The National Sports Center for the Disabled Selects Only Sky for Booking & Management Platform
February 11, 2019, DENVER, CO -- The National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD), one of the largest therapeutic recreation agencies in the world, selected Only Sky to bring its year-round sports and recreational adventures online. Only Sky, the leading software provider for mountain experience & activity providers, will roll out its booking and management platform to NSCD this Spring to help power the roughly 20,000 lessons offered annually.
The NSCD offers adaptive lessons in the Front Range and Colorado Mountains to individuals or groups, in a variety of action sports, adventure sports and competitive programs for people of any age living with any disability. By implementing Only Sky, all of these programs will soon be available for real-time, online booking, streamlining the process of NSCD guests needing to call or email to book activities. Further, NSCD’s over 1,000 volunteers and instructors will now have mobile & online access to participant information, and will be able to provide guest feedback after lessons and activities.
“The NSCD is very excited to partner with Only Sky to finally offer our participants and their families a user-friendly and easily accessible tool for getting registered for all of the various experiences that NSCD has to offer” stated Kimberle Easton, CEO of NSCD. “NSCD serves people living with disabilities which requires a lot of adapting of equipment, teaching methodology, staffing and the like. Only Sky has been amazing in helping us to envision a system that will meet all of these needs and has been a key partner in developing one that will be user-friendly and accessible” she continued.
For Only Sky, this marks a key new category moving forward. “At Only Sky, our goal is to make it easier for everyone to experience the mountains. We are honored to execute on this goal in partnership with NSCD, by increasing the ease of access to their 15 sports and tens of thousands of lessons conducted annually” stated Michael Stocker, CEO at Only Sky. “Adaptive sports is an important new category at Only Sky. Our team is looking forward to learning more about the adaptive sports industry’s unique needs, from Kim and her team at NSCD, and continually evolving our product to meet those needs.”
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About Only Sky Inc.
Headquartered in downtown Denver, Only Sky is a venture-backed technology company providing two products to the mountain destination industry. The OS Enterprise product is a b2b, activity booking and management platform for the mountain destination space with parts across the U.S., Japan, Europe, and South America. OS Atmosphere enables local guides to provide bespoke and stimulating mountain experiences to guests across the world. To learn more, visit theonlysky.com
About the NSCD
The NSCD offers adaptive lessons for individuals and groups of people with disabilities in a variety of action sports, adventure sports and competitive programs. Athletes with any physical, cognitive, emotional or behavioral diagnosis can participate in sports and recreation programs year-round in Colorado’s Front Range and mountains. The NSCD is one of the largest therapeutic recreation and competitive adaptive sports agencies in the world, based out of Winter Park Resort and Broncos Stadium at Mile High in Colorado. With specially trained staff and volunteers, as well as its own adaptive equipment lab, the NSCD teaches over 37,000 lessons to athletes each year with a variety diagnoses. For more information about the NSCD visit our website at http://nscd.org or like us on Facebook for updates about our programs and athletes.