05/18/11 - 10:14 AM
Katie spent much of the winter involved in skiing. After her annual trip to Beech Mtn., North Carolina, she traveled north to Schuss Mtn. in Michigan to practice for Special Olympics. An untimely strong storm prevented her and the entire Lucas County team from participating in the Winter...
10/20/10 - 01:22 PM
Katie has traditionally been involved in swimming (both summer games and winter) and skiing for the Winter Games, but this summer she also tried Softball Skills. Each participant gets drills on, and eventually competes in, how far they can throw a ball, how far they hit off a T, how they field...
07/19/10 - 10:27 AM
In late June, Katie competed in the Ohio Special Olympics at Columbus. She came home with a Silver Medal and a Bronze Medal in her freestyle and her backstroke - both 50 meters. Even though we are very proud that she did NOT DQ, it was comforting that there were only three swimmers ...
06/24/10 - 04:08 PM
Katie will be competing in the Ohio Special Olympics Swim meet at Ohio State this Saturday morning, 6/26. She and the Lucas County team will be among hundreds of athletes to attend the Opening Ceremonies at Jesse Owens stadium on Friday evening. Although the swim competition is not until...
04/27/10 - 02:06 PM
On Sat. 4/24, Katie and her teammates from Lucas County Special Olympics competed in the qualifying meet for swimming for Ohio Summer Games. It was a small group - many Lucas Co. athletes do a number of different sports in the Summer Games - but Katie did well. She earnd a silver m...
04/09/10 - 12:00 AM
Katie turned 30 years old on April 4. She was able to celebrate for 3 days this year, due to the date falling on Good Friday. There was a celebration at work on Thursday the 3rd, with some friends at church services on Good Friday, and then an organized family and neighborhood party on t...
03/20/10 - 12:00 AM
Just because the Special Olympics competition is finished doesn't mean that Katie is off the slopes! She was joined by her family at Schuss Mountain in late February and then again in NY State in early March.
At Schuss Mountain in Michigan, she is a friend of several of the Ski Pat...
02/07/10 - 12:00 AM
Once again Katie competed in the downhill races for Special Olympics skiing. She almost didn't qualify (again this year) because she missed a gate while waving at the fans. But on the final attempt, she did complete the race, making all the gates and then qualifying to compete in 2 races...