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Our Program
Brookline High School offers Unified Basketball during the Fall Season.
The season begins in mid-September and runs through the middle of November.
What is Unified? A unified team is composed of students with and without developmental disabilities playing together on the same team competing for our school against other schools in our league and area. The unified movement is built on the premise that through sport and playing together, we see one another for what we can do, not for what we cannot do. Read more about it here: Unified Basketball
Watch this Video to learn more about Unified sports: What are Unified Sports?
The following guidelines have been established as benchmarks of a quality interscholastic Unified Sports program:
Special Olympics’ Mission Statement: To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with developmental disabilities, 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
The season begins in mid-September and runs through the middle of November.
What is Unified? A unified team is composed of students with and without developmental disabilities playing together on the same team competing for our school against other schools in our league and area. The unified movement is built on the premise that through sport and playing together, we see one another for what we can do, not for what we cannot do. Read more about it here: Unified Basketball
Watch this Video to learn more about Unified sports: What are Unified Sports?
- Commitment will be approximately 3 sessions per week.
- Practices will be held from 3-4:30, 3 days a week in Tappan Gym 1. Once games start, they will be 1x/week, in place of a practice.
The following guidelines have been established as benchmarks of a quality interscholastic Unified Sports program:
- Teams are administered and supported in a similar fashion as other interscholastic sports teams.
- Teams are comprised of approximately equal number of students with and without developmental disabilities.
- All teammates and coaches are accountable to following the official Unified Sports rules, applicable state association rules and regulations, and training standards prior to competition.
- Coaches follow the Unified Sports parameters of team composition to help minimize risk and ensure meaningful participation.
- In addition to participation, programs provide genuine competition experiences with place of finish results.
- All teammates are meaningfully involved in training and competitions and have the opportunity to contribute.
- Teams compete against other Interscholastic Unified Sports school teams using a consistent set of official Unified Sports rules.
- Interscholastic league-play and competitions are officiated by sport-specific
Special Olympics’ Mission Statement: To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with developmental disabilities, 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