The Official Blog of OC Athletics
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
WES McKINZIE, Blog Host
It’s the day before the Lady Eagles’ opening game. Lunch at Quizno’s was followed by a trip to Oman Arena to play with Special Olympics kids (click on the links below to see some photos). Returnees Katie Fariss and Chelsee Truesdell reconnected with kids they played with last year at this special event.
Practice followed at a local church gymnasium, highlighted by Charlotte Heron’s dunk of a small rubber ball. Yes, a dunk. Of a ball maybe four inches in diameter, but it was a dunk all the same.
After practice, the team helped judge a pie-tasting contest and a Pi poster contest (yep, 3.14) at a local Sonshine School.
The day concluded with the annual Banquet of Champions at the Carl Perkins Civic Center. It was quite the shindig; the city of Jackson rallies around this tournament with a bunch of corporate sponsors and volunteers.
Delta Faucet is OC’s corporate sponsor; they’ve done a fabulous job and made the team feel at home.
Photos:
Katie Fariss at the Special Olympics event
Chelsee Truesdell at the Special Olympics event
Jordan Findley and Abbie Tiffany at the Special Olympics event
