Athletes and Unified companions throughout Vermont have been doing a wonderful job getting their weekly motion/train minutes in and staying lively exterior of the common sports activities season! Learn on to be taught extra about their at residence health problem accomplishments!
This fall, Particular Olympics North America (SONA) supplied a second installment of the SONA Transfer Problem, an 8-week at-home motion problem the place members monitor what number of minutes they train every week. The #SONAMove Problem was first supplied this spring. Throughout #SONAMove, athletes and Unified companions study totally different well being themes and are inspired to finish social challenges alongside the way in which!
Our athletes and Unified companions are at the moment in Week 5 of the problem, and their efforts up to now have been stellar! Click on right here to see SOVT athlete Katharine Breunig finishing the Week 5 social problem of representing your favourite sports activities group whereas exercising!
SOVT Well being Messenger and Athlete Chief Kate Bove assisted the state workplace in recruiting members and spreading the phrase concerning the Fall #SONAMove Problem (thanks a lot, Kate!). You may watch her Well being Messenger movies right here! Kate (alongside along with her brother Hayden) is taking part in #SONAMove on the Unified group, “Pals of SOVT.”
SOVT has over 70 athletes and Unified companions taking part within the Fall SONA Transfer Problem. Our Vermont program is at the moment ranked ninth in the united statesA. in complete motion/train minutes – unbelievable! Another notable statistics and highlights from our SOVT program embrace:
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SOVT athlete Bethany Davis, of the Higher Valley Hawks native program, is at the moment ranked sixth within the nation in motion minutes on the Particular person Leaderboard! That is sixth out of 1,534 athlete members – wow!
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SOVT’s “Pals of SOVT” Unified group is at the moment ranked 2nd within the nation on the Groups Leaderboard! The Pals of SOVT group consists of athletes: Kate Bove (Chittenden County), Katharine Breunig (Windham County), Courtney Cowan (Bennington County), Bethany Davis (Higher Valley) and Maddie Honigman (Chittenden County). The group’s Unified companions are: Hayden Bove, Eva Clark (SOVT Workers Member), Jordan Davis and Ellie Smith.
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SOVT Unified Group “The Bulldogs” consists of SOVT athletes Bennett Townley (Chittenden County), Karl Dooling (Northshire), Kyle Dooling (Northshire), and Nicole Villemaire (Chittenden), and Unified companions: SOVT Board Member and former Board Chair Ed Townley, key volunteer Jenn Townley, and SOVT President & CEO Missy Shea!
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SOVT native program Addison County has two #SONAMove groups taking part within the problem, due to HOD’s Karen Nawn-Fahey and Polly Wilson (they’re additionally taking part as Unified companions)! SOVT Athlete Board Member Sean Fahey is taking part on one of many Addison groups!
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Unified Champion Faculty Rivendell Academy registered a group for the #SONAMove Problem! Different SOVT groups and Unified pairs include households tackling the problem collectively!
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Three SOVT program members have been chosen by Particular Olympics North America as #MoversoftheWeek all through the problem! Make sure to take a look at their options beneath!
SONA Transfer members can hold tabs on their nationwide rankings through the SONA Transfer Dashboard. Moreover, SONA is posting weekly #WellnessWednesday exercises to their YouTube Channel all through the problem. We encourage the SOVT group to strive them out! Click on right here to strive a #WellnessWednesday exercise!
Asserting Week 5 SONA Mover of the Week: Jules Madison!
Of the 1,958 complete SONA Transfer Problem members throughout the nation, Particular Olympics North America (SONA) not too long ago chosen SOVT athlete Jules Madison because the Week 5 Mover of the Week! Jules has been crushing his weekly train, wracking up 400+ motion minutes every week with actions like soccer, mountain climbing, gymnastics, and yard work together with his household! Try his #SONAMove Highlight beneath:
Asserting Week 3 SONA Movers of the Week: Eli Weintraub & Mica Tucker!
Just a few weeks in the past, SONA named SOVT Unified Doubles pair Eli Weintraub and his Unified companion (& mom!) Mica Tucker because the Week 3 Movers of the Week! Mica stated, “We joined the #SONAMove problem as a result of in our household train is vital to retaining us completely happy and optimistic. We knew with fall and the chilly climate coming that we’d want an additional incentive to maintain up our good summer time train. The pleasant competitors with our SONA associates is retaining smiles on our faces! Eli’s objective is to train for two,520 minutes and to enhance his swimming stroke (if we are able to ever get again into the pool at CCBA). Mine is to succeed in 2,240 minutes and develop a day by day train behavior. ” Try their #SONAMove Highlight beneath:
The Fall #SONAMove Problem problem kicked off on September thirteenth, and can run by means of November seventh. Athletes can take part as people, in a Doubles pair (conventional or Unified), or on a group consisting of 3-10 folks (conventional, Unified, or Faculty). Click on right here to be taught extra.
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