CCSD Students Win Gold in Winter State Special Olympics

The Cherokee County Special Olympics Unified Basketball Team.

Cherokee County School District students won gold in the Special Olympics 2026 State Indoor Winter Games!  

The unified basketball, traditional basketball, ramp bowling, and traditional bowling teams all earned gold medals at the statewide competition recently held in Cobb County.  The unified basketball team, which is made up of Olympians and peer helper partners, is advancing to compete at the Special Olympics USA Games in Minnesota this June!  Congratulations to our students, their coaches, and Cherokee County Special Olympics volunteers and sponsors, and thank you to our School Board for its longtime support of our partnership to ensure our students learn more, grow more, and achieve more! 

UNIFIED BASKETBALL
Athletes: 
Tylor Armstrong, Sequoyah HS 
Mairin Crossman, River Ridge HS
Mikey Moreno, Sequoyah HS 
Leah Weatherby, Cherokee HS 
Partners: 
Riley Buck, Sequoyah HS 
Wyatt Head, Cherokee HS 
Cris Holderness, Creekview HS 
Nate Weatherby, Cherokee HS

TRADITIONAL BASKETBALL
Audric Agbavon, Transition Academy 
Gia DiGregorio, Creekview HS 
Alan Miller, Sequoyah HS 
Alex Miller, Sequoyah HS 
Leland Wilson, Creekview HS 

RAMP BOWLING
Imani Cherry, Woodstock MS 
Eden Sherman, Dean Rusk MS 
Hadley Stavropoulos, Little River ES

TRADITIONAL BOWLING
Chase Doss, Etowah HS 
Luke Spiker, Woodstock HS 
Madison Wolff, Transition Academy 
Madison Wyas, Cherokee HS 
Billy Zambrano, Creekview HS 

BOWLING COACHES
Savannah Lawson, Anna Lindner, Bryan Lindner, Jordan Waddington – Creekview HS staff
Kathleen Eder, Kelleye Greene - Woodstock HS staff 

The students, their coaches, and CCSD Adapted PE Coach Ben Farist, who serves as the Cherokee County Special Olympics coordinator, will be recognized by the Cherokee County School Board and Superintendent of Schools at an upcoming School Board meeting.

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