Orange County Special Olympians earned a bevy of medals at the SONC Summer Games where more than 1,000 athletes competed in seven sports in Raleigh/Cary.
Orange medalists were in swimming and track & field.
Earning gold in swimming were Brandon Barbaro 100y back, 200 free; Abbey Marie Goodwin 100 free; Man Jackson Jr. 100 free, 50 back; Justin Nicolas Jarmusz 100 free, 50 back; Kaylee Renae Jordan 100 back; Larissa Kiefer 500 free; Gabe McBride 500 free; Curtis Nold 100 free; Lucia Maria Romano 100 breast, 50 fly; Dakota Bly Shaw 100 free; Peri Coulais Thomson 100 breast, 200 IM, 500 free; Al Wright 200 free; Relay teams: Orange Manta Rays 4×50 free relay (Derek Todd Flake, Jordan, Nold, Shaw); Orange Sharks 4×50 free relay (Barbaro, McBride, Romano, Thomson).
Silver medalists were Brandon Barbaro 200 breast; Abbey Marie Goodwin 50 back; Justin Nicholas Jarmusz 50 free; Kaylee Renae Jordan 50 free; Lucia Maria Romano 200 free; Dakota Bly Shaw 100 fly, 50 back; Alexis Beth Teplin 50, 100 back. 200 free. Bronze medalists: Gabe McBride 100 back; Orange Marlins 4×50 free relay (Kiefer, Jonathan Henry Pardue, Teplin, Wright).
Swim coaches were Ana Carlson-King, Shelley Walter, Mattie Ramont.
Track & field medal winners: Tucker Barlow first 100m, 200m dash, third 400; John Bennett first 200 dash, second 100, 400; Greg Butler first 200, 400, 1500; Anna Christine Coleman first 1500, third 200, 800; Molly McCabe Coolidge first 400 walk, second 400, 800; Donald Markell Corwin second 100, 400, 800; Charlotte Shuo Feng first 200, second 100, 400; Clare Curran Feole first 100, 200, third 400; Tintin Kang Fu second 200, 400; Nickalas Daejon Harris first 400, second 100, 200; Kimberly Helen Kelly gold 100 dash, 400 walk, second 200 dash; Julia Kenney first 100 dash, second 200, 400; Joey Allen Kessler first 200, 400; Max James Kuller first 400; Scott Lambeth second 100, third 200, 400; Steffanie Steffie Madden first 100, 200, 400; Zion Amir Martin second 400, third 100; James Obie second 200, third 100, 400; Brian Michael O’Donnell first 100, 200, 400; Ahmad Afab Rahlman third 400, 800; Adam Michael Ricci second 400, third 100; Frank Ricky Sampson first 100, 400, second 200; Ben Clayton Steele Schoolar second 400, third 200, 800; Victoria Jean Shore first 100, 200 wheelchair race, tennis ball throw; Rubens Martin Shundi first 400, 800; Hunter Stanford third 200, 400; Olivia Simone Strong first 400, second 100, 200; Jessica Nicole Thompson first 100, 200, second 400; Preston Thomas Uhlenberg first 100, 200, 400; Steven Watts second 100, 200, 400; Daniel Weiss first 100, 200, second 400; Orange County 4×100 relay (Kelly, O’Donnell, Ricci, Weiss second; Orange Congeniality 4×100 relay (Kang, Hadley, Obie, Sampson) third; Orange Harmony 4×100 relay (Fields, Harris, Lambeth, Hunter) third; Orange Love 4×100 relay (Barlow, Kuller, Martin, Rahman) third; Orange Peace 4×100 r elay (Butler, Schoolar, Uhlenberg, Watts) first; Orange Serenity 4x 100 relay (Coleman, Feng, Feole, Strong) second; Orange Tranqulity 4×100 relay (Bennett, Corwin, Kessler, Shundi) third; Orange Unity 4×100 relay (Coolidge, Kenney, Madden, Thompson) first;
Track coaches were Bernie Prabucki, Dana Hanson, Elizabeth Fouts, Sharla Coleman, Mike Mantini, Mike Madden, Olivia Mitchell, Ben Logel, Kwame Alston, Alice Barry, Richard Kohrman, Genevieve Fouts, Ila Lanigan.