721M City Hawks – Floorball Girls Team

721M City Hawks – Floorball Girls Team
Description

The City Hawks Girls Unified Team is comprised of female athletes and unified partners from 721M and 47, The American Sign Language and English Secondary School. The are the first all-female team to compete for Special Olympics New York.

Floorball is a versatile indoor team sport developed in the 1970s in Sweden, played in a rink with five field players plus a goalkeeper in each team. Floorball is played with plastic sticks and a light ball and with a goalkeeper without a stick. Floorball has similarities with hockey sports and the main objective is to score more goals than the opposite team. For Special Olympics the game is slightly modified from the "regular" form of Floorball. Matches are played 3 versus 3 with goalkeepers, on a smaller court that measures 20 m long by 12 m wide. This form of Floorball was developed for the intellectually disabled, and will be a demonstration sport at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Korea.

Address
250 W. Houston Street, New York, NY
ZIP Code
10014
Season
Winter
Days/Times
select school days during the winter season
Suitable for Ages
Middle School and High School
Contact:
Joseph Stewart - jstewar6@schools.nyc.gov
Open/Closed for new registrants
Open