{"id":2303,"date":"2019-01-11T19:40:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2021-12-07T14:16:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:16:36","slug":"friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/friendlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"color:black; text-decoration:underline\"><strong>Friendlies<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"color:black\">Clubs are encouraged to plan low-key competition opportunities with other clubs. This may be a shared practice session, scrimmage, or mixed-team pick-up. Such events allow athletes who have never attended a Special Olympics event to gain experience in travel and the competition format.<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Allows the competition experience for clubs with fewer athletes, a longer season and \/ or fewer competition opportunities<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Planned with other clubs in the area<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Takes the form of a shared practice or scrimmage<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Coaches can have their athletes simulate competition<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">This format may assist with seeding teams for competition<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Athletes apply the skills they&#8217;ve learned through training<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Athletes from the participating clubs gain travel experience and learn competition etiquette<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Safety for players remains a priority but venue standards may be relaxed and officials are not required<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friendlies \u00a0 Clubs are encouraged to plan low-key competition opportunities with other clubs. This may be a shared practice session, scrimmage, or mixed-team pick-up. Such events allow athletes who have never attended a Special Olympics event to gain experience in travel and the competition format. \u00a0 Allows the competition experience for clubs with fewer athletes, a longer season and \/ &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/friendlies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-no-container.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition","tag-types-of-competition","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}