Two athletes and a coach from Northern Kentucky have been nominated to characterize the Commonwealth and the nation as a part of the Particular Olympics USA Staff that can compete on the 2027 Particular Olympics World Video games October 16-24 in Santiago, Chile.
Athletes Maddie Brinkman of Union and Chris Revay of Ft. Mitchell have been nominated to compete on the Video games, Brinkman in swimming and Revay in golf. Debbie Ogden of Fort Wright will function the pinnacle swimming coach for the Particular Olympics USA delegation.
Brinkman, 26, is seeking to make her first journey to the World Video games. She has competed on the final two USA Video games, successful six medals general. On the 2026 USA Video games in Minneapolis, she was a part of the gold medal-winning Kentucky 4×50-yard medley relay group. She added a person silver medal within the 100-yard backstroke and added particular person bronze within the 100-yard freestyle. In Orlando in 2022, Brinkman grabbed particular person gold within the 50-yard backstroke and group gold within the 4×50-yard medley relay. She additionally earned a bronze within the 50-yard freestyle. She has been a Particular Olympics athlete for 10 years, competing in monitor, softball and bowling along with swimming. Brinkman can also be an Athlete Ambassador for this system. She works for Particular Olympics Kentucky Yr-Spherical Companion Texas Roadhouse in Florence.
Revay, 50, Is coming off a silver medal efficiency within the 9-hole particular person stroke play occasion on the 2026 USA Video games. He’s engaged on his third World Video games look. He received a silver medal in golf on the 1995 World Video games in Connecticut and was a part of Kentucky’s gold medal-winning soccer group on the 1999 Video games in North Carolina. He additionally competed on the first USA Video games in Ames, Iowa, in 2006 the place he positioned fourth in his flight in golf. Moreover, Revay has competed in a number of Particular Olympics Nationwide Invitational Golf Tournaments. On the 2000 Nationwide Invitational Match, he turned the primary Particular Olympics golfer to report a gap in a single in an official Particular Olympics competitors.
Revay has been a Particular Olympics athlete for 32 years. He has competed in almost each sport that this system presents. On the monitor, Revay was a daily within the pentathlon – a grueling one-day, five-event competitors – for a few years and received it a number of occasions. He works at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Edgewood.
Ogden will probably be making her second consecutive journey to the World Video games. She was an assistant swimming coach for the Particular Olympics USA delegation on the 2023 Video games in Berlin. The 2022 Particular Olympics Kentucky Coach of the Yr, Ogden has additionally served because the Staff Kentucky head swimming coach on the final three USA Video games. In that point, her athletes have received 22 medals together with seven golds. She has been a Particular Olympics coach for greater than 20 years however has been working with people with mental disabilities for greater than 40 years. She heads the Northern Kentucky Dolphins Particular Olympics swimming program and serves on the Particular Olympics Kentucky Swimming Sport Improvement Committee.
Along with Particular Olympics teaching, Ogden has additionally coached the Ludlow/Bromley swim and dive group, the St. Agnes Faculty monitor and discipline group and the St. Agnes Faculty fifth grade volleyball group in Fort Wright. She is the Senior Government Assistant within the Improvement Division at Youngsters’s Hospital in Cincinnati.
Three different Kentuckians are additionally hoping to be a part of the Particular Olympics USA delegation that goes to Santiago. Taylorsville swimmer Carson Chaney, and Chris Tutsch and Mark Buerger from Lexington have additionally been nominated for the Video games. Tutsch would function Chris Revay’s caddie in Satiago. Buerger would function a part of the Particular Olympics USA communications employees on the Video games.
Kentucky’s nominees will head to Particular Olympics USA Staff Trials, which will probably be held Sept. 17-20 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Staff Trials are designed to assist athletes and coaches get to know each other and assist athletes get used to working with a coach who could also be totally different from their dwelling coach. The Trials encompass sports activities observe, group constructing occasions and different particular occasions.
No nominee is formally a part of the Particular Olympics USA delegation till the group is introduced, which can occur in mid-October.
The 2027 Particular Olympics World Video games Santiago would be the first Particular Olympics World Video games ever held within the southern hemisphere. The Video games are anticipated to deliver collectively greater than 6,000 athletes from 170 international locations to compete. This would be the sixth time that the World Summer time Video games have been held exterior america. The others had been in 2003 in Dublin; 2007 in Shanghai; 2011 in Athens, Greece, 2019 in Abu Dhabi and 2023 in Berlin. The 2015 Video games had been held in Los Angeles.
For extra details about the athletes and coaches nominated for the Particular Olympics USA group for the 2027 Particular Olympics World Summer time Video games or about how one can assist assist their journey, contact Particular Olympics Kentucky Vice President of Communications and Exterior Relations Mark Buerger at 800-633-7403 or by way of e-mail at mbuerger@soky.org.
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