MISSION
STATEMENT
The National Wheelchair Poolplayers
Association, Inc. (NWPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to
encouraging, developing and regulating wheelchair billiards.
The NWPA serves wheelchair billiards
as the Billiard Congress of America (BCA) serves able-bodied players.
Sports and recreation are the best ways to encourage physically
challenged men, women and children to live full and productive lives.
Pool has become a popular sport around the world, but especially
for hundreds of wheelchair players.
Pool is the perfect sport for most wheelchair users, because it is
not physically demanding and age is not a factor.
One of the goals of the NWPA is to
encourage persons with disabilities who are unable to play or compete from
a standing position to become involved in playing pool from a seated
position, by holding clinics, tournaments and fundraisers throughout the
United States
. The NWPA actively seeks player members, associate members and sponsors,
in order to achieve this goal.
The NWPA sanctions eight to twelve
regional events, culminating with annual National Championship and, in
some years, an International Championship. The Entertainment and Sports
Programming Network (ESPN) has aired a number of our National and
International Championships.
We have over three hundred members worldwide and several of our
members have competed in world wheelchair 9 Ball championships that have
been held in various locations around the world since 1999.
The NWPA was the host organizer for the 2007 WPA World 9 Ball
Championship for Wheelchair Players (Tampa. Florida), co-host of the 2008
WPA World 9 Ball Championship for Wheelchair Players (Reno, Nevada), host
for 2009 WPA World 9 Ball Championship for Wheelchair Players (Elizabeth,
Indiana) and co-host of the 2010 WPA World 9 Ball Championship for
Wheelchair Players (Reno, Nevada), .
The NWPA is the National Governing Body
for wheelchair billiards through Wheelchair Sports U.S.A. and the BCA
and is a member of the World Pool Association.
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