Team and Registration Infomation
Welcome to the West Placer Athletics Special Olympics Team. We are glad you have decided to get involved in our program.
In order to participate in Special Olympics, every athlete must fill out an application. Below is the link for the athlete application. If SONC informs you that your athlete is cleared for participation you can start signing up for our sports programs on the sonc.org website during open enrollment times list on their website for each sport.
Athlete Application - www.sonc.org/athletes
Athlete applications now need to be renewed every year. Your application must be current when you sign up/ register for a sport or you will be put on the waiting list. With impacted sports it will be first come first serve for cleared athlete applications. We will have limited space due to facilities size and volunteer coaches.
We run many different sports year round and athletes can choose what they would like to participate in. They are welcome to participate in as many as they feel they have time and energy for. I just ask that you look at the schedules listed on our website and on the registration page with SONC before you sign up for a sport to make sure you are available for practices and the competitions. It takes a lot of organization and volunteers to run these sports so please only sign up for a sport you are committed to attend. We practice once a week for 6-8 weeks in a sport and then have a large regional competition at the end. All athletes receive awards at the competition. All athletes must attend one of the first two practices and at least half the practices in a sport to be allowed to compete.
When you join our team for your first sport you will receive one free cotton team shirts. This is made possible by the generous donation from our West Placer families. These are not funded by Special Olympics. It is merely a way for us to build team spirit and welcome you to our team.
The question of sizes asked on the registration form with SONC is for uniforms and not for free shirts and shorts. Uniforms are worn at tournaments and are returned at the end of the day to be used again for the next sport.
Before each sport I post on my website calendar page those sports starting and you can register through the SONC link provided. Registration (sign-ups) is approximately one month before the sport starts. The registration times are posted on the calendar page of our website and on the sonc.org website.
We have a team of around 300 athletes so it is best to rely on this website for current information. I will send an email to the team as a courtesy when it is time to register for the next sport.
We have a Facebook Team Page. It is private so you will need to be a member of our team to be added. You will have to tell the administrators how you are affiliated with our team. This is for social communication and is run by several of our coaches. (Please note, Facebook should not to be used to communicate with me. You should email me if you have specific questions about our team that can not be answered by the website.)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/westplacerathletics/?ref=share
Sincerely,
Donna Hollis
Volunteer West Placer Team Manager
Special Olympics Northern California
westplacerathletics@gmail.com