Community Sponsorship

The Seattle Wheelchair Rugby Association funds player clinics each year, hosts tournaments, travels to tournaments, buys equipment, parts, tools for the players, pays membership fees to the USQRA, and more.

Bodypoint is proud to be a sponsor of the Seattle Slam Wheelchair Rugby team. Our support enabled the team to purchase their own set of shot clocks.

Following is a letter of thanks from the Seattle Slam:

What is Quad Rugby?
- It is an exciting, full-contact wheelchair sport popularized by the award winning and Academy-award nominated movie, “Murderball,” and the NBC hit series, “Friday Night Lights.”
- Its roots include basketball and ice hockey.
- It was invented in Canada and introduced to the US in 1981.

Who Can Play?
Players must have a combination of upper and lower extremity impairment to be eligible to participate. Most of the players have sustained spinal injuries and have some type of quadriplegia as a result.
Players are given a classification number ranging from 0.5 - 3.5. The 0.5 player has the greatest impairment. Of those eligible to participate, the 3.5 player has the least impairment. Both males and females are encouraged to play.

Basic Rules
- A game consists of four, 8-minute periods.
- There is a 1-minute break between periods and a 5-minute halftime.
- Each team is allowed four timeouts per game.
- If there is a tied game at the end of regulation play, 3 minutes overtime are added to the clock and each team is allowed an additional timeout. A game cannot end in a tie.
- A player has 15 seconds to advance the ball into the opponents’ half-court.
- The team has 40 seconds to score a goal.
- The player with the ball has unrestricted pushes, but must pass or dribble the ball every 10 seconds or a turnover is awarded.
- Fouls are assessed and penalties can include awarding of a goal, a timed penalty, or a turnover.
- To score a point, a player must cross the goal line with any two of their four wheels while retaining possession of the ball.