A quarterly newsletter published by New
Mexico Senior Olympics, Inc.
| New Mexico Senior Olympics, Inc. | January 2003 |
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State Games Update |
Evaluation
Highlights
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ongratulation to Ginger Rich of Albuquerque, Winner of the Evaluation Drawing. Ginger is now the Proud owner of "One of Everything," one of each of our NMSO Souvenirs from the 2002 State Games.We want to make a special thank you to all those who took the time to indicate their ethnicity on the State Game Registration Forms. This is something the State Agency always asks us for. There were about 8% who indicated "other", but from what we could tell the breakdown looked like this:
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• 1% African American |
You were able to tell us a great deal in your evaluations. Here are some highlights:
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• 22% were first-time Athletes |
We love it when you say everything was wonderful, (of course) but we pay special attention when you have a problem. We want to thank you for not only expressing a frustrations, but many of you also offered solutions. We always feel there is room for improvement. We are not always sure where that should be.
Some of the things we are working on will be:
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• Schedule issues. We will try to get the schedule out
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We had 178 Seniors compete in the first annual Games in 1978, in 2002 we had 1682. We are still trying to fit all this into a 4-day schedule. We conduct 26 different sports with 196 events. Many of you have asked that we extend the Games, or separate team sports from other events. We would like to hear from you. Write, call, or e-mail us with your ideas.
| Phone: | (505)623-5777 |
| Fax: | (505)622-9244 |
| E-mail: | NMSO@NMSeniorOlympics.org |
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NMSO / Ideas |
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RULE CHANGES At the recent December 2002 Senior Olympic State Board meeting the Board voted to adopt the following rule changes for the 2003 Games. General Information and Sport Rules TEAMS • Tournament structure for team sports will be double or round robin elimination tournaments. Singles elimination tournaments may be considered with the consent of the NMSO office. • In the event there are not sufficient players in a NM Pool to field a full team roster, NMSO will contact registered Team Captains and request that Pool Athletes be added to registered team rosters for State Games. • In the event that the 1st or 2nd place winning team elects not to attend Nationals, the 3rd place team will be eligible to represent NM at Nationals. INDIVIDUALS • In fairness to all competitors, Event Managers will not be allowed to accommodate athletes who want to compete prior to or after their scheduled age group competition. Athletes not competing in their scheduled age group will not be considered for medals. • Basketball 3-on-3—The "Check Rule" will be deleted.• Bowling—Substitutes may qualify as subs on more than one Local Bowling Team as long as the teams are from the same Local Games and have bowled in Local Games.• Frisbee Accuracy—The women’s throwing distance will be shortened to 8 and 12 yards respectively.• Sport Addition—An exhibition 1500 meter Power Walk competition will be added.• Table Tennis—The new ITTF rules—11 Point Games and New Service Rule—are incorporated.• Talent/Band—Kitchen Band may utilize prerecorded music and both Kitchen and Traditional Bands can have a singer. Band act cannot be duplicated in Instrumental category.• Talent/Instrumental—No singers permitted. Instrumental act cannot be duplicated in Band category. |
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