About

Meet our amazing team

Staff Members

Andrew Garcia

Executive Director/lead Coach

Andrew Garcia was born and raised in San Antonio Texas. Growing up he had a passion for skateboarding and action sports. Andrew graduated from UTSA with a degree in Communication and Non-Profit Management. After College Andrew went into the nonprofit field supporting adaptive sports organizations before creating Ability Skateboarding. Now he is the Executive Director and Head Coach of Ability Skateboarding.

Shawn Spencer

Coach

Cris Hampton

Graphics, merchandise, Coach

Cristopher Hampton was born in LA, raised in Mexico City, and is now a native Texan. In San Antonio Cris has developed his skills as an interpreter, language instructor, artist, screenprinter and graphic designer. While running his screenprinting business he helped lead the initial concept for skateboarding clinics with Andrew and, since 2017, Cris has assisted with coaching and further developing the program.
Cris believes skateboarding and other action sports are beautiful mind-body connectors and loves being a lead coach for Ability skateboarding.

Tyler Radtke

Board Member

Lacey Reinhardt

Board Member

Daniel Urdialez

Board Member

Mission

Our mission is to include, teach & support people living with & without dis(abilities) to be a part of the skateboarding and action sports community.

Vision

To create an environment where people of any ability can have opportunities for a unique experience of skateboarding and actions sports for recreation, competition and life enrichment.

Who We serve:

We serve people ages 6 and up for any abilities. This can be people living with cognitive and physical disabilities as well as people living without any disabilities.

Goals and Strategy:

Currently we are networking with different organizations and cities to bring adaptive skateboarding clinics directly to them. We are continuously adding programs around the state. Our first year goal is to provide 15 programs while networking with like minded organizations, build a foundation and see what is a sustainable program/organizational structure.

Future Hopes:

Be a major resource in Texas and other locations to help foster the adaptive skateboarding community with recreational and competitive programs. We also have hopes of offering group travel to adaptive ski programs to snowboard/ski. Lastly, we would like to offer adaptive wake surfing and wakeboarding.