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Text Box: Athletes age 15 and older are invited to join the SOMO Swim Team. This is not a “learn to swim program” and we encourage athletes to train with us who have a good comfort level with the water and who wish to train for competition in local, regional and state swim meets. All new and returning swimmers MUST sign-up by calling the hotline or sending in the sign up form in this newsletter. The Swim season begins a bit earlier than the other Spring sports ( Saturday March Text Box: 3rd) to give us a “leg up “ ( or a flipper up!) in our training! Stone Ridge School has generously offered to host the SOMO swim team training this year AND a SOMO swim meet! The Stone Ridge students will volunteer with our swimmers. Special thanks to Stone Ridge! We will train on Saturdays from 12-2:00 at the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart pool. 9101 Rockville Pike ( and Cedar Lane—next to Bethesda Naval Text Box: Hospital and across from NIH) Bethesda MD 20814. 301-657-4322. Call or email Coach Anyes Z with questions 301-742-0609 / anyesz@aol.com. Coaches and volunteers for this program are needed and welcome! We are continuing to look into the development of a juniors swim program. If you are interested in helping to develop a juniors swim team or in having your child participate in one, please email Pam Yerg. Text Box: Calhoun, Jennifer Chen, Tina Dempsey, Michael Storm, Brett Badin, Elaine Fickenscher, Cheng Kho, Laura Elrod, Brian Kao, Elaine Matula, Kate Riley, John Campbell and Diana Krolikowski. Special thanks to our Team Manager Debbie Fickenscher and to our state competition coaches: Lee Abigail, Rich Dromas, Joe Robinson, Charles Coleman, Bob Krolikowski and Sheri Lopez. Our Recreational Spring season will begin Saturday March 24 and run until May Text Box: As this newsletter goes to press, we are proud to congratulate the largest SOMO delegation to compete in the Winter 10 Pin State Games ever! Our 20 athletes and many coaches and families had a wonderful and medal-filled day! Congratulations to these fine athletes and sportsmen and women! Our SOMO 10 Pin Team: Kevin Cayce, Virginia Kneedland, Jonathan Robinson, Janice Allen, Corey Barbee, Craig Freitag, John Slavkoff, Lisa Text Box: 19th. Space is very limited and slots are given first to those athletes who are not participating in any other sport this season. Please be sure to call the hotline or send in your sign up form! We will begin taking sign up requests 4 days after this newsletter is mailed out in order to give all SOMO athletes a fair chance to get into this very popular program! The first sign up date will be announced on the hotline 301– 924-6965. Text Box: need of volunteer parents, siblings, friends to work with our athletes in this great and fun sport. Please contact Pam Yerg if you are able to come and help us out! The group of SOMO athletes who have been training in bocce since its first appearance in Special Olympics a few years ago are a very close knit group of friends who welcome new additions to the team and are eager to share their experiences with you. We will travel to attend at least Text Box: one Bocce tournament and will host our own bocce tournament on Sunday May 6th at Churchill High School. Athletes must sign up for bocce, attend all practices and the qualifying tournaments in order to be eligible for consideration for state competition. Please contact Team Manager Roberta Collins 301– 279-0480 or Pam Yerg at 301 424 3083 / jeyclan@verizon.net if you have any questions about participation in bocce or if you can offer to volunteer in this program. Ciao! Text Box: Bocce Ball—Italian lawn bowling.- Our bocce team will begin training on a new day this year! We will train on Saturdays from 10-11:30 at the MargatetSchweinhaut Senior Center in Wheaton—1000 Forest Glen Rd. (301) -681-1255. This year Coach Pappa Looch and Coach Chuck will be joined by Coach Renny Springuel as we prepare for competition in the Maryland Summer Games. Junior and Senior athletes are welcome to sign up for bocce. We are in

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