Kiwanis Little Olympics

The Little Olympics is a field day for fourth, fifth and sixth graders, run by the San Angelo Kiwanis Club at San Angelo Stadium and open to schools across the area. The meet opens with a parade of all participants around the track. Events have included the running long jump, the 60- and 70-yard dashes and a 300-yard relay, plus the flexed arm hang for girls and chin-ups for boys. Help comes from San Angelo ISD, local campuses, Angelo State University and Goodfellow Air Force Base volunteers, and Kiwanis calls it its signature project.

What the plaque says

Kiwanis Little Olympics On April 21, 1942, the first Little Olympics began as a community service project organized by the San Angelo Kiwanis Club. The event let grade school-aged children prepare for and compete in an area track and field competition, otherwise not available to them. The annual event hosts 4th through 6th grade students from 30-35 local schools. Upwards of 250 volunteer hours are needed to organize and run the event, which averages 1,500 participants and 5,000 spectators. 2016 marked the 75th Little Olympics, illustrating how volunteerism and community service can make a positive, lasting impact on children of the San Angelo community. (2017)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Concho River Walk — 2.0 mi
  Four miles of lit trails along the North Concho through downtown San Angelo, rebuilt after voters taxed themselves in 2004, with gardens, sculpture, a river stage and stocked trout.
• Fort Concho National Historic Landmark — 2.4 mi
  The stone post at the forks of the Concho, headquarters of the Tenth Cavalry from 1875 to 1882, saved by a woman with a museum and now a city-run landmark of 23 original buildings.
• San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts — 2.4 mi
  A free art museum on the Concho beside Fort Concho, founded in the fort's 1868 quartermaster building and known nationally for its biennial ceramics competition.
• Miss Hattie's Bordello Museum — 2.5 mi
  The upstairs rooms on Concho Avenue where a brothel ran from 1902 until the Texas Rangers closed it in 1952, shown on short guided tours with most of the furnishings original.

More markers nearby

• Johnson Street Church of Christ — 0.4 mi
• Daniel Millar — 1.0 mi
• Fairmount Cemetery — 1.0 mi
• John Ingram — 1.0 mi