The End

Team Colorado arrived safely back in Colorado yesterday!  What a wonderful week we all had at National Games!  Thanks to everyone who followed us along the way! 
GREAT JOB ATHLETES AND COACHES!!!!  You are all WONDERFUL!

Check out that medal count!!

Take a look at our medal count!!! Simply amazing for a team of 27 athletes!! Way to go athletes AND coaches.... You guys are INSPIRING!!!

Saving the best for last!!!!

As if our week wasn't perfect enough already our last athletes to compete kept up the fire!! Jeremy R. won 4 gold medals for powerlifting!!!! Vince wins gold for singles bowling and Steve wins 6th for singles bowling!!!
So proud of you guys!!!
Now on to Closing Ceremonies!!!!

Day 4 Pics

Medal Count Updates!

Just since yesterday!!!!.....
Aquatics:  Mai-Lin - 200 Free GOLD, 400 Free GOLD;  Amanda - 100 Breaststroke GOLD, 200 IM SILVER; Conor - 100 Free GOLD, 50 Back GOLD; Dean - 100Free BRONZE; 50 Back BRONZE

Athletics:  Charlie - 3000 BRONZE, 1500 4th; Ben - Shot Put 6th, Long Jump 4th, 200m GOLD; Aimee - 100m GOLD; Alex - 100m 7th, 200m 6th

Bowling - TEAM COLORADO 4 person - SILVER

Powerlifting - Nikia - BRONZE, SILVER, GOLD

Tennis - Conor - Singles BRONZE; Nathan - Singles GOLD; Abigail - Individual Skills BRONZE; Conor and Nathan DOUBLES SILVER

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

Tennis Stars!!

Abby, Nathan and Conor continue to amaze us on the court!  They have all done a great job this week!  Nathan is so fun to watch as he smashes the ball!  Conor's serves are amazing!  and Abby has improved so much it is impossible to imagine!!!  Medal Count for Tennis:  Nathan: Singles - GOLD, Conor: Singles - BRONZE, Men's Doubles - SILVER!!  Abigail - Individual Skills - BRONZE!!!  TENNIS ROCKS!

Bowling Brings Home Silver!

Our four person bowling team gets the Silver Medal!!!  Such an exciting day for all of them!  Including Coach Don - AWESOME JOB JENNY, PATRICIA, STEVE, VINCE and DON!

Pics from Day 3

Results from Day 3!

Day 3 of Competition proved to be another GREAT one for Team Colorado!  Our medal count keeps growing...so much that it is hard to keep track of it all.... here are the total counts and where they come from up to this point!

Team Colorado so far.....
Gymnastics:   Jocelyn - 1 Gold, 4 Bronze; Angie - 2 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze; Hillary - 2 Golds, 3 Silver; Michelle - 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze, 1 4th

Aquatics:  Dean - 50 Free - 4th, Conor - 50 Free - 4th, Amanda - 100 Free - Bronze, Mai-Lin - 100 Back - Gold...Team Colorado Relay - SILVER!

Athletics:  Charlie - 5K - Gold, Aimee - Shot Put - Gold, Alex - Shot Put - 5th

Bocce:  Tammi and Mari - Doubles - Bronze, John and Paul - Doubles - Gold, Team Colorado 4 Person Team - Silver

Bowling - Jenny - Singles - 4th, Patricia - Singles - Gold, Jenny and Patricia - Doubles - Silver, Vince and Steve - Doubles - 4th

Powerlifting - Jeremy W - 3 Gold and 1 Silver, Eric - 3 Gold and 1 Bronze

More results!!

We are so proud of our athletics ladies who threw the shot put to victory!! Alex wins fifth place and Aimee wins the gold!! Wonderful job by both ladies!!

Fastest man around!!

Track athlete Charlie wins gold in the 5k with a very impressive time of 19:54!!! Simply amazing! Congrats Charlie!

Bowlers make Colorado proud

Female bowler Jenny wins fourth place and Patricia wins the gold in singles competition!!! Way to go ladies!!!!!!

Aquatics Update from Mai-Lin!!!

so  far we arrived in Lincoln Nebraska on Saturday Evening around 6:30pm. Settled into our dorms and had dinner. Sunday I had a morning practice and then we had our opening Ceremonies which was a blast. Monday I had my 100 backstroke prelims and my 100 IM medley relay. Tuesday I had my 200 free style. Wednsday I have my 100backstroke finals and IM Medley relay those are for medals..I have my 400 free style and 200 free style for finals. I just been meeting a lot of states and trading pins with other people from other states. Thanks for tyrin to keep up with me awhile I have been competting and doing other fun activities  in Lincoln Nebraska. We do a lot of walking around the campus and the weather has been very hot!!!!


Mai-Lin Hegel

Day 2

Day two of competition proved to be another successful one for Team Colorado!  Swimmers finished strong in their preliminary competitions - each one taking second off their times!!  Tomorrow the finals will start in the afternoon and they are sure to bring home top awards!

Hillary and Jocelyn march in with Coach Audri during the start of their rhythmic gymnastics competition!

Patricia gives us a BIG smile after picking up a hard spare during her singles event!  Awesome Job Patricia!

Colorado Powerlifters take gold....AGAIN!

Jeremy brings home 3 golds and a silver!!!!  WAY TO GO JEREMY!!!

BOCCE!!!!

Our 4 person team - John, Paul, Mari and Tammi - win silver!! Great rematch against the undefeted team from Maine! Great job Bocce!!!

Day 1

Day 1 of competition and TEAM COLORADO is doing GREAT!!!! 

Ben throws the shot put during his preliminaries!

Eric lifts his way to GOLD!

Tammi lines up for a great shot in Bocce!

Michelle shows her skills during her Gymnastics routine!

COLORADO wins first gold of the games!!!

Powerlifter Eric wins the first gold of the ENTIRE games... Plus 2 more golds and a bronze!!!! Way to go Eric!!!!!!!!!

Our powerlifter Eric wins his heat for squat!! Each of our swimmers won their first preliminary races!!!

Opening Ceremonies

Opening Ceremonies was AMAZING last night!  All of our athletes and coaches had a great time!  Check out pictures on the Opening Ceremonies page!

Today competition begins!  GOOD LUCK TEAM COLORADO!!!!

We have arrived!

Team Colorado arrived in Lincoln earlier tonight to start their National Games experience!!!  We are all so excited to be here!!!  Tomorrow everyone will see their venues and then on to Opening Ceremonies!  CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Lincoln....here we come!

The bus is loaded and on its way to Lincoln Nebraska!!  The town and campus are ready for us!

Tonight when they arrive we will have our first team dinner!  And then tomorrow all the action starts!  Groups will head to their sport specific venues in the morning and then OPENING CEREMONIES at 3pm!  You can watch it streamed live at www.2010specialolympics.org (2pm Colorado time)!!