Registration is now open for the Special Olympics Arkansas Unified Sports Fall Games, to be held November 10-11 throughout Conway.
The Special Olympics Fall Games will be held at three different locations in Conway for different events: College City Park, Conway Tennis Center and Conway Human Development Center.
Events will begin at 10 a.m. on November 10 with the Youth Summit at the Conway Human Development Center, followed by softball and bocce competition at City of Colleges Park.
Opening ceremonies are scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Conway Human Development Center.
The next day, softball and bocce competitions resume from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with the start of tennis competition at the Conway Tennis Center and flag football competition at the Conway Human Development Center.
There will also be an Esports competition at the Conway Human Development Center for Unified Champion Schools (UCS) only.
Registration for the event can be found at https://bit.ly/3AYHik and the last day to register is October 19th.
All teams must have a certified coach for each sport. A zoom call with all coaches will take place on October 17 at 9 a.m.
For those traveling from out of town for the event, hotel rooms must be reserved by each team’s head coach by October 19. Special Olympics Arkansas will cover three hotel rooms per team at one of Conway’s five hotels: The Comfort Inn & Suites, Fairfield Inn & Suites, Hampton Inn & Suites, Holiday Inn Express, and La Quinta Inn & Suites. , all on Sanders Road.
Special Olympics Arkansas is also looking for volunteers to help with the event in the following areas:
Setting up and tearing down the event.
Tracking flag football scores.
Lunch servers for November 11.