Esex Alliance Night to Shine Dance, 2/9/2018 - Registration opens 12/3/17

KOC TO HOST CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR AREA PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

The St. John Vianney Knights of Columbus will host a Christmas Party for Special People. The party is Sunday, December 10th. It will be held in the Parish Center of St. John Vianney Church at 160 Hinesburg Road. 
The party will start at 1 PM and go until 3 PM. 
This Christmas Party is designed for people with intellectual challenges or developmental disabilities. All ages are encouraged to attend. The party will consist of a Holiday Safe Foods Buffet, live music by the Gravelin Brothers Band and even a visit from Santa! Each partygoer will receive, while supplies last, a gift to take home. This event is free and open to all area special needs people. Reservations are a must! Please call Bernie at 777 - 8181 or email to sbknights7525@gmail.com to confirm your special person’s attendance.

UVM SAAC Women's Hockey - Floorball Skills Clinic 11/20/2017

The UVM Student Athletic Advisory Council will host a Floorball Skills Clinic with the UVM Women's Hockey Team Monday evening, November 20th. Our Floorball team, the BFA St. Albans Floorball team and anyone interested in floorball are invited!

Time: 6:15 - 8:00 PM, Monday November 20th, 2017
Location: Baird School Gym, 1138 Pine St., Burlington, VT 05401

Bowlng Time Change - November 5 and November 12 only

Attention all Chittenden Bowlers, as was announced this past Sunday, our bowling practice time will change on Sunday, November 5th and Sunday, November 12th. Practice will start at 4:00 PM on these two weekends only. Practice will resume at 10:00 AM on Sunday November 19th. As a reminder, there will be no practice Thanksgiving weekend, Sunday November 26th.

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