Teacher Wins Award For Service To Special Needs Students

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Cherokee County School District Adaptive Physical Education teacher Amy Aenchbacher has won a state award for her service to special needs students.

She is one of 20 winners statewide of the 2015 BlazeSports Triumph of the Human Spirit Award.

Previously named the Georgia Disability Sports Awards, the award honors significant impacts made in Georgia through adaptive sport and recreation.

These awards pay tribute to individuals, groups and organizations that demonstrate qualities beyond athletic achievement, such as leadership, a positive attitude and who inspire, motivate and truly epitomize the “Triumph of the Human Spirit.”

Aenchbacher and other honorees, who included Paralympics medalists and the Shepherd Center among others, were honored at a ceremony held earlier this month at the Art and Angela Williams Theater at Primerica Headquarters.

A lifelong advocate and educator of quality physical education programs for children with disabilities in Georgia, Aenchbacher has served as co-coordinator of the Cherokee County Special Olympics for more than a decade.

She also has served two terms as the adapted physical education chair for the Georgia Association for Health, Recreation and Dance, and has presented at professional conferences across the country on the importance of adaptive physical education and inclusion.

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Photos: Aenchbacher at the Cherokee County Special Olympics. Credits: Cherokee County School District