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 second annual Fun Night
Fundraiser will be held on Saturday, March 31, 2012. Updates will
be posted here and on our Facebook page as they become available.
Our Come Have a Ball at a fundraiser was a lot of fun,
and raised some much needed money for our program. Thanks to Anita
Isner and to all of the volunteers who helped to make this a successful
event. We really appreciate the folks at Bowl America Glen Burnie
for making their facility available!
We have received two important messages from
Special Olympics Maryland. The first message is from Dr. Patrcia Fegan, President and CEO of Special Olympics Maryland.
Please click on this link to see her message:
SOMD President's message
The second message concerns revisions to the training
and competition schedules for sports offered by Special Olympics.
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.
Kudos to our own Samantha DiSanti for her performances
in Kayaking at the World Games in Greece. Samantha brought home gold and bronze medals from her events. Way to go
Sam!
To make information about our programs more available,
we will be adding 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 in the upcoming sports season. 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:
Floor Hockey
Skiing (Alpine, snowshoeing)
January
8
Come Have a Ball
fundraiser
9
Basketball
begins
19 Coaches meeting for all coaches and assistant coaches
6:30 pm at Ruth Eason School
February
11 Basketball Qualifier, 16 - 21 Team, Montgomery County
19
SOMD Winter Games,
Ski Whitetail,
Mercer, PA
26 Basketball Qualifier, Individual Skills, Montgomery County
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