Special Olympics Rotorua

Special Olympics Rotorua Special Olympics Rotorua supports intellectually disabled people of all ages to play sport together. We have a break during school holidays.

Our club caters for kids right through to adults with Special Needs. It is an organisation that gives these people a chance get together and play sports to the best of their ability. Currently with a community of around 150 people this organisation is growing. It caters for only a small percentage of Special needs people in Rotorua and is looking to grow through local awareness. The people involved have all varieties of disability, primarily intellectual, cognitive or developmental delay - some severe and some minor - and encourages you no matter what your disability is to get involved. Currently our sports are:
Swimming - Mondays 6pm (deep pool) and Thursdays 6pm (learner’s pool) at the Aquatic Centre
Basketball - Thursdays 6pm - 7pm, Lynmore School Gym
Football - Tuesdays 6.00pm - 7.00pm, Lynmore School Gym
Tenpin Bowling - Saturdays 10.15am - 11.15am at Strike Zone, Motion Entertainment
Indoor Bowls/ Bocce - Wednesday - 5.00pm - 6.30pm at WHHS. If you would like to know more please email us at the address below. This Organisation has a few die hard organisers that meet regularly to keep it running, but these people could always have more help and coaches to aid the people involved. Some athletes have represented New Zealand in Tenpin Bowling overseas, most recently in the World Special Olympic Summer Games in Abu Dhabi in 2019. With support from the local community in Rotorua we can get more athletes taking part in National Special Olympics Games (held every four years) and representing their country in trans-Tasman, Pacific and World Games, and raise the profile of these unique and amazing people in everybody's lives.

Just a reminder that daylight saving starts tomorrow so put your clocks and watches forward an hour at bedtime, if they ...
25/09/2026

Just a reminder that daylight saving starts tomorrow so put your clocks and watches forward an hour at bedtime, if they don’t automatically change.
Also a reminder that our sports take a break during the school holidays. Term 4 starts on Monday, 12th October.

🟤⚫️ Tonight we had 19 players for indoor bowls. Group A had a pairs match and Group N had four teams play three matches ...
23/09/2026

🟤⚫️ Tonight we had 19 players for indoor bowls.
Group A had a pairs match and Group N had four teams play three matches with 3-4 players per team.

In Group A Nicole and Zane won 14-9 against Troy and Bodie over 13 ends.

In Group N our winners were Terry, George, Allan and Maureen with 3 wins. Runners up with 2 wins went to Casey-lee, Madison, Patricia and Sean. Third place with 1 win went to William, Jordan, deRicha and AlexJ.
Group N players of the week were Terry, Heremaia, George, Amelia, Maureen and Allan.

Indoor bowls takes a two week break during the school holidays and returns on Wednesday 14th October at 5pm.

🔴🟢 Last night for bocce for Term 3 and there were 9 players in three teams. David, Keyarn and Tyrone won with 7 points f...
23/09/2026

🔴🟢 Last night for bocce for Term 3 and there were 9 players in three teams. David, Keyarn and Tyrone won with 7 points followed by Pounamu, Emilija and Jake on 4 points and Krystal Robert and Virginia on 3 points. Tyrone and Pounamu were the players of the week. Bocce resumes again on Wednesday 14th October at 5pm.

22/09/2026

⚽️ Football action from Tuesday night (2 more videos in the comments) before we take a two week break.
When football/soccer resumes next term on the 13th October it will be outside on the field if it’s fine and not too cold so remember to bring soccer boots, shin pads and a bottle of water.

21/09/2026

The last Monday night swim session for Term 3 saw eight swimmers practicing swim races, six of them (plus Leo who was away) will be taking part in a swim tournament on the 18th October. There will be one more practice after the school holidays, on the 12th 0ctober, then a break from swimming on both the 19th and 26th October (Labour Day) and then swimming will resume again on the 2nd November.

🎳 Today we took 4 teams to Tauranga for a 3 game teams tournament. In 4th division our team of Allan, Kelly, Adrian and...
19/09/2026

🎳 Today we took 4 teams to Tauranga for a 3 game teams tournament.

In 4th division our team of Allan, Kelly, Adrian and Lional got 3rd 🥉place. A big thank you 😊 to Kelly for supporting Allan by taking his ball up to him each time.
In 3rd division our team of Troy, Bailey, John and Shannon came 3rd🥉.
In 2nd division our team of Brent, Bodie, Keyarn and Zane came 4th🎗️.
In 1st division our team of Matthew, Nadia, Simon and Kris came 3rd 🥉with only a few points separating these teams.

Each team was awarded a fair play 👍 award and these went to Nadia, Kelly, Brent and Bailey.

Brent also got 2 turkeys 🦃 🦃 and Matthew got one 🦃 . They were lucky to both be awarded a small trophy and a certificate for this.

What impressed me the most was the commaraderie and sportsmanship these athletes show. No such thing as competition as they are cheering and high fiving every person who got a strike or a spare. Absolutely love this side of Special Olympics. A big thank you ☺️ to our volunteers who provided transport and support for our athletes.
(Report by Coach Shona)

🎳 We just had one session of tenpin this morning for the last one of Term 3 as several athletes and volunteers were atte...
19/09/2026

🎳 We just had one session of tenpin this morning for the last one of Term 3 as several athletes and volunteers were attending a tenpin tournament in Tauranga.
👏Congratulations Delarnie and Emily on bowling well last week.

⚠️ Both tenpin bowling and basketball now take a break for 3 Saturdays and will be back on the 17th October. Other sports still have one more session each before the school holidays start.

🟤⚫️ Tonight we had 14 players for indoor bowls. Group A had a triples match and Group N played Ins and Outs. In Group A ...
16/09/2026

🟤⚫️ Tonight we had 14 players for indoor bowls.
Group A had a triples match and Group N played Ins and Outs.

In Group A Troy, Nicole and Jordan won 15-8 against William, Caseylee and Amelia over 12 ends.

In Group N our winners were Heremaia and Pounamu. Runners up were Bodie and Maureen. Third place went to Jakob, Tyrone and Sean. Our players of the week in Group N went to Heremaia, Bodie and Pounamu.

🟢🔴 Bocce was played outside today with two teams of three and one of four including Ben (red cap) from Special Olympics ...
16/09/2026

🟢🔴 Bocce was played outside today with two teams of three and one of four including Ben (red cap) from Special Olympics Thames Valley, a former Rotorua athlete. We managed to play a record 10 games with Team 3 winning with 8 points, Team 1 scored 6 points and Team 2 finishing with 4 points. When playing on grass the boule has to be thrown rather than bowled.

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