Special Olympics Sydney Northern Beaches in Dee Why | Charitable organisation

Special Olympics Sydney Northern Beaches

Locality: Dee Why

Phone: +61 408 870 899

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25.01.2022 Last week was National Volunteer Recognition and join with us on thanking the following SOSNB volunteers who have been recognised by SOA for their amazing contribution: 30 Years - Rex Langthorne AM - Lorraine Clark 20 Years... - Lynette Foley 10 Years - Kim Savage - Peter Grieve - Juliana Graham - Cathy Vineburg - Andrea Werner 5 Years - Laura McCahon (golf coach) - Vicki Liddy There are many other volunteers and helpers who also help out and we thank them too! We would not be able to deliver our sporting and social programs without our wonderful volunteers. Interested in being involved feel free to contact us on [email protected] or call Andrea on 0408 870 899

25.01.2022 Special Olympics was featured this morning on Channel Nine Today show celebrating 50 years of sporting programs and our 28 year partnership with IGA stores.

25.01.2022 We are thrilled to have our amazing Lorraine Clark recognised in this way for her great work of many years! We will be watching the awards ceremony!

25.01.2022 We are missing our Sunnyfield athletes as they still are not attending the SOSNB sporting programs but this doesnt mean they are not keeping busy and their bowling skills up. Here are some photos of the Hakea House at Belrose holding their own bowling competition. Well done! Would love to see photos from other Sunnyfield residences on what they are up to. #sunnyfield

24.01.2022 Here is Roman practising his ten pin bowling with a twist! Using a basketball.

24.01.2022 The SOSNB Photo Competition is officially closing today and we will come back shortly with the selected final photos for your votes! If anyone has any last minute entries they can email to me by COB today - [email protected] Thanks for the great entries and looking forward to seeing which ones are chosen for the prizes of the Westfield Gift Cards!

23.01.2022 Thanks so much LETR!

23.01.2022 James Summerhayes- James is one of the true gentlemen of our basketball squad! His passion and enthusiasm for basketball and his Special Olympics mates is second to none. Here are his great answers to the questions that Lorraine Clark had asked our players to consider in regard to their lives during the past eight months of COVID. * How did you keep in touch with your team mates? As soon as COVID hit, the club stayed connected with Zoom group catch ups. This was a brillian...t way to keep in touch with each other. One of the things I love about this club is the mateship we have as a team. * Did you reach out to friends to see how they are feeling? Yes I did over the phone and through Instagram and Facebook. *What was a fun thing you did during the NO SPORT time? I think of my favourite things I did was the blogs on Instagram on farm life. This for me was a huge success because it got lots of positive feedback and people loved me showing the things I do on the farm. *What did you learn about yourself these past six months? I learnt to be careful with making the right decisions. With more time to myself, it made me reflect on things in the future. *How do you feel about being back at training? Love being back involved with club at trainings and training as a group again. I look forward to future basketball competitions. Check out James with his entry for our Crazy Photo competition we held over the COVID lockdown - He was Farmer James! See more

23.01.2022 Hope all our SOSNB athletes, volunteers and coaches enjoyed Fathers Day. Thank you to all our Dads who have supported, volunteered and coached. Here are some lovely photos of our SOSNB community with their dads. Feel free to post your favourite Dad photo too.

22.01.2022 We are very saddened to hear of the passing of Cameron Skinner, one of the real gentleman of our SONSW Basketball competition. SOSNB community sends their sympathy to Camerons family and the SO Mid North Coast team.

21.01.2022 A great video from our very own SOSNB athlete leaders thanking the NSW LETR for their support of all SO athletes. They are again generously supporting SOSNB with a $1000 Back to Sport grant and supplying some PPE kits for ensuring that our athletes and coaches are safe. Thanks LETR!!!

21.01.2022 The SOSNB dance group danced so beautifully last Thursday for a film crew that is filming a Christmas campaign for a Australian major retailer! So stayed tuned for the final results of this which we will post on our Facebook! Exciting!

