Special Olympics Area 17

Wow!  What a crazy Special Olympics season.

Friendship didn't appear to want to do S. O. this year so at the last minute we joined the Dover team.  The Dover team told us Canyon could not do 2 field events.  He has always done 2 field events so I was determined to set the record straight.  They had 1 whole month and still, no one could prove to me with any rule that he couldn't.  So as far as we knew by Friday, he was going to be entered in 1 field event and a running event.  Turns out, at 10 pm that night before the games, they got conformation from the area director that he in fact could be in 2 field events.  As we found that at the morning of, we also learned the that 1st and 3rd pages of athletes entry forms for Dover were unaccounted for and of course Canyon was on one of them. So 9 of the Dover 13 were left out.  They got that all sorted out but since they were now write ins, they were teamed up with random people and ended up competing with people out of their age range and with the opposite sex.  Which is not how it is supposed to be done.  He did not get a first place this year...he possibly got 2 2nd place medals.  We're unsure because of the age differences.  It was a mess.  In the past, you had to get a 1st to go to state but the numbers are all messed up and someone has to go through them all to figure it out. Unfortunately, when it was all said and done, he did not qualify for state this time. :(

ANYWAY...

It was held at Vilonia this year.  It was a reschedule because of bad storms the weekend it was supposed to be.  Not as many people showed up this year possibly due to the reschedule and that Vilonia is 30 minutes father than where it is usually held.

Dover did not have a shot put to practice with so Canyon did the soft ball throw.  

And instead of the run he got put back in the standing long jump which he loves.

He did great!

Sahara's co-worker, Katie, went with us.  After his events, we hit David's Burgers!