The Winter Olympics are wrapped up in South Korea, and now Seattle tumbles forward to our own Olympic Games.

July 1-8, 2018, Seattle plays host to the Special Olympic USA Summer Games, and Wallingford has its own Olympic hopeful.

Local gymnast and Roosevelt sophomore Virginia Wade will once again compete on the big stage. You may remember her Alpine Skiing competition in Austria in March 2017 as a member of the USA Special Olympic (SO) Women’s Alpine Ski Team.

This time around Ms. Wade qualified for the Washington State Team (also known as The Home Team) in artistic gymnastics. Wade …

If you are out and about, you might spot an Olympian in our midst. Virginia Wade, a Wallingford native, is an Olympic alpine skier, in the Special Olympics. She is headed to Austria and the World Special Olympic Games in a few weeks.

Virginia, a sixteen-year-old Roosevelt High School freshman, competes in the giant Slalom and the Super G. She trains with the Skihawks at Snoqualmie Pass and has been skiing since she was 4. She will travel with the Washington delegation to meet the US Team on March 12.  The games will be televised on ESPN and CBS from …