Involved with Special Olympics for over 20 years Chris Reilly is an athlete for the Special Olympics Otago club training in basketball and tenpin bowling.
Chris plays in a basketball league on Wednesday nights against mainstream teams, and with ten pin bowling he runs a league every Friday night. In 2015 Chris was selected for the world games to represent New Zealand in ten pin bowling where he was one of four athletes to go to Los Angeles, winning several medals.
In 2011 Chris graduated from the Athlete Leadership Programme and since then he has been involved in the opening ceremonies at the 2013 and 2017 National Summer Games as well as the 2016 Trans-Tasman tournament. He has also been the athlete representative on the Otago club committee.
Chris is looking forward to sharing ideas from the Lower South Island and working to get athlete leaders in his region more involved with helping out with the schools programme.
