Health
This health screening discipline, once offered as a standalone service requiring physician signatures, will now be primarily delivered alongside regional competitions.
What is MedFest?
A recommendation from a Staff member, Coach or Volunteer is needed for an athlete to become one of these.
What is an Athlete Leader?
Designed with athlete voice and long-term development in mind, this SOSC change prioritizes quality training time, safer competition pacing, and clearer pathways from practice to competition.
What is SOSC’s new Sports Plan and season structure?
These Unified Champion Schools events give students the opportunity to learn about creating a culture of inclusion, share best practices with peers, and gain tools to empower future leaders.
What are Youth Summits?
A great resource to learn about Local Programs and what is needed to start one.
What is the LP webpage at https://sosc.org/localprogram/?
These trained athletes work closely with coaches to ensure health and fitness remain a core part of the sports experience, with 19 trained in December 2025.
What are Fitness Captains?
There are six of these groups currently operating in SOSC’s footprint with the plan of adding two more in 2026.
What are Athlete Leadership Councils known as ALC?
Special Olympics suggests a guideline of no more than this percentage variance between the highest and lowest scores within any division.
What is 15%?
This is a Unified Champion Schools group consisting of Unified student athletes and partners who work together and lead inclusion efforts on their school campuses, in the community and with SOSC.
What is Unified Generation Council?
Essential volunteers needed to build a strong and sustainable Local Program.
What is a Local Program leadership team?
This mustached fitness guru offers Power Up fitness activities on Tuesday nights.
Who is Coach Max?
This training helps people without disabilities remove unconscious bias and learn to invite, include and empower people with Intellectual Disabilities.
What is Unified Leadership?
This SOSC priority uses sport-specific and values-based training videos to improve coach readiness, ensure consistent instruction statewide, and support accessible, on-demand education for volunteer coaches.
What is the SOSC Coaches Education Video Project?
This strategy was selected as a Year 18 priority to strengthen implementation of the 3-component quality goal in Elementary school.
What is Young Athletes?
This new process being rolled out in 2026 asks Local Programs to submit information and attain program standards to help create consistency across SOSC’s footprint.
What is accreditation?
This new system launching later this year will allow electronic capture of screening data across all Healthy Athletes disciplines.
What is Healthy Athletes 2.0?
In many circles, Dustin is affectionately referred to by this nickname.
What is Hollywood?
SOSC is sending a delegation of 80 members to the 2026 USA Games in Minnesota. This is the number of unified sports teams attending.
What is 4?
Athletics, bocce, bowling and golf
These school levels were identified through data analysis as key areas for strategic growth in Year 18.
What is Elementary, Middle, and College?
This program currently serves athletes ages 2–7 in schools and will continue expanding into the community this year.
What is the Young Athletes program?
As part of SOSC’s awards modernization efforts, the new athlete awards will debut in 2026 at the regional level during this season.
What is the spring sports season?