Rotorua will be well represented at the World Special Olympic Games in Abu Dhabi next year, with a second local athlete being named to compete.
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Maureen McLeod will play for the New Zealand Special Olympics football team in March next year. She will join Rotorua's Ruaumoko Pukepuke, who was named in the New Zealand Special Olympics basketball team in May.
At the games, football is a unified sport which means the team is made up of a mixture of intellectually disabled athletes and athletes without these disabilities.
McLeod was thrilled to find out she had made the team.