That was the first time since I'd become disabled that I encountered that. Rehab had been a list of things you can't do. As the center's program director, Everhart coordinates therapy programs and develops new ones, writes grant proposals, hires staff, and heads the marketing and fundraising efforts. Apart from the center's chief executive officer, Everhart is the only staff member in a wheelchair. She says it's important for participants to work with someone who has been through it.
Kids sail, swim and enjoy all of the typical summer camp preoccupations.
A former co-captain on the U.Va. She earned a bachelor's degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology with the aim of becoming a physical therapist. A year out of school, though, her world imploded. She was training on her bike in Potomac, Md., one day in June 1990 when a car struck her, snapping her spinal cord and mangling her right arm. Paralyzed from the chest down, Everhart had to relearn everything.