Category: News
Summer Fun & Food, For A Cause
LONG BEACH, Calif. (June 21, 2017) - Today, June 21, marks the first day of summer and it will be a season of fun, food and events for a good ...
Hard Work Brings Torch to Games
For 27 years, Eric Ledesma has been a police officer and in each of those years, he has been involved with Special Olympics through the Law Enforcement Torch Run. Now ...
The Healthy Side of The Games
With more than 1,100 Special Olympics athletes competing at the 48th annual Special Olympics Southern California Summer Games, health and fitness becomes as important an aspect to the Games as ...
INSIDE SOSC: Fun, Inspiration Beyond the Games
Breakfast With Champions Steve Alford, the UCLA men’s basketball coach and keynote speaker of the event, recounted a story about how he didn’t have the 1984 Summer Olympic Games on ...
What They’re Saying at Summer Games – Day 2
Find out what the athletes, coaches, volunteers, and more, were saying on Day 2 at Summer Games – in their own words: “These athletes are empowered through competition and achieve their ...
Joyous Family Affair Closes Summer Games
The look of accomplishment when a medal goes around a Special Olympics Southern California athlete’s neck is as pure of an emotion as there is at Summer Games, and there ...
What They’re Saying at Summer Games – Day 1
Here is a collection of thoughts and experiences from athletes, coaches, volunteers, law enforcement and attendees on Day 1 of Special Olympics Southern California’s Summer Games: “This is our opportunity ...
INSIDE SOSC: News and Notes From Summer Games – Day 1
Whew! Talk about a jam-packed day to kick off the 48th annual Special Olympics Southern California Summer Games! Athletes, coaches, volunteers and a drove of Fans in the Stands rocked ...
Summer Games – Day 1 in Photos
A select group of photos from day one of the 2017 Special Olympics Southern California Summer Games at California State University, Long Beach. The games got off to a big ...
Summer Games Eve – Witness The Passion
The 48th annual Summer Games arrives onto the campus of California State University, Long Beach tomorrow morning (June 10). They officially begin at 9:30 a.m. with the Opening Ceremony. Here ...