MISSION
To promote, foster and regulate uniform rules of basketball competition among deaf persons through cooperation efforts by autonomous member of the deaf in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, environs of Memphis, Tennessee and Texas.
To promote and to protect the mutual interest of the member organizations.
To promote annual regional basketball tournaments of the deaf.
To maintain affiliation with the United States America Deaf Sports Federation (USADSF) and United States of America Deaf Basketball (USADB) participate in its national basketball tournaments and world deaf basketball competitions.
To promote deaf awareness by dissemination of general information and by any other means permissible by law to the public at large.
To improve and maintain the standards of the basketball among the deaf to the point where they can gain and hold respect in competition with other hearing basketball teams.
SouthWest Basketball Association of the Deaf (SWBAD) consists of deaf basketball players from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and the environs of Memphis, Tennessee. Every year in late Febuary/early March, SWBAD players meet at a designated place to compete for SWBAD Championships and represent SWBAD to United States Deaf Basketball.
Email SWBAD if you have any question on anything: email@swbad.org
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