We
congratulate our CASP champions, Carlos Venturo and Javier Ruiz, students who
work at COSAPI and the Universidad Científica del Sur (UCSUR) respectively, for
winning the double gold medal and the single bronze medal for Peru in their
categories in the Pan American Tennis Special Olympics in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
We also congratulate our professor and trainer, Jesús Palma, for the success
and his extraordinary teamwork.
This
tournament, organized by the Special Olympics, took place on the Club Tenis
Santa Cruz courts from August 12 to August 17 under the motto of integration,
demonstrating that the practice of sports has no limits. A hundred players
participated, representing 14 countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Costa
Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela.
The IV
Pan American Tennis Special Olympics Tournament took place as part of the
Project for the development of Tennis in Special Olympics Latin America, COSAT
and COTECC. The project, begun in 2006 and dubbed “Tenis Somos Todos” took
place in Bolivia with the great support of the Departmental Government and of
businesses that shared the objective of using the sport as a means of social
development for people with intellectual disabilities and for the community in
general.