Cerebral Palsy Photo Contest Winning pictures

Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day 2022

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Today, March 25, is the federally recognized Cerebral Palsy (CP) Awareness Day! We are excited to announce the winners for our inaugural CP Awareness Month photo contest. In February, we began accepting submissions in five categories: creativity, diversity, participation & inclusion, perseverance, and physical activity. Each of the following submissions were selected by leading these categories in votes out of 13,383 counted:

A young girl with cerebral palsy smiles while holding the bottom of her dress above an incoming ocean tide.

Creativity Winner: Michelle Toy: Live every day like Mighty Mara!
A young boy with cerebral palsy uses his gait trainer with determination and glee

Diversity winner: Reena De Asis: Determined to thrive as he reaches out to you and lights up the room. The flames on this joyous toddler’s gait trainer are a reminder that he’s a CP warrior on fire!
A proud young woman with CP, seated in a wheelchair and wearing a blue-and-gold graduation cap and gown, receives her diploma.

Participation & Inclusion winner: Jersey Morrison: Jersey’s Graduation in 2021
A man in a wheelchair with cerebral palsy sits between hospital administrators receiving his fundraising check for $10,000.

Perseverance winner: Gary Lynn: “I have not ever let Cerebral Palsy stop me or define who I am!”
A young boy with hemiplegic cerebral palsy jumps for joy as he heads for a puddle of rain water

Physical Activity Winner: Sarah Board: Jumping for joy despite my hemiplegia!

Congratulations to each of these photographers and subjects for their selection and their prize of $100.

In addition to these winners, the staff and volunteers of the CP Research Network voted for best overall photograph in terms of what represented the CP Research Network’s values, the categories and our focus on wellbeing. The winner is:

An adaptive basketball coach in a wheelchair lifts a boy with cerebral palsy overhead in his own chair to dunk a basketball

Best Overall winner: Dawn McKeag: Slam dunk!

Congratulations to Dawn McKeag for the photo of her son Fin and the coaches their local Y for adaptive basketball and the $500 prize!

In addition to this winner, our team wanted to recognize two pictures for honorable mention:

The Shrader triplets, two of whom have cerebral palsy, at graduation

Best photo honorable mention: Carol Shrader: Triplet selfie at Benjamin’s graduation from Belhaven University!

A young man with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair focuses intensely as he aims down his drawn arrow preparing to release it

Honorable Mention: Wesley Magee-Saxton: My 22 year old son, who has CP,  has been perfecting his archery technique with a bow that his dad modified for him. He spent hours practicing and can now almost always hit the target.

Thank you to EVERYONE who participated – submissions, shares and votes. We hope that by sharing pictures and our awareness banners we helped you create awareness for CP and celebrate our vibrant community! Our board will continue to match donations this month 2:1! Wear your green proudly today!

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