Jenny's Jots
April 2024

March has been busy with both tennis and cycling. The area tennis competition was this past Saturday (March 30). We took 11 athletes who competed in the skills division. Everyone did so well! It was fun and our team really showed what they learned this year. Tennis practices will continue for a few more weeks and then…party!!!
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Jenny's Jots
March 2024

February is always an exciting month with our BIG BASKETBALL GAME! It was super fun this year on Feb. 8 at Boerne High School gym. One addition to our usual unified game was the Boerne Blaze cheer team who performed several times throughout the night! A few of our athletes even did double-duty and played basketball AND cheered! The community came out in force and all had a great time!
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Thank you to everyone that came out to the BIG GAME 2024! We appreciate all of those involved. More photos to come!

Jenny’s Jots
February 2024

January has been a month of basketball and cheer! Our hard-working athletes will showcase their talents and achievements at one of our most exciting community events: The BIG GAME! This has been going on for many years. Our basketball team plays alongside some varsity players….to the loud sound of people cheering for them with much enthusiasm! 
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JENNY’S JOTS
2023 Year in Review
Happy New Year All! I think the best way to let you all know what a wonderful and active Boerne Blaze family we have is to sum up the year 2023 and all that we did!

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Jenny's Jots
December 2023
Be sure to check out the new pictures on the Photos page!

We began November with our area bowling tournament at Bandera Bowl in San Antonio. Our athletes love bowling, and all did well! They always have so much fun with this sport and love to go to competition! 

We ended November with the beginning of our next sport - basketball! This is another very popular sport. Basketball will go until the BIG GAME on February 8 at Champion High School. 

Our growing sport of triathlon finished up with an area meet on December 2. We now have 22 athletes compete either as individuals or on relay teams in swimming, biking (stationary bike), and running on an indoor track. We had one relay and 2 individuals from Rockwall come join in the fun. 

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Jenny's Jots
November 2023
Be sure to check out the new pictures on the Photos page!

October has been a whirlwind month with SO much going on in the life of Boerne Blaze Special Olympics!!!
Bowling practices continue with the area tournament on November 11!

Triathlon practices have begun. We have 28 athletes training for this sport. It includes swimming, riding a stationary bicycle, and running/walking on a treadmill or track. The area meet is on December 2nd!
Also, on December 2nd—The Boerne Blaze Special Olympics Team has been asked to be the grand marshals of the famous Weihnachts Christmas Parade!! In the evening, the floats travel down scenic Boerne Main Street to a packed crowd. What an honor!

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Jenny's Jots
October 2023

What a wonderful and fun September we had! And more to come the month of October!
Under the direction of head coach Sherri Cox, we took 20 athletes and 2 unified partners to our area swim meet on Saturday, Sept. 16, earning a lot of gold, silver, and bronze hardware!!
9 of our swimmers continue to practice and will travel to Texas A&M in College Station, Oct. 19-21 to compete in the Special Olympics Texas Fall Classic State Swim meet!                       
    
After 2 months of Top Golf practices, we ended that season on Sept. 27 with a unified tournament – several Boerne Police Officers joined us as partners! All 7 of our athletes competed, had great games, and most of all, had lots of fun! Thank you, Top Golf!

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Jenny's Jots
September 2023

I feel like we are in a whirlwind of Boerne Blaze activities!!! I hope most of our athletes are participating in at least one of our offerings at this time. 

Swimming is soon to culminate in our area swim meet on Sept. 16. After that, several of our swimmers will continue practice to compete at the state level at Texas A&M in the SOTX Fall Classic Oct. 20-21. Swimmers have worked hard since the beginning of July.

​Bowling has just begun on Mondays. We are growing in number in the Boerne Blaze so both swimming and bowling venues are at capacity. This year, the bowlers have been divided into 2 groups and each group has an hour on Monday to bowl. They are having fun!

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Our Jericho ministry has taken a break over the summer. However, at the participants’ suggestion, we met in July to do a service project so we could give back. So many help our group of individuals with special needs. 
Under the leadership of athlete Mark G., we packed a total of 70 boxes for Operation Christmas Child! This is a mission of Samaritan’s Purse organization. The boxes are packed with new donated items of hygiene, school supplies, clothing, accessories, toys and something of a Wow! Item. The boxes are sent to children overseas who have little in the way of material things. Every box also includes a note from the person packing them, sharing God’s love and giving them hope.

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