The New River Polar Plunge® Fest benefiting Special Olympics Virginia, is hosted by the City of Radford PD and The University of Radford. It has become a unique and crazy tradition each February, the plunge is open to the entire community including Radford University alumni, RU and VT students, youth groups, —anyone that wants to help us raise cold hard cash! Raise a minimum of $50 and you can freeze the day in the icy cold New River. Prizes will be for top fundraisers and outrageous attire.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Check-in: 10:30 am-12:00 pm, Splashdown: 12:30 pm
Location: Dudley's Landing (Bisset Park—At the bridge off Main St
Go To: www.polarplunge.com/newriver to register and start fundraising today.
Our very popular Unified Basketball, Swimming, Bowling league and Walking Club will start up this again this Winter. Volunteers are needed! These are weekly leagues, so we ask that you can commit to come each week. This is the best way to form friendships with our athletes. There are also some one-day events that need volunteer support. Unified Bowling League needs both regular team members and subs on Thursday nights.
The SW Regional Basketball Tournament will be Sunday, February 21 at Cassell Coliseum, Virginia Tech. We need groups to come out and host our teams and cheer them on : Go to VOLUNTEER2CHEER.COM Also there is a need for volunteers to help with the tournament logistics.
Spring track and field practices will starts in March with the area competition at Radford University's Cupp Stadium date and times to be determined. We will need volunteers to be Buddies, Escorts and Volunteer2Cheer at the track meet and coach at practices.
Please let us know if you would like to volunteer by completing information below. We will email you with more details and announcements. Please also note that info and updates can be found on our Facebook page and group Special Olympics Virginia - Southwest and Special Olympics Virginia ARea 9. We encourage you to follow these pages, as often group emails are being lost to spam filters. If you find us in your spam folder be sure to mark us as "not spam" and always allow our emails to come thru!
Dates for more upcoming events can always be found on our website at specialolympicsva.org/calendar. Links to sign up are on each event.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to call our office at (540)951-2918 or email swoffice@specialolympicsva.org.
Thank you for Volunteering!