January 30, 2019 • Blog, Featured
This March, Patricia Pipkorn and her daughter Joanna Stein of Green Bay will be taking a trip unlike one they’ve ever gone on. They’ll be flying to Abu Dhabi to participate in the 2019 Special Olympics World Games. The mother-daughter...
January 30, 2019 • Blog, Featured
This time of year is always a great reminder of just how lucky Special Olympics Wisconsin is to have the supporters it does. Not only do thousands of them do the unthinkable and throw themselves into icy water as a...
January 28, 2019 • Blog, Featured
At Special Olympics Wisconsin, we like to say that volunteers are the backbone of the organization. And it’s true: Special Olympics Wisconsin would not exist today without the time, energy, and dedication of thousands of volunteers. In 2017 alone, nearly...
January 9, 2019 • Blog, Events, Featured
When most people in Wisconsin start thinking about the Polar Plunge around this time of year, the last things that come to mind are hot sand and palm trees. But for one Wisconsin police officer, that’s exactly what a very unique...
November 26, 2018 • Blog, Featured
Two accomplished Special Olympics Wisconsin runners traveled to Portugal last month to compete in the 2018 INAS Athletics Half Marathon World Championships. Tyler Wigington of Middleton and Colton Lohrenz of Oneida traveled more than 4,000 miles for the October 21 event...
November 26, 2018 • Blog, Featured
Earlier this month, about three dozen students and nearly a dozen educators from around the state gathered in Madison to share ideas on promoting inclusion and respect in Wisconsin schools during the 2018 Unified Champion Schools Leadership Summit. Under the theme...
November 19, 2018 • Blog, Featured
Ryan Miller’s favorite part about his job as an investigator for the River Falls Police Department is piecing together all of the details and bits of information from his cases like a giant jigsaw puzzle. “I like trying to find...
November 5, 2018 • Featured, Press
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) — A 313-member delegation from the United States will be traveling to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, to represent our country in the Special Olympics World Games.
October 30, 2018 • Blog, Featured
For the second year in a row, more than 300 Special Olympics athletes and countless supporters will be taking over the Milwaukee Sting Center for the Special Olympics Wisconsin State Volleyball Tournament this weekend. The volleyball players of Special Olympics...