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2024 Winter Sports Season is Fast Approaching

Don’t Miss Your Chance to Compete in the 2024 Winter Sports Season It may seem early but time is already running out to make sure your athlete has the opportunity to compete in the upcoming winter sports season. Basketball teams and cheerleading squads have already started forming and in some cases practices have begun. Registration …

Three to Compete at SONA Golf Invitational

Three to Compete at SONA Golf Invitational

Two Kentucky golfers and one Unified partner will head to New Jersey  Oct. 3-5 to compete in the 2023 Special Olympics North America Golf Championship. Florence’s Chris Revay will compete in the 9-hole individual stroke play event, while Tee Salinas and his father Tony of Shelbyville will compete in the 9-hole Unified alternate shot event. …

It’s Time for the 2023 Fall Sports Season!

It’s Time for the 2023 Fall Sports Season!

Practice is Underway In All Fall Sports The fall sports season is one of Special Olympics Kentucky busiest times in terms of number of athletes competing and competition options. Practices are underway throughout Kentucky in all four fall sports offerings. Our fall sports season includes bowling, which is our most popular individual sport and a …

Today at the World Summer Games – June 22

Mullins and Gaines Have Perfect Finish to Golf Competition The Unified golf pairing of Lexington’s Wake Mullins and Dennis Gaines got off to a hot start today with a par on their first hole and an early birdie, but it will be the finish of their final round at the World Summer Games that they …

Today at the World Summer Games – June 21

Dockins Makes it a Clean Sweep of Gold in Berlin After taking her first World Games rhythmic gymnastics All-Around Gold Medal yesterday, Russellville rhythmic gymnast Lee Dockins completed her set with a clean sweep of the individual event Gold Medals today at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin, Germany. Opening with the ball …

Today at the World Summer Games – June 20

Dockins Grabs Gold in the All-Around Russellville Special Olympics rhythmic gymnast Lee Dockins once again added to her considerable legacy when she claimed the All-Around Gold Medal in her division of the rhythmic gymnastics competition today at the World Summer Games in Berlin. Dockins scored an incredible 58.200 to win her division by nearly 12 …

Touchstone Completes 11th Year as Summer Games Platinum Sponsor

The 2023 Special Olympics Kentucky State Summer Games marked the 11th year that Kentucky’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives has served as the Platinum Sponsor of the Games, making them the largest single supporter of our biggest event of the year. And while their financial support of the Summer Games is a massive lift to the Games, …

World Games Open June 17!

Kentucky’s Athletes and Coaches are enjoying Host Town and Awaiting Ceremonies It’s World Games Week!!! Kentucky athletes Lee Dockins and Wake Mullins, Unified partner Dennis Gaines and coaches Mary Fehrenbach and Debbie Ogden have arrived safely in Germany with the Special Olympics USA Team.  The five left from Lexington and Northern Kentucky airports on Saturday, …

World Games Just Weeks Away

World Games Just Weeks Away

Kentucky Special Olympics USA Delegates Depart June 10 After more than a year of waiting (and practicing), the two Kentucky athletes, one Unified partner and two coaches who will participate in the 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games as part of the Special Olympics USA team are just over a week away from leaving for …

Summer Sports Season Tees Off in July

Summer Sports Season Tees Off in July

Athletes have been preparing since before the State Summer Games, and now that it’s July it’s time for our summer sports season to tee off! Our Summer season includes our fewest sports of the four seasons with only golf and softball contested, but with the popularity of softball especially, more than 1,000 athletes are expected …

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