These items are for a fun winter game.
Floorball
The cities of Gilbert, Mesa, and Tempe represent this SOAZ area and are overseen by AD Nick Staloch.
Four Peaks Area
This River area Athlete creates art on SOAZ connected every month and is really active on the Athlete Input Council (AIC).
Conner Smith!
This is the year that Special Olympics started in Arizona.
1975
This sport is played during the winter season, it can be played on a traditional or unified team, and includes goals on each end of the field.
Soccer

This sport is played during the spring season and involves 8 lanes.
Track and Field
Name the area with the towns of Colorado City, Yuma, Lake Havasu and runs along with the Colorado all the way down to Mexico.
River Area
Get the latest SOAZconnected headlines every Monday with this Monument Area Director when he stars in the Kick-Off.
Curt Gilpin
This person is President John F. Kennedy's sister, who is the person responsible for starting Special Olympics.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver

These state games take place in the heat and include track and field, volleyball, and weightlifting, and take place at RS Kellis High School, traditionally the first weekend in May.
State Summer Games

This sport is played 5-aside (five players on each side) and consists of 3 Athletes and 2 Unified Partners on the court at all times.
Unified Basketball
This University, with the Wildcats as its mascot, along with the town of Oro Valley and the Biosphere, sit in this Area.
Coronado Area
This special event day is held every March within Special Olympics and helps stop using the R-Word and show that #InclusionistheRevolution.
Spread the Word: Inclusion.
March 3rd, 2021 is Spread the Word Day: Connection!
List all of the Areas that the state is divided up for area competitions.
River
Mountain
Monument
Palo Verde
Four Peaks
Coronado
These two sports competitions occur at Snowbowl near Flagstaff every winter season and can be done as unified or traditional events.
Snowboarding
These go on your feet and help you not to fall into really deep white, cold stuff and are used for racing in this track-like sport.
Snowshoes
This area has the most Athletes in the state; also has the delegations of Peoria, Surprise, Buckeye; and the main SOAZ state office sits in its avenues.
Palo Verde Area
This sport will take place Virtually this year at the state level and is a team sport, unified or traditional, where you chant, dance, and sometimes do tumbling and aerobatics.
2021 Virtual Cheer Competition, April 2021
This is the number of sports offered throughout the state of Arizona.
21
Swimming, Softball, and Bocce occur at these state-level games during October. In the past, the games have taken place in Goodyear at the YMCA, City of Peoria Pioneer Park with Bocce and Softball.
Fall State Games

This sport is the most popular in the world and is played during the winter season by moving around a white and black ball.
Soccer (Football)
The Arizona counties of Navajo, Apache, Greenlee, eastern Gila, and northern Graham county are part of this competing area.
Monument Area
This popular game brings Athletes together virtually on zoom and in the game to figure out who the Impostor is as we gather a few times a month, sometimes a few times a week, to have lots of fun running around a spaceship.

This is the amount of state-level games offered and the name of each one.
3 State Level Games
Fall State Games
State Basketball and Cheer
Summer State Games
Jamie Heckerman
