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Upper Grand athletes excel at Special Olympics Ontario Youth Games

May 21, 2019

GUELPH, Ontario – Student athletes from the Upper Grand DSB have made their school communities proud.

The 2019 Special Olympics Ontario Invitational Youth Games were held in Toronto from May 14 to 17. The event brings together 2,000 student-athletes from around the world.

This year’s event coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Special Olympics movement, and it was the first year that high school students had the opportunity to participate.

At the Youth Games, athletes aged 13-21, both with and without an intellectual disability, complete in athletics, basketball, bocce, floor hockey or soccer.

All sports offer two types of divisions – a traditional division, where all athletes on the team have an intellectual disability, and a unified division, where athletes with and without an intellectual disability compete on the same team.

The UGDSB had athletes from several secondary schools participate including Centre Dufferin DHS, Guelph CVI, Norwell DSS, Orangeville DSS, and Wellington Heights SS. Athletes competed hard and many came home with medals.

In athletics, Thomas (WHSS) won gold in the 100 M Run and Alec (WHSS) won gold in the Long Jump.

Wellington Heights SS students Thomas and Alec, pictured with Special Education Resource Teacher Ben McCabe, at the 2019 Youth Games (May 2019).

A large number of ODSS athletes medaled including Cole (gold in 200 M Run and silver in Long Jump), Courtney (gold in Long Jump), Emily (gold in Long Jump), Isy (gold in Long Jump, silver in Shot Put, bronze in 100 M Run), Kenny (gold in 100 M Run, gold in 200 M Run, gold in Long Jump, and bronze in Shot Put), Nicholas (gold in Long Jump, gold in Shot Put), Sierra (gold in Shot Put, silver in 100 M Run, silver in Long Jump), and Kirsten (bronze in 100 M Run). ODSS also won bronze in 3 on 3 Unified Basketball.

Athletes from ODSS compete at the Special Olympics Ontario Youth Games, May 2019.

Norwell DSS won gold in Unified Soccer and CDDHS won gold in Traditional Soccer.

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Congratulations to all of the UGDSB athletes who participated in the 2019 Youth Games!

(We apologize if we’ve missed any results; official results are still being confirmed at the time of publishing.)

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