From June 20th to 22nd, the Pembina Valley was represented by athletes who travelled to Winnipeg for a notable event — Special Olympics Manitoba’s 2025 Summer Games.
Colleen Mourant is one of the athletes who competed. She also came home with two medals that she now calls her own.
Highlights from the weekend
For Mourant, the weekend was memorable. She said the best part of the experience was “the energy from all the athletes and coaches.”
“It’s fun,” she said. “[The other athletes] are people like me who are involved with Special Olympics, and they try their best just like I do.”
Hosting a crowd of athletes
The Special Olympics Manitoba games, which hosted “hundreds” of athletes, according to its website, featured sports such as bocce, golf, rhythmic gymnastics, swimming, basketball, and Mourant’s sport, ten-pin bowling.
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It’s a sport the athlete says she’s been involved in for about a decade now.
“I honestly don't know why I started, but it definitely was when I was in high school,” she said. “It's just a fun, easy sport.”
A medal winner
Mourant’s athleticism paid off on the weekend — she won a silver medal in single ten-pin bowling and a gold medal in team ten-pin bowling (in which she competed with members of the Valley Rollers, a bowling team from the Pembina Valley).
In both, she said her scores were above her average.
For Mourant, it’s good to be a winner.
“It feels amazing,” she said.
- With files from Ty Hildebrand -