21.01.2022 Calling all SOSNB athletes - lets get behind this great initiative!

20.01.2022 Please see below a message from our Chairman - Rex Langthorne in regard to SOSNBs transition back to training. Dear Athletes, Families and Carers I hope that you have kept safe, well and active over the past months during this challenging time with the COVID-19.... You may have seen the recent communication via Special Olympics Australia Facebook and Instagram pages, that they have given approval for clubs to resume a staged return to sporting training from Saturday 27 June 2020. SO Sport training and club activities must be held with the NSW State guidelines and along with venues being able to comply with the required hygiene measures and cleaning protocols. We are now talking with all the venues, SOSNB coaches and sports coordinators to put a action plan into place and will be back in contact soon in regard to when sports can expect to resume training. As you can imagine there are a lot of hurdles with the maximum of 10 people for indoor venues and other compliance requirements. Very exciting to be looking close to be back at training! Also please dont forget to enter our Wacky Photo competition by 14 June. Kind regards Rex Langthorne AM Chairman If there are any questions in regard to starting back to training, or photo competition, please feel free to contact Andrea Werner on [email protected] or on 0408 870 899

20.01.2022 Monday night Swimming squads have started back! Well done athletes on your social distancing in the pool! Very happy to be back in the pool.

20.01.2022 Some of our SOSNB athletes were part of the ABC TV Gardening Australia. Great story on the great work that Bushlink do here in the Northern Beaches. Well done Kieran Kelleher, Mark Jensen and Adrian Millner.

19.01.2022 Dressed to Impress!! Our fabulous dance team have new shirts and are looking very professional and ready to perform! They will soon be featuring in a promotional video for a well known clothing brand so watch this space for more information!! GO TEAM!! If you know any community groups who might want some live entertainment from our dancers please let us know. Email [email protected] or speak to our Dance coordinator Bev Hull.

18.01.2022 To celebrate the 28 year partnership with Special Olympics and IGA, some of our athletes from SO Sydney Northern Beaches visited the Balgowlah Heights IGA Store to say a huge thank you to Bill Karelas, owner of the store and Karen Tansini, weekend duty Manager. IGA have had the Community Chest Promotion during the month of July where selected items with the promotion price tag will donate a portion of the sale to Special Olympics Australia. Thanks IGA for your amazing support. Nico Gallardo, Juliet Liddy, Fred Pollock and Zac Fry were our athletes who went in with the great thank you sign and balloons in our SOSNB colours which are also the IGA corporate colours - perfect match! #communitychest@soaustralia SOSNB athletes and families - please support your local IGA and remember to thank them for their support

16.01.2022 SOSNB Tennis has started. Here are our athletes Juliet Liddy, Joshua Surace, Lewis Crawford and Harry Werner with Coach Lisa Catto from Tennis2Day and Steve Manley from Tennis Australia

15.01.2022 What a beautiful letter from Max Epper to his friend Harry Werner and his mum Andrea Werner (aka SOSNB Sports Coordinator). Doesnt it sum up how all our athletes are feeling about getting back to their respective sports and seeing all their friends!

15.01.2022 Brandon Liong - Brandon is a youngest member of the basketball squad at 9.5 years old! But don't under estimate him as he can absolutely hold his own with his older and taller team mates! Here are his great answers to the questions that Lorraine Clark had asked our players to consider in regard to their lives during the past eight months of COVID. * How did you keep in touch with your team mates? Still just getting to know everyone, I enjoyed a lot of family time and sibli...ng bonding. * Did you reach out to friends to see how they are feeling? There were some Zoom meetings for school and sometimes with Grandparents *What was a fun thing you did during the NO SPORT time? I played ball and balloon play with my brother. We also did a lot of Just Dance and trampoline. *What did you learn about yourself these past six months? I am happy in most situations if I have some family and siblings around, its important to have active activities even if I’m at home. *How do you feel about being back at training? I love being at Basketball. I feel independent and enjoy watching my older teammates. I feel a part of a team. Check out Brandon in the photos of him doing Just Dance and balloon play! See more

15.01.2022 SOSNB athletics program is up and running! (Excuse the pun). Our amazing coaches Anne Maree and Laurie has ten enthusiastic athletes at the Friday afternoon training. So much energy and focus was inspiring.

