10/02/2026
Today, we celebrated the inaugural Tim McCloskey Memorial Scholarship for Ga***rd Sports Association and its first recipient, Joe Stone. 💚
Created through an endowment gift from the McCloskey Family Foundation for Spinal Cord Injury, the $5,000 annual scholarship supports adaptive sports and recreation for athletes with spinal cord injury.
Joe has been part of the Ga***rd Sports Association since 2015 and has become a leader within the Ga***rd Warriors wheelchair rugby team as a captain, mentor and advocate for adaptive sports. This year, the scholarship will help support his continued participation with the Warriors, including new wheels for his rugby chair and travel expenses for competition.
In 2002, Tim McCloskey experienced an accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. But his injury did not define him. He spent 20 years working as a counselor at Country Kids in Brookfield, where he devoted himself to helping young people. The $5,000 annual scholarship carries that spirit forward by helping adaptive athletes participate in the sports they love, building confidence, independence, friendships and community along the way.
We were honored to celebrate Joe alongside Tim’s parents, Joe and Jeanette, and his aunt Katherine, and to carry forward Tim’s legacy by helping make adaptive sports opportunities possible for athletes in our community.
Congratulations, Joe! And thank you to the McCloskey family for making this scholarship possible. 💚
