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