Montgomery Relay - Special Olympics 2 MONTGOMERY RELAY SUMMER 2010 Meet the President n Article and...

2010 Volume 12., Issue 2 www.somdmontgomery.org February / March 2007

Coming This Fall Newly designed Bowling Cross Country Running Senior Soccer TOP Soccer Tennis Golf Cycling Powerlifting Cheerleading YAP-Young Athletes Program www.somdmontgomery.org

A Word from The Director By Pam Yerg

Once again, the SOMD Summer Games experience highlights what we are all about: friendships, dedi-cated coaches and parents, hard work and nurturing skills that pro-duce team success and many per-sonal bests. The thrill of competi-tion, and the warmth of new and old friendships sustains us through long hot days, dorm beds and food, and brings us out smiling! Thank you to all of the dedicated, talented and hard-working coaches, assistant coaches, volunteers and chaperones who make all that we do possible! As this issue goes to press we are working out the details on two new SOMO programs: We are excited to announce the start up of a Fall Powerlifting team

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which will compete in the Maryland Special Olympics FallFest at Mt Saint Mary's University at the end of Oc-tober 2010. See Page 3. We ran a pilot season this past year in cheerleading and will be finalizing the details for 2010-11 in the next weeks. SOMO has partnered with The Dream Allstars Cheer Gym. Our program will include participa-tion in Dream Allstars Destiny - the special needs cheer team and exhi-bitions and competition in Special Olympics. Spaces will be limited and the current participants will have "first slots" in the program. Inter-ested? Contact me at [email protected].

2010 SOMO Softball Team-Gold Medal winners and defending champions.

Special Olympics—Created by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Authorized and Accredited by Special Olympics, Inc. for the benefit of Citizens with Intellectual Disabilities

Coaches Donna Morere and Joyce Plaxen are showing their 70’s style, the theme for the Summer Games evening dance!

MONTGOMERY RELAY SUMMER 2010

Meet the President n Article and photo by Maggie Häusler.

Montgomery Relay Summer Training Calendar

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AM-Staggered

Black Hill Regional Park

Sat May 16

Kayaking

6PM-8 PM

Washington Sailing Marina

Mon June 1

Sailing

9AM-10:30 AM

Bohrer Park

Sat July 10

Cycling

6 PM-7:30 PM

Lake Needwood

Wed July 7

Cross Country Running (Summer)

6PM-7:30 PM

Falls Road Golf Course

Wed Aug 4

Golf (Early Fall Sport)

• State Cycling Games Sept 26th

• Golf & 50/50 Fundraiser Aug 9th

• Volunteer Orientation : TBD

• State Regatta July 31 & Aug 1 • State Golf Tournament Sept 25 • State Fall Festival Oct 23

Calendar of SOMO Events

4PM-6:00 PM

Walter Johnson HS Courts

Sun Aug 22

Tennis (Early Fall Sport) (new location)

2PM-3:30 PM

Flower Hill Fitness First Gym

Sun July 18

Powerlifting (new sport)

• State Soccer tournament Oct 24

• TOPS Festival Nov 7th

Sport Date Time Location


Summer Sports Line By Pam Yerg

CYCLING CLUB Starts: July 10 Location: Bohrer Park Time: 9AM

New cycling program this year. Tra-ditional racing cycling for athletes wishing to compete in State Cycling Games scheduled for September 26th. We will also have a leisure club ride for athletes who simply want to “ride”. Ride locations to be deter-mined. Sign up required on line/mail. Choose Racing or Leisure. Both pro-grams require that you provide you own equipment and a Buddy/Unified Partner. Coach Renny plans to “ride” through October. Contact: Coach Renny Springuel at [email protected].

CROSS COUN-TRY RUNNING Starts: July 7 Location: Lake Needwood Time: 6 PM

Athletes wishing to participate in the Fall Cross Country Running Team should plan to attend the summer runs whenever possible. Coach SpongeBob will need the assistance of family members to help with chaper-one and leadership duties in this run-ning program. Sessions include in-struction on stretching and running techniques to prepare all athletes for competition in local, regional and state road races. Fall team practices will be on Sundays at Good Counsel High School beginning in late August. All athletes must sign up online or mail in the sign up form in this issue.

