Fansided recently covered the Special Olympics Australia women’s basketball team’s participation in the inaugural Special Olympics Unified 3x3 Basketball World Cupin Puerto Rico. The following is an excerpt from thearticle titled How One Family Is Changing Basketball in Australia with Unified Sports.
During COVID in 2020, Chloe stumbled across a video about Unified Sports—a Special Olympics program that has athletes with and without disabilities competing side-by-side. At that point, her family has been involved in Special Olympics for longer than she'd been alive but she couldn't believe that there wasn't any Unified Sports programming available in their area. She encouraged her mom to look into it and together they got permission from Special Olympics Australia to start a Unified pilot program with the support of their local basketball club, the Eltham Wildcats.
