Day: October 20, 2024

Marion Harris crosses the Finish Line on his Chase to 100 ! Well Done, Young Man 👨

Marion Harris set himself a goal this Summer that would require a never say No attitude. The challenge was to referee 100 games of Soccer ⚽️.

#99 & #100 just took place this weekend and he Celebrated by posing with Gobbler while wearing a OneofUs.Care Shirt 👕.

“Got my 99th and 100th game in today showing some love for OneofUs.Care”-

Congratulations 👏👏👏👏👏 Marion and Thanks for the 💘!

_________________________________

Just thinking of some numbers in my chase for 100!! 3 states, 3 rec leagues, 2 high school leagues (Virginia and West Virginia) 1 indoor adult league, 2 all star FCA games. The year is not over I might make it to 120!!

Sunday Afternoon with Coach Vickey Ritchie and her dedicated group of Special Olympics ❤ Basketball 🏀 team.

Hillsville Elementary School 🏫

Coach is working on teaching the team various defensive alignments. Triangle 🔺️ & 2, Box 📦 & 1, etc. The amount of energy that Coach puts into each and every practice is enough to make me tired.

We have nine players today and for anyone who might be wondering about the lack of photos 📷 of the team, this is do the fact that Vickey has to be ever so protective of her group. Understanding this, we leave the Photo sharing to her.

2:50 – is Break Time and the group loves this (I kinda like it too).

In addition to the nine players, we have nine adults. Make that 10 & 10 as one more has made it !!

As always, we need to say Thank You 🙏 to the kInd folks in charge of Hillsville Elementary School for the use of their Gymnasium!

Very distinguished guests working the Ice Cream 🍦🍨 table !

It was be easier to kick back on a Sunday afternoon but if Appalachian State University is off, there’s no place I would rather be than helping Coach Vickey Ritchie !

Under Construction…An updated view of our efforts to Celebrate the 2024-2025 Junior Varsity Volleyball 🏐 Team ! Will announce when its 100% done ✔

(1) Annabelle Short + Aubrey Hamshaw

(2) Team + Rose & Ashton Rodrigue

(3) Skylee Ayers + Leigha Harrad

(4) Baya Austin + Clara DeHaven

(5) Ellie Heflin + Brealeigh Love

(6) Avery Campbell + Paisley Snider

(7) Katie Beasley + Addilynn Stanley

(8) Aaliyah Hampton + Hayden Heflin

(9) Autumn Ashton

__________________________

The end goal is to have a Photo 📷 of each player with a Family 👪 member or two.

Then to create a capsule of their name and their parents name ➕ their grade. Very similar to the individual ones completed for the Varsity players.

We had two players this season that spent time on both the Junior Varsity team and the Varsity team. Heidi Painter was called up early and landed inside the Varsity group and Ellie Heflin was called up later and is in this group.

Special Thank You 🙏 to Nikki Heflin for offering to be the Co-Pilot on this project and it will be a keeper once its completed. Going to share it as it is and will then remove the under construction 🏗 🚧 label of of it.

If you want to assist Nikki and I with this, please reach out and let us know!

Head Coach Jason Petty !