Eli Wolff is a founding member and the Project Director of the Disability in Sport program within Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society.

Through Disability in Sport, Wolff engages in research, education, and advocacy activities related to athletes with disabilities. He advises and consults with national and international sport and disability related organizations.

Under the direction of Wolff, the Disability in Sport program helped to establish the ESPY for Best Athlete with a Disability, and facilitates the Student-Athlete Disability Advisory Group to the NCAA. The Disability in Sport program is also working to draft the sporting text for the United Nations Human Rights and Disability Treaty.

Experience

Wolff organized a brief for the Supreme Court, on behalf of the national disabled sports organizations, in support of Casey Martin for his case against the PGA. In 2001, Wolff received the first Casey Martin Award, given by Nike, recognizing an individual making a difference, internationally, for people with disabilities in sports.

In 2002, Wolff represented the United States Olympic Committee at the 2002 International Olympic Academy of the International Olympic Committee held in Olympia, Greece. In 2003 and 2004, Wolff was invited to serve as a Coordinator at the International Olympic Academy.

Wolff serves on the Advisory Boards of the Lemelson Center for Assistive Technology at Hampshire College, Leading Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities initiative of Parents United for Child Care, SportSmarts based at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the Disability Soccer Committee of the United States Soccer Federation. Wolff is also an Athlete Ambassador for Right to Play, based in Toronto Canada.

Education

Wolff is a graduate of Brown University where he studied and received a B.A. with honors in Sociology and Organizational Management. While at Brown, Wolff received a Brown University Royce Fellowship to study the relationship between sport for people with disabilities and mainstream sport in the United States.

Sports Background

Wolff is a member of the United States Paralympic Soccer Team, and has competed in the 1995 and 1999 Pan American Games, the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, the 2001 World Cup, and the 2003 World Championships. Wolff will compete on the US Team in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Wolff competed with the Varsity soccer team in high school at Milton Academy in Massachusetts, and he trained with the Men's Varsity soccer team while attending Brown University in Rhode Island.