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August 16, 2008
Dear Readers: There were tears today as the athletes and coaches boarded buses and loaded cars to head home after their week at the Special Olympics Multi-Sports camp. It was SUCH a good week.
We wrapped up the week with a friendly competition in each primary sport, unified competitions, a pool party, the camp video and a farewell dance. We will miss our SOYO (Society of Orthodox Youth Organizations) coach, Marissa Levash.
Alycia Lazur was the only member of the Lifetime Sports group interested in trying snow-shoeing. She is a natural at the sport! Since there was no snow, she used the sand pit. She was able to practice earlier in the week during her two-hour primary sport session and again one afternoon. She reports that it is now her favorite sport.
While Jessica Gunn spent most of the week training in aquatics, she also had the opportunity to practice on Thursday and compete on Friday with the athletes who had trained in soccer. The soccer coaches were impressed with the skills she had acquired in her high school gym classes and hope she is able to continue practicing and competing at home. She scored the first goal in a tied game in Friday’s competition.
Rachel Martin and Alycia competed in bocce during the Friday competition. They were paired with a Special Olympics Pennsylvania (SOPA) coach from Blair County and an athlete from Montgomery County. While their team lost, it wasn’t for lack of effort. Amanda and her fellow tennis group individually showed off their forehands, backhands and other strokes, and then participated in a game with their coaches. I was challenged to the 25-yard backstroke and a 25-yard free swim during the aquatics competition. I would like to report that I won, but…
We could tell you many funny camp stories — the big spider that lived in the shower in cabin 38 that came to breakfast with the coach; the crazy birthday hats that we wore to dinner in honor of Jessica’s 18th birthday on Friday (and that were last seen getting on the heads of those climbing on the bus to go home); the morning we overslept and had to run up the hill to our morning exercises; the bouncers, bigger bouncers and BIGGEST bouncer at the talent show. These were just a few of the great stories we’ll share with our families and friends.
Northumberland Snyder Special Olympics is holding practices right now for those interested in becoming athletes or volunteering. Our bocce and long-distance walking practices are held at Milton State Park at 6:30 p.m. Fridays and at 9:30 a.m. Saturdays. We hold roller-skating practices at 11:15 a.m. Saturday at the Skatery near Mandata, and power-lifting practice is at Champs in Shamokin Dam at 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
We are looking for a soccer coach and volunteers (remember how well Jessica did at camp — you have the start of a great team!). All of these practices culminate with the statewide competition at Villanova University in November.
All of the athletes left camp saying “See you next year.” That is the best recommendation for Special Olympics Multi-Sports Camp. We hope to see YOU at practices.
To find out how to participate, visit www.ns-sopa.org or call me at 374-5369 or Doug Cooper at 716-0798.
Sincerely
Arden Miller
Northumberland Snyder
Special Olympics
Dear Readers: There were tears today as the athletes and coaches boarded buses and loaded cars to head home after their week at the Special Olympics Multi-Sports camp. It was SUCH a good week.
We wrapped up the week with a friendly competition in each primary sport, unified competitions, a pool party, the camp video and a farewell dance. We will miss our SOYO (Society of Orthodox Youth Organizations) coach, Marissa Levash.
Alycia Lazur was the only member of the Lifetime Sports group interested in trying snow-shoeing. She is a natural at the sport! Since there was no snow, she used the sand pit. She was able to practice earlier in the week during her two-hour primary sport session and again one afternoon. She reports that it is now her favorite sport.
While Jessica Gunn spent most of the week training in aquatics, she also had the opportunity to practice on Thursday and compete on Friday with the athletes who had trained in soccer. The soccer coaches were impressed with the skills she had acquired in her high school gym classes and hope she is able to continue practicing and competing at home. She scored the first goal in a tied game in Friday’s competition.
Rachel Martin and Alycia competed in bocce during the Friday competition. They were paired with a Special Olympics Pennsylvania (SOPA) coach from Blair County and an athlete from Montgomery County. While their team lost, it wasn’t for lack of effort. Amanda and her fellow tennis group individually showed off their forehands, backhands and other strokes, and then participated in a game with their coaches. I was challenged to the 25-yard backstroke and a 25-yard free swim during the aquatics competition. I would like to report that I won, but…
We could tell you many funny camp stories — the big spider that lived in the shower in cabin 38 that came to breakfast with the coach; the crazy birthday hats that we wore to dinner in honor of Jessica’s 18th birthday on Friday (and that were last seen getting on the heads of those climbing on the bus to go home); the morning we overslept and had to run up the hill to our morning exercises; the bouncers, bigger bouncers and BIGGEST bouncer at the talent show. These were just a few of the great stories we’ll share with our families and friends.
Northumberland Snyder Special Olympics is holding practices right now for those interested in becoming athletes or volunteering. Our bocce and long-distance walking practices are held at Milton State Park at 6:30 p.m. Fridays and at 9:30 a.m. Saturdays. We hold roller-skating practices at 11:15 a.m. Saturday at the Skatery near Mandata, and power-lifting practice is at Champs in Shamokin Dam at 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
We are looking for a soccer coach and volunteers (remember how well Jessica did at camp — you have the start of a great team!). All of these practices culminate with the statewide competition at Villanova University in November.
All of the athletes left camp saying “See you next year.” That is the best recommendation for Special Olympics Multi-Sports Camp. We hope to see YOU at practices.
To find out how to participate, visit www.ns-sopa.org or call me at 374-5369 or Doug Cooper at 716-0798.
Sincerely
Arden Miller
Northumberland Snyder
Special Olympics
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