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Aiken County Special Olympics at State Summer Games
Aiken County athletes competed in track and field during the State Summer Games at Fort Jackson Columbia May 1921. From the county 25 athletes and 10 volunteers attended the event with over 1,000 athletes statewide. Tony Breason Morris Clark and many others earned multiple placements including firsts and seconds across softball throw 100 meter dash and 4x100 relays. The overall tally: six firsts 23 seconds 16 thirds 10 fourths and one sixth.
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Aiken County
Fort Jackson
Columbia
Tony Breason
Morris Clark
Kim Culbertson
Breyon Dobey
Lisa Dobbs
Derrick Drayton
Rachel Keisler
Joanne Kirby
Delano Knight
Erica Laboo
Steve Owens
Ray Smalls
Leroy Simmons
Peggy Surrey
Jeffery Taylor
Robert White
Edmond Wigfall
Aretha Williams
Betsy Wilson
Larry Yaun