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ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Winter Games are set to take place in Rochester next month, and organizers are looking for volunteers to help make the event a success.<\/p>\n
Special Olympics New York President and CEO Stacey Hengsterman, along with local leaders and athletes, will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 2026 State Winter Games<\/a> will take place in Rochester on Feb. 20-21. The event will host around 900 athletes and coaches from across New York, competing in seven sports including Alpine Skiing, Cross Country Skiing, and Figure Skating.<\/p>\n 350 volunteers are needed for various roles such as set-up, registration, scorekeeping, and athlete escorts. No prior experience is required, and on-site training will be provided.<\/p>\n Special Olympics New York serves more than 48,000 athletes statewide with year-round sports training and competitions at no cost to the athletes or their families.<\/p>\n For you are interested in volunteering, register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Special Olympics New York<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0volunteer<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Rochester<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updates on local, state and national News are detailed by the News10NBC Morning Team, along with traffic, sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,115,45873,13561],"class_list":["post-99925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-rochester","tag-special-olympics-new-york","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}