The Barracuda Foundation is dedicated to creating equal opportunities in sport for women, minorities and adaptive sport athletes.

Our athletes

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and see what they have done to overcome barriers in athletics.


The Barracuda Foundation started supporting athletes in 2017 and chose Kurka because he shares its mission to use sports to inspire others to overcome obstacles, says foundation director Griffin Davis.

Kurka wrote to the Barracuda Foundation that he views his accident “as more of a blessing than a curse,” Davis said. Kurka wrote he had been given a chance to change lives and motivate others... “The more we got to know him the more we found that he really does kind of live this.”
— USA Today, 2018 Paralympics: Skier Andrew Kurka shifts focus after breaking back in Sochi