 In February 2010, Batista's department hosted the Latin American Regional Special Olympics, a two-week-long event that included over one thousand young athletes, and the presence of Dr. Timothy Shriver, CEO of the worldwide organization, and Martín Torrijos, former president of Panama.Santini and Batista traveled to Morocco later that year to put in a bid for San Juan to host the 2015 worldwide Special Olympics.Prior to Batista's career as a sports administrator, she was a competitive swimmer, having represented Puerto Rico in several Central American and Caribbean Games, Pan American Games and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.