PEOPLE with learning disabilities are invited to get involved in a free basketball training session which is being held at Copleston High School tomorrow between 2-3.30pm.
The session, held by coaches Phil Green and Kevin Reeve is all part of a new initiative which aims to get Special Olympics on the map in Ipswich and Suffolk.
Special Olympics is a nationwide community-based body that offers a wide range of sports to people from the age of six and upwards with learning difficulties. Competitors must be eight or older to take part in competitive events.
The Copleston-based basketball club is the first Suffolk-based Special Olympics Club and is also open to people without learning difficulties.
A committee meeting will be held on March 19 at 7pm, at Ipswich Sports Club, where competitors, coaches and volunteers, wanting to take part in a Special Olympics sport can go along to register their interest.
“The basketball sessions are available to those people with learning difficulties but also those without,” said Phil Green
“We offer the chance for people to come and play at a low level and we hope to raise the profile of Special Olympics in the county.”
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