March 7, 2018 • Blog, Events, Press
MADISON, Wis. (PRESS RELEASE) – Special Olympics Wisconsin’s State Indoor Sports Tournament will be returning to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh on April 7 and 8 with some exciting new elements that will mean more basketball for more players. After some...
March 5, 2018 • Blog, Events, Featured
Former Badgers national champion and professional hockey player Andrew Joudrey took his very first Polar Plunge in Madison last month. Now serving as president of the Madison Capitols of the United States Hockey League, Joudrey also brought along the Capitols’...
March 1, 2018 • Blog, Events
It’s hard to know if Eunice Kennedy Shriver truly understood the magnitude of what she was beginning when she kicked off the first Special Olympics International Summer Games at Soldier Field on July 20, 1968. When she concluded her opening...
February 28, 2018 • Blog, Featured
11 of this year’s 12 Polar Plunges are officially in the books! With La Crosse, the original Polar Plunge for Special Olympics Wisconsin, celebrating its 20th annual Plunge this upcoming weekend, it should make for the perfect icing on the...
February 16, 2018 • Blog, Featured
It makes sense that hockey players would be well suited to the Polar Plunge. There’s no doubting their toughness or their comfort with ice and extreme temperatures. So naturally, some members of Madison’s hockey community have been plunging together in the...
January 31, 2018 • Blog, Events
The Polar Plunge comes to Lambeau For the first time in the history of the Special Olympics Wisconsin Polar Plunges, the Green Bay Polar Plunge will take place at historic Lambeau Field! On February 24 you can join fellow Packers fans...
January 31, 2018 • Blog, Events
Shake things up for Date Night this Valentine’s Day and head out to the 2018 Greater Milwaukee Auto Show Gala on February 23 at the Wisconsin Center! One of Milwaukee’s premier social events of the season blends cars, cocktails, cuisine,...
December 15, 2017 • Blog, Events, Press
Milwaukee, Wis. (PRESS RELEASE) – The Automobile Dealers Association of Mega Milwaukee, Inc. (ADAMM) will raise funds for the athletes of Special Olympics Wisconsin (SOWI) at its annual Greater Milwaukee Auto Show Charity Gala in 2018. The Gala will take...
September 28, 2017 • Blog, Events, Featured
The Truck Convoy means so much to so many people. It means a great deal to the 10,000+ athletes who benefit from the money raised – a record-shattering amount raised in the 2017 Truck Convoy held on September 16 that is...