Dru Joyce Classic returns for 19th year, tipped off by tournament with Special Olympics Ohio

CLEVELAND — The Dru Joyce Classic, a youth basketball tournament bringing thousands of athletes from across the country to compete here in Cleveland, is back for its 19th year. This year tipped off a little early with a partnership between the Dru Joyce Classic and Special Olympics Ohio.

"A lot of kids with special needs don't always get the opportunity to experience things like this. Sometimes they’re sidelined, sometimes they don't make the varsity team or the JV team," said Bri Sumser, manager of Unified Sports."But with Unified, everything we do is with students with and without intellectual disabilities. And that's what we have today. We have fellow peers playing side by side.

"My whole life I've been both too disabled and not disabled enough, so I've always been in this weird gray area, so I never even thought that I could participate in Special Olympics, but it's just been too hard for me to keep up in normal sports," she said."It feels great, I'm competing with and against people of all different skill and ability levels. So I don't feel like I'm left out for once.

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