At the elite level, athletes may throw the ball up to 40 miles an hour.
), “one mistake could make or break the game,” she says. That’s why players “have to stay mentally focused."Soon after learning about goalball as a young teenager, Mason met, by chance, two Paralympic goalball players—Jen Armbruster and Asya Miller—and started training with them in Oregon, she says. “I really started off just [thinking] it was a fun thing to do,” she explains. “And as I continued to go to practice and evolve with the sport, I realized how much I really loved playing it.
Before long, Mason started competing in goalball tournaments, and then, as a senior in high school, was invited to attend a USA Training Camp and a USA international tournament. “From that point, I just became obsessed with getting through training and really trying to make the 2016 Rio USA Team,” says Mason. And she did just that—not onlyNow, three years later, Mason has Paralympic goals in mind once again.In anticipation of the upcoming Paralympic qualifying tournament, the U.S.
So what exactly does their training entail? Well, lots of time both on the court and off the court honing the requisite skills. In total, about 22 to 23 hours a week, says Czechowski.
“Being exposed to a community where you are around people who have a shared experience being blind or visually impaired, you really learn to become more confident with yourself and grow,” explains Mason. “You see other people who are older than you as role models. Because when I first started I was in high school, so I saw people who'd gone to college, people who were married, people who had children.
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