{"id":2291,"date":"2024-05-30T12:52:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2024-05-30T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:28:10","slug":"unified-sports-chooses-to-include-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/unified-sports-chooses-to-include-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Unified Sports Chooses to Include All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Unified Sports Chooses to Include All<br \/>\nStory by Sophie Daly &#8217;25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unified Sports is a team that embodies inclusion and promotes strong friendships between all.\u00a0 All year they have been advocating for inclusion with fundraisers, spirit weeks, and enthusiastic practices. Our team has practiced once a week throughout the spring season and ends the year with kickball games against other schools&#8217; unified friends.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They attend the Field of Dreams, an all-inclusive playground for games that are made for all students with any physical capabilities, and then the annual Brick vs. Brick games were held on Wednesday, May 29th, at our own base at Veterans Memorial Elementary School.\u00a0 Despite being opponents on the field, the teams unite as one as they display remarkable sportsmanship and community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Teachers, administrators, families, and friends of all around Brick came to watch our teams play together and win together. The stands overflowed with supporters who chose to be included while cheerleaders celebrated our teams as they played their hearts out. The smiling faces and laughter of everyone at the field were the best part of the night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2293 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-30-8.51.39-AM-298x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-30-8.51.39-AM-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-30-8.51.39-AM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-30-8.51.39-AM.png 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>It began with the pledge to include and ended with friendships formed from a night to remember. The team was driven by Mrs. Panucci, Mrs. Lupo, Mrs. Jablonsky, and co-captains Chaelie McDonald and Alex Parlacosi. Some of the teammates who demonstrated incredible athletic prowess and sportsmanship throughout the game were Josh Saul, Sarah Malvasio, Keira Fahnholz, Bella Seibert, Collin Tobin, Isaac Morgan, Maryanna Vanderhoop, Aiden LaBruno, Alex Parlacosi, and Danny Iacullo. We wish luck to all the graduating seniors and hope they exemplify the values they learned through this experience. \u00a0 We were thankful to have everyone there helping out with this great event but most importantly those dedicated to their team and playing their best. They are the Change Makers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-30-8.51.30-AM-300x127.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-30-8.51.30-AM-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-30-8.51.30-AM.png 712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-spotify ose-uid-155c5ee728acfd4f7d584ce64cc94e1b ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Spotify\"><iframe allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Unified Sports - We Are the Change Makers\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/1SG74Ku42jc8NSjAVOPiD8?si=ERhgg4AdQiWDzHDX6s9aYQ&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unified Sports Chooses to Include All Story by Sophie Daly &#8217;25 Unified Sports is a team that embodies inclusion and promotes strong friendships between all.\u00a0 All year they have been advocating for inclusion with fundraisers, spirit weeks, and enthusiastic practices. Our team has practiced once a week throughout the spring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/unified-sports-chooses-to-include-all\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmhs-parent-news","category-bmhs-student-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}