Bocce

Bocce is a game of skill and strategy. The object is for one team to get as many of their balls (boccia) closer to the pallina (the smallest ball) than the opposing team’s closest ball.

District 54 participates in Individual, Team, Doubles and Unified Bocce. For information on Unified Bocce, please visit the Unified Sports Page above.

In individual Bocce – athletes compete on their own against another athlete.

In doubles, athletes compete in pairs.

Teams consist of 4 athletes playing together.

As in all Special Olympics sports, athletes are grouped in competition divisions according to ability level, age and gender.

Bocce Facts

• Bocce is one of Special Olympics’ newer sports, having been introduced at the World Games level for the first time in 1995.

• The 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games hosted 180 bocce athletes from 39 Special Olympics Programs.

• As of the 2005 Special Olympics Athlete Participation Report, 90,884 Special Olympics athletes compete in bocce.

Registration for Bocce is open in August and the season runs until mid-October.

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