GENEVA, Ohio — President Donald Trump will attend the final day of competition at the Patriot Games just outside Cleveland, Ohio, today, according to his public schedule.
The Patriot Games are a national youth sports competition featuring two teenage athletes—a boy and a girl— from each U.S. state, territory, and some tribal nations. The male and female winners of the competition, which includes a mix of military-style endurance circuits and playground sports, like kickball and dodgeball, will split $250,000 in college scholarship prize money. Athletes arrived on the campus of Spire Academy in Geneva, Ohio, over the weekend, and formal competition began Sunday.
ESPN has been airing the event on ESPN+, its subscription streaming service, with on-site coverage anchored by some of its highest-profile talent, including Laura Rutledge, Jordan Rodgers, and Beth Mowins.
The network is also producing an hour-long primetime special about the Patriot Games, scheduled to air on ESPN on ABC on Thursday, August 13 at 9 p.m. ET.
An ESPN spokesperson told Front Office Sports it doesn’t plan to feature any kind of live cut-in to Trump’s visit on its linear broadcast channels today.
