If you have any comments or questions about the Michigan Indian Family Olympics please contact one of the following at the Nimkee Fitness Center:
Jaden Harman
Fitness Program Coordinator
MIFO Event Coordinator
989-775-4694
jharman@sagchip.org
Family Olympics Facts
When did the Family Olympics start?
1987
Who started it?
It was started by Sue Siller, Heath Educator
for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan. (no
longer employed here)
Why was it started?
It was started to promote health and wellness
through a family fun day of physical activity with mainly
track and field events along with swimming events for
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribal members and their families.
This expanded to include the other tribes and tribal
organizations throughout the state of Michigan.
The Record Amount of Participants
In 2008 with 750 participants
May 16th, 2011
Aanii Activity/Team Coordinator,
I would like to officially invite you to participate in the 24th Annual Michigan Indian Family Olympics. The 2011 Games will take place on Friday, July 29th on the campus of Central Michigan University in Mt Pleasant, MI at the Bennett Track and Field. Registration/check-in will start at 7 a.m. This year the opening ceremonies will again start at approximately 9:00 a.m. The Registration fee is $7 per person at this year’s games (Ages 5 – 54 only).
For this year’s event, you again will be able to pre–register your team online at http://www.sagchip.org/fitness/mifo/. If you are the team leader for your tribe, we strongly encourage you to pre-registeryour team via the website. This will allow us to receive the information that we need to create wrist bands for the participants on your team. On event day, we will have packets with the wristbands organized alphabetically, so you can easily distribute them to your participants. Registration will open on Monday, June 1st and close on Wednesday, July 27th.
Attached please find the registration forms and a tentative event schedule. I encourage you to make copies of these documents and distribute them to as many potential participants as possible (Ex: schools, organizations and various departments that we are not able to reach). Participants should send you their registration forms and then you can pre-register them on our website. As always, please do not send us money or registration forms this year.
Again this year we are going to provide a hard, plastic BPA free water bottle to the first 650 registered participants. Due to the fact we don’t provide a participant t-shirt, we encourage you to come in your own team shirt that represents your tribe. If you will be creating a t-shirt for your tribe, please email me the color that they will be wearing. Note: Our event staff t-shirts will bright pink so that staff can be easily identified.
Like last year’s games, we will be asking other tribes to lead and operate one of the events/areas. The assistance and volunteerism in years past has been tremendous! Each tribe has excelled in coordinating their specific position and it has made for a very smoothly ran event. Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated. Please contact me as soon as possible to let me know if any specific areas are of interest to you.
As in years past, we encourage you to bring a tribal banner or flag from your tribe/organization for opening ceremonies and to display throughout the day. We have a limited number of tents that may be used to help provide shade. Therefore, we encourage you to bring a tent of your own for the members of your community. Lunch will be served around 11:45. We also encourage you to bring your own snacks and to stay hydrated throughout the day.
Each year we hope to make this an enjoyable experience where many memories can be made once again. We look forward to your participation in this wonderful event to promote health, fun and fitness throughout the Native American communities in the State of Michigan!
For more information, please contact me at (989) 775-4694 or by email at jharman@sagchip.org.
Sincerely,
Jaden Harman
MIFO Event Coordinator
Nimkee Memorial Fitness Center
2011 Family Olympics Results:
2010 Family Olympics Results:
2009 Family Olympics Results:
2008 Family Olympics Results:
2007 Family Olympics Results:
2006 Family Olympics Results:
Previous Years' Results:
• 2003 MIFO Jumping Event Results
• 2003 MIFO Running Event Results
• 2003 MIFO Throwing Event Results
• 2002 MIFO Individual Results
