RSL Kicks Off Tenth Year With RSL Unified Squad 

Unified soccer is an inclusive sports program that unites Special Olympics athletes with partners as teammates for training and games. Athletes are individuals with intellectual disabilities who are paired with partners without intellectual disabilities. The goal of this program and Special Olympics is to provide training and athletic competition for its athletes. It gives them opportunities to develop physical fitness and become leaders, finding a community for themselves. 

Real Salt Lake has fielded a Special Olympics Unified soccer team every year since 2016. The team will travel to play its first match against Dallas Unified on Saturday, May 9 before playing Colorado Rapids Unified twice. The first match will be at America First Field on Saturday, May 16 following RSL’s match against the Colorado Rapids before heading out to Denver on Saturday August 29 to close out the season. 

RSL’s Unified roster of partners and athletes is as follows: 

Partners: 

6 - Luis De La Paz

7 - Oliver Holgate

9 - Ben Valiz 

10 - Anthony Chavez 

13 - Khloe London 

17 - Aleck Amante 

44 - Jarron Jensen 

77 - Ben McQueen 

Athletes: 

0 - Addison Walker 

1 - Brayden Cheeney 

2 - Weston Harry 

8 - Samuel Jensen 

11 - Porter Wilson

12 - Ryan Walker 

18 - Mostafa Saedi 

19 - Alejandro Galvez 

31 - Nichael London 

For more information on RSL Unified and its partnership with the Special Olympics as well as the team roster you can visit the RSL site here.