Ocean City Needs Volunteers For Special Olympics Track Meet

OCEAN CITY, NJ — Ocean City Recreation Department is seeking volunteers for the May 7 Special Olympics track meet.

The event will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Carey Stadium. The Recreation Department is seeking volunteers for the following:

• Escorts (to walk athletes from their staging area to the starting line or from the finish line to the awards area)
• Timers/distance measurers
• Track monitors (to stand at all the track fence entrances to make sure events are not interrupted)
• Sheet runners (to collect sheets of recorded times or distances)
• Fun zone volunteers: There will be games and face-painting set up for when the athletes aren't competing.
• Table Sales: Someone to man the t-shirt table
• Fans in the stands: a fun crowd atmosphere to cheer on the athletes.

Volunteers can sign up for all day, the morning session from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. or for the afternoon session from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Those interested in volunteering can sign up here.

About 75 athletes from New Jersey Area 8 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland counties) will compete Saturday to qualify for the Special Olympics New Jersey State Summer Games. The Summer Games will be held from June 10 to 12 at the College of New Jersey.