GOLF Starts: August 4 Location: Falls Rd Golf Course Time: 6:00 PM Our SOMO Golf Team features training

in levels 1-4. All athletes must begin at level 1(skills) and compete and be assessed through state sanctioned competition with a qualifying score before moving to level 2 (9 holes, every other ball with a Unified Part-ner). All athletes are required to have a Unified Partner train and compete with them. We train mid-week begin-ning August 4th and attend travel competitions on weekends through the season in preparation for the state games on Sept 25-27th. Team is full. If you are interested in being added to our wait list, please sign up on-line or the mail in sign-up Contact: Head Coach Chuck Hellmuth at [email protected]

TENNIS Starts: Aug 22 Location: Walter Johnson High School Time: 4 PM

We will limit the skills program to 30 slots and offer Beginning, Intermedi-ate and Advanced Skills training. The goal is to ready the tennis athlete to advance to level 2: Mixed doubles tennis with a Unified Partner or Tra-ditional Mixed Doubles ( 4 S.O. ath-letes). The first two practices in Au-gust will be assessment to determine the athlete's level of play. In Septem-ber, Skills athletes meet at 3:45 and will practice from 4-5:00. Mixed Dou-

bles athletes practice 4-6:00. We are very fortunate to have MCTA ( Mont-gomery County Tennis Association) as our partners. These skilled players prepare our athletes for competition as well as a life-long love of tennis! Head Coach: Greg Overkamp, MCTA League Coordinator Email Pam Yerg with questions about the program: [email protected]

SAILING and KAYAKING The Mid-Summer Classic State Com-petition will be held July 31 & Aug 1at

Saint Mary’s College, in Saint Mary’s County, MD. Both programs are full.

POWERLIFTING Starts: July 18 Location: Flower Hill Fit-ness First Gym Time: 2 PM

The Powerlifting team will be coached by Jim Downs, who has over twenty years experience in the sport. Parents are encouraged to participate as "buddies". We will accept as many athletes into this new program as our coaching staff can support with "first come/first served". Sign up online Coach Jim can contact you with de-tails. Submit current medical forms to be able to participate. Athletes must be 16 years old to par-ticipate in this sport. Acceptable at-tire for practices are shorts, sweats, t-shirts and tennis shoes. One piece lifting suits (singlets) will be provided for competitions. Volunteers who would like to help are welcomed. Contact Pam Yerg at [email protected] .

“Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.” -Special Olympics Oath


The 2010 Special Olympics Maryland Summer Games, held June 11-13 at Towson University, marked the 40th anniversary of Maryland Special Olym-pics. Athletes whose performances earned them gold, silver or bronze were fortunate to be awarded beauti-ful commemorative medals. Friday evening’s opening ceremonies were preceded by a boisterous block party, with plenty of arcade games and a special appearance by Baltimore Ra-vens quarterback Joe Flacco. Athletes and coaches with ornate balloon hats and arcade prizes filed into Towson Center for the ceremonies. The SOMD Summer Games were

Maryland Summer Games By: George Houk

the newly renovated soccer field adjacent to the stadium, which pro-vided excellent playing conditions for the athletes. Led by head coach Renny Springuel, recently named to the coaching staff for the 2011 World Games, Team SOMO bowled its way to many medals. The SOMO Sharks once again dominated the pool at Burdick Hall. Our swimmers athletes earned a whopping 73 med-als on Saturday alone! And our de-fending champion softball team mounted a successful defense of last year’s performance, earning them gold medals again in 2010.

