State Basketball

Earlier this month, 356 athletes and coaches traveled to Bloomington for State Basketball! It was a great weekend for everyone competing. 6 of our teams came in first place. 7 came in second, 8 came in third, and 3 came in fourth place. In individual skills, our athletes also had amazing performances, with an amazing 13 athletes coming in first, 12 coming in second, 7 coming in both third and fourth, 4 at both fifth and sixth place, 2 coming in seventh, and 1 with a participation ribbon. Great job and congratulations to everyone!

Runner 321 returns for the Shamrock Shuffle!

The Runner 321 movement is back again this year! Some of our athletes will be wearing bib #321 at select races this year to represent athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

We had four incredible runners participate in Sunday's Shamrock Shuffle along with peer runners! Even though the weather was chilly, everyone had an amazing time!

Members of our Athlete Leadership Council also volunteered at Saturday's packet pickup distributing race shirts and meeting runners.

Thank you to Chicago Event Management for supporting this effort at your races and congratulations to Matt, Chris, Sam, and Matt on a great race!

Wrestling event

On Saturday, March 16, more than 600 of our athletes attended the first-ever Chicago Park District wrestling event at Hope Student Athletic Center. Many of our athletes are fans of professional wrestling and were excited to watch this fun competition and cheer on the wrestlers. They even got the opportunity to meet some of the wrestlers and take photos. Thank you to the John Bullard Production Company for the wonderful show!

Virtual cooking

The weather is still a little chilly–which was perfect for this week's virtual cooking demo: veggie chili! more than 100 athletes joined us online on Monday to learn to cook a delicious and healthy meal with Chef Jared of Common Threads!