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BACKGROUND |
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The National Disability League (NDL) is one of the fastest growing sports in
the disability community. The league functions as a mutli-disability sports
tournament held over a period of a few months, to promote sports and nurture
healthy lifestyles amongst persons with disabilities as well as providing
local competitive opportunities.
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“The National Disability League (NDL) was introduced by the Singapore
Disability Sports Council (SDSC) in 2006, to replace the National
Disability Games started from 2002. The new league format allowed
participants to compete across three months, increasing their
opportunities for exposure and social interaction.
In 2002, the National
Disability Games was formed to help
promote disability sports and nurture healthy lifestyles amongst the
disabled whilst providing competitive opportunities for the disabled who
wish to pit their skills against each other. |
1st National Disability Games 2002 |
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Between the years of 2002 to 2005, the spirit of the games has grown
tremendously as the National Disability Games functioned as a series of
disability sports events spread over seven challenging and competitive
days. This strongly signifies the increasing number of disabled people
who are keen in taking up sports and it also confirms the proven
popularity of this league structure.”
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In 2006,
SDSC has transformed the National Disability Games into the very first
National Disability League (NDL, spreading across two to three months of
highly anticipated competitive sports experience and exposure.
NDL had provided a sustainable platform to enhance performance growth and
‘feel’ of competition in a period of three months. By inducting a
sustainable platform, it allowed athletes to review areas of improvement in
their performance and strive to improve in their next round competition.
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Singapore's badminton
shuttler, Tay Wei Ming was the first NDL participant to win a
silver medal at the Badmintion (Singles) at 4th ASEAN Para
Games 2008 in Thailand |
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The NDL over the past
3 years has provided such an avenue. Several of them were selected for
national and participation in the 4th ASEAN Para Games 2008, the
equivalent of the SEA Games for people with disabilities, which was held
in Thailand. One example would be the badminton player Tay Wei Ming who
has never played in a major tournament before but won a silver medal at
the Badminton (Singles) at the 4th ASEAN Para Games. This achievement
highlights our objectives in the National Disability League.
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Today, NDL has a unique position for sports development as it allows all
athletes to have a continuous and sustainable competition platform. It
gives each athlete the feel of competition, placing them to play with
athletes of different performance level, leading them to re-strategize
their paradigm of winning games.
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