The Eyes Free Sports Podcast: Ep. 77 – Talking Blind Soccer and Beep Baseball with Ricardo “Ricky” Castañeda

In Episode 77 of the Eyes Free Sports podcast, our guest is Ricky Castañeda, an accomplished beep baseball and blind soccer star from Fort Worth, TX. During the conversation, he spoke about:

• Where he was born and grew up
• His visual impairment and how it runs in the family
• His education attending a school for the blind and mainstream schools
• His career goals and a career path in which he wants to be a trailblazer for the blind
• His beep baseball career with two Texas teams and competing in the championship game at the National Beep Baseball Association (NBBA) World Series
• How he got into blind soccer and how the sport works
• Being named to the U.S. national blind soccer team and his goals in the sport
• His advice for anyone interested in getting into adaptive sports

Follow Ricky Castañeda on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/rickybeats88_ and on TikTok at @rickygolden8899.

Learn more about blind soccer at https://www.usaba.org/clubs-sports/blind-soccer/.