Local wheelchair basketball team seeking bigger trailer [Video]

A local wheelchair basketball team is looking to overcome its deficit of space.

Rose City Riot ParaSports president John Azlen said the club is losing out on wheelchair basketball players because they’ve run out of space in their trailer.

He demonstrated the lack of space by opening the back door to the trailer, when a large tire fell out of the over-packed trailer. The club would like to step up its game.

“It’s tight,” Riot co-founder Rob Bahre said.

“There are ten chairs in here. There are basketballs. There’s equipment. There’s a lot of stuff. We don’t even have room for our tools.”

Rose City ParaSports President John Azlen opens the team’s over-packed trailer as a wheel falls out in Windsor, Ont. on Nov. 13, 2024. (Bob Bellacicco/CTV News Windsor)

Azlen said there aren’t enough wheelchairs to accommodate players.

“People have to share and that’s not a bad thing necessarily, sharing, but not everybody needs the same style of chair,” he said.

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