Special Olympics Texas Brings Area Bocce Competition to Abilene September 9th-10th

There are many fine organizations in the Abilene area. Among the top is Special Olympics Texas. Amazing people doing amazing things. They provide year-round sports training and competitions for more than 58,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities.

Your chance to see these athletes in action is coming with the Area Bocce Competition. Bocce is a sport that is played with eight weighted balls aimed at a smaller target ball. The object is to get your balls closer to the target ball than your opponent. There will be well over 100 athletes and partners competing from all over the area including San Angelo, Eula, Brownwood, and Brady.

Get our free mobile app

The event will be held Friday and Saturday, September 9th and 10th at the Abilene Youth Sports Authority. (1042 Loop 322) The opening ceremonies for the games will be at 9:30 AM for Friday's competition and 9:00 AM for Saturday. Friday's games will be mostly school teams and Saturday will be all adults. The event is open to the public.

Below are pictures from past competitions.

Helping to support events such as this ensures that Special Olympics Texas can continue to provide opportunities to develop physical fitness, courage, and experience joy in participating and sharing gifts, skills, and friendships with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.

Volunteers are the lifeline for Special Olympics Texas. Volunteers serve as coaches, officials, committee members, competition assistants, speech coaches, and more. If you're interested in becoming a volunteer for this or any event, contact Lisa Rinker at lrinker@sotx.org