Gwinnett
County Special Olympics Home Page
Gwinnett County Special Olympics Masters Program is proud to announce immediate availability for corporate sponsorships and public support to “An Evening with Phil Keaggy”, June 27th, 2009. The concert will be held at First Baptist Church of Lilburn, GA. The event has a capacity for 1400 attendees. Opportunities for advance sponsorship with custom designed publicity plans are now ready for your business name and logo.
Phil Keaggy is perhaps one of the most admired guitarists in music today. Keaggy is a Grammy nominated, multiple Dove Award winning artist. His humility and skill for his craft is unparalleled. His career has spanned more than 35 years, including over 50 vocal and instrumental solo albums, and 8 releases with his band Glass Harp.
Recently, he was voted Gold Level Award Players Choice winner by Acoustic Guitar Magazine readers as Best Spiritual/Worship Guitarist in 2008. In 2007, Keaggy was named by Rolling Stone as one of The Twenty-Five Most Underrated Guitarists. Three of his albums were ranked by Digital Dream Door.com in the top 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitar Albums.
Gwinnett
County Special Olympics Masters Program
supports hundreds of adult aged athletes with intellectual
and developmental disabilities.
This program provides uniforms, transportation, sports facilities and equipment
for these athletes to compete in over a dozen different sports.
Gwinnett Special Olympics relies solely on financial support and volunteers from our local community to operate this program.
For more information, contact Kimberly Patterson at 800-519-9030 or Info@evangelismtickets.com
Click here for a copy of the flyer
Click here for an order form for tickets (Microsoft word format)
Click here for an order form for tickets (Adobe acrobat pdf format)
Click here for detailed information
This web site provides important information to assist our friends and supporters in contacting our coaches and the members of our advisory board. CLICK here to see information regarding our advisory board and the Gwinnett County Special Olympics Program.
The links below provide pictures of our athletes and Special Olympic competitions for friends and family to enjoy. If you have any feedback on this web site or have contributions to make to provide more information, please send email to rrausch@bobrausch.com.
In order to participate, all athletes must have a completed medical form on file; click on this link to download the Special Olympics medical form in pdf format: Click here
The Calendar for the balance of the school year can be downloaded here
Contacts and schedule for after school events Click Here
Instructions: to download
these forms, right mouse click on the link and select "save target as"
and then fill in the information requested to store the forms on your local
computer. You will also need adobe acrobat reader which is available for
free at 
Gwinnett County Special Olympics Pictures
This web site contains lots of pictures from the various events featuring the Gwinnett County Special Olympians. Click on the links in the table entries to see the pictures. Note that the pictures shown on the web site are low resolution. If you want the high resolution version (2048x1536 @ ~1.4 MB per picture) send me an email with the picture number and I will email it to you. Many of these pictures are also available on the Walgreens photo site. If you have any questions please email the webmaster at: rrausch@bobrausch.com
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| Winter Games 2009 | Click Here |
| Masters Bowling 2007 Savannah - Friday | Click Here |
| Masters Bowling 2007 Savannah - Bowling | Click Here |
| Masters Bowling 2007 Savannah - Awards | Click Here |
| Masters Bowling 2007 Savannah - Dance & Dinner | Click Here |
| Winter Games (Floor Hockey team) | Click Here |
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Collins Hill HS hosting Local track and field event for middle schools |
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Berkmar HS hosting Elementary West track and field event... Coach Jim Mora from the Falcons came to help hand out ribbons |
Click Here |
| Force Cheerleaders training our fans in the stands...2004 | Click Here |
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North Carolina - South Eastern Ice Skating and Floor hockey competition |
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Peachtree Ridge HS hosting local high school track.... Kevin Butler, football
player from the Chicago Bears, came to help hand out ribbons! - |
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One
of our bowling events for middle school. Ms West's Middle School
class preparing for a super Special Olympics day out! 2005 Coach - pitch softball |
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Winter
Games Opening Ceremonies, Basketball Team skills competition, Gymnastics,
Basketball Team, floor hockey, bowling |
Click Here |
| Masters Bowling 2006 - Note that these pictures have all been uploaded to Walgreens - where you can order prints for $0.19 each - or download the high resolution versions of these pictures. | To see the pictures - click HERE; if you want access to the album at Walgreens - send me an email and I will share them with you. |
| If you want to see pictures from the Special Pops tennis program click on the link to the right | |
| 3-Nations International Tennis Tournament - Vercelli Italy - June 2004 |
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| Summer Games Tennis 2004 |
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2006 Gwinnett County Special Olympics Equestrian Team
Gwinnett County Special Olympics is the agency that operates the Special Olympics program in Gwinnett County . Our program supports more than 2,000 athletes of all ages including in-school children as well as a large number of adults with disabilities. We also have programs that include unified sports activities with non disabled participants. Our program provides uniforms, transportation, sports facilities and equipment for these athletes. We also run competitions such as track and field meets and training sessions for a wide variety of sports including softball, swimming, golf, tennis, track & field, weight lifting, volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, bowling, ice skating, roller skating, floor hockey, plus developmental sports for those with severe disabilities. We rely solely on financial support and volunteers from our local community to operate this program.
Many people confuse our local Special Olympics program in Gwinnett County with the State-wide program of Special Olympics Georgia and the national program, Special Olympics International. While we are affiliated with these programs, we are the self-supporting local agency that provides Special Olympics activities for the athletes who live in Gwinnett County. We must raise the funds for this program; contributions to the state and national programs support the higher level activities that only a very few of our athletes can attend. The majority of the athletes who participate do so on the local level and it is our responsibility to fund and manage those opportunities as well as provide the registration fees for those athletes who participate at the higher level competitions. Our local committee is made up of volunteers including teachers, parents, and community leaders and 100% of any money raised is spent on Gwinnett County athletes.
If you would like to help us in
any way or if you need information or if you know someone who would benefit
by participating in our program, please contact any of the people shown
below. To support our program, please send your tax deductible donations
to:
Gwinnett County Special Olympics
Oakland Meadows
School,
590 Old Snellville Highway,
Lawrenceville, GA 30045
Floor Hockey
Call to arrange participation
Gary Bonds, contact gbondssr@aol.com Phone: 770.822.4080
Tennis
Contact Vicki Bennett at vicben50@hotmail.com
Softball - traditional softball teams
Softball - coach pitch teams
Softball - junior teams
Kathleen Pelletier
Kathleen_Pelletier@Gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Please call before attending
Contact Lynnette Swanson at the Gwinnett County Special Olympics office
Masters (age 16-adult) Jennifer Westphal, jennifer_westphal@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Basketball Junior teams (ages 8-15)
Contact: Lynnette Swanson, email: lynnette_swanson@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Volleyball (Seniors)
Contact Ray Brennan at 770-925-4288 email: rj.brennan@comcast.net
Volleyball (Juniors)
Contact: Lynnette Swanson email: Lynnette_Swanson@Gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Soccer (Middle & High School only)
Gwinnett County Special Olympics
Attention Treasurer: Becky Kidwell
c/o Oakland Meadow School
590 Old Snellville Hwy
Lawrenceville, GA 30045
Email Address: