South Burlington, VT – March 21, 2024
South Burlington, Vt. – Particular Olympics Vermont (SOVT) hosted the 2024 Winter Video games on Friday, March fifteenth at The Hermitage Membership in Wilmington, Vermont. Over 125 delegates, together with athletes and coaches from eight native applications educated and competed in alpine snowboarding and snowboarding. This was Particular Olympics Vermont’s largest Winter Video games since 2019.
The delegations that competed included Addison, Central Vermont, Chittenden, Adaptive Sports activities at Mount Snow, Northshire, Randolph, Rutland and Smugglers’ Notch Adaptive.
“The 2024 Winter Video games was an unbelievable showcase of the ability of the Particular Olympics Vermont neighborhood,” said Sarah McCaffrey, President & CEO of Particular Olympics Vermont. “The dedication and preparation our athletes devoted to those video games mirror their outstanding resilience, enduring spirit, and sheer willpower.
This occasion wouldn’t have been potential with out the generosity of The Hermitage Membership which opened its doorways to our athletes, used their experience to arrange race programs, and devoted their time and vitality to creating this expertise extremely significant for all athletes and households. Particular Olympics Vermont can be grateful for the help of our companions at Rally2Give who had been on web site all through your entire occasion and offered dinner for delegates on Thursday evening, Potash Hill for offering our delegates
an ideal place to remain, The Hodson Household for overlaying household meals on Thursday, and to Tito’s Taqueria, Black River Produce, Efficiency Meals Group, Brattleboro Subaru and Brattleboro Meals Co-Op for coming collectively to donate all of the gadgets for Friday evening’s dinner! Particular Olympics Vermont would additionally like to acknowledge the entire volunteers that made the occasions potential, particularly the crew from Adaptive Sports activities at Mount Snow.
The occasion was an enormous success with athletes, coaches, households, volunteers and spectators having a implausible time regardless of the rain. As Northshire athlete Jake Alexopoulos mentioned, “I had a good time, making everyone blissful and maintaining everyone secure and having enjoyable!”
