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defeat the school team and get across the message to kids that “It’s OK to be Different.”

This team also organized the Banner Junior Suns, which includes players ages 12 to 18 years old. Junior team members develop more confidence about their abilities, and adults get the benefits of mentoring. The Banner Phoenix Wheelchair Suns also work with adults in wheelchairs in clinics designed to promote confidence and independence by helping them learn to handle everyday situations such as drinking at water fountains or traveling
on a plane.

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For 20 years, Banner Health, along with the Phoenix Suns, has been a proud sponsor of the Banner Wheelchair Suns, an extraordinarily successful team in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association.

The team makes more than 30 appearances, participating in fundraisers and visiting local school and youth groups to raise awareness of disability

issues. They created a Drive Safe Campaign that features TV and radio public service announcements, posters and school assemblies geared toward educating young drivers.

At school gatherings, the team challenges teachers, staff, students or administrators to a short game of wheelchair basketball. Because of their skill and experience, they handily