New England Athletic Association of the Deaf
April 3, 2022
NEAAD has their annual delegates meeting. More reports to be released at later date.
February 26, 2022
NEAAD hosted the 4th Annual Cornhole Tournament at the SchoolYahd in West Boyston, Massachuetts. We had 38 Total teams, 18 men teams, 8 women teams, and 12 coed teams. This is a popular event for us where we can get everyone together, our first indoor person tournament since the pandemic. Everyone was thrilled to get together again.
October 1, 2021
NEAAD has met and decided to suspend the 2021-2022 Basketball Season until early January 2022 due to COVID-19 restriction of us using their basketball courts. We are also postponing the 75th Anniversary and HOF Dinner until March 2023. We are also cancelling this year’s John Philip’s Memorial Invitational Tournament.
July 31, 2021
The NEAAD Softball Regional Tournament was successful with five teams. It was rescheduled from canceled tournament on July 10, due to bad weather and excessive flooding at the Mill Wood Park in Wethersfield, Connecticut. We were able to play on reschedule date and came out successful day.
Congrats to New England Evolution on their 10th NEAAD Championship.
Champion – New England Evolution
Runner Up – Nor’Easters
3rd Place – Holyoke Athletics
4th Place – Hartford Blazers
5th Place – Hartford Deaf Club
May 17, 2021
NEAAD is set to begin the 2021 Softball Season!
NEAAD has announced to reopen into business after an pause due to the pandemic known as COVID-19.
We the Board continue to take our time to ensure that we have all information correct from our state’s guidelines, this is the reason of the delay of announcement.
Now, I’m pleased to announce that we will be holding the Regional Softball Tournament on July 10, 2021 as planned. We have moved the site of the Softball Regional Tournament from Wilbraham, Massachusetts to Mill Woods Park, Wethersfield, Connecticut. All of the softball forms are now available.
April 6, 2021
NEAAD has began to plan ahead for the upcoming 2021 Softball Season. NEAAD has found a field for us to play for this year’s NEAAD Regional Tournament and it will take place at Wilbraham, MA on July 10. We are committed to prepare and schedule for all 3 divisions (Men’s, Women’s and Coed) to play on July 10. We are hoping to provide round robin games and a double elimination bracket.
We will take extra cautious and extra steps to ensure that we follow all COVID-19 rules set by the field, town and state. We will make sure hand sanitizations and wipes are available at each field.
We, NEAAD, want to know if your organization is planning to send a team to play in this year’s NEAAD Regional Tournament in any division (Men’s, Women’s and Coed), please let us know ASAP (reply back) so we can better plan the tournament for your enjoyment.
Later this week, NEAAD will update all forms for the NEAAD Regional Softball Tournament and will post them on the web and our Secretary, Jessica, will mail them out to all organization leaders. We will post flyer and details as soon as we can.
We are looking forward playing softball with all of you this summer!
March 1, 2021
The latest updates as the NEAAD Board meet to discuss the upcoming events.
We have confirmed that the Basketball Season, including the regional was cancelled. The 75th Anniversary of Basketball Tournament Weekend, Hall of Fame Banquet postponed and hopefully for March 2022.
The 2021Annual Meeting is cancelled, the organizations unanimously elected to have Marc Olsson (Comissioner) and Isaac Schaeffer (Sports Information Director) to remain at their position for another two-year term.
2021 Softball Season may will happen this summer, due to new information from CDC and the states are moving up in their phases in the month of March. This hope to give all organizations a heads up and we may prepare for the softball season.
The NEAAD Board will meet again soon once we have gather more information.
January 2, 2021
NEAAD has agreed to suspend all public activities until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the best interest for everyone's safety.
NEAAD Board members came to an agreement on several topics due to the ongoing COVID-19 issues here in America, we have no choice but to postpone all NEAAD events until our next COVID-updating meeting which probably not happen until at least Spring. That decision impacts the following …
2020-2021 Basketball Season – Cancelled, including the 2021 NEAAD Regional Basketball Tournament.
75th Anniversary NEAAD/Hall of Fame Banquet – Cancelled and will be postponed.
2021 Softball Season –
No decision made, but we will not make any preparation for the softball season until we receive more information from our local towns with information on how to reserve fields for an all-day tournament. As of now, all towns in the New England regions has no concrete plans to reopen public parks for an all-day tournament. Once we receive these information, the Board will meet again to discuss softball plans.
August 14, 2020
NEAAD has agreed to suspend all public activities until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the best interest for everyone's safety.