The 2024 Special Olympics North Carolina (SONC) Summer Games, to be held May 31 – June 2 in the Raleigh area, will feature nearly 1,500 Special Olympics athletes and Unified partners, individuals without intellectual disabilities, from across the state competing in athletics, basketball, bowling, gymnastics, powerlifting, swimming and volleyball.
Athletes will compete at venues in Raleigh, Cary and Holly Springs for SONC’s largest state-level competition. As Special Olympics athletes are not asked to pay for any of the cost associated with their participation, an event of this size requires a vast amount of resources, including the support of nearly 1,200 volunteers. Volunteer registration is still open for individual volunteers, groups of eight or more volunteers, individual sponsorships and corporate sponsorships.
Support opportunities are available for individual volunteers, groups of eight or more volunteers, individual sponsorships and corporate sponsorships.
To kick off the weekend of competition, the 2024 SONC Summer Games Opening Ceremony will be held on Friday, May 31 at 7:30 p.m. at Reynolds Coliseum on the North Carolina State University campus, featuring performances by Special Theatre Arts of Raleigh (STAR), Cirque de Vol and Premier School of Dance.
Admission to all SONC Summer Games competition events is free and open to the public. For media inquiries, contact SONC Director of Digital Media Katie McGhee at kmcghee@sonc.net or (919)-719-7662 ext. 128.
2024 SONC Summer Games sponsors include: Town of Cary, Le Bleu, Sheetz and Civitan International.
Official 2024 SONC sponsors include: Supreme Level: Law Enforcement Torch Run® for Special Olympics North Carolina, Golisano Foundation, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Publix and IDEAs that Work; Championship Level: Bank of America, North Carolina Knights of Columbus, Sheetz, Dunkin’ Donuts and UBS; Platinum Level: A Caring Heart Case Management, Inc., BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina, Mark Jacobson Toyota, HCA Healthcare and Civitan International; Gold Level: Southport Graphics, DMJPS PLLC, Baxter, SiteOne Landscape Supply and Powers & Thomas Midway Entertainment; Silver Level: ATLAS SP Partners, Wawa, State Employees Combined Campaign, Crossroads Ford of Apex, Bayada Home Health Care, ESPN, Duke Fuqua School of Business, Milestone Strategies, Bonefish Grill, NFL Foundation, Nashville NC Running Festival, Lenovo, Abound Health, Erie Insurance, Ellis & Winters LLP, Charlotte’s got a lot and Digital Mettle; Bronze Level: Carolina Complete Health, Delta Dental, Duke Health, Wells Fargo, Vaya Health, Secrest Wrecker Service, Southland Dairy Farmers, BASF’s Awareness of Visible and Invisible Disabilities (AViD), Xerox, CENTURY 21 Triangle Group, Labcorp, The Dale Jr. Foundation, Will Enterprises, NC Able, R+L Carriers, Wolfspeed, State Employees’ Credit Union, North Carolina Medical Society and MPC Certified Public Accountants.