📋 AARP Grant Supports Bocce for Special Olympics Alaska (AARP Article/Advocacy)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM THE ARTICLE.

The Difference We Make: Alaska’s Older Athletes Find Community, Connection on the Bocce Court.

An AARP grant expanded opportunities for Special Olympics bocce players to stay active.

By Molly Snow, AARP. Published August 29, 2025.

Debbie Rauh, 51, is a gold medalist. ​

​Her sport? One of the oldest in history, predating even the Romans: bocce. ​​

Rauh, who lives in Alaska’s picturesque capital city of Anchorage, is now part of that history. She plays with Special Olympics Alaska, whose bocce teams have competed in local and state tournaments. And she’s always going for gold.

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