The Eyes Free Sports Podcast: Ep. 88 – Visiting with Blake Steinecke, a Mountain Biker and Member of the U.S. Blind Hockey Team

In Episode 88 of the Eyes Free Sports podcast, we meet Blake Steinecke, a visually impaired mountain biker and member of the U.S. blind hockey team from the San Diego, CA area. During the interview, Steinecke spoke about:

• His childhood and education
• The sports he played growing up
• How he became visually impaired as a teenager
• How he got into mountain biking and how he has adapted it to be an accessible sport for the visually impaired
• How he got into blind hockey and what it meant to be named to the U.S. blind hockey team
• His blind hockey career and a recent event competing against the Canadian blind hockey team in Toronto
• His passions for assistive technology and his YouTube Channel
• How he has made photography and videography accessible as a visually impaired individual
• His career and current role with Clusiv

Learn more about the U.S. blind hockey team at https://unitedstatesblindhockeyteam.com/.

Check out his YouTube Channel, Adapting Sight, at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy7pr6FKOhahCERy_EIZ0Sw.

Check out a video about his mountain biking experience and an endurance race he competed in at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23BfP6cLTW8&t=10s 

Learn about Clusiv at https://clusiv.io/.