Van Wert County Special Olympics

08/24/2026

It is that time of year again! We are having our fall meal fundraiser. You get your choice of pulled pork or chicken with cheesy potatoes, green beans, roll and cookie for $12. The meat and potatoes are frrom Gibson's BBQ! All the proceeds go towards supporting our athletes in competiton. Comment below if you would like tickets and we will get in contact with you.

08/23/2026

Yesterday our Softball Skills athletes competed at Regionals! They had a great day of competition!

I want to thank my coaches, chaperones, and parents for helping a day like today run so smoothly when I can’t be there. You make it so easy to be away when I have to!

I am so proud of all of our athletes and they all did a fantastic job! Here are their results:

1st Place 🥇
✨Michele
✨Jill
✨Niki
✨Brandy
✨Dallas

2nd Place 🥈
✨Emily
✨Nevaeh
✨Amber
✨Rachel
✨Kaiser
✨Kaz
✨AJ
✨Jason

3rd Place 🥉
✨Cyane
✨Robin
✨Michelle
✨Miranda
✨Lucas

4th Place 🏅
✨Arianna
✨Jackie
✨Sharon
✨Jeannie

08/13/2026

Come hangout with us next Saturday in Findlay!

We are looking forward to another fun day in Findlay at our NW Ohio Regional Softball Tournament and Skills Competition! We hope you can join in on the fun and volunteer to help. We will need help during the softball games with scoring, keeping books, etc. Experience in keeping books is required! We...

08/12/2026

🚨SOFTBALL SKILLS PRACTICE FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12th IS CANCELED🚨

07/14/2026

Due to tomorrow’s Heat Advisory, I am cancelling softball skills practice for Wednesday July 15th at 5.

Reminder if you know now that you cannot be at one of the next two practices to let me know so that we make sure your testing gets done!

Stay cool and stay hydrated😎

07/01/2026

We hope you’ve had a relaxing June and are staying cool this week! Next week it’s time to hit the ground running again🥎

Margaret and Taylor will be working to get schedule’s out, but here is the general schedule in case we don’t get one to you by next week!

Can’t wait to start the season and get back at it!

05/31/2026

We are all home and resting from an AMAZING weekend!

I have a few thank you’s for everyone who makes weekends like this possible!

To my athletes… You worked so hard all spring long and you earned everything you accomplished this weekend❤️ I am so incredibly proud of you! You are the reason we do what we do and those smiles make it all worth it!

To the chaperones… These weekends do not happen without you! You are always helping not only with the athletes you are responsible for, but all of them around you. It takes a village and we definitely have one of the best ones around us!

To my coaches… You are ALL AMAZING! You are selflessly volunteering your time to help support these athletes, prepare them for their events, and care for them as your own! You are the backbone that keeps our organization moving, and I couldn’t do it without you!

Finally, to the community… You will never understand the love these athletes feel with every comment, like, and share. It is crazy that when we have these weekends, it can be 5 minutes between posts and I come back to 30+ notifications. The athletes see it and they get so excited! Thank you for the support you give them!

This was my 5th summer games as Local Coordinator. Every year we learn new things! The experience is never the same. But every year we come home with the same result, full hearts and happy athletes! That’s all I can ever ask for❤️

-Taylor✨

05/31/2026

It’s our final 🚨Medal Alert🚨 of the 2026 State Summer Games!

Our track boys finished us off with 100m Dash🏃‍♂️

✨Bradley Swann✨ Div 73 🏅4th Place
✨William Thomas✨ Div 78 🏅 4th Place

It was a great weekend and we are so proud of all of our athletes and their accomplishments this weekend !

05/31/2026

Starting off Day 3 strong with a 🚨Medal Alert🚨

Our girls crushed softball throw this morning! 🥎

✨Amber Young✨ Div 298 🥇 1st place
✨Michelle Mollenkopf✨ Div 309 🥈 2nd place

Boys are next up for their 100m Dash!🏃‍♂️

05/31/2026

That’s a wrap on Day 2 at State Summer Games!

We finished the day off with team dinner at Bob Evans and a dance on campus! Everyone at a great day full of fun and competition.

Our track team finishes us off tomorrow for Day 3!

🥎 Amber and Michelle compete in Softball Throw around 11am!

🏃‍♂️ Bradley and William run their 100m Dash around 12:30pm!

See ya tomorrow🏅