Last weekend, the Triumph Foundation held its 12th annual Wheelchair Sports Festival at the Santa Clarita Activity Center, introducing wheelchair sports and activities.
To hundreds of children and adults with spinal injuries. At the forefront was Triumph founder and recovering quadriplegic, Andrew Skinner
“I was snowboarding and fell and broke my neck, and so I became a quadriplegic, and I thought my whole life was ruined and was really hopeless,” said Skinner
Skinner knows how much support is needed to get through a life-changing injury.
“I was very fortunate, I had a good family that was there to support me, and a community that rallied behind me,” said Skinner. “I always wanted to pay it forward and help someone else out, someone else that doesn’t have the support system like I did.”
Events like this help Triumph continue to grow.
“We’ve kind of grown to become a juggernaut in the world of spinal cord injury and the world of disabilities,” said Skinner.
“Andrew has taken that one person who came into my hospital room and just spread it exponentially,” said Julienne Dallara, a Triumph ambassador.
“Now there are very few people who are in the hospital with paralysis who haven’t seen someone from the Triumph foundation,” said Dallara.