14.01.2022 We have already got some fantastic entries for the photo competition - keep them coming guys - love them! Dont forget to send your photos in by 14th June to [email protected]

12.01.2022 The votes are in for our Wacky Photo Competition. Well done to all the great entries and thank you for everyone who voted. Please see the video from our athlete leaders Fred Pollock, Harry Werner, Annalise Fadeev and Lisa Vineburg announcing the winners!

12.01.2022 Hopefully all of the SOSNB athletes and families have seen the email from Rex Langthorne, Chairman SOSNB with an update on the current situation with COVID-19 as we await the green light to get back to training along with the information on the new Photo Competition we are inviting all SOSNB registered athletes to enter. Just send us a photo of yourself in fancy dress or our favourite team colours/jumpers doing the following possible activities: keeping fit or active at home,... practising your chosen sport drills (golf, tennis, basketball etc) or helping out at home and the garden. Our athlete leaders and committee will chose the best ten photos and then you all get a chance to vote on the best. Just send us the photos to [email protected] and be in the running to win $100, $50 or $25 Westfield Gift Cardsfor 1st, 2nd and third place. See attached the flier with all the information See more

12.01.2022 Join us in welcoming Elsie Mae - the new member of the family for our SOSNB secretary Liz Maister. Isnt she the cutest little baby? We look forward to having her as another SOSNB supporter.

12.01.2022 We know you are all missing competing and attending our social events so we are going to feature some photos from past competitions and social events. See if you can recognise your fellow athletes and friends. Feel free to send us your favourite photos too

11.01.2022 Congrats to Lorraine for this well deserved recognition of all she has done and continues to do for Special Olympics and the athletes!

10.01.2022 Such fun photos from a past SOSNB Halloween Dance. Let us know if you can guess who all the scary and spooky people are!

09.01.2022 We have very multi talented athletes here at SOSNB. James Summerhayes, one our basketballers is showing his farming skills at his family farm at Berry. Love this photo for our competition. Dont forget to get your entries in before 14 June. Just send up [email protected].

08.01.2022 A great Channel Ten news interview of Fred Pollock, SO athlete leader and also featuring the SOSNB basketballers to celebrate the 50 years of Special Olympics in Australia and 28 years of IGA Stores supporting SO. Well done to Fred and all of the basketballers! Dont forget to go into your local IGA Store and buy any item with a Community Chest Price ticket as these products will support SOA. Thanks IGA!

07.01.2022 Another great entry for our Photo Competition from Tom Ragen-Nath, one of our basketballers who is a Huge Tigers Fan. Dont forget to get your entry in by 14 June and be in the running to win a $100 Westfield gift card! Just send your entries to [email protected]

07.01.2022 Roman switches it around with doing his basketball training drills with a ten pin bowling ball!

06.01.2022 Today was SOSNB Basketballers first time back training post lockdown. Thanks to the LETR NSW who provided the PPE kit to assist with us being COVID safe! Our athletes loved being back on the court and being with their friends.

06.01.2022 Thanks IGA for this generous support and thank you to our SOSNB athletes for going along to our Local IGA at Balgowlah Heights to say thanks in person!

05.01.2022 Love this photo. Shows that Special Olympics basketball is for all ages and sizes. Here is Tom Ragen-Nath who is 19 and Brandon Liong who is 10

05.01.2022 Our Dance group is back in action! So good to see our SOSNB dancers with their amazing teacher Bronte back on the dance floor. Cant wait to see their next performance.

