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The four finalists for the 2025 Special Olympic Player of the Year Finalists. The winner will be announced at the SW FL Sports Awards on May 29.
Horace is a point guard for the Mobile Hurricanes, a Special Olympics basketball team organized by Mobile Parks and Recreation. The team was created in 2014 and it’s part of MPRD’s Therapeutic ...
The Special Olympics New York hosted a Polar Plunge and competition at North Hempstead Beach Park Saturday. More than 100 fund-raising participants raised over $70,000 to support the Special Olympics.
Two Westmoreland County teams returned with gold medals from the 2025 Special Olympics Pennsylvania Summer Games in State College after two days of intense basketball last weekend. One, Wolverines ...
This is the 14th year for Special Olympics Pennsylvania's "Be A Fan" torch run. Now, the Special Olympics Pennsylvania torch is on its journey away from PNC Park through its three-day, 150-mile ...
For Cris Ortiz, longtime head coach of the LA Galaxy Special Olympics Unified Team, this is all a life-changing experience taken to the next level by the support of the team, Special Olympics and ...
Ohio Department of Public Safety staff member Sandy Funderberg carries the Special Olympics torch with athlete Jenna Stang during a parade on Norwich Street in Hilliard on June 10, 2025. Pushing ...
This event marks the one-year countdown for the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games, which will be hosted at the University of Minnesota, the National Sports Center in Blaine and other local venues.
“I have 32.” As a Special Olympics coach, Buckner has the chance to interact with kids and adults with special needs, to teach them and to learn from them and to be a positive role model for them.