GODSA is committed to sponsoring and supporting recreational and competitive events including basketball, track and field, swimming, road racing, table tennis, weight-lifting, and water sports. In most sports, competitions are available at the local, regional, national, and international levels.

- Promote health and fitness for youth and adults with physical disabilities.
- Teach life-long skills such as team effort, sportsmanship, setting goals, commitment,
  responsibility to oneself and to a team.
- Provide a means for peer interaction with others of similar disabilities and interests
  while developing new friendships.
- Boost personal aspirations by increasing self-worth, motivation and confidence.
- Grow awareness of the general public on the capabilities of the physically
  challenged.
- Reach potential for a lifetime of recreation/sports.

- GODSA athletes hold national records in basketball, track and field, swimming and
  weight-lifting.
- Participation in recreational and competitive sports provides individuals an
  opportunity to develop positive self-worth, self-confidence and competitive spirit for a
  fulfilling and active life.