05.01.2022 Andrew Unicomb - Andrew is a new member of the basketball squad having moved from SOUNS. Check out his amazing effort with getting fit and healthy over COVID! Here are his great answers to the questions that Lorraine Clark had asked our players to consider in regard to their lives during the past eight months of COVID. * How did you keep in touch with your team mates? I didn’t’ keep in touch with team mates as I am new to SOSNB Basketball but I kept in touch with friends o...n one on one basis coffee, lunch etc. I was able to go out with disability support workers one on one as well. * Did you reach out to friends to see how they are feeling? I kept in touch via phone and text messages and Facebook *What was a fun thing you did during the NO SPORT time? With the help of my family I embraced a healthy diet and lost 15kilo! I went on lots of walks and swam *What did you learn about yourself these past six months? I learnt about healthy eating, exercise. I liked watching the news to learn about COVID-19. I got Trump and Scomo confused! *How do you feel about being back at training? I am enjoying being at basketball. See Andrews photo of him out cycling in Manly keeping fit and active. See more

04.01.2022 Juliet Liddy doing some wacky basketball training for the photo competition - love the Sea Eagles jumper. Bet you are all excited about the return of the NRL competition starting back tonight. Go The Mighty Sea Eagles!

04.01.2022 Ten pin bowling was back for the first time last Saturday! With reduced numbers due to Sunnyfield athletes not yet back we were able to maintain our social distancing and keep safe. Lots of happy bowlers to be back doing their sport they love and being with friends.

04.01.2022 Calling all budding Roger Federer or Serena Williams! SO Sydney Northern Beaches are very excited to announce that we are starting up a tennis training squad for Learners with Lisa Catto from Tennis2Day. Initial session will be Monday afternoon 4-5pm at Christian Covenant School in Belrose. Proposed start date is Monday 03 August and cost will be $25 per session. We are very fortunate that Lisa comes to us with a wealth of experience with tennis and also working with athletes with a disability, a primary school teacher and mother of three! If you are interested or know of anyone who would be interested please contact Andrea Werner on [email protected] or call on 0408 870 899 to register your interest or ask any questions.

03.01.2022 Lisa Vineburg, one of our athlete leaders, made a very yummy and healthy lunch today of Thai Beef Salad and would love to share the recipe with you all to try at home. Recipe: - Cook two scotch fillet steaks in a frying pan or BBQ until medium rare. - Mix in bowl cos lettuce, baby spinach, cut celery, sliced cucumbers and halved cherry tomatoes. - Stir in the dressing of juice 2 limes 1lemon 2teaspoons of sesame oil and olive oil mix all together.... - Slice steaks into thin strips and add to the salad - Garnish with crushed peanut and enjoy! Feel free to post to Facebook any photos and recipes of other healthy dishes that you are cooking at home. We would love to see what you are doing at the moment. See more

03.01.2022 The SOSNB Ten Pin Bowlers had a great time today with their Halloween themed bowling. There was some great costumes with the parents and carers getting into the theme too! Congrats to Anna Harston for best Female Costume and Joshua Surace for best Male Costume. Thanks also to Joy and the Zone Bowling DY team for their goodie bags and great support of our bowling program.

03.01.2022 We are so proud of Lorraine for this well deserved recognition. Congrats Lorraine Clark and thank you for all your hard work.

02.01.2022 Tom Ragen-Nath - Another of our basketballers with his terrific answers to the questions that Lorraine Clark had asked our players to consider in regard to their lives during the past eight months of COVID. * How did you keep in touch with your team mates? I really loved the Zoom Meetings we had each Sunday as it gave me a chance to catch up with everyone and also we played some fun games which everyone enjoyed * Did you reach out to friends to see how they are feeling? I t...alked to other friends by messaging them and we would talk together as a group on the phone. *What was a fun thing you did during the NO SPORT time? I was really happy when the NRL came back on as I organised a tipping competition with all my family and I would phone them to get their tips. It was a great way to follow the footy and have lots of fun. *What did you learn about yourself these past six months? I learnt the importance of having good friends and making your own fun. *How do you feel about being back at training? I am very excited about being back at training as it is good exercise and keeps me fit. It makes me feel happy and I am looking forward to when the competitions start again. See Tom's photo of his entry into the Crazy Photo competition we did during the lockdown! He is a mad keen Tigers Supporter. See more