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Heritage Middle School coaches highlight Unified Sports’ inclusiveness and national recognition
Summary
Coaches Mrs. Sabato and Ms. Vima described Heritage Middle School’s Unified Sports program, which pairs general education partners with athletes, emphasized whole-school engagement, recounted a successful bocce tournament and said the school earned a Unified Champion School banner and a national nomination from ESPN Special Olympics.
Mrs. Sabato, co‑coach of the Unified Sports class at Heritage Middle School, and Ms. Vima, head of delegation and co‑coach, outlined the program’s growth and recent honors in remarks to school stakeholders.
"For Unified Sports, essentially what it is is where we incorporate teams and we have partners and athletes who come together and they get to participate in activities," Mrs. Sabato said, describing the program’s model of pairing general‑education partners with student athletes to promote inclusion.
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