Special Olympics Panthers Flag Football Team. Photo provided by John Bonitati.
News Release
WARSAW — Special Olympic Kosciusko County athletes competed in the Eunice Kennedy Schriver Games in Indianapolis Sunday, Oct. 1. The EKS games are multi-sport events during the month of October. Golf, equestrian, softball, volleyball, soccer, corn toss and flag football are competitions held.
The corn toss competition took place at Grand Park in Westfield. The flag football tournament took place at Brebeuf Preparatory School in Indianapolis.
Results of the corn toss are:
21 feet team competition
- Sabrina Turner/ Robert Svinarich: Gold Medal
- Elizabeth Wabol/ Amy Morris: Silver Medal
- Brian Bierly/ Martha Sullivan: Silver Medal
- Billie Holtz/ Walter Holtz: Silver Medal
- Christina Messer/ Stephen Troyer: Silver Medal
- Ruby French/ Gale Vanator: Silver Medal
- Teri Hughes/ Malika Wood: Silver Medal
- Austin Breeden/ Adam Little: Fourth Place
30 feet team competition
- Scott Frush/ Mike Parker: Gold Medal
- Norm McPeak/ Morgan Swafford: Gold Medal
Ruby Mock, Ron Taylor, Steve Slater, Kathy Kumfer and Cheryl Lewis also received participation ribbons.
Joe Baranowski and Lucinda Conley coached the corn toss athletes.
The Kosciusko County Panthers flag football team won the silver medal in the Purple flight. Team members included: Mike Bousman, Matt Bammel, Amy Philson, Timothy Warner-Guile, Kevin McPeak, Zeus Leonard, Justin Miller, Chris Cole and Gage Sellers.
The Panthers defeated the Porter County Force, 31-29 in a close first game. In the championship match up, the Panthers lost to the Madison County Hawks, 56-38 in a high-scoring contest.
First year flag football coach, Jeff Miller did an excellent job with the team.
Matt Bammel, participated in area golf competition. Kyle Cripe, participated in the golf your and individual 9-hole event, winning at the state tournament in both.
Becky Walls, Kosciusko County Coordinator for Special Olympics would like to recognize and express appreciation to all the volunteers and coaches for their time and dedicated effort in making this possible.
Travis Burnett
A pioneer in the flag football community, Travis helped co-found the Flag Football World Championship Tour, FlagSpin and USA Flag. Featuring 15+ years of content creation for the sport of flag football, creating and managing the largest flag football tournaments on the planet, coaching experience at the youth and adult level as well as an active player with National and World Championship level experience.
