Return to Activities Website
Please use the site below as a resource for your Athletes, Coaches, Volunteers, and Families! SOMD’s Return to Activities Website is filled with resources to help our state successfully and safely get our athletes back on the field! Click on the "View & Download PDF" button to open the file.
Return to Play
To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for all children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
To help bring all persons with intellectual disabilities into the larger society under conditions whereby they are accepted, respected and given the chance to increase their personal athletic potential.
For our athletes, the training never stops and the benefits last a lifetime. A 1995 Yale University study proved it: Special Olympics athletes do better at school, at work and at home than their peers not involved in our year-round sports program. We like to call it "Training for Life" - providing persons with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to become physically fit, develop cooperation and social skills, and increase their self-esteem, all while competing in an Olympic-type sports program. Sports participation for our athletes is truly "Training for Life," and Special Olympics Maryland gives everyone a chance to keep that spirit alive. To find out how you can get involved with Special Olympics St. Mary’s County, please call 301-904-1719.
