2011

after winning bronze in basketball of 2010, I won 3 gold medals at the regional track meet and 3 medals at the state summer games! that makes it 106 toalt medals, and 28 state titles. In fall, I bowled with another athlete with autism. We won the gold at the regional games! For me, that is 107 toal medals now! I am taking a break from basketball as I have a job now.

HUGE Milestone

My basketball team, the SK Lady Wolves won the bronze medal out of 11 other teams at the regional games. DO you know waht this means to me?! It means that I finally won 100 medals! 11 years in Special Olympics, and I win 100 medals! 26 of those are state titles.

the special olympics symbol

In the Special olympic symbol, you see 5 humanoid figures each with 6 arms standing in a circle.
The circle symbolizes that there are developmentaly disabled people all over the world. The humanoid figures say that just because someone's mind is slow to process informantion, he or she in NO LESS a human being and deserves to be treated as a human being. We are HUMAN folks!
The lower arms represent all the garbage the mentally challenged had ot put up with over the years: prejudice, discrimination, right to education taken away, institutions, abuse, ni constitutional rights, no human rights, no right to family, bullyism, name-calling, and shunning.
The middle arms mean reaching out to community, to fellow humans and reaching out to fellow mentally challenged. It means embracing.
The upper arms symbolize the how much we have overcome, and how far we have come since the institution days!

female shot putters who threw over 9 meters

I was looking at the results of all the stae in special olympics events-shot put especially. SOme areas don't post results or distances, some places did not have thier games yet. But there were quite a few state that did post thier special olympics results and scores. I found only 6 women who shot put over 9 meters:

K. Knight of Wyoming-9.3 meters
K. Jones of New York- 9.52 meters
P. Gonzalez from Texas-9.43 meters
D. Dudley of Florida-9.49 meters
S.Hardin of Washington-9.58 meters
and myself also from Washington-9.62 meters!

2010 national games

NAtional games is comming up next year, and all athletes who won gold medals at thier state games are going!! IN my case, it is 2 female track stars out of HUNDREDS!!! I turned in my paperwork on time, and I hope it gets drawn in August. I won 2 gold medals at state, I did all I could do! I broke all my records in my events. Now, I just have to wait until August.
IN my state, we have 2 female track stars, 2 male track stars, 2 female swimmers, 2 male swimmers, 2 female wieghtlifters, 2 male weightlifters, 1 female golfer, 1 male golfer, 2 female bowlers and 2 male bowlers who are going to the national games. WHO-we don't know yet. The due date for the national games application is July 3. I think that games are going to be awesome.

shot put