Coaching · operations · athletes · families · continuity
Show up early. Stay long enough to be useful.
Special Olympics spans decades of the record, from early participation and coaching to event operations, advocacy and the fight over access to facilities. The chronology matters because later leadership should not be retroactively pasted onto earlier photographs.
Decades later, the useful measure is still whether the athletes got the day they deserved.
Special Olympics service and coaching
My Special Olympics work extended across coaching, operations, event support, travel, leadership, athletes, families, and the repeated work required to keep a program useful year after year.
The strongest memories are not abstract awards. They are teams moving through travel, ceremonies, practices, competition, meals, equipment, schedules, fatigue, celebration, and the relationships that continue long after one event ends.
National Games, 2006
Record & coverage: Iowa State Daily · first USA National Summer Games, Ames 2006 · Iowa State · National Games: the first time ever. The remembered Chico Enterprise-Record profile tied to Stone’s selection/trip remains an archive-recovery item until the exact clipping or URL is recovered.
Opening-ceremony and first-USA-Games archive →
These photographs document the 2006 Special Olympics National Games and the people, athletes, coaches, and support systems that made the event possible.
The long view
Earlier Special Olympics photographs
Randall and Krista’s Special Olympics archive reaches back to the 1990s. That distinction matters: the images document a long relationship with disability sport without retroactively assigning later offices or titles to every early event.
2016 delegation archive
Butte County athletes, coaches, volunteers and travel
