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Mark Mauthe

Officer to represent Wisconsin during final leg for National Games

Mark Mauthe, Investigator for the City of Menasha Police Department, will represent Wisconsin in the Law Enforcement Torch Run® Final Leg for the 2010 USA National Games which will take place July 18-23, 2010 in Lincoln, Nebraska. On Sunday, July 11, Mauthe will join the Final Leg Team of 110 members comprised of law enforcement runners, nine Special Olympics athletes and Support Team members from across the United States who will serve as Guardians of the Flame® while carrying the Flame of Hope™ from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, the site of the of the last USA National Games in 2006, to Lincoln, Nebraska.

The Flame of Hope will enter Omaha, Nebraska on the evening of July 11th and then travel throughout the state for one week. The Final Leg Team will conduct runs and ceremonies in over 70 cities and towns throughout Nebraska before arriving at the USA National Games Opening Ceremonies in Lincoln on July 18, 2010.

Investigator Mauthe has been on the City of Menasha Police Department for 23 years. His involvement with Special Olympics Wisconsin (SOWI) began in 1988 when he participated in a local Final Leg.

"Students from area schools were out cheering runners on. At one point we stopped at a business that employs Special Olympics athletes. There were lots of high fives and smiling faces," he said.

Mark presents medals to athletes at his local Games and participates in events like Lock-up-a-Cop, Cops and Lobsters and the Polar Plunge®, and is on the Torch Run State Committee. He received the 2005 Menasha Police Department Teamwork Award, and the 2009 SOWI Volunteer of the Year Award. Mark is married with two daughters and in his spare time he enjoys biking and camping.

The Torch Run is the largest grass-roots fundraising program and public awareness vehicle for Special Olympics. Law enforcement officers from the 50 United States, 11 Canadian provinces and territories and 43 countries carry the Flame of Hope in honor of Special Olympics athletes. Wisconsin’s Torch Run is the fifth highest grossing program in the world, having raised more than $1.8 million in 2009 with more than 1,000 registered participants representing 170 law enforcement agencies.