held at venues throughout the Tow-son campus. At Johnny Unitas Sta-dium, the delegations and spectators were treated to two days of exciting track and field competition. Races, varying in distance from 25 meters to 5000 meters, took place on the track while athletes competed on the field in standing and running long jump, shot put, and the softball and “turbo-jav” throws. Athletes and coaches alike escaped the heat of the track by taking breaks under the cooling spray mist provided by a fire truck at one end of the stadium. The bocce team enjoyed two beauti-ful days of successful competition on


Maryland Summer Games Photos by: Frank Altrichter

Softball Matt Bonanno Andrew Fusi Trevor Golden Ricardo Hakim Ben Levy Adam Lloyd Jason Massey Max Rubenstein Brian Salewski Mark Salewski Tony Stevens Darrell Walker Perri Cutler Laura Evans Bruce Myles Alison Silverstein Eddie Zirkind

Swimming Zak Baker Aaron Boyle Alex Brouwers Akaisha Butler Alec Callahan Annie Callanan Ellie Carney Wu Chen Toni Dawe Chris Divita Jill Durbin Francis Dwyer Andy Eisenhaur Elaine Fickenscher Sarah Glenner Brian Kao Matt McMeekin Laura Pastel Kelly Piacesi Javi Requejo Al Richardson Alyson Ritzmann Nick Seidel Kelli Jo Smith Owen Suskind Adam Tepper Jon Thomas Donnie Toker Jenny Wagner Carrie Waldman Neil Young

Athletics Donnell Banks Joey Bascomb Shelley Belgard Nadeem Bokhari Lisa Calhoun Feivel Cohen Megan Cooper Jay Cromwell Amy Faiola Patrick Farrell Andrea Geller Jan Gonzalez Phoebe Hathaway Lucas Houk Patrick Jones Terrel Limerick Faith McLuckie Lori Plaxen Cynthia Ring Tony Sampson Nicole Tuite Joe Wu

Bocce John Bogasky Richard Charleston Ben Collins Joe Cumberpatch Linda Daner Scott Eckberg Erik Eckberg John Edwards Nan Gootenberg David Holden Sarah McGhee Alex Pellegrino Adam Russell Sharon Shaffer Alex Shapiro Mark Springuel Owen White


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Community Partners.

Our Lady of Good Counsel High School Thank you to the Good Counsel community for their sponsorship of our 2010 Spring Track and Field Season. Students and teachers alike assisted us as SOMO volunteers assuring that we had ample support. The con-cession stand, run by Carl Lever-enz, provided food and drink for all at each competition. Special thanks to our leaders; Coach Bob Stack and Coach Joyce Plaxon and their dedicated vol-unteer staff. Due to the gener-osity of so many donors, we were able to host one of the largest Spring Games in the state with 10 counties participating in athletics, bocce and softball. Thanks to our host Good Coun-sel. In Honor of Lori Plaxen Thank you to friends and family of Lori Plaxen who celebrated her graduation and provided gen-erous donations to SOMO in her honor. Congratulations to Lori! Mama’s Riders Special thank you to our friends of Mama Lucia’s Restaurant who ride to support the programs of the Special Olympics-MD-Montgomery programs.

Give a SOMO Gift Envelope

Honor or Remember someone special in your life!

An athlete– a coach—a friend Purchase a $25 Gift Envelope. Your contribution supports SOMO and we send an acknowledgement to that someone special on your behalf. Contact Lorrie White ([email protected]) for a gift en-velope, or go online at www.somdmontgomery.org - SOMO Store to make your donation by credit card. Your gift will make a dif-ference in the lives of our Special Olympic athletes.

Be A Community Partner with SOMO! SOMO offers 21 sports in our year-long training and competi-tion programs. Their success and development depend upon the generous support of com-munity sponsors, and donations from businesses and individuals who want to “Be a Fan”— Light the Torch! Email Pam Yerg at [email protected] to find out how you and your business or organization can help! Invite us to your organization or place of business to do a presentation about Special Olympics.

The Annual Montgomery Masters Fund-Raising Golf Tournament Monday August 9th Montgomery CC Laytonsville MD. Please plan to join us!

….help us Light the Torch!

