June 12, 2023
For Immediate Release
Contact: Mayor Benjamin D. Florsheim, 860-638-4801

CT Sports Management Group, Inc. 

Rick Plasky, (860) 788-7041

Rick@csmg.org

Registration is open for the 2023 ShopRite® Nutmeg State Games – 34th Anniversary

Middletown, CT- The Connecticut Sports Management Group is proud to announce that registration is now open for the 34^th Annual ShopRite® Nutmeg State Games!  The Games will be held from July 8^th through July 30^th of 2023 and are hosted by the City of Middletown. Information on all twenty sport offerings can be found at https://nutmegstategames.org/schedule/. 

The goal of the ShopRite® Nutmeg State Games is to promote and reinforce the Olympic spirit of the Connecticut community through competition.  7,000 athletes will come together in Middletown and throughout Hartford and Middlesex counties to be a part of the Games this summer.  

For the ShopRite® Nutmeg State Games, the state of Connecticut is divided into four regions: North, South, East, and West.  An athlete’s residency determines what region he or she will be grouped into.  The various competitions will be hosted by the City of Middletown and throughout Central Connecticut in over twenty of the state’s top athletics facilities.

Team sports offered in the 2023 ShopRite® Nutmeg State Games include Baseball, Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Roller Hockey and Soccer.  All team sport tournaments will be a round robin/ pool play format, with a minimum guarantee of three or four games. Top teams will advance to medal round games.

This year, we are offering a diverse group of individual sport offerings that include: Archery, Cycling Criterium, Fencing, Figure Skating, Judo, Pickleball, Track & Field, and Wrestling. Individual sport competitions are held over a one- or two-day period. 

For more information on the Nutmeg State Games sport offerings and to register online, please visit www.nutmegstategames.org. 

The 2023 ShopRite® Nutmeg State Games will be a qualifier for The 2024 State Games of America, hosted in San Diego, California. The 2024 State Games of America will be held July 17^th – 21^st.

About the Nutmeg State Games:

The Nutmeg State Games is a 501(c) (3) not for profit organization, governed by the National Congress of State Games and recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee as the official state games of Connecticut. The Nutmeg State Games, through the venue of competitive sports, seeks to contribute positively to the physical, mental and emotional growth of our athletes. We believe that participation in athletics provides opportunities to develop the qualities of leadership, hard work, self-confidence and mental and physical toughness. Competitive athletics lays the foundation for positive lifelong habits that contribute to a healthy life style and teaches team work, sportsmanship and respect for others.  

 About ShopRite®:

ShopRite® Supermarkets is a retailers' cooperative of supermarkets with stores in six states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Based in Keasbey, New Jersey, ShopRite® consists of forty-eight individually owned and operated affiliates with over 318 stores in 243 cities, all under its corporate and distribution arm, Wakefern Food Corporation. ShopRite® is well known within their communities as their local family owned supermarket as well as a company that dedicates to giving back resources and support to their local charities and nonprofit groups.