Director's Corner
On Sunday, June 30th, Glenn Carr has scheduled our Bowie
Baysox fundraiser. Please see the
flyer for details about
start time, menu, ticket prices, and contact information. Please
place your order with Glenn by June 20th. This is a fun event, and
attendance has grown every year.
After a long run as our primary fundraiser, we have
decided that we will not conduct a golf tournament in 2013. To
replace this, we plan to have a bull roast at La Fountaine Bleue in Glen Burnie on Saturday, Sept 21, 2013,
6 - 11 pm.
Cost will be $40 per person There will be a DJ, dancing, wheels of
chance, 50-50, lots of good food. Invite your friends!
Please see our
Bull Roast flyer
for details.
Stream Energy, a Direct Selling Energy Company, is
offering a Power Up program that can benefit Special Olympics AA County.
Please visit this web site to find out how you can "Support our
organization simply by paying your electric bill" :
Power Up!
For information about volunteer opportunities with our
program, please contact our volunteer coordinator, Kyle Hines
(
hineskyle@hotmail.com ).
Coaches and assistant coaches must be at least 18 years old, and must
undergo a background check. Volunteers who assist at events or
practices may be younger than 18, but volunteers who are under 16 must
be supervised by a parent or guardian.
We recently received an important message from
Special Olympics Maryland. Starting with this Sports season, 2012
- 2013, we transition to three 12 week training
seasons for sports - Fall, Winter, and Spring. Note that Tennis
will be practicing and competing in both the Fall and
the Spring seasons for this cycle, then become full time Spring season
sport. SOMD has decided to keep Powerlifting in the Fall Sports
group.
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 have a group in Facebook -
Special Olympics Maryland, Anne Arundel County. 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:
Coaches should advise Gregg Meade or Pru Sahadeo when they plan to
attend classes.
Current sports:
Aquatics
Bocce
Duckpin
Bowling
Softball
Track &
Field
May
4
Charles County qualifiers, Bocce, Swimming
5 Calvert County qualifier, Softball
11 Qualifier, Track & Field (tentative)
18 Qualifier, Track & Field (tentative)
19 Montgomery County qualifier, Tennis,
Howard County qualifier, Softball
27 Montgomery County qualifier, Tennis
June
1 State Duckpin Bowling Tournament
7 - 9 SOMD Summer Games, Tennis (Friday only) Bocce,
Softball, Swimming, Track & Field
17 End of Year Party, Cancun Cantina
30 Bowie Baysox fundraiser - see
flyer
for more info
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