2019 Special Olympics Fall Games update from Kaila

We are officially a week away from the kickoff of Fall Games 2019! As promised, attached you will find sports schedules for softball and soccer as well as a master list of track entrants with events. A few quick notes by sport:

TRACK

• Please review the entrants with events list to be sure each athlete is registered in the correct events. The numbers next to each event denote current division. If there is no division listed next to an event, then we are missing a qualifying score for this individual. Please send any corrections my way as soon as possible. I will send updated division sheets early next week when these missing scores are filled in.

SOCCER

• Saturday games will be shortened preliminary games to be able to accurately division teams into appropriate levels. Based on the 9 traditional teams registered, we will either have a division of 4 and a division of 5 or 3 divisions of 3. These divisions will be determined at the end of play Saturday with brackets provided to coaches for Sunday’s schedule. There should be ample time in the schedule to allow for lunch and to support athletes in completing the Healthy Athletes screenings (don’t forget there is a chance to win $500 for your program with every athlete screened!)
• Goals update! We received some grant money to purchase true 5v5 soccer goals that measure 12’ by 6’ as outlined in the Special Olympics 5v5 soccer rules. We are excited to use these next weekend!

SOFTBALL

• There was only 1 traditional team registered in this games, so they are playing in the Unified division with the other 6 teams. Please note that there is not a specific break in play on Saturday to allow for lunch so teams should be sure to get lunch and go through Healthy Athletes on their own.

GOLF

• We are still awaiting a few final pairings for golfers, so these tee times will be shared early next week. Skills golfers should plan to start at approximately 10AM and course golfers will tee off between 10AM and 12PM.

Please be sure to review these documents carefully and let me know if there are any errors or comments to be made. I am human, I do make mistakes I will be sending rooming lists to individual program coordinators.

More to come next week!

Best,

Kaila


Sports Center Map: https://drive.google.com/open?id=14Lm1bfzaThpHvwe_TcxlNtR5iYRiCA7V

Master Sports Schedule:   https://drive.google.com/open?id=1U4W4Aiy8hxunvLNiiHAizfc1s7yS55xj

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Kaila Krouse

Sports Manager

2019 UVM Unified Fitness program starts October 10th

2019 Chittenden Swimming practice

The Chittenden Swim practice is plans have been confirmed! We are start practice on Saturday, October 12th at the Edge at Eastwood in South Burlington, from 12:30 to 2:00 P.M. Practice will be every Saturday through November 30th.

The Holiday Games will be on Sunday December 8th at St. Michael's College.

In addition to Swimming, we will be offering Bowling and Floorball.

Pre-register with Chittenden by contacting Karen or Dave Bogdan by phone (865-3840) or email (dbogdan@ieee.org) to sign up. We have to register our Holiday Games delegation roster including athletes, partners, coaches and 1:1 support by October 18th so we need to know who is joining!

Remember, you have to have a current medical on file to participate. Medicals are good for 3 years.  

2019 Chittenden Bowling Practice

Bowlers, are you ready for some changes? Champlain Lanes has closed and that will make things different. The first change is we will have practice Sunday mornings from 9:00 - ~11:30 starting 10/13/19 at Spare Time in Colchester. 

The second change is that without Champlain Lanes, there are not enough lanes in Chittenden County for the statewide bowling competition at Holiday Games. So, Special Olympics Vermont will hold two regional competitions, one at the Twin City Family Center in Barre which we will attend and the second in Rutland for the southern Vermont teams. The top two teams and the top two individuals from each division at the regional games will advance to the Holiday Games. The teams and individuals who do not qualify for Holiday Games will continue practicing but not compete at Holiday Games. That is a big change!

Here is the schedule

Date	Time	Event	Location
10/13/2019	9:00 - 11:30	Practice	Spare Time
10/20/2019	9:00 - 11:30	Practice	Spare Time
10/27/2019	9:00 - 11:30	Practice	Spare Time
11/3/2019	9:00 - 11:30	Practice	Spare Time
11/10/2019	8;30 - 12:30	Regionals	Twin City
11/17/2019	9:00 - 11:30	Practice	Spare Time
11/24/2019	9:00 - 11:30	Practice	Spare Time
12/1/2019	9:00 - 11:30	Practice	Spare Time
12/8/2019	TBD	Holiday Games	Spare Time

In addition to bowling, we will be offering Floorball and Swimming. Since not all bowlers will advance to Holiday Games, we will allow bowlers to also register for either swimming or floorball. 

