In an effort to create unity among the unified teams across Southern Vermont, athletes gathered at Natowich Field recently to ...

Students with and without disabilities from Washington, D.C.’s Barnard Elementary School gained skills in acceptance, inclusion and teamwork.

Emily Worth, serving as Vigo County’s Special Olympics team’s bocce ball coach for her first year, confesses that she doesn’t have a lot of strategy for her athletes. MET 060625 SPCL OLY FOX ALLEN ...

During high school competitions, unified bocce ball is played on basketball courts and is just like the game you would play in your backyard, where you try to toss a larger ball as close as you can ...

Bocce, first played in the 18th century in Italy, begins with one side rolling a smaller ball, called the pallino at Salisbury, from one end of the court to the other and it must land inside a zone.

The primary focus of bocce ball is precision and strategy. The objective is to toss or roll your bocce balls closer to the pallino (the smaller target ball) than your opponent. It’s a game of finesse, ...

In bocce, a small pallino ball is thrown in the court. Players each have two balls and try to throw them as close to the pallino as possible and knock their opponent’s balls out of the way.

Bocce ball is more than just a game ... Penns Valley’s Emily Roland rolls the pallino during the unified bocce match against Philipsburg-Osceola on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025.