Adaptive Sports

General News

Discover Ability: Wheelchair and adaptive sports clinic coming to SPC in July 2016. Save the Date and join us on July 26th, 2016 on the St. Petersburg-Gibbs campus in the Student Services building lobby for a night of information and discussion with invited panelists. Panelists include:

*Justin Stark- Wheelchair Rugby Player/Director

*Davie Celestine- PVA Gulf Coast Adaptive Swimming/Rugby

*Jennifer French- Silver Medalist Paralympic Sailor

*Jessica Velazquez- Ms. Wheelchair Florida 2016 Contestant

*Jennifer Day- James Haley VA Hospital- Sports Therapist

*Jack Roudabush- Orlando Magic Wheels Wheelchair Basketball

 

About Jeff Cavanagh

Jeff Cavanagh spent his freshman year at St. Petersburg Junior College back in the early 70s before enlisting in the United States Navy. Soon after, he attended Jacksonville University on a Navy ROTC scholarship. After college, he was commissioned and became a qualified Surface Warfare Officer spending the next 22 years honing his skills as a ship-handler and expert recruiter before retiring in 1994. Jeff expresses a deep sense of pride in St. Petersburg College due to connections that go back many years. His father, Tom Cavanagh, was a career Air Force fighter pilot and combat veteran who taught Geography and Western Civilization at St. Petersburg Junior College in the 60’s and 70’s.