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Karen Oosthuizen was part of the Special Olympics Surrey (SOS) team, and she won a Gold medal in Super Giant Slalom and a Silver Medal in the Slalom. She came fourth in the Giant Slalom.

Karen, 20, attends the College's Skills Centre where she learns life skills including cooking at the Rooftop cafe. She also enjoys dancing and sport at the College.

The Special Olympics Great Britain National Alpine Ski Championships takes place every four years and Karen was part of the team to qualify for the Special Olympics GB Team at the World Winter Games Team in South Korea in January 2013.  She is now waiting to find out whether she has been chosen for this team.

Karen practices with the SOS team every week at Aldershot Dry Ski Slope and once a year they join the West Midlands group at Hemel Hempstead Indoor Snow Slopes and then the Bromley group for a week’s training in Serre Chevaller in France for a week of race training on snow.

Karen has been skiing now for four years now and has progressed from the Novice group to the Intermediate group.

She loves to ski and, as part of Special Olympics Surrey, she also takes part in the tenpin bowling at Charrington Bowling alley every week, where she is taking part in a Special Needs Tenpin bowling League that runs weekly competitions over a year.

Her mother Sonette says: "Karen loves going to Kingston College and she especially enjoys the cooking and dancing."