Commerce Unified Basketball

Our Program

Commerce offers Unified Basketball during the Fall Season.

The season begins Mid-September and runs through the middle of November.  

What is Unified? A unified team is composed of students with and without developmental disabilities playing together on the same team competing for our school against other schools in our league and area.  The unified movement is built on the premise that through sport and playing together, we see one another for what we can do, not for what we cannot do. Read more about it here: Unified Basketball

Practices:

• Commitment will be approximately 2-3 practices per week during the school day.

Games:

There will be approximately 5 games throughout the season. Transporation will be provided to and from the opposing school. Parents/Families will be required to pick up their student-athlete upon return from the game.

Interscholastic Unified Sports is a school athletics/activities program that is co-supported by the State Special Olympics Program and the MIAA.

The following guidelines have been established as benchmarks of a quality interscholastic Unified Sports program:

• Teams are administered and supported in a similar fashion as other interscholastic sports teams.

• Teams are comprised of approximately equal number of students with and without developmental disabilities.

• All teammates and coaches are accountable to following the official Unified Sports rules, applicable state association rules and regulations, and training standards prior to competition.

• Coaches follow the Unified Sports parameters of team composition to help minimize risk and ensure meaningful participation.

• In addition to participation, programs provide genuine competition experiences with place of finish results.

• All teammates are meaningfully involved in training and competitions and have the opportunity to contribute.

• Teams compete against other Interscholastic Unified Sports school teams using a consistent set of official Unified Sports rules.

• Interscholastic league-play and competitions are officiated by sport-specific