairs?
A: The court chair is a piece of sport equipment that allows students with a     variety of mobility impairments to compete on a level and competitive
    playing field.

Q: Can a student be on the baseball team and also participate on adapted
    sport teams?
A: Yes, as long as a student qualifies and meets the minimal disability criteria
    they may compete on traditional sport teams and adapted teams.

Q: Can a student with loss of full function in a knee or hip can compete with a
    student with severe cerebral palsy affecting all limbs in wheelchair football.
A: Rules such as a complete passes including hitting any part of a power chair
    make having power chairs an important part of the offensive football team
    make up. The blocking and picking ability of most power chairs makes them
    critical to success on the integrated handball teams.

Competition rules allow for cross disability competition and equally important for nearly any size district to field viable teams. Further, such integrated sports create a truly diversified adapted sports program.

Creating and maintaining viable school and or district based teams for this population can be challenging. AAASP has built in many program components that allow for districts to have successful sustainable teams. While students must have some type of orthopedic or physical disability they need not use a wheelchair for mobility to be eligible to participate.