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I Am Capable To Do Any Job That I Set My Mind To

By Katy Sanchez, October 30, 2018
Katy Sanchez (R) is holding a small dog and standing next to a colleague that is presenting Katy with an Award of Recognition.
The reason my manager Annie hired me was that she could tell after talking to me that I really love animals and wanted to do something that would help them.
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Special Olympics Continues to Unite Us

It was meant to be - to make my heart grow a little bigger.
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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.

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Special Olympics USA Team Named

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201 Athletes, Coaches and Staff to Represent the United States at Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023
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Special Olympics Athletes Ready to Run the 2019 Boston Marathon

Athlete running in blue Adidas shorts and tank top. His bib reads 430.
For the first time, five Special Olympics athletes from five states around the U.S. have qualified to run in the annual Boston Marathon.
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Sports Help Me “Be Myself” Taylor’s Story

Young woman standing by the pool with medals around her neck.
Taylor MacKenzie sees sports as a great equalizer: when she’s in the water she doesn’t feel any different from other people.
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Skiing "Is My Favorite Exercise!"—Alexandrea Trains for World Winter Games

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Alexandrea Rutledge has been working out "a lot" ahead of Special Olympics World Winter Games Turin 2025. She's been a Special Olympics athlete for more than 12 years, and this will be her first international competition.
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Meet Abel

Meet Abel
Meet Abel, a star basketball player who got even better after he started playing Unified Sports.
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