Eli Wolff Death – Eli Wolff, a former Paralympian and advocate for disability sports, has passed away. He was 46 years old. Wolff was a well-respected and talented leader who worked tirelessly to expand access for disabled athletes throughout his tenure as an athlete representative on the U.S. Soccer Disability Soccer Committee, which he held for several years. Wolff is a co-founder of Disability in Sport International, Athletes for Human Rights, and the Olympism Project.
He has most recently been working as a lecturer in the sport management department at the University of Connecticut. In addition to that, he collaborated with the Power of Sport Lab, the Inclusive Sports Initiative at the Institute for Human Centered Design, and a number of other organizations whose missions centered on the inclusive power of sport and the ability of sport to bring people together.
Who Is Eli Wolff?
During the course of his career as an advocate for disabled athletes, Wolff was instrumental in the establishment of the ESPY Award for Best Male and Female Athlete with a Disability, worked to organize support for golfer Casey Martin in his case before the United States Supreme Court against the PGA, and advocated for the inclusion of sport-related provisions in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
After having a stroke at a young age, Wolff became eligible for the Men’s CP National Team. During his ten years with the National Team, he also represented the United States in the World Cup for CP soccer and three ParaPan American Games. He played for the U.S. Men’s Cerebral Palsy National Team from 1995 to 2004, representing the United States at the 1996 and 2004 Paralympic Games, before devoting his career to promoting greater inclusion in sports.
No cause of death was revealed. First as a pioneering member of the Men’s CP National Team, where he proudly represented the United States at the World Cup and two Paralympic Games, and then latterly as a voice of equality for all on multiple committees across the game, according to Stuart Sharp, Senior Director of Technical & Grassroots in the Extended National Team Department of U.S. Soccer, Eli was a tireless servant to the game over many decades.
Eli Wolff Obituary and funeral plans will be released by the family…
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