The Bulloch County Special Olympics hosted the first day of its 2025 Spring Games on Thursday, April 4 at Statesboro High School's Womack Field.
Each elementary school in Bulloch County had different classes participating in the Special Olympics. At their first station, the kids from Sallie Zetterower Elementary School blew bubbles. | Photo by Aidan Stacy Second grader Ashton Shearouse plays a four-in-a-row game with Rachel Murray from Sallie Zetterower at his first station. | Photo by Aidan Stacy Langston Chapel Elementary School students lined up for a sprint on the track. | Photo by Aidan Stacy The kids race back to the finish line! | Photo by Aidan Stacy In addition to the games and races, Special Olympics participants could also lift up and run under a parachute! | Photo by Aidan Stacy Kids could throw a softball at one of the stations and see how far it went. Second grader Tori Wrenn from Mattie Lively gave it her best throw! | Photo by Aidan Stacy Kasen Long, a first grader from Mattie Lively Elementary School, pedals his way across the track in a bicycle race. | Photo by Aidan Stacy Jalen Herrington is a fourth grader at Portal Elementary School. He prepared to launch his rocket at the rocket toss station. | Photo by Aidan Stacy Many volunteers helped organize the stations and lead groups at the Special Olympics. Brodie Jones, a second grader from Sallie Zetterower Elementary, smiles big as a volunteer hands him a soccer ball. | Photo by Aidan Stacy Langston Chapel Elementary School students run and dance through bubbles after hard work at their other stations. | Photo by Aidan Stacy
"They don't get a lot that is just for them," said local Special Olympics Coordinator Patty Johnson. "This is one of those where they can shine and be the winners."
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. | specialolympics.org
