Bill had the pleasure to present Chris (manager) of Greene Acres Golf Course with a thank you plaque for them hosting our Garrison Eagles

Greene Acres allowed the Garrison Eagles to put their training knowledge of golf to a golf game competition and it was a big hit

The athletes and coaches thank you for being generous, and the staff were very helpful.

Our volunteer team here were at Gananoque Police doing a bottle drive.

Our Kingston Chapter will be getting a cut of the money raised

Thanks to Dave, Willy, Nathan, Keeler, and Ron for your time and effort

Brianna and Brandon, SOOK athletes who are engaged to be married, were both medal winners at Provincials this summer.

Brianna received a gold medal in Javelin, gold in the 200m and a bronze in long jump.  

Her fiancé, Brandon, along with his softball team, won gold with his team!

Congratulations to them and again to all the athletes who participated!

Tim Maracle and Bill Amey represented SOOK in Level 4 Golf in the scorching heat at Walter Gretzky Memorial Golf Course. 

Tim won a Gold Medal in the 2nd event, finishing 6th in Ontario, 1 stroke away from a tie for third.

Bill played a great first day, but was a victim of the heat on the 2nd day.

We were very proud of the way these two gentleman participated. They supported and encouraged other athletes, played by every rule and carried themselves like true sportsmen. 

They were great ambassadors for SOOK.

Our six track athletes did exceptionally well, beating their seeded performances and competing with fierce determination. They were model teammates and true examples of sportsmanship! They also really enjoyed themselves and danced up a storm at the closing ceremonies!

Brianna Clow: 1st Javelin, 200m, 3rd Long Jump

Abby Renaud: 1st Shot Put, 2nd Standing Long Jump, 3rd Javelin

Holly Cummings: 1st Javelin, 200m, 3rd 100m, Standing Long Jump 

Brian Secker: 1st 200m, 2nd 100m, Standing Long Jump, Javelin 

Jordan Graham: 1st 400m, Long Jump, 3rd 100, Javelin

Conor Pap: 1st Shot Put, 3rd Javelin

Our athletes trained hard prior to the games and we are proud them for their efforts.  

Congratulations to Harold won GOLD at the Provincial Games in Bocce!

The team had to be at the diamonds for the first of three round robin games

for 8:00 am, 11 Jul 25, which meant being up at 5:00 am after getting

home at 11:00 pm, 9 Jul 25.  

The first game against London was won by a score Kingston 12 / London 5, 

second game 12:30 pm against Durham, Kingston 13 / Durham 4 and 

the final game at 4:30 pm against Welland, Kingston 16 / Welland 0.  

This meant Kingston was playing for the gold 12:30 pm, 12 Jul 25.

We were told the night before the gold medal game was being moved

forward to 10:30 am, 12 Jul 25 because of the heat (31degree C). 

We got up at 5:00 am and was at the diamonds by 8:00 am.  

The game started well (5 runs) but through the final 4 inning it got close.   

Kingston 7 / Durham 5 was the final score.  

After three try Kingston was able to win the gold against the team that beat them 4 years earlier.

The athletes and coaches did the City of Kingston well and proud. 

The article in the Whig celebrates the Volunteers and Athletes as they celebrated at the Banquet on May 2nd. 

https://www.thewhig.com/news/volunteering-fundraising-and-the-power-behind-special-olympics 

The image carousel holds some of the images from the banquet and there are more on our Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/SpecialOlympicsOntarioKingston

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