The Alabama Sports Festival was founded in 1982 at the request of the United States Olympic Committee

United States Olympic Committee

The United States Olympic Committee is a non-profit organization that serves as the National Olympic Committee and National Paralympic Committee for the United States and coordinates the relationship between the United States Anti-Doping Agency and the World Anti-Doping Agency and various...

 and is part of a nationwide network of State Games. The Summer Games, an effort of the Alabama Sports Festival, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, providing opportunities to compete in Olympic-style games, and instills in athletes the importance of academic excellence and good citizenship.

Sports

In 2010, competition was held in the following sports:

• Archery/Bow-hunting
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Cycling
• Disc golf
  Disc golf
  Disc golf is a disc game in which individual players throw a flying disc into a basket or at a target. According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, "The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc." Of the more than 3000...
  
  
• Diving
• Flag football
  Flag football
  Flag football is a version of Canadian football or American football that is popular worldwide. The basic rules of the game are similar to those of the mainstream game , but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier to end...
  
  
• Football 7 on 7
• Gymnastics
• Lacrosse
• Shooting Sports
• Soccer
• Softball
• Swimming
• Taekwondo
  Taekwondo
  Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...
  
  
• Track and field
• Triathlon
• Volleyball

External links

• Alabama Sports Festival official site