Unified Bocce Championships - Coed Grade 8-12
November 5th, 2025
CGC- Field House
No fee
Registration deadline Oct 17th at noon
Here are some definitions that might be helpful:
Who is a Special Olympics Athlete?
A Special Olympics Athlete is in an individual who has an intellectual disability. Intellectual disability (or ID) is a term used when a person has certain limitations in cognitive functioning and skills, including conceptual, social and practical skills, such as language, social and self-care skills.
What is Unified Sport?
Unified sport integrates individuals with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities on teams for sport training and competition to promote social engagement and development. In the Yukon, the sports that are offered are bocce and soccer.
What is Unified Bocce?
Unified Bocce is played with 4 players (minimum of 1 athlete with an intellectual disability) per team where 2 teams are rolling a bocce ball closest to the target ball, which is called the pallina.
Basic Rules of Bocce: For the sake of the championships, each game will be played to a maximum of 16 points or 15 minutes, whichever comes first. A coin toss will determine which team has the pallina (the small white ball). The pallina will be thrown by the team that won the coin toss to start the game. After the pallina is thrown the same person will throw their bocce ball. The opposing team will then deliver their balls one by one until the point is taken or they have exhausted their four balls. For teams of four each person will throw one bocce ball. The team who is not closest to the palina, will throw the bocce ball until their team's bocce ball is closest to the palina. At the end of the frame, when all balls have been thrown by both teams, scoring will be determined as follows: points are awarded to the team whose balls are closer to the pallina than the closest ball of the pallina. The scoring team will win the pallina advantage for the frame. The pallina is to be thrown by each player on the team before players get a 2 time to throw the pallina.
- Out of town funding opportunities- please contact Emma Hill at Special Olympics Yukon - [email protected] for more information
