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Loretta Claiborne is an American global speaker and multi-sport athlete who competes in the Special Olympics. She has been honored with the 1996 Arthur Ashe ESPY Courage Award presented to her by Denzel Washington. Claiborne was the first Special Olympics athlete elected to the Special Olympics International Board of Directors. [1]
The 2014 Special Olympics USA Games were held from June 14 to 21 in New Jersey. [4] The Opening Ceremony was held at Prudential Center in Newark. [5] [6] Competition was held at venues throughout Mercer County including The College of New Jersey in the Trenton suburb of Ewing, [7] Rider University, Princeton University and Mercer County Park.
Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) is a non-profit organization of volunteer counselors who provide free mentoring, education programs, workshops, and webinars to small businesses. [2] SCORE is a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) who administers a Congressional grant which provides SCORE with funding.
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Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and activities to 5 million participants and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries. [2]
The list of Pennsylvania State University Olympians is a list of former or current Penn State University students (129) and coaches and faculty members (12) who have appeared as athletes at the Olympic Games, plus one athlete for the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics.
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement.Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games.
Timothy Shriver (chairman and CEO of the Special Olympics, brother of Maria Shriver, and son of Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver) Laurence H. Silberman (U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit 1985– ) Adam Silver (Commissioner of the NBA 2014– succeeding David Stern, Rockefeller Foundation trustee) [117] [118 ...