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What is a Unified Champion School?

Our new series “Inclusion Weekly”, follows our U.S. Youth Ambassadors as they explain everything you need to know about Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools.

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Two soccer players working together to dribble the ball down the field.

Inclusion Weekly: Unified Sports

U.S. Youth Ambassador Sydney from Massachusetts shows the importance of Special Olympics Unified Sports through interviewing students at her ...

Jenni’s Moment

Jenni’s younger brother Jason has Down syndrome. Growing up, Jason was one of the first students with Down syndrome ...

A youth leader points at a poster he's been working on.

Inclusion Weekly: Inclusive Youth Leadership

In collaboration with Edmodo, Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools has created a series of short videos that display our programming ...

A group of students from Pontiac High School in Illinois posing for a picture.

Inclusion Weekly: Whole School Engagement

In collaboration with Edmodo, Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools has created a series of short videos that display our programming ...

Margot’s Moment

Margot works at Special Olympics International. While driven by the mission of the movement, she did not have a personal ...

U.S. Youth Ambassador Tajha walks the halls of her high school with fellow students.

Inclusion Weekly: What is UCS?

In collaboration with Edmodo, Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools has created a series of short videos that display our programming ...

Claude and Catherine Dayas-Tokoto sitting in their home looking into each other's eyes.

Catherine and Claude’s Moment

Catherine and Claude Dayas-Tokoto emigrated from Cameroon to the United States to provide a better life for their children including ...

Deran, a high school athletic director from North Carolina looks off into the distance.

Deran’s Moment

When Deran was younger, he had a childhood friend named Jenny, who had intellectual disabilities. When Deran received the news ...

Noah and his best friend Conrad hanging out.

Noah’s Moment

Growing up Noah and his brother Sam, who has intellectual disabilities, had a very estranged relationship. The brotherly bond Noah ...

Riley a student from Ponaganset High School, dressed in spirit gear and smiling.

Ponaganset Senior Projects

At Ponaganset High School, each senior is expected to present on a topic that has significant meaning to them. In 2019, ...

Tajha, a US Youth Ambassador from Florida smiles for the camera while standing in front of a lake.

Tajha’s Moment

Tajha Ilerant from Immokalee HS in Florida lost both of her parents at a young age. With such tragedy in ...

Sidney and Britney a Unified pair from Hawaii smile for the camera.

Be The Change

Britney and Sidney from Special Olympics Hawaii attended the Youth Leadership Experience as part of the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games ...

Cody,a player on the Clovis North Unified soccer team posing for the camera.

Meet #33 – Cody

Cody is not just an awesome soccer player, he is an artist and a member of the Unified Generation. Clovis ...

Sydney, a player on the Clovis North Unified soccer team posing for the camera.

Meet #22 – Sydney

Sydney is one of the Captains of the Clovis North soccer team. Joining the team gave Sydney a sense of ...

Sean, a player on the Clovis North Unified soccer team posing for the camera.

Meet #25 – Sean

Sean always played sports growing up but he didn’t find his community until he joined the Clovis North Broncos. ...

Young man with his team reaching his hand up in the air in triumph.

Clovis Unified

This is the story of the Clovis North High School Unified Interscholastic Soccer team and their journey to the 2018 Special ...

Two students from Ponaganset High School congratualting each other during a Unified Sports game.

Ponaganset HS: A Case Study

Ponaganset High School in Rhode Island is a great representation of what it means to be a Unified Champion Banner ...

Noah from Mead High School smiling as he holds a sign that says

Mead HS: A Case Study

Mead High School is a Unified Champion School in Longmont, Colorado, about an hour outside of Denver. The school has ...

Special Olympics athlete Daina Shilts looking pensively into the distance.

Daina’s Powerful Story

Daina Shilts was bullied, teased and excluded when she was in school. Through Special Olympics, she found her love of ...

Students from Old Bridge Paige and Bella looking at each other smiling.

Live Unified: Inclusive Youth Leadership

Inclusive Youth Leadership is one of three components of a Unified Champion School when students with and without intellectual disabilities ...

Alamo Heighs students Carrie and Dominic speaking at a podium.

Alamo Heights HS: A Case Study

Alamo Heights High School is a Unified Champion School located in San Antonio, Texas. This story focuses on the little ...

Eddie Yarbrough smiling as he walks down the hallway of his high school.

Eddie Yarbrough: From Unified Champion Schools to the NFL

Eddie Yarbrough is a Defensive End for the Buffalo Bills. Before his professional career, Eddie was one of the founding ...

Play Unified: Unified Sports & Unified PE

Special Olympics Unified Sports is one of three components that make up a Special Olympics Unified Champion School. This as ...

A group of students from Alamo Heights High School waving to the camera on a football field.

The Revolution is Inclusion

As spoken by students of Unified Champion Schools and members of the Unified Generation: “We are not just athletes. We ...

Brothers Isaac, Isaiah and Ivan Garcia are sitting on the Washington High School basketball court looking into the distance.

Washington HS: A Case Study

Washington High School is a Unified Champion School located in Phoenix, Arizona. Through Unified Sports and Inclusive Youth Leadership opportunities, ...