Special Olympics Basketball Competition at Clovis North

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Special Olympics Northern California hosted a determination hoops contention astatine Clovis North High School Saturday.

Around 300 Special Olympics coaches and athletes from each crossed the Central Valley competed to gain their ain golden and metallic medals.

The athletes had been practicing for the past six to 8 weeks successful squad oregon idiosyncratic skills events.

Today, they showed disconnected their skills successful a assortment of competitions ranging from dribbling, passing and shooting.

After the skills competitions, twenty-eight teams competed against each different successful a tournament.

Each contention was breached up by accomplishment level to guarantee inclusion for everyone connected each levels.

"A batch of times athletes are told what they can't bash and that's not an enactment here, right?" Special Olympics cardinal vale sports manager, Haley Janzer said. "So here, they're leaving everything they tin retired connected the tribunal and their teammates are supporting them."

The athletes' families and friends packed the gym to cheer them on.

Janzer says though seeing the athletes marque a changeable oregon get the golden is exciting, what's astir important is the household situation and enactment from crossed the valley.

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