GSO Award and Recognition Ceremony 

The awards celebration is this Sunday!  If you RSVP'd, we will see you there!
 
When:             Sunday, September 23rd
Where:            Gahanna Middle Schools West
 
Doors will open at 1:00 pm for seating and the ceremony will start at 1:30 pm. A dessert reception will be held immediately following the ceremony.

Special Olympics Night with the Columbus Blue Jackets

Saturday, Oct. 20th - against the Chicago Blackhawks.  There are multiple local Special Olympics organizations attending.  Tickets are $40 each and $5 from each ticket sold will come back to GSO.  Seats will be in he Sky Terrace area of the arena.  

Everyone who purchases a ticket will receive a CBJ gift and have the opportunity to be entered to win one of our fan experiences: Pre-Game Benchwarmers or Pre-Game High-Five Tunnel. After the game, all participants will be able to go down onto the ice and take a photo.

For more information and to buy tickets, please use THIS LINK.   


GSO Halloween Party - Save the date
Saturday, November 3rd evening.

 

Bowling

Bowling is GSO's most popular sport.  This year, we have more bowlers than we have ever had which has resulted in maxing out the lanes we have been provided in two shifts at Gahanna Lanes.  For the first time in many years, we have been provided a quota from Special Olympics for the State competition that is many bowlers short of the number indicating that they are interested in going to the State Competition.  We have around 40 athletes that indicated their interest in going to State and we have been given a maximum of 28 spots.  So, cuts will need to be made.  As in other sports, cuts will be made first, based on attendance.  If that does not get us to the number we need, we will then need to cut based on some performance criteria.  

If you signed up and are not sure you can make it now or were wavering on whether to go and you are willing to give up your athlete's spot, please let Tiffany and/or Eric know.  

We are not at the point where we would need to do this at this time, but in the future, since we are maxed out as things stand at Gahanna Lanes, in the future, we may need to ask athletes to choose whether they want to bowl in the Spring or Fall, but not both.  Again, this is not something we need to do yet, but please understand that this is a possibility in 2019 depending on the numbers in the Spring.   
 
If you need anything else in regard to bowing, reach out to Coach Tiffany at coachtiffany@gahannaspecialolympics.org

Swimming

If you are swimming this season, please be sure to attend as many practices as possible so that we can gather times for your athlete, especially if they plan to attend  the competitions.  We won't have many practices before times will be due for entries to Special Olympics Ohio.

For questions specific to swimming you may reach out to swimming@gahannaspecialolympics.org.

 

Organizational Directory

Below you will find our current organizational directory.  

Medical & Other Forms
Athletes below have medical forms expiring in the next 6 months.  Once these forms expire, athletes will not be allowed to participate until new forms are submitted.  All forms can be found on the ATHLETE section of our website AT THIS LINK

S. Ginnane - 10/2018 EXPIRING SOON
C. Jonke - 1/2019
J. Livers - 1/2019
J. Weimer - 1/2019
K. Chistman - 2/2019
C. Fuchs - 2/2019
E. Grady - 2/2019
E. Pax - 2/2019
M. Mizell - 3/2019

Did you know that GSO offers a parent mentor program for our families to share information and support one another?  If you aren't part of this amazing group and you want more information or want added to the mailing list, please email Karmen McCaslin at karmenmccaslin@gmail.com.