Special Olympics - Westmoreland County

09/30/2026

What a day for Team Westmoreland at the Western Fall Sectionals on Sunday! 42 athletes, across four sports competed so incredibly. We are beyond proud of our athletes and coaches.

We brought home:

Flag football:
2 gold and 1 silver

Bocce:
5 gold, 2 silver and a bronze

Powerlifting:
Golds across the board!

Long distance run/walk:
9 golds across 18 events

Special shout out to Lisa Popovich for a surprise guest MC for the opening ceremonies! What a way to kickoff the day for our athletes 🎤.

Great day 😎. Congrats to all moving on to the State Championships at Villanova. Remaining silver drawings are announced this week.

We can’t thank our coaches enough. Without you NONE of this could be possible 👏.

09/24/2026

We are extremely excited to announce the details of our snowshoe practices (flyer)!

As a reminder, all athletes and coaches need to fill out this quick link by 10/15 along with their health history portal by 11/15. This is what took place of the paper medicals last year. That is all online now. Once you have completed it’s a super quick renewal each year.

All links located below! Reach out with any questions

*After the 10/15 deadline we will communicate more details with all athletes that have signed up.

**If you requested information another way via our newsletter that will be sent out asap.

Snowshoe:

https://specialolympicspa.org/sports/11309990091

Portal link:

https://portals.specialolympics.org

09/21/2026

We are extremely excited to announce the details of our bowling 🎳 practices and event (flyer)!

As a reminder, all athletes and coaches need to fill out this quick link by 10/15 along with their health history portal by 11/15. This is what took place of the paper medicals last year. That is all online now. Once you have completed it’s a super quick renewal each year.

We have not yet finalized the details for snowshoe and alpine but that will be sent out in the next few weeks. All links located below! Reach out with any questions.

*After the 10/15 deadline we will communicate more details with all athletes that have signed up.

**If you requested information another way via our newsletter that will be sent out asap.

***ALL athletes must register before the event either through a school, organization or as an independent athlete at our practices.

Portal link:

https://portals.specialolympics.org

Bowling link:

https://specialolympicspa.org/sports/11310001745

Winter sports (snowshoe/alpine):

https://specialolympicspa.org/sports/?region=three+rivers+region&season=winter

09/20/2026

Three Rivers Bocce Fest on 9/19. It was a great day! Westmoreland teams bringing home:

5 gold
3 silver
4 bronze

Congrats to all athletes and thank you to all coaches!

09/17/2026

Late to the party but not too late! Pictures from:

Local Bocce Brigade - September 6th
Mammoth Park
-Record 13 teams that competed 💪

Three Rivers Invitational - September 12th
Monroeville Community Park

-6 events, 6 golds for LDRW!
-3 teams, 2 golds and 1 silver for our flag 🏈teams

Congratulations to ALL athletes 😎😎

09/08/2026

What a great day at our local bocce event on Sunday. 13 teams, perfect weather and great competition 😎

4 games went into overtime!

Congratulations to ALL athletes and unified partners as well as a huge thank you to ALL coaches.

More pics to follow!

08/31/2026

Congrats to Cole and our entire softball program! Great season #1. Such an awesome write up 👏🥎!

Cole Vay slapped home plate and screamed while his Wolverines 1 softball teammates mobbed Kris Cunningham against the fence behind home plate. Vay, a 22-year-old Perryopolis resident, waited 13 years for an opportunity to play a sport like baseball again. When the Special Olympics Westmoreland Count...

08/24/2026

We just wanted to wish a HUGE congratulations to our Wolverines 1 softball team. Division 3 gold medal 🥇 winners in Hershey at the State Championships!!

They won on a walk off hit by Cole Vay 🥎! After being down 9-6 going into the last inning they won 10-9 over Lancaster County. The team went 4-1 on the weekend capped off by a storybook ending. Excellent team wins.

Congratulations to Head Coach Dan DePalma, as well as assistant Coaches Jeff Vay, Jerry Liston, Dave Sciullo and athlete coach Jason DePalma.

We also wanted to say we are proud of EVERY Wolverine that participated in softball this season that were not in attendance this weekend (the last two pictures are the full program). We also wanted to thank ALL volunteer coaches for your time and effort.

Overall great season #1! Congratulations 👏

08/22/2026

Thank you Commissioner Kopas! Congratulations again Adam. You deserve it. Awesome day 🥇🇺🇸🥇

08/22/2026

Excellent Job Trent 💯!! Good luck to all Westmoreland athletes. Great pictures of some of our athletes! 📷