Sun Shines on SOSUNS Golf Day

“What a cracker!” exclaimed Ben, again and again as he smashed the ball down the fairway in exchange for donations on the first hole.  Meeting Ben, who plays golf with just one arm, was the highlight of the annual SOSUNS Golf Day accoording to many participants.  Watching Ben’s amazingly good hand eye coordination truly was inspirational and many of the golfers gladly took Ben’s shot rather than their own.    Read more

Athletes Show Their Moves at SOSUNS’ Disco

Oh What a Night!!  A fantastic time was had by the athletes, siblings and friends who attended the recent SOSUNS disco held at Lindfield Uniting Church.  Donning their best dancing gear and with glow stix necklaces and bracelets adding to ’the look’ the competition was on to perform the best dance moves ever seen!

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SOSUNS Athletes Farewell World Games team at Roosters Match

Despite the rain and cold weather SOSUNS athletes starred at the recent Special Olympics sports exhibition and torch run held before and during half time of the Roosters rugby league match.   The Roosters Rugby League Club have recently come on board as supporters and sponsor of Special Olympics Australia and invited 1000 athletes and friends to come and watch their match, show the crowd their great sporting skills and partcipate in a half time torch run held to farewell the NSW athletes heading off to Athens for the World Games.

SOSUNS athletes skidded excitedly around the field playing soccer against Central Coast athletes.  Our athletes had a great if not muddy time and the cheers from the crowd showed their appreciation of the efforts of the athletes.

At half time SOSUNS athletes excitedly gathered in the tunnel where they then ran around the oval with the torch and World Games athletes before standing proudly behind the SOSUNS banner.

Our very own SOSUNS world games representatives, Mel Eustace, Harry Langford and Andrew Mujunen were very happy to be officially presented with their Australian tracksuits.  We at SOSUNS all wish them the best of luck as they play softball at the world games and also hope that they have a brilliant experience.

For daily updates on the World Games visit the Special Olympics Australia website www.specialolympics.com.au where you can subsribe to the  World Games newsletter.

SOSUNS’ Girls are Blue Illusion Modelling Stars

The crowd gasped in appreciation and amazement as they watched our three SOSUNS’ girls make a successful modelling debut.   Lucy, Paige and Mel exhibited such poise and grace as they each modelled three Blue Illusion outfits, confidently ‘walking the floor’ at Blue Illusion Hornsby store. Read more

SOSUNS Basketballers Host the Sydney Kings

Recently the SOSUNS basketballers were thrilled to have two Sydney Kings players attend their Sunday training session.  Organised by coaches Paddy and Lachy the players, Taj McCullough and Junian Khazzouh, taught SOSUNS athletes some cool new moves and participated in a fun game where they showed off some of their great skills.

The two SOSUNS basketball groups, one of which trains at Thornleigh Brickpit and the other at North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre have been enjoying some great social get togethers this year.  They meet up for their regular Sunday training session at one of the centres and follow this up with a pizza session where all players, parents and coaches can continue the fun.

If you are interested in helping to coach the Thornleigh group  please contact Deb Frost on 0424 403 065.

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