Sports

Description:

The sports competition emphasizes sportsmanship and team building skills. It can be an enjoyable way to get to know and spend time with different Church participants.

Competition Guidelines & Evaluation Criteria:

General:

All players should only compete in their respective age groups and respective gender category.
A form will be provided for each competition to be completed by each team providing the names of all
the team members and their grade.
Any player who demonstrates non-Christian behavior will be dismissed from the competition.
If a player is penalized during a game, he/she will not be permitted to play the next game.
The referees’ decisions are final and should not be disputed. In the case of a valid objection, a formal
complaint should be presented to the Mahragan committee.
Any team who is not punctual will automatically be disqualified.
The competitions will be organized on a league basis with semi-finals and finals, for each sport.

Relay (Grades SK-4)

Competing teams must have an equal number of players.
Each player will run about 30 meters and back, passing the baton to the next player on his or her team.
This will be repeated until all of the players on the team have had a turn.
The team that completes the relay in the least time wins.

Soccer (Grades 1 & up)

Each game will run for up to 20 minutes.
If the two teams tie in the game, penalty shots will be taken.
Substitutions will be allowed at any time during the game, but only two substitutions are allowed per game.

Basketball (Grades 3 & up)

Each game will run for 20 minutes, with an intermission of no more than 2 minutes.
If the two teams tie at the end of the game, there will be an overtime of 5 minutes.
Substitution will be allowed at any time during the game.

Table Tennis (Grades 3 & up)

1 individual per age group, the player who wins 2 out of 3 games is the winner.

Chess (Grades 3 & up)

1 individual per age group, the player who wins 2 out of 3 games is the winner.