INTERVIEW WITH SPECIAL OLYMPICS AREA 13 PROGRAM ASSOCIATE JASON MILLER
INTERVIEW WITH WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYER MADISON HESS
INTERVIEW WITH BASEBALL PLAYER BRENT SCHAEKEL
Austin, Texas – Concordia University Texas students and staff members played an active role as key volunteers at Special Olympics Texas' inaugural flag football competition on Saturday, Oct. 1 at Reagan High School. Nineteen CTX volunteers came out to support the athletes and help administrate the event.
Special Olympics Texas (SOTX) is in its first year of sponsoring flag football, and Area 13 in Austin put on its first-ever event. The day included three games and an individual skills competition.
Sports Information Director Matthew Chmura served as the competition director, while assistant women's basketball coach Brandon Rohr as well as former baseball player and current intramurals director Jason Wallingsford served on the games committee as the individual skills coordinator and officials coordinator, respectively. In addition, the list of Concordia volunteers also included seven women's basketball players, three baseball players, three men's basketball players, two students in the choir and an athletics assistant who fulfilled roles such as scorekeeping, timekeeping, officiating and being runners and chasers.
Concordia University Texas officially announced a partnership with Special Olympics Texas at its annual athletic awards banquet on Apr. 19, 2011. Today's flag football competition served as a kickoff event between the two programs.
Headed by junior women's soccer defender
Dalaine Whitlock and overseen by head women's soccer coach Corey Holton and head softball coach Denise Lira, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) also started an Athletes for Athletes program that has been recognized by SOTX Public Relations. The program involves Concordia student-athletes going to support and volunteer at SOTX events in Austin and SOTX athletes coming to Concordia home events to support the Tornados in which all the game activities would be centered around them.
The next event for the Athletes for Athletes program is slated to be a home volleyball match against Schreiner at the CTX Field House on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m.
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