Stone Ridge School The Barrie School Good Counsel High School Georgetown Prep Our Lady of Lourdes School Wootton High School Holton Arms School

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read the latest event schedules including last minute schedule changes.

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Athlete Name:_______________________________________________DOB___________________ Address:_______________________________________City___________________Zip___________ Home Phone: (_____)_______________________Email:_______________@______________ Emergency/Family Contact: ____________________________________________________ Cell or Home Phone (______)_________________________________ School:______________________________________________________ Grade_________ Family Email: __________________________________@___________________________ Please indicate any athlete behavioral issues, medical conditions, medications we need to know about during training ____________________________________________________________ Can you pick up an athlete for practice, competitions or other events? ___________________ All athletes are expected to attend as many practices as possible. Please note if there is a known conflict (list dates to be missed and reason): ______________________________________ Check below the sport or sports that you want to sign up for. If you sign up for more than one sport, you MUST choose a primary sport—that is the sport that you commit to training for possible state competition. □ CC Running □ new □ returning □ Cycling □ new □ returning □ competition □ leisure □ Golf □ new □ returning □ Tennis □ new □ returning □ Powerlifting □ new □ Cheerleading □ new □ returning *We will provide you program details.

All athletes MUST have a current medical form on file in order to participate in training or competition. Your medical form expiration date is listed on the address label of this issue of the Montgomery Relay. Medical Forms are valid for 3 years. Check to make sure you are up to date! Mail to: SOMO PO BOX 1809 Rockville MD 20849

Season Training Mail In Form

WE CAN NO LONGER ACCEPT PHONE-IN SIGN-UPS. Complete all of the information online or mail-in the form above. It is our goal to have all athletes use the online sign-up form as this gives us the most accurate and up-to-date record of contact information for our athletes and families. It also allows us to contact you with important sports training information more efficiently!

On line Sign up for bowling is Sept. 1 The Fall/Winter Competitive Bowling Program will begin Sept. 11th featuring regional competition Oct 2/3 and State Competi-tion in Dec. All athletes will participate in the Regional Tourna-ment. GOLD medal winners in Regional Competition will ad-vance to the State Competition. Online Sign up for bowling will open Sep 1. Bowling spots are limited and fill quickly. Athletes wishing to train in bowling need to sign up as soon as the online sign-up opens. Athletes participating in other sports in the fall sea-son should sign up as alternates. Alternates are not guaranteed a spot, and bowl only if someone is absent.

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Special Olympics-Montgomery County Continuing

SOMO provides year-round sports training and competition in 21 Olym-pic-type sports for Montgomery County MD children & adults with intellectual disabilities and closely re-lated developmental disabilities.

Our training and competition op-portunities are free to athletes. The program is made possible through the generous support of individuals, or-ganizations and foundations who be-lieve in the Special Olympics mission.

SOMO is an area chapter of Special Olympics Maryland, and of Special Olympics, Inc. a world-wide organiza-tion.

Our values: Community-Friendship-Integrity-Opportunity-Quality and Sportsmanship

Athletes MUST complete a signup form to participate in sports training and competition: •• • Go Online & sign-up for the sport you wish to participate in : •• • www.somdmontgomery.org •• • You may mail in a sign up form if you do not have computer access. •• • Keep your medical forms up to date! Call Carol Halderman with ques-tions.! No athlete may train without a current medical form! 888 924-6965 SOMO Hotline •• • Show up for the first practice and for all practices! Coaches will not call to remind you!

Our Mission What To Do and When

Area Director: Pam Yerg Sports Director: Elizabeth Barnwell Medical Director: Carol Halderman Admin. Asst: Nancy Durbin Finance Director: Frank Altrichter Fund Raising: Lorraine White Volunteer Chair: Chris Giusti Family Coordinator: Joyce Plaxen Newsletter Editor: Pam Yerg Newsletter Layout: Pat Bailey Golf Event Chair: Chuck Hellmuth Management Team members and coaches can be reached via the SOMO website: www.somdmontgomery.org.

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