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
Thank you, Coach Mario
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