I had a magical experience working as a volunteer at the 2015 Special Olympic World Games in Los Angeles this summer. I supported basketball at the University of Southern California’s Gayland Center; and while there, I was impressed by how smoothly this and the entire event ran considering there were: 10,000 athletes, 2,000 coaches, 30,000 volunteers from nearly 200 countries.I kept saying to my fellow Special Olympic volunteers, “I’m amazed how they pulled these games off; the coordination of such an event is overwhelming.At the Olympic Games, like the recent ones in London and Sochi, Russia, organizers dealt with world class athletes familiar with international travel challenges and the obstacles involved with getting to and from their homes to the games and their venue once in country. At the Special Olympic World Games (the Games), this was the first time many of these athletes had ever been on an airplane, let alone out of their country – now throw in the complications of traveling and then participating with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Upon arrival, next consider the years of planning required to support numerous languages, dozens of different cultures, and variety of transportation, food and lodgings needed to move, feed and house some 40,000 people in the second largest city in the United States…Finally, consider the spectrum of special needs that the athletes have from dietary constraints, religious considerations, medications and medical issues and more…Now, combine all of these factors together and you have what some would consider a logistical impossibility.

As someone in the IT industry and a user of many of the systems at the World Games, I was wondering how on earth they coordinated all of this and then pulled it off so seamlessly. I was also impressed with how many companies like Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Bank of America,Toyota, Deloitte, Google, ABC/ESPN, The Walt Disney Company, Mattel, UPS and many, many other supported the Games.


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