Diane Winterstein has spent most of her lifetime providing outstanding recreational opportunities for people with disabilities. A recreation therapist, she coordinates programs for physically and/or mentally disabled people through the City of Sterling Heights Department of Parks and Recreation Special Recreation Services. This nationally-recognized program touts therapeutic recreation's endless benefits including high self-esteem and a positive self-image. People of all ages are accommodated on sports teams that are open to ambulatory individuals and wheelchair users who have cerebral palsy, head injury, spinal cord injury, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis and other disabilities. She has also coached the Sterling Heights Challengers Junior Wheelchair Basketball team into serious contention as national champions. The Challengers finished the 2000-01 season first in the country, and two of her team members were selected for the International Wheelchair Basketball tournament. Although not disabled herself, she has served as treasurer of the Michigan Wheelchair Athletic Association and has been a driving force behind the Michigan Wheelchair Games.