PARTICIPATING AREA TEAMS:

Bangor Schools, Hampden-Winterport Schools, Hermon Schools, Amicus-Community Life, Amicus-Penobscot Valley Industries & Ralph Leek Elders, Citizens of Maine, Creative Options Millinocket & Bangor, Downeast Horizons, Living Innovations-Newport, MERT Enterprises, Momentum North, OHI, and Penquis-Charlotte White Support Services.

Monday, February 13th:

Speed Skating Finals

(8:45 arrival)

Adult Snowshoe Time Trials & Nordic Time Trials 

(11:30 arrival)

Tuesday, February 14th:

Alpine Finals, Nordic Finals

Snowshoe (School & Adult) Finals

School arrival 9am, Adult Athlete arrival 12pm

Important Information for Participants:

• Activities at Hermon Mountain are outside. Please dress appropriately. Participants may use the lodge for shelter, bathroom facilities and food. 

• Concession will be open for purchase of food on Monday (cash only), outside food is permitted.

• Up to date athlete medical and release forms as well as the Communicable Disease Liability Waiver are required for athlete participation. Please ask your teams' Head Coach or HOD if you have any questions about these forms.

• Special Olympics Maine is now following the recommendations of the Maine CDC regarding Covid guidelines.

• Stay home if you are not feeling well, masks are not required, maintain social distance and practice good hand hygiene throughout the event. Spectators are permitted.

• In the event of inclement weather, event cancellations will be posted at the top of this page, on our area Facebook page and HODs will be emailed by 6am. The event will be canceled if local schools are canceled or if we are having extremely cold temperatures or heavy rain.

• When you see staff at Hermon or Sawyer, be sure to thank them for hosting us!

Day of Event Volunteers (Class  B Volunteers) are to complete 2 forms:

• SOMaine Class B Volunteer Registration Form– Before engaging in any service as an Event Volunteer, each volunteer must complete an Event Volunteer Release Form prior to or upon arrival at a Special Olympics Maine event.  Submit online by clicking here or click here to download to complete

• Communicable Disease Release of Liability Waiver –Submit online by clicking here or click here to download to complete

Please contact Wendy Gilbert, wegaskum@gmail.com or our volunteer coordinator, Heather Wheaton, heatherwspecialo@gmail.com for more information.

Coaches, assistant coaches and staff assisting athletes are asked to meet all requirements for a Volunteer Class A. These can be found at https://www.somaine.org/resources/volunteer-resources/  and can be discussed with your teams' HOD.

Winter Games Event Chair/Snowshoe/Alpine: Wendy Gilbert

Games Management: Christina Ehrhard

Nordic: Edna Taber

Speed Skating: Jeff Bosse

Medical: Ryan Welch

Volunteer Coordinator: Heather Wheaton

Special thanks to Hermon Mountain, Bill Whitcomb, Rob Bakker, Hermon Mountain Ski Patrol, Hermon Fire Department and Hermon JROTC.

Thank you to all that helped make this event happen! 

Good luck athletes!