Basketball games were held Friday (June 5) in the Intramural Building on Penn State's University Park campus as part of the 40th Pennsylvania Special Olympics Summer Games. Here, a player from Delaware County looks for an opening in the Area M (Harrisburg area) defense.

Photo Credit: Geoff Rushton

Year Taken: 2009

A Lebanon County player sizes up his shot during a game against Adams County Friday (June 5) in Penn State's IM Building. The game was part of the 40th Pennsylvania Special Olympics Summer Games, being held Thursday through Sunday, June 4-6, on Penn State's University Park campus. This is the 22nd year the games have been held at Penn State.

Photo Credit: Geoff Rushton

Year Taken: 2009

A Delaware County player battles inside against Area M during a Pennsylvania Special Olympics Summer Games basketball contest Friday (June 5) in the IM Building on Penn State's University Park campus.

Photo Credit: Geoff Rushton

Year Taken: 2009

Adams County players get advice from coaches in between periods of their game against Lebanon County Friday (June 5) against Lebanon County during the basketball contests of the 40th Pennsylvania Special Olympics Summer Games. The basketball games were held in the IM Building on Penn State's University Park campus.

Photo Credit: Geoff Rushton

Year Taken: 2009

Stephen Sinnott, competing for Venango and Forest Counties, celebrates his first-place finish in his heat of the Special Olympics 50 meter freestyle competition at McCoy Natatorium on Penn State's University Park campus. Aquatics competition was scheduled for all day on Friday, June 5, and continuing until Saturday afternoon.

Photo Credit: Annemarie Mountz

Year Taken: 2009

Swimmers hit the water for one of several heats of 50 meter freestyle competition in the 2009 Special Olympics aquatics events, taking place at McCoy Natatorium on Penn State's University Park campus through Saturday, June 6.

Photo Credit: Annemarie Mountz

Year Taken: 2009

Sara Loy, left, Jessie Kiner, Maria Rumberger and Meghan Troup, members of the SOS Peer Helpers group at Greenwood High School in Millerstown, cheer on their swimmer during one of the heats of the Special Olympics 50 meter freestyle competition at McCoy Natatorium.

Photo Credit: Annemarie Mountz

Year Taken: 2009

Carl Raup of State College served as referee/starter for the 50 meter freestyle swimming event at McCoy Natatorium on Friday morning, June 5. Raup is one of 2,500 volunteers from the community, organizations, and corporations around the state who make the Special Olympics Summer Game possible for more than 2,000 athletes and 750 coaches.

Photo Credit: Annemarie Mountz

Year Taken: 2009

The Penn State Molly Trolley drops off and picks up Special Olympic athletes and volunteers at the Olympic Village. The Olympic Village, set up in the East Halls area of Penn State's University Park campus, is a place athletes and their families can go to have fun when they're not competing.

Photo Credit: Bekka Coakley

Year Taken: 2009

Athletes and volunteers create their own sundaes at the ice cream social in the Olympic Village set up in the East Halls area of Penn State's University Park campus for the 2009 Special Olympics Summer Games.

Photo Credit: Bekka Coakley

Year Taken: 2009

Nine athletes competed in the 800 meter race, in four different heats, during the 2009 Special Olympics Summer Games, held on Penn State's University Park campus for the 22nd year. Track and field events were held in spite of the unseasonably cool, rainy weather.

Photo Credit: Bekka Coakley

Year Taken: 2009

Special Olympics track and field events included a softball throw, where athletes competed to see who had the strongest softball arm. Volunteers stood by measuring the distance to determine the winner.

Photo Credit: Bekka Coakley