FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ANNUAL MANHATTAN COLLEGE GAMES FOCUS ON ATHLETES WITH DISABILITIES

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan College will host the 24th Annual Manhattan College Games Saturday, April 17, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Draddy Gymnasium.  The Manhattan College Games is an annual event where children and adults with mental and physical disabilities from New York City, Westchester, Rockland and the Bronx receive individual attention from College volunteers as they participate in a variety of non-competitive sports and physical activities.

The College’s physical education and human performance department and Alpha Eta Chapter of Phi Epsilon Kappa, the national honor fraternity for physical education, are sponsors of this yearly event.  Athletes who participate in the Games include students from New York public and parochial schools, the Yonkers Park and Recreation department, the Miriam de Soyza Learning Center, Project CHAMP, SPORT Program and the Bill Byron Residence at Jacobi Hospital.

More than 100 volunteers from the Manhattan College community alone plan to participate in the Games.  Athletes will be involved in over three hours of activity including the opening parade, the award ceremony and other planned events.

For more information about this event, please contact Shawn Ladda, chair of the physical education department, at (718) 862-7811.  If you are a member of the press and would like to cover the Games, please contact Melanie A. Farmer at (718) 862-7232.  Manhattan College is located at West 242nd Street near Broadway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, one mile from the Westchester County line and accessible by MTA subway lines 1 and 9.  Draddy Gymnasium is located on the College’s campus.

Manhattan College was founded in 1853 upon the Lasallian tradition of excellence in teaching, inspired by St. John Baptist de La Salle.  Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning that offers more than 40 major programs of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science.

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