The Endeavor Games are a nationally recognized competition that allows all athletes with physical disabilities to participate in a multi-sport event. The games also provide training clinics for aspiring athletes. The UCO Endeavor Games will feature a variety of sporting competitions for athletes of all ages and abilities. The games include 10 sports — archery, cycling, paratriathlon, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, shooting, swimming, table tennis, track and field, and wheelchair basketball.

The Endeavor Games are endorsed or sanctioned by U.S. Paralympics, National Disability Sports Alliance, Disabled Sports USA, United States Association of Blind Athletes, USA Track and Field and Wheelchair Sports USA.

Registration is now LIVE, and it’s FREE!

Don’t miss…

NINE individual sport challenges
A team challenge
E-sports gaming
Live virtual Welcome Party
TWELVE different live virtual sport clinics—including clinics we’ve never offered before: Nordic skiing, paratriathlon, wheelchair rugby, and wheelchair tennis. (Facilitated by top coaches and staff from each sport’s National Governing Body!)

Check out the schedule and the registration information now!

Our Mission:

The Endeavor Games exists to create competitive, fun, safe and high quality sport competitions for athletes with physical disabilities throughout the United States.

Our Vision:

The Endeavor Games strives to be the premier adaptive sports competition series in the United States. We aspire to serve the needs of athletes whether they participate for health, recreation or dream of being a Paralympian.
We know sport has the power to change the lives of athletes, parents, coaches, volunteers and spectators.
We believe limited financial resources should never be a deterrent to participate in sport.
We know we are better and stronger as a team.

History of the Endeavor Games

The UCO Endeavor Games for Athletes with Physical Disabilities was first held in 2000 on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma. The goal was simple; to provide children, adults and military service members with physical disabilities an opportunity to display their talents in a proper and competitive setting against individuals with similar disabilities. The Games were originally created by a non-profit organization, whose overall mission was to offer quality sports programs to athletes with physical disabilities from Oklahoma and beyond. That first year, seven sports were offered and 91 athletes attended from seven states and Australia. The event continued to grow, offering more sports and a few sport clinics.
In 2004, UCO recognized the importance and the potential the Endeavor Games had and integrated the non-profit and its small staff into the operations of the newly constructed Wellness Center. This opened many more opportunities for the Games including special efforts on marketing and design. Special events were offered such as sport clinics, different and more sport competitions, a welcoming party and an athlete banquet.

Creation of the Endeavor Games

As the Endeavor Games grew through the years, the event attracted accolades and a greater awareness. For the past several years, it has been one of the largest multi-sport, multi-physical disability competitions in the nation. In 2014, the UCO Endeavor Games was awarded the Rings of Gold award from the United States Olympic Committee. It was during this assembly that talks were had about offering the Endeavor Games in more communities. It had become evident that there was a growing need for a cohesive regional and national event system. There were and continue to be events similar to the Endeavor Games throughout the United States, but all work separately with sometimes different systems and structures in place. The model of the UCO Endeavor Games has proven to be successful in providing a high standard of competition where Paralympic, emerging and novice athletes can compete together in the same venue at the same time. The need for streamlined sporting competitions across the United States was needed and UCO was ready to take the next step. With that, in 2017 the Endeavor Games was created. The Turnstone Endeavor Games in Fort Wayne, Indiana were added in April and the UCO Endeavor Games were held in June.