2025 State Softball Tournament

Saturday September 27, 2025

• LAFA Fields at Campo Complex
• 17 Sargent Road
• Londonderry NH

The 2025 State Softball Tournament will offer competition in:

• Individual Skills
• Unified Slow Pitch

The Unified Slow Pitch competition will consist of an onsite assessment round and divisioning followed by a medal round tournament. The Individual Skills competition will consist of performance measures in fielding, throwing, hitting, and base running. 

Please take a moment to review the rules of the sport and the order of events included below. Softball rules can be found here.

You will register for The State Softball Tournament in Agon using the registration timeline below.

IF YOU NEED HELP OR HAVE QUESTIONS

About registration, which includes compliance, the registration process through Agon including intent to participate, registration and scratch, please contact Deb at DebC@sonh.org or by phone at (603) 344-0423.

About the season or event, which includes preseason and coaches calls, final information, and day-of questions, please contact Shelby at ShelbyC@sonh.org or by phone at (603) 933-1093.

EVENT INFORMATION

TENTATIVE ORDER OF EVENTS

• 7:30AM                Local Program Check-in
• 8:00AM                Competition Begins
• NOON                  Lunch
• 4:00PM                 Competition Ends
• 5:00PM                 Event Ends

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Lunch will be provided.
• Divisions for the medal round may be altered following the assessment games.
• Training is an important part of athlete growth in both skill development and overall physical fitness.  Special Olympics New Hampshire encourages teams to train twice a week for 10 weeks prior to the State Tournament, with one practice focusing on sport specific training and one practice focusing on fitness (cross training etc.) to allow for optimal performance and readiness at the State Tournament.
• If the event is cancelled, it will not be rescheduled.  LPC, Secondary LPC, and Head Coach for each team will be notified via phone by 6:00am on the day of the event.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

During the registration process, we will communicate with the primary LP contact, head coaches, Local Program Coordinator, Secondary Local Program Coordinator, Communications, and Compliance contacts.

INTENT TO PARTICIPATE (TELL US YOU’RE COMING)

By January 3^rd, 2025

• Please enter the primary Local Program contact for the Tournament as well as the Head Coach (these may be the same or different people). 
• Give us an estimate of the number of athletes participating.  We are looking for a rough estimate for planning purposes only, this number can change as you move through registration.

PRESEASON VIDEO CALL

July 8^th, 2025 at 7pm

• We will discuss:
  • The season
  • Events that will take place
  • Rules
  • High-level overview of the events.

FIRST PRACTICE SHOULD BE HELD BY

July 19^th, 2025

Training is an important part of athlete growth in both skill development and overall physical fitness. Special Olympics New Hampshire expects teams to train twice a week for 10 weeks prior to the State Tournament.

COMPLIANCE (TELL US WHO IS COMING AND DEAL WITH PAPERWORK)

Now until August 13^th, 2025

• No athletes, unified partners, head coaches, coaches or LPVs may be added to your roster after the compliance period ends.
• New athletes must be recorded in Agon.
• If you would like your registration from a prior year flipped into this year, please email Deb.
• By the end of the compliance period, all athletes, unified partners, head coaches, coaches and LPVs must be compliant (showing as green in Agon). 
  • Requirements to be compliant can be found here:
    • Athlete
    • LPV / Unified Partner
    • Coach

REGISTRATION (ENTER EVENTS, QUALIFYING SCORES, LEVELS, TEAMS & MEALS)

August 14^th to August 27^th, 2025

• All athletes and unified partners must be registered for event specific information (event, level, qualifying score and team, if applicable).
• All athletes and unified partners must be registered for one event.
• Individual skills: enter qualifying score in the field provided.
• Unified Slow Pitch: enter jersey number in the field provided.
• Number of meals must be entered.

SCRATCH (UPDATE QUALIFYING SCORES, REMOVE PEOPLE)

August 28^th to September 10^th, 2025

COACHES VIDEO CALL

September 17^th, 2025 at 7pm

• We will discuss
  • Set-up for the day
  • Draft final schedule
  • Menu
  • Process for the day
  • Weather

FINAL INFORMATION

September 22^nd, 2025

• Final order of events and any follow up information required after the coaches video call will be distributed.