Special Olympics
Unified Sports Description: Unified Sports joins people with and without disabilities on the same team. It was inspired by a simple principle: training together and playing together is a quick path to friendship and understanding.
In Unified Sports, teams are made up of people of similar age and ability. That makes practices more fun and games more challenging and exciting for all. Having sport in common is just one more way that preconceptions and false ideas are swept away.
Sports: Soccer, Basketball, and Track and Field
Traditional Sports Description: Special Olympics offers Olympic-style individual and team sports that provide meaningful training and competition opportunities for people with disabilities.
Sports: Bowling. Bocce, Basketball, and Track and Field
Coaches: Nowal Shalash / Jeanann Paczesny / Jana Malcom / Lisa McManus
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