Almost two dozen athletes from Lawrence County competed in the state Special Olympics last month in Troy. Combined, these ...

When we first featured Hill’s story last month, we told you how her sister asked people to send cards with words of encouragement and birthday wishes.

Volunteering at the Special Olympics showed me that true victory lies not in winning, but in celebrating courage, inclusion, and the joy of being part of something bigger than yourself.

Dan Usher, who brought his teen son to compete in the shot put events from Woodside High School in the San Francisco Bay Area, said he hoped the issue can be resolved at once. “They are going to ...

The school then had to pay for me to attend a neurodiversity-affirming non-public school made for special needs students like me, since their promise that their accommodations would help me did ...

the federation allowed an additional student to compete and medal in the events where Hernandez qualified. The two-day championship kicked off Friday in sweltering heat at a high school near Fresno.

A transgender athlete won first place in the girls’ high and triple jump events at a California high school track-and-field championship late Saturday and shared the podium with two ...

Ms. Hernandez and the event’s winner — Loren Webster of Wilson High School — both had leaped more than a foot farther than anyone else in the event. For Ms. Webster, it was a back-to-back ...

The California Interscholastic Federation crowned two champions in a pair of events at Saturday's state high school track and field meet when transgender athlete AB Hernandez placed first in the ...