It was a slam dunk for inclusivity today as Rowan Unified Sports sent off a sensational season with a basketball tournament.
"This is where my heart is," said Marykate Reick, the Co-President of Unified Sports at Rowan University. "You don't get it until you go there on Saturday morning or Sunday morning and you get hooked and you can't stop."
Rowan's Unified Sports program was established in 2012. It pairs students with Special Olympics athletes to play soccer in the fall and basketball in the spring. Today was the culmination of a sensational season where the Gold Team took home the championship title. Next month, that very team will compete in a state championship in Princeton, New Jersey.
"The doctors told me I was never going to go to regular school. I was never going to be, like, playing basketball. I was going to be nonverbal for the rest of my life," she said, referring to her diagnosis with autism. "And I didn't give up."
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