Last Friday was the first practice of the year for the Monroe County Special Olympics. I met up with my mom and the other coaches plus the students at the Columbia bowling alley. I arrived a few minutes early so they would know I am interested and getting to know everything. When they arrived, Gina Gunn, head coach of the high school team members, was the first in the door and hugged me and said she was glad I could come. I looked behind her and saw the line of students waiting for their shoes. Of course not all the busses where there right away so the students that were their got their shoes and headed to the lines. Eventually all the students arrived at the Columbia Bowling Alley, the schools that came where Waterloo High School, Waterloo Junior High and Gardner Elementary. Even a middle school group from Columbia had joined us at the bowling alley. Every type of disability was there from high learning disabilities to students in wheel chairs. For the students in the wheelchairs they have a bowling ball ramp so they can bowl also, they just push it of the ramp and it goes down the lane. Over all the Special Olympics filled up ten lanes at the bowling alley with at least four people on each lane and some even more. My experience watching them bowl was amazing they all had fun and are wonderful bowlers.
This is a picture of the wheelchair ramp. They roll up to the space between the ground bars and push the bowling ball down the ramp.
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