Mickey (Melvin) Boutilier, President & CEO of Special Olympics Maine for 33 years, has dedicated his life to enhancing the lives of persons with mental retardation within the State of Maine, across the nation, and even worldwide.
Mickey's involvement with persons with mental retardation began as a Special Education teacher and coach. His involvement continued to grow over the years as he taught and coached in many capacities, finally joining Eunice Kennedy Shriver's vision - Special Olympics - by bringing a team of 13 athletes from Maine to the very first Special Olympics' competition at Soldier's Field in Chicago.
Special Olympics Maine is a year-round program of sports training and competition for persons with mental retardation, which offers sixteen Olympic-style sports and opportunities for competition at local, area, state, national, and international levels. Maine's program has grown to over twenty-five hundred athletes statewide.
The Olympic Oath is "Let me win! But, if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
Maine Sports Hall of Fame
P.O. Box 2
Cumberland, ME 04021
Phone (207) 807-7666
info@mshof.com
The Maine Sports Hall of Fame was established in 1972 for the purpose of: 1) appointing and bestowing recognition awards and scholarships to outstanding Maine high school scholar-athletes; and, 2) to formally honor and memorialize Maine athletes and sports figures who have brought distinction and honor to the state of Maine.
