Carroll County operates as a local program under Special Olympics Virginia, Area 9. All proceeds from this race and your contributions support the year round activities of our local team.

Special Olympics Virginia provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

By using sport as a vehicle for social change, Special Olympics Virginia strives to create opportunities for meaningful inclusion in each community using sports as the vehicle to bring people together--UNIFIED SPORTS. Special Olympics goal is to reveal the champion in all of us.