Recreational Unified Soccer Tournament - 10/1/2017

The UVM Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) invites you to a Recreational Unified Soccer Tournament. Special Olympics athletes and UVM athletes will form teams and compete against each other. 

Date: 10/1/2017
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: UVM Field 6 (next to Gutterson)

Please contact Rachel Hamm Vaughan to register:
802-861-0270
rhamm@vtso.org

2017 Holiday Sports - Swimming Practice

Chittenden's swimming practice will begin at 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Saturday afternoon at The Edge South Burlington Eastwood Drive, starting September 30th through Saturday, December 2nd. We will not have practice Thanksgiving Weekend. The tournament will be held Sunday, December 10th at Saint Michael's College. 

We will also be offering Bowling and Floorball for Holiday Sports. Athletes may participate in only one sport (swimming, floorball, indivudual bowling or team bowling). 

Pre-register please!
Please contact Karen or Dave Bogdan by phone (865-3840) or email (dbogdan@ieee.org) to sign up. We plan on having lane assignments for the first practice.  We also need to know your whether you plan on competing in individual bowling, team bowling!

Coaches:
Shasta Fowler
Sarah Kelso

2017 Holiday Sports - Floorball Practice

As you know, with the reorganization of the sports calendar, floorball has been added as a new sport by Special Olympics Vermont and is now an official Special Olympics sport! 

Here at the Chittenden Local Program, we offered floorball to our athletes for the first time last fall. Several of our athletes of different ages and abilities joined us to learn the sport. It is fair to say that everybody had a great time and enjoyed it a lot. 

We are looking forward to a new floorball season. Practices will start after the Fall Games and there will be a competition at the Holiday Games on December 10 against other delegations at St Michael’s College. 

It is now time to sign up for floorball and we hope that you will consider taking up this new sport. If you enjoy soccer and basketball, you will like floorball too. 

Please contact Dave Bogdan (dbogdan@ieee.org or 802-865-3840) to pre-register so that we can have your medical at practice (Special Olympics requires that a current medical be on site at every practice and competition. We no longer allow athletes to begin practice without a current medical. Medicals are good for three years from the date of exam).

Everybody who signs up will get a floorball practice shirt. Click here to select your size and pick a color.

We are pleased to announce that practice will begin Saturday, September 30th, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Baird School Gym, 1138 Pine Street, Burlington. Practice will be every Saturday through the Holiday Games Competition. There will be no practice the weekend of Thanksgiving.

Continue reading to find out more about floorball or click on one of the links below to watch a video.

Floorball is a type of hockey sport. It is played with a short, light stick that comes up to the player’s waist and with a small plastic ball similar to a wiffle ball.

Like in ice hockey and soccer, two teams compete against each other with the objective of creating scoring chances and scoring more goals than the other team.

The rules of the game are similar to soccer in several ways and they make floorball safe and promote good sportsmanship. For example, players must keep their stick below the waist, they cannot play the ball above the knee and they are not allowed to hit the stick of their opponents with their own sticks.

Watch the two Special Olympics Floorball videos below to see floorball in action.

So what do you think? Does floorball sound like fun? Come play floorball, be part of the team, you will enjoy it. Contact Dave Bogdan (dbogdan@ieee.org or 802-865-3840) to sign up. 

Thank you, Coach Mario

2017 Chittenden Holiday Sports - Bowling Practice

Chittenden's bowling practice will begin at 10:00 AM on Sunday morning at Champlain Lanes, 2630 Shelburne Road, Shelburne beginning Sunday mornings starting Sunday, October 1st through Sunday, December 3rd. We will not have practice Thanksgiving Weekend. The tournament will be held Sunday, December 10th at Spare Time Colchester. 

Athletes may compete either individually or on a team of 4, but not both. All Holiday Sports Competitions will be on Sunday December 10th. We will also be offering Swimming and Floorball for Holiday Sports. Athletes may participate in only one sport (swimming, floorball, indivudual bowling or team bowling). 

Pre-register please!
Please contact Karen or Dave Bogdan by phone (865-3840) or email (dbogdan@ieee.org) to sign up. We plan on having lane assignments for the first practice.  We also need to know your whether you plan on competing in individual bowling, team bowling!

Special Olympics and Fees:

Special Olympics offers all programs to athletes at no charge but you may not realize that local programs have significant expenses. These expenses are paid for by donations and local program fundraising. Last year, we asked our bowlers to donate the cost of bowling each week: $9.00 a week. Many athletes and families did donate and this helped us pay for bowling with less fundraising. We are asking bowlers again to donate $9.00 a week to cover the costs. Thank you for your support!

Coaches:
Karen and Dave Bogdan - 865-3840
Karen Cutler
Gary DeCarolis
Brian Conroy

2017 Special Olympics Vermont Fall Games

Fall Games 2017 Tentative Schedule

Greetings!

We are still finalizing the 2017 Fall Games Event Guide. To aid in your planning, we have provided a tentative schedule of the Games below. Please note: this schedule is subject to change; however, it should give you a general overview of each day with the newly introduced structure of 2-day, 1-night.

Saturday, September 23rd

Breakfast is on your own

8:15 – 9:15am Delegation check-in

9:15am Line-up for Parade of Athletes

9:20am Parade of Athletes

9:30am – 10:00am Opening Ceremonies

10:15am Shuttles depart for Softball/Golf Venues

10:15am Coach Meetings: Athletics & Soccer

10:30am Coach Meetings: Softball & Golf

10:30am Soccer (team) and Athletics competition kick-off

Athletics – Shot Put (10:30am)

Athletics – tennis ball throw (10:30am)

Athletics – softball throw (11:00am)

10:30am – 3:30pm Healthy Athlete Exams (Health Promotion & Fun Fitness)

10:45am Softball & Golf competition kick-off

Golf Levels 1 – 5 will compete both Saturday and Sunday

Lunch available 11:45am – 1:30pm

Reminder! Lunch is for delegation members and event volunteers only. Lunch will be delivered to golf and softball venues.

Family members and spectators are responsible for their own meals.

11:15am (softball shuttle will operate in 30-minute loops)

1:00pm – 3:00pm Soccer Skills (preliminary round; final round to take place Sunday morning)

1:30pm – 3:30pm Athletics: long jump, standing jump, & relays

2:30pm – 5:00pm Locker rooms will be available onsite for showering/changing

3:30pm Competition will conclude for all sports

4:45pm – 6:00pm Dinner

6:00pm – 7:30pm Dance (theme: Nautical)

Sunday, September 24th

Shuttle will be provided from main sports venue to Golf/Softball venues

8:30am/8:45am Coach Meetings – all sports

8:45am/9:00am Competition kick-off at various sports

9:00am – 11:00am Soccer Skills (final round)

Lunch (available 11:45am – 1:30pm)

12:30pm Final golf competition will conclude, awards to follow

3:30pm All competition concludes

All awards will be presented at South Burlington High School. Awards will be presented as divisions and events complete.

Chittenden Softball practice canceled, 9/6/17

All, coach Karen is canceling softball for today, 9/6/17 due the field conditions. Practice will resume next Wednesday.

Chittenden Golf practice canceled, 9/6/17

Golf practice is canceled for today, 9/6/17. The golf course is too wet!  Practice will resume next Wednesday.

Chittenden Soccer practice canceled, 09/05/2017

All, we are canceling soccer practice tonight. Stay dry!  Practice will resume on Thursday, weather permitting.