Pre-register with Chittenden by contacting Karen or Dave Bogdan by phone (865-3840) or email (dbogdan@ieee.org) to sign up. We have to register our Holiday Games delegation roster including athletes, partners, coaches and 1:1 support by October 18th so we need to know who is joining! 

Remember, you have to have a current medical on file to participate. Medicals are good for 3 years.

2019 Chittenden Floorball Practice

Floorball practice begins Friday October 11th,at the Baird School located on Pine Street in Burlington. Coach Mario will offer two sessions of floorball. Floorball individual skills practices for those who are not ready or cannot practice a team sports but are capable of performing individual skills tasks on their own or with assistance will be on Fridays from 5:45 pm to 6:15 pm starting October 11.

Floorball team practices will be on Fridays from 6:15 pm to 8:15 pm also starting October 11.

Practice will be held at the Baird school every Friday until the Holliday Sports Competition which will take place at St Michael’s College on December 8th. There will be no practices on Friday November 29, but we will have practices on Sunday morning, December 1.

There will also be post-season floorball activities followed by pizza for all floorball athletes on Saturday morning, December 14.

Click here toview the full Individual Skills Practice Schedule. Click here toview the full Team Practice Schedule.

In addition to Floorball, we will be offering Bowling and Swimming.

Pre-register with Chittenden by contacting Karen or Dave Bogdan by phone (865-3840) or email (dbogdan@ieee.org) to sign up. We have to register our Holiday Games delegation roster including athletes, partners, coaches and 1:1 support by October 18th so we need to know who is joining! 

Remember, you have to have a current medical on file to participate. Medicals are good for 3 years.  

Chittenden Golf and Soccer practice canceled - 9/26/19

We are canceling both golf practice and soccer practice tonight, 9/26/19. Soggy greens, fields with rain and possible thunderstorms. Our last practices before Fall Games will be next week. Thanks, Dave

2020 Night to Shine Dance Registration Opens October 1

It is important to note that all attendees must register for the event and registration will open on October 1, 2019.  The event will be held at the Double Tree by Hilton (the old Sheraton) again this year in Burlington, VT. 

For those registered guests who may be in need of attire for this event, there will be an opportunity to come and try on some donated dresses and men's clothing on the following dates at the Night to Shine Boutique, Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Road in Essex Junction, VT:

• Wednesday, January 22nd from 2:00 - 6:00 pm
• Thursday, January 23rd from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm  

Something new this year for those traveling a distance is that they have blocked off a set number of rooms for guests at a special rate of $109/night.  Although the number of rooms can be increased, it will be subject to whether there is availability.  Rooms will be held up to 14 days prior to the event. 

2019 Fall Games Housing canceled

Hi all, unfortunately, I am announcing that Chittenden will NOT be staying overnight at Fall Games this year. I know you were looking forward to staying over but one of the hotels gave away the Special Olympics block of rooms without warning (it is leaf peeper season). Since Chittenden is the nearest delegation to St. Albans, we are loosing our rooms to delegations coming from further away. We are all still welcome to stay for the dinner and dance which will be held at the Collins Perley Sports & Fitness Center Saturday evening. I am sorry we cannot stay overnight.  Dave :-(

David C. Bogdan
Chittenden Program Coordinator
Special Olympics Vermont

Chttenden Golf practice rescheduled to Wednesay evening 9/18/19

Golfers, coach Greg has rescheduled golf practice to Wednesday evening this week only!
 

American Flatbread Benefit Bake for SOVT

Chittenden Softball Canceled today, 9/14/19

We are canceling softball today due to the rain and severe winds! See you next week.
 

2019 Special Olympics Vermont Fall Games - preliminary Event Guide

Reminder, no Chittenden Soccer practice Thursday, 9/5/19

Hi all, just a reminder that there is no soccer practice this Thursday 9/5/19. Practice will resume on Tuesday, 9/10/19.