unified basketball – The Portland Press Herald

Unified basketball team brings joy, acceptance to Middle School of the Kennebunks

by Sydney Richelieu April 2, 2025April 2, 2025

The middle school’s inaugural unified basketball season was met with overwhelming support from students, staff and parents.

Scarborough Leader

Scarborough neighborhoods lit luminaries for unified sports

December 23, 2024December 23, 2024

Neighborhood lit luminaries for the fourth annual Luminary Night that took place on Dec. 14. The Windward Heights neighborhood off Gorham Road joined with the Leighton Farms neighborhood off Route 1, Abigail Woods neighborhood off Maple Road and Ridgeway Road neighborhood off Gorham Road to raise money for Scarborough Unified Teams. With help from Scarborough […]

Scarborough Leader

Forum: Unified Sports breaking down barriers at Scarborough schools

by Jack Murnane and Calvin Venegoni-Ranger May 15, 2024May 15, 2024

At 7 p.m. Friday, March 8, the Scarborough Unified Basketball teams were presented with a banner representing their honorable recognition as a National Unified Champion School from ESPN Special Olympics. In addition to a night full of joyous celebration of unity and pride, members of the Unified Sports teams competed in special games against the […]

Sports, Varsity Maine

The name of the game in Unified basketball? ‘It’s a bunch of fun’

by Steve Craig March 13, 2024March 14, 2024

The sport offers co-ed athletic opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities and has seen significant growth since it was introduced at Maine high schools in 2015.

Scarborough Leader, Southern Maine Weeklies

Unified basketball returns to Scarborough full-time after pandemic

by Maxen Ryder March 8, 2023March 6, 2023

Unified basketball creates a team of young athletes with and without special needs on the same team.

Times Record

Unified literacy class builds reading skills and community at Morse

by John Terhune May 15, 2022

An art and poetry gala at Morse High School Thursday evening offered the students and teachers behind a new unified literacy program an opportunity to celebrate what Principal Eric Varney called a “paradigm shift” for the school.

Times Record

Brunswick Junior High School student honored for volunteer work with Special Olympics

by Hannah LaClaire February 23, 2020

Charlie Austin, 14, has been assistant coach, manager and statistician for the Brunswick High School Unified Sports basketball team since a diagnosis for a rare heart condition forced him off the court.