Director's Corner
For information about volunteer opportunities with our
program, please contact or volunteer coordinator, Kyle Hines
(
hineskyle@hotmail.com ).
Save the Date! Our 4th annual Fun Night Fundraiser
will be held on Saturday, March 31, 2012, from 4 - 8 pm (food available
4 - 6 pm). Tickets are $20 in advance, and $25 at the door.
Click here
for contact information and event details. If you would like to
help out, we are looking for volunteers to help set up on Friday, March
30, and/or to help with the event on Saturday. Please contact
Martha Collinson, 443-926-2919.
We will be having another Mega Raffle! Tickets
will be available for $20 each, and the winner will receive $5000.
The winning ticket will be drawn at 7 pm on Thursday, April 12th, at the
Deep Creek Restaurant & Marina, 1050 Deep Creek Ave. in Arnold.
Come out a join us for a great dinner and wonderful company.
We have received an important message from
Special Olympics Maryland. Starting in the fall of 2012, there will be three 12 week training
seasons for sports - Fall, Winter, and Spring. Please follow this
link to SOMD's web site for an explanation regarding this change:
http://www.somd.org/component/content/article/3-home/259.html
There is a link on that screen to the three season sports schedule, or
you can go directly to that screen here:
http://www.somd.org/pdfs/Three%20Season%20Sports%20Plan%20Version%202.pdf
SOMD released this announcement on Dec. 5th, 2011.
To make information about our programs more available,
we have added contact email addresses for our head coaches to each
of the pages for our sports programs.
I wish to make athletes, parents, and caregivers aware
that after discussions with Special Olympics, Inc., and Special Olympics
North America, Special Olympics Maryland (SOMD) will be enforcing age group
regulations for teams. The age
groupings that SOMD will use are 8 - 11, 12 - 15, 16 - 21, 22 -
39, 40 and over. Additional
groups may be possible in the 22 and over group, depending on the
numbers of adult participants. The regulatory article, Article 1
of the Sports Rules is available on Special Olympics USA's web site. See
Sports Rules, Article 1
for details (scroll down to Section H on page 7). Note that SOMD
has decided to subdivide the upper and lower age groupings for teams. SOMD has an explanation of and the underlying
rationale for the policy available on their web site. See the Explanation and Rationale
here.
For Facebook fans, we now have a group in Facebook -
Special Olympics Maryland, Anne Arundel County. Thanks to Nina
Marcellino for making the suggestion, then taking the lead in making
this happen. See our
Facebook
Page here.
If you have any questions about our program, feel free to contact me, via phone, fax, e-mail,
or regular post, and I will respond as quickly as I can.
Gregg Meade
greggmeade@verizon.net
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Coming Events
Coaches' training
through Special Olympics Maryland. Their
Coaches Page
has a link to their calendar of upcoming events, including coaches'
trainings.
Coaches should advise Gregg Meade when they plan to
attend these classes.
Current sports:
March
2
Swimming begins
3
Duckpin Bowling begins
18 Track & Field begins,
North & South County
19 Bocce begins
24 SOMD Spring Games - basketball (player development team,
individual skills)
25 SOMD Spring Games - basketball (traditional teams)
26 Softball begins
31 Fun Night Fundraiser
April
12 Mega Raffle drawing, 7 pm, Deep Creek Restaurant & Marina
25
Volunteer Orientation, 7 pm, Ruth Eason School (tentative)
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