Sports

SOOR offers competitions in 14 Olympic-type sports over three different sports seasons in 2013.

Special Olympics Oregon is serving more than 8,000 participants with intellectual disabilities every day, every month, every year through participation in Olympic-type sports. Through our signature sports programs, athletes gain self-confidence, social competency and other enhanced skills, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.

Each athlete/team is placed in a competitive division based on gender, age and ability matching.  The age minimum for participation is 8 years old.  There is no age maximum.

Summer

• Athletics  (Track & Field)
• Bocce
• Golf
• Softball

Fall

• Aquatics
• Bowling
• Soccer
• Volleyball

Winter

• Indoor Sports
  • Basketball
  • Powerlifting
• Snow Sports
  • Alpine Skiing
  • Cross-Country Skiing
  • Snowboarding
  • Snowshoeing 

Special Olympics Oregon Teaches Tools for Life

Eric Thompson, Jackson County athlete: Learning and growing thanks to the social value of Special Olympics sports and related activities.

“Eric loves a party, loves to be around people, but has a hard time with new people. Special Olympics has been a lifelong support for us and opens up a whole new network of people for Eric,” Eric’s mother, Kirsten