GO WILDFIRE!

The Wichita Wildfire wheelchair basketball team has been playing as a team since 2016.  The goal of the Wildfire basketball team is to give athletes with a lower extremity physical disability the opportunity to play on a competitive team while traveling to tournaments throughout the mid-west.

Our younger players play as a club team, practicing at the same time as the varsity and learning from their experience.   It is our hope that in the next year we will have enough competitive young players to join our traveling league as well.

All athletes who participate in wheelchair basketball must have a confirmed doctor’s diagnoses of a permanent lower extremity disability. However, this does not mean that each athlete must be a full-time wheelchair user. We have a limited number of basketball wheelchairs to try for those who would like to come join our team.

Our team practices twice a week starting in October and running through End of March. We are blessed to be welcomed at the YMCAs of Wichita for practices. We also hosted our first Wildfire Sizzler Basketball Camp and Tournament, November 12, 13, and 14th, and qualified for the Jr. National basketball tournament, which was hosted in Wichita. Wildfire pulled away with a 3-1 national record in the tournament.

If you wish to sponsor our team, or if you know of a young person wanting to get involved in wheelchair basketball, please contact Coach Jenny at jdkreutzer@homail.com or 316-680-4821.