Polar Plunge goes mobile with help from Alexandria company
The Polar Plunge is now also mobile thanks to the Plungester which will be used at events across the state to benefit Special Olympics Minnesota. Author: Heidi Wigdahl Updated: 10:47 AM CST March 13, 2021
ALEXANDRIA, Minnesota Every year, people go to the extreme to support Special Olympics Minnesota through the Polar Plunge.
These plunges typically play out on frozen Minnesota lakes. But they also happen on-site at schools across the state through the Cool School Polar Plunge. What traditionally started out as year-round sports training for somebody who has an intellectual disability, now we ve got all kinds of programming, said Bill Fish, executive vice president for Special Olympics Minnesota. We re here at a school supporting our Unified programming where anybody can participate.