The competition came down to a free-throw tiebreaker.

After two days of events, Feb. 17-18, the Army team tied the Marines in the Adaptive Reconditioning Commander's Cup by winning the wheelchair basketball game, 36-18.

Each team then sent two people to shoot 10 free throws each, one person standing and the other sitting in a wheelchair. By making eight free throws, five standing and three seated, the Army team won the tournament. The Marines made two standing and two sitting free throws.

The four events, played in Naval Support Activity Bethesda's Fitness Center gym and CrossFit gym. The Marines won the obstacle course and rowing events, while the Army won the seated volleyball and wheelchair basketball events.

It was Marine Staff Sgt. Moncelly Fuller's first time playing wheelchair basketball and even though his team lost, he said he was glad he participated.

"That's the hardest thing to do because you don't have the momentum of your legs; you're just legitimately using your arms to do it and trying to steer up-and-down the basketball court." Moncelly said. "It's a lot of stuff to focus on; I give it up to people who actually do that for a sport."

Moncelly, who is receiving treatment for major depressive disorder, said this event helped keep his mind busy instead of focusing on small issues.

"It was good to get out here and get back with Marines who aren't necessarily like me but here for the same reason: Get treatment and get better," Moncelly said. "It was good to actually see them motivated out here and to have fun."

Bryce Doody, Army sports coordinator, said the Commander's Cup was held as a way to motivate people to get involved in the various physical activities offered on the installation that they might not have known about.

"A lot of people, I wouldn't say had eye-opening experiences, but something like 'Oh, I can actually do that and I can enjoy staying physically fit,'" Doody said. "We have people come here after some type of injury, whether it's intellectual or physical, and they're just not aware that opportunities exist for them to get out there and participate."

Army Spc. David Snipes, who lost all motor-function in his left arm after a motorcycle accident, participated in the obstacle course, seated volleyball and rowing events.

"Rowing was intense, we had a good time," Snipes said.

Snipes and other Warrior Transition Brigade (WTB) members are headed to the Warrior Game Trials in Texas and Snipes said he plans to participate in cycling, shotput and discus, seated volleyball and archery events.

Patrick Johnson, a rowing program instructor, shared his enthusiasm with the two teams on how rowing can help them connect to a team sport and not let a disability stop them.

"On the water, they're all the same," he said.

He showed them how to use the rowing machines before letting the two teams compete. The Marines came out ahead by rowing a distance of 7,195 meters to Army's 7,049 meters.

In the first day of competition, Army beat the Marines in three games of seated volleyball.

Marines won the obstacle course, which had several different elements, including 10 pull-ups, sprints across the gym, laps around the track, a wheelchair course with proper basketball techniques, a 24-piece puzzle, a 25-pound sandbag run, a word find, and a bear-crawl across the gym.

Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Lindell, part of the WTB cadre, said the purpose of the event was to help show the wounded warriors some of their possibilities going forward.

"These guys that are locked into wheelchairs now have a second option and can actually prove themselves to a point where now they [realize they] have worth," Lindell said. "Now they can go ahead and jump in a wheelchair basketball game and go for the Paralympics, they can go for the Endeavor Games, the Warrior Games. It keeps them out of their rooms, keeps their mind open and keeps them physically fit."

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