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Blog Round-Up
We try to give you interesting, informative, fun content each week from our supporters and participants. However, we know there’s a lot going on in the disability world outside the state…
Being a Special Olympics Coach
Kathy Lowry is a Special Olympics coach in the Kansas City Metro Area. I have been a Special Olympics coach for 18 years, and the past five years have been at…
Being a Big Sister
My name is Patricia L. Hughes. I’m a college student, an intern, an executive board member of several on campus organizations. But the thing I am, full time, with no…
Special Olympics National Invitational Golf Tournament 2012
Each year, Special Olympics North America hosts an invitational golf tournament. Missouri is awarded a number of slots, and some of our top golfers are selected to compete. Mike Burke,…
My SOMO Story: Chairman of the Board Randy Boehm
My name is Randy Boehm and it is my honor to serve as the current Chairman of the Special Olympics Missouri Board of Directors. Our Board is made up of…
Be extreme. Live fearless. Go Over the Edge! An interview with Marilyn Seaton
Being “too old” can no longer serve as an excuse to avoid going Over the Edge! 72-year-old Marilyn Seaton is walking proof. As she says, “Age is just a number.”…
My SOMO Story: Tim Schuster
My SOMO story begins in 1997 in Atchison, Kansas. I was an uninspired fifth year senior with an extra semester still to go. In search of a way to finish…
My SOMO Story: Megan Neighbors
I grew up with a few cousins in the program. At the time, I thought Special Olympics was just an activity for them, the same way other cousins played in…
Meet Missouri’s World Winter Games delegates!
The World Games are flagship events for the Special Olympics Movement. They take place every two years and alternate between Summer and Winter Games. The Games can be the world’s…
My SOMO Story: Crystal Chalk
I stood in the gym and watched as the athletes brought in their luggage and said goodbye to their parents/guardians. Some had great big smiles on their faces while others…
