Bowling is a competitive individual and team sport where athletes try to knock down as many pins as possible. Bowling is considered to be among the most popular sports within Special Olympics because it is picked up relatively quickly by people of all ages and abilities, and it is one the primary Unified Sports offered in schools.
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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.
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The City Hawks Unified Soccer Team is comprised of high school students from 721M, Harvest Collegiate High School and City-As-School. The team is well accomplished, having won Gold Medals at Special Olympics USA Games in Orlando, Florida in 202; and representing Special Olympics USA at Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023, finishing in 5th Place..
Played in just about every country, this sport’s success is due to the fact that it can be played by boys, girls, men and women of just about any physical build and ability. Football requires little in the way of specialized equipment and is organized using simple, intuitive rules.
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Swimming is one of the most popular sports in world and Special Olympics is no different. Our swimming offerings include competition in a variety of skills and events, from sprints to longer distances, relays and stroke-specific challenges.
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