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Chris Meservey Uses a Teach-First Approach to Coaching

By RJ Nealon, November 30, 2021
A Special Olympics swimming athlete stands with his dad at a competition. They have their arms around each other and are smiling at the camera.
For over three decades, Chris Meservey has shared his blissfulness with everyone he meets within Special Olympics Nevada and beyond. By career choice, he teaches public speaking at the high school level but stemming from his love of sports, he coaches basketball and swimming.

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Mike Zafirovski, Founder, Chairman, and President, The Zaf Group
Founder, Chairman, and President of The Zaf Group
Special Olympics Europe Eurasia

Albania

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Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.

It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle of transformation takes place.

Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.

Download the Special Olympics Albania Fact Sheet.
Special Olympics Europe Eurasia

Bulgaria

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Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.

It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle of transformation takes place.

Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.

Download the Special Olympics Bulgaria Fact Sheet.
European Basketball Week

Faces of Basketball - Dribbling (Level 1)

Faces of Basketball - Dribbling (Level 1)
Join the Special Olympics Athletes and Hone Your Basketball Skills with the Locker Room Videos! Dribbling Level 1: Ball Handling Drills Stationary
European Basketball Week

Faces of Basketball - Shooting (Level 1)

Faces of Basketball - Shooting (Level 1)
Join the Special Olympics Athletes and Hone Your Basketball Skills with the Locker Room Videos! Shooting Level 1
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