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Group Tim Leiweke with the Corporate Leadership Award. Steph Roach, the world’s frst CrossFit Level 2 Trainer with Cerebral Palsy and former student at the Henry Viscardi School, was awarded the Roy Campanella Award.

Kim Brussell, senior vice president for public afairs and marketing, said the event was also an opportunity for the school and its students to display their diverse programming, including students from their culinary training program preparing and serving a variety of appetizers to guests.

Students singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” at the celebrity Sports Night fundraiser. (Photo courtesy of the Henry Viscardi School)

Rosa said it was a wonderful gathering of the school’s key partners and Henry Viscardi students and their families, with palpable enthusiasm in the room.

“It’s a really meaningful opportunity to gather our communities and our families together in celebration of our core values of education, employment and empowerment of people with disabilities and their families,” Rosa said.

Rosa said that while the school resumed inperson events last year, this year more people felt comfortable and emboldened to gather and interact with one another.

“That feeling of liberation and the yearning to get back with our Viscardi community was really palpable in the joyful spirit that everybody experienced during the event,” Rosa said.

Students Josie and Adryana, two students from the Henry Viscardi School, both said their favorite parts of the evening were meeting all of the athletes. The school did not share the students’ last names for privacy because they are students with disabilities, Brussell said.

Josie, a senior at the school, shared her personal story at the event and the impact the Henry Viscardi School has had on her life since attending from Kindergarten.

“I was nervous speaking in front of everyone, but so glad I did it,” Josie said. “I was excited to meet new people and hear some of their stories they shared with me and my friends.”

Adryana was one of the students who presented personal artwork to the honorees, sharing hers with Roach.

“I was excited and nervous at the same time,