Veterans sports & activities

Long Island Warriors- Hockey Team

Website: Long Island Warriors

The Long Island Warriors Hockey Program is a non-profit, volunteer-run program that aims to provide a hockey team for military veterans, active military, reserves, and their family members on Long Island. The team was created to strengthen veteran community engagement and provide veteran camaraderie to return to civilian life.

NYC Department of Veterans' Services
Website: Sports and Recreation
The NYC Department of Veterans' Services (DVS) connects veterans to sports and recreation services that promote healing and community engagement, including adaptive sports and therapeutic arts programs.

Veterans with disabilities and those battling PTSD can use sports as a therapeutic tool on the road to recovery. Veterans with mental health injuries, physical injuries, or illnesses are encouraged to use sports and recreation programs to boost their self-esteem and improve their emotional and physical health.

Operation Reel Heroes

Website: ORH

Operation Reel Heroes brings together local boaters/fisherman and our nation's heroes for a weekend of fishing, fun, and friendship. Since inception in 2015, Operation Reel Heroes has taken 800+ Veterans & Guests fishing. Working closely with the Wounded Warrior Project, we host two events annually. Our Cape Cod Event takes place out of Bass River in Yarmouth, Massachusetts and our Long Island event takes place out of Huntington Harbor in Huntington, New York. 

Project Healing Waters

Website: PHW

We guide Veterans in-need to recovery through fly fishing, mentoring, and friendship.

Run of the Warriors
Website: Run for the Warriors
Town of Babylon Council Office: (631) 957-3081
The Run for the Warriors is an annual event hosted by the Town of Babylon each November. The event is now held at Belmont Lake State Park in North Babylon and hosted by Councilmen Terence McSweeney and DuWayne Gregory. For more information on the event.

Sail Ahead

Website: Sail Ahead

Email: info@sailahead.org

At SailAhead, we partner with local Yacht Clubs and sailing organizations to take military veterans, active duty, and family members sailing. Connecting local civilians with local veterans, we bridge the gap between two worlds. Our goal is three-fold: spread PTSD and veteran suicide awareness, honor Our Mates, and foster community connection between the sailing and military worlds. 

Soldier Ride

Website: Soldier Ride

Town of Babylon, in partnership with the Wounded Warrior Project, proudly hosted the 17th Annual Babylon Soldier Ride. This inspiring event united hundreds of community participants and 40 wounded U.S. military veterans for a 25-mile journey from Babylon Town Hall to Overlook Beach.

Shootout for Soldiers 

Website: Lacrosse Unites for Veteran Support

Shootout for Soldiers is a 24 hour lacrosse event benefiting American veterans. The event is fun. It’s not a tournament or about recruiting. The event is all about supporting those who serve our country. Our Mission is to use lacrosse as a platform to support American veterans and foster community engagement. With a decade of dedicated collaboration from local communities, lacrosse players, and the U.S. military, Shootout for Soldiers has emerged as a highly regarded industry partner, offering an unmissable and eagerly anticipated event.

Team Red White and Blue- Team RWB

Website: Team RWB

Our comprehensive programs address the unique needs of America’s Veterans, concentrating on four key pillars essential to their well-being: physical health, mental health, purpose, and relationships.

USOPC - United Olympic & Paralympic Committee - Find A Club- New York

Veteran Affairs Administration - Adaptive Sports and Arts

Vets and Players - MVP

Vets and Players MVP empowers military, veterans, and professional athletes to thrive when the uniform comes off through fitness, health, and wellness programs. From the battlefield to the playing field, our veterans and athletes exemplify strength, excellence, and dedication. However, many find it difficult to redirect these qualities into a new mission that provides meaning and purpose—to lead themselves, support their families, and strengthen their communities. MVP was founded to address this challenge, ensuring that our nation’s warriors can continue to thrive and make a lasting impact off the field as they did on it.

Vet Tix
Website: Vet Tix- Tickets for Troops
Vet Tix * provides tickets to events which reduce stress, strengthen family bonds, build life-long memories and encourage service members and veterans to stay engaged with local communities and American life. We support our troops by honoring their service and providing positive family and life experiences, during and after their years of service to our country. Vet Tix provides tickets to all branches of currently-serving Military and Veterans, including immediate family of troops KIA.

Vet Tix secures tickets to sporting events, concerts, performing arts, educational and family activities across the nation. VetTixers sign up online. We verify their service. VetTixers request tickets to events that interest them, then pay a small delivery fee to receive their free tickets.

Veterans Yoga Project- Mindful Resilience 

(203)936-9642

Website: Veterans Yoga Project

Email: info@veteransyogaproject.org 

VYP envisions a future where all those affected by trauma have access to a fill range of mind-body practices and programs, and is committed to providing these tools and training in Safer, Predictable and Controlled Environments (SPaCe). We are a national 501c3 working in conjunction with the Department of Veteran Affairs to bring yoga and these practices to as many veterans as possible. 

We Defy Foundation- Programs

We provide combat veterans coping with military connected disabilities a long term means to overcome their challenges through Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and fitness training. We are committed to our country, to creating a better life for our veterans and their families, our team, and accomplishing our mission by providing training and support. We Empower through integrity, discipline, personal accountability, mental and physical development, improved coordination, flexibility, adaptability, confidence, patience, and selfless service. 

Exit12’s Creative-op at strongpoint theinert ranch (New Mexico City)

Residency dates: March 22, 2026 - March 29, 2026

Website

Email: info@exit12danceco.org

Presented in partnership with Strongpoint Theinert Ranch and the Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network

Join Exit12 and Strongpoint in a 7-day creative residency at the Ranch.

This residency is a unique gathering where military veterans and military community members come together to move, create, and connect in the landscape of beautiful Magdalena, New Mexico. During the residency, you will be a part of a powerful and moving creative process with an optional culminating performance.

Led by professional artists with lived military experience, Creative-OP will use storytelling, movement exploration, and shared reflection to build In-Trench, an immersive participatory performance, with fellow military community members. 

You moved in the military so no dance or arts experience is required—just a willingness to show up, try something new, and be part of a supportive, mission-driven cohort.

VetART (California)
Website:
Email: steve@vetart.org
VETART is a community arts organization offering free classes in ceramics, glass, woodworking, and bronze casting for Veterans, Active Duty, their families, and caregivers. Through hands-on art-making and exhibitions, VETART creates a welcoming space for healing, connection, and leadership. Their  “See One, Do One, Teach One” model encourages creativity and community at every level. As an active DOD Skillbridge location offering transitioning service members support, space, mentoring, arts practice, the overlap of public health, policy, advocacy and access to a expanded wellness opportunities through the force impact of creativity. The Veterans Art Project (VETART) is a community based arts organization serving Veterans, Active Duty, Spouses, first responders, dependents, their caregivers, and the community through the process-driven, Deep Arts Engagement, D.A.E.(c) with art therapy options provides a process-intensive arts encounter proven to promote health and wellness. By providing an avenue for Veterans and Active Duty (some with post-traumatic stress, TBI, or MST) to find their voice and work through the life-changing process of transitioning from military to civilian life.