Physical Therapy Students Lead Screening at PA Special Olympics Summer Games
Graduate physical therapy students volunteered at the 2025 Summer Games, the Special Olympics Pennsylvania's largest statewide competition bringing more than 2,000 athletes and 750 coaches together to compete Penn State University. Widener students worked alongside clinicians to complete approximately 200 FunFitness screens for the athletes to assess flexibility, balance, strength and cardiovascular fitness.
The FunFitness screenings are delivered as part of the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes initiative, which began in 1997 to offer free health screenings and education to Special Olympics athletes in a welcoming, fun environment. To date, the program has delivered more than 2 million free health screenings and trained close to 300,000 health professionals and students to treat people with intellectual disabilities. The 2025 event was the second largest number of screenings completed at a single event.