Congratulations to our 2023 Unified Bocce State Championship qualifiers!
Is anyone else craving chocolate?! 🍫🎉 Eight INCREDIBLE Unified Bocce teams from throughout Pennsylvania have qualified for the PIAA-Interscholastic Unified Bocce State Championship in Hershey on March 23rd! This week, Special Olympics Pennsylvania held four regional events — at Geneva College, Glenn Mills Schools, Penn State DuBois and Penn State Schuylkill — to see which teams […]
Fall Fest Stories: Tamba Mbriwa
In a 7v7 gold medal soccer match at last weekend’s Fall Festival at Villanova University, Berks County and Delaware County were locked in an instant classic. Berks County struck first before Delaware leveled the score at 1-1 on a goal by Eric Augustine. After DelCo took the lead in the second half thanks to Webster […]
2022 PHLY Insurance Valor Award Winner: Logan Wismer
Each year during Fall Festival, the Philadelphia Insurance Companies Valor Award is given to an athlete whose effort, determination and sportsmanship embodies the power of the human spirit to overcome challenges and inspire greatness. We are proud and honored to announce that LOGAN WISMER from Team Northampton is our 2022 Valor Award Winner! When Logan […]
2022 USA Games: Total Medal Count
The 2022 Special Olympics USA Games in Orlando came to a close one week ago today! We can’t believe it’s already been a week since we celebrated all of our incredible Team Pennsylvania athletes. And, in honor of this anniversary, we wanted to publish this list of ALL the medals and awards won by our […]
2022 USA Games Profiles: Jordan Schubert
This is Jordan Schubert. Jordan is a Special Olympics Pennsylvania athlete and also a Special Olympics Pennsylvania staff member. He’s our Manager of Athlete Leadership & Young Athletes. This is his first Special Olympics USA Games and yesterday he scored 12 points to lead his basketball team to a 39-18 win against North Dakota. We […]
2022 Sheetz Family Award of Excellence Winner: Brendan Rooker
Please help us in congratulating this year’s Sheetz Family Award of Excellence winner, Brendan Rooker from Lycoming County! The Sheetz Family Award of Excellence recognizes the athlete whose determination and effort can only be understood by the power of the human spirit to overcome obstacles and inspire greatness. This year, despite training all season to compete in […]
2022 USA Games: Team Pennsylvania Reactions
We’ve got the PERFECT way to start your Monday morning. Seriously. A while back, we asked everyone to film their friends & family members watching our 2022 Special Olympics USA Games Selection Show in order to capture their reactions in the event they were picked to compete. Well, now that the Games are two weeks […]
YOUR HOME for everything Team PA at the 2022 USA Games!
Team Pennsylvania is ready for the Special Olympics 2022 USA Games in Orlando, Florida!! In just two weeks — from June 5-12 — 164 athletes, coaches and staff from Pennsylvania will travel to Orlando to compete at the 5th USA Games! The USA Games occur once every four years and unite more than 5,500 athletes […]
SOPA finishes 2nd in NIRSA Unified Rocket League Tournament
Last week, SOPA Unified, an eSports team representing Special Olympics Pennsylvania competed in the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Unified Rocket League Championship tournament! The team, consisting of four Special Olympics Pennsylvania athletes and one coach from the Greater Lehigh Valley Pocono Region, faced Utah Gamurs in the final and fell just short […]
Inaugural Special Olympics Virtual College Championship Week kicks off!
For the first time ever, colleges and universities across the United States are competing in the Special Olympics Virtual College Championship Week presented by ESPN! Here in Pennsylvania, we have SEVEN schools participating: DeSales, Thomas Jefferson University, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, Saint Francis University, Villanova, and Wilkes University! The teams will compete across […]
