Nevada
Team Nevada Returns After a Successful Appearance at the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games
Native Particular Olympics athletes competed in swimming, observe & subject & bowling
LAS VEGAS/RENO – The six athletes from Group Nevada are again house after a profitable exhibiting on the 2022 Particular Olympics USA Video games, together with successful two gold medals and a bronze medal. Held in Orlando over the previous week, Group Nevada athletes competed in swimming, observe & subject and bowling.
Jordan Lechtenberger, Las Vegas: Swimming – Gold medal, 200yd freestyle; seventh place, 100 yd freestyle,
Lakisha Taylor, Carson Metropolis: Observe and Discipline – Gold medal, 100m run; fifth place shot put
Jacqueline Gilpin, South Lake Tahoe: Bowling – Bronze medal, bowling singles; seventh place bowling doubles
Devin Gaffney, Las Vegas: Swimming – 4th place, 50yd freestyle; 4th place 25yd backstroke
Eric Barber, Winnemucca: Observe and Discipline – fifth place, lengthy leap; seventh place, shot put; seventh place 100m run
Samantha Aslin, Mesquite: Bowling – fifth place, bowling singles; seventh place bowling doubles
“Our Group Nevada athletes confirmed willpower, self-discipline, grace, and the spirit of pleasant competitors in every of their occasions,” mentioned Terrence Thornton, government director of Particular Olympics Nevada. “I’m so happy with how our athletes represented Nevada to the world and this unforgettable expertise will stick with them and the SONV staff for a lifetime.”
Earlier than jetting off to Orlando for the competitors, Caesar Leisure handled Group Nevada to a gold-star send-off occasion. After an in a single day at Caesars Palace, the group loved breakfast on the world-famous Bacchanal Buffet, lunch at Celeb Chef Man Fieri’s Vegas Kitchen & Bar, a experience on the Excessive Curler Wheel and zip lining at FlyLINQ on the LINQ Lodge & Expertise. The day wrapped up with a particular dinner and presentation at HELL’S KITCHEN at Caesars Palace the place Celeb Chef Gordon Ramsay stunned the athletes with a video congratulating them and wishing them luck at this yr’s Video games. Following dinner, the athletes have been cheered on throughout a “stroll of honor” by Caesars Leisure Management and Group Members, Las Vegas Raiders punter, AJ Cole and Las Vegas Raiders huge receiver, Mack Hollins, Caesar and Cleopatra, Las Vegas Aces mascot, Buckets, Henderson Silver Knights mascot, Fortunate and members of southern Nevada’s legislation enforcement businesses as they obtained into their limos for a police-escorted experience to Harry Reid Worldwide Airport.
The 2022 Particular Olympics USA Video games, offered by Jersey Mike’s Subs, featured 5,500 athletes and coaches from all 50 states and the Caribbean to Florida for one of many nation’s most cherished sporting occasions. The USA Video games is hosted as soon as each 4 years and, for the primary time in its historical past, may have 19 Olympic-style staff and particular person sports activities and 30 occasions all through the occasion. These USA Video games additionally celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Particular Olympics Florida.
About Particular Olympics Nevada
SONV is devoted to enriching the lives of youngsters and adults with mental disabilities by way of sports activities, training, management, and athlete well being. The 501(c)3 nonprofit group provides free year-round coaching and competitors applications for two,694 athletes who compete in additional than 14 competitions in 7 sports activities yearly. Throughout the Neighborhood Sports activities Program and the Colleges Partnership Program, SONV is encouraging the expansion of Unified Sports activities®, bringing collectively athletes with and with out mental disabilities to play as teammates. In a typical yr, SONV impacts greater than 21,283 college students by selling inclusion on college campuses. SONV can also be dedicated to bettering the general well being and well-being of people with mental disabilities by way of Wholesome Athletes occasions, providing screenings and companies freed from cost. In the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the group was in a position to convert its programing to digital platforms to maintain folks with mental disabilities wholesome and secure. SONV depends on the help of 1,670 volunteers and funding from people, organizations, companies, and foundations. Extra data could also be discovered by visiting www.sonv.org and following on Fb, Twitter (@SONevada), and Instagram (@specialolympicsnv).
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