Club Sports Illustrated No. 102 - Oct. 19 2018

CLUB SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

10.19.2018 NO. 102

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TABLE OF CONTENTS SWIM 4 BASEBALL 7 WOMEN’S RUGBY 8 ALPINE SKI 11 FENCING 13 MEN’S LACROSSE 14 SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP 16 WHAT’S HAPPENING 18 EXECUTIVE CORNER 20 2

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Edition 102 // October 19th, 2018 Designed by: Lydia Shoffner, UREC Publicity Program Assistant Cover Photo by: Michelle Dancy Articles by: Club Sports Team Officers

UREC DIRECTORY EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Patrick Arsena arsenapb@appstate.edu

Claire Biaggi

biaggice@appstate.edu Sam Ingles

inglessd@appstate.edu Greg Liles lilesgs@appstate.edu

Ivy Wagner wagnerik@appstate.edu

UREC PRO STAFF

Joe Carter, Director carterjr@appstate.edu

Erin Sanders, Assistant Director for Sports and Activities sandersec1@appstate.edu

Contact UREC

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A SUCCESSFUL FIRST MEET BY: REBECCA FIELD Appalachian State Club Swim competed in their first meet on October 6th and 7th. The team arrived at Fike Recreation Center around 11:30 and were more than ready to compete by noon. Women’s medley relay was the first event, which included Rebecca Field (junior), Erin Geiszler (sophomore), Elizabeth McCann (senior) and Carrie Semke (freshman), who placed 4th and earned the Mountaineers 30 points.

The men’s medley relay, which included Teo Piper (freshman), Clark Penner (freshman), Noah Cameron (junior), and Christian

Honaker (junior), placed 5th and earned the Mountaineers 28 points.

Several swimmers also made qualifying times for nationals, including Teo Piper (freshman), Amanda Jones (sophomore), Noah Cameron (junior), and Clark Penner (freshman). These athletes, along with other members of the team, are now eligible to compete in Collegiate Club Swimming’s 2019 National Championship meet in March.

On Sunday, October 7th, the Mountaineers arrived back at Fike Recreation for another day

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of competition. Women’s 200 freestyle relay placed 4th and earned the mountaineers another 30 points, while the men’s relay placed 6th and earned another 26 points. Brendan Liston (freshman) stepped up to the plate and swam his first 500-yard freestyle race also earning the Mountaineers some points.

Over the course of two days, Appalachian State’s women placed 4th while the men placed 5th out of 9 teams. Overall, the Appalachian State Swim Club placed 5th, making it a successful first meet for the Mountaineers.

photo by Luca Cordovez

photo by Luca Cordovez

swimming

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baseball

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OFFENSE SHINES IN CLUB BASEBALL OPENING SERIES BY: NICK GOARD, TREASURER On the first weekend in October, the App State Club Baseball team traveled to Conway, South Carolina to take on Coastal Carolina in their first series of the fall. Although App was swept on Saturday, the Mountaineers bounced back in game three before the rain washed the game out.

Although the score didn’t reflect it, the offense showed up in game one. As a team, App hit 0.286 with Nick Goard and Evan Edmiston collecting five hits between the two of them. App pushed across a pair of runs in the third and fourth innings on a bases loaded walk and an RBI single. Overall the offense was great, but App struggled with runners on base. As a team, they left seven runners on base and had only three hits with men in scoring position. Coastal, on the other hand, got some big hits in timely spots as they handed App it’s first fall loss by a score of 5-2.

The offense did not struggle at all scoring runs in the second game of the double header. As a team,

App hit 0.346 and put up ten runs. Tim Lazur had two hits and three RBIs, pacing the team in each category. Matt Alexander and Holt Biesecker each had a pair of RBIs as six of nine starters collected a hit. Presson Norwood started the game as the team’s “opener,” but found himself going 2 ⅔ innings, the longest outing of his career. The game looked out of reach in the fifth inning as App led 10-1, but Coastal put up thirteen runs that inning and stunned the Mountaineers. The first eleven batters reached base for Coastal without recording an out, tying the game at ten. Four of the next five hitters reached base and scored to cap off the inning before the final two outs were made. At that point, the damage had been done and App couldn’t manage to come back.

In game three, the offense and pitching came together in a big way. Justin Greer paced the offense with a 4-4 day with an RBI as Evan Edmiston and Tyler

Nigro each hit mammoth threerun home runs. Eight of nine starters collected both a hit and an RBI as the team hit a whopping 0.483. On the mound, junior Todd Rule was brilliant and nearly threw a complete game. Over 5 ⅔ innings, he allowed two earned runs, two walks, and struck out four en route to his first win of the year. Christian Stokes came in and got the last batter to fly out to right field, ending the game in the sixth inning due to weather.

Although the Mountaineers dropped two games and the series, they outscored Coastal by a score of 27-23. Next up on the schedule will be a home series with Western Carolina on October 27-28 followed by a tournament in Greenville, South Carolina the following weekend. If the pitching, hitting, and defense can all come together like it did on Sunday, they will definitely be a force to be reckoned with the rest of the fall and going into the spring.

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RUGBY ABROAD BY: CASSIDY LEOVIC, CAPTAIN AND MATCH SECRETARY If you’re an athlete, you’ve experienced the nerves you get from showing up to your first practice on a new team. Add on top of that the insecurities of being in a foreign country, and it was easy for me to talk myself out of joining the Varsity Women’s rugby team upon arriving to South Africa for my semester of studying abroad. Even though one of the primary reasons I chose to study at the University of Johannesburg was rugby, it took more convincing myself than I anticipated to join the team, but eventually, I coaxed myself into doing it.

Minutes into my first practice I was annoyed with myself for being nervous in the first place. I found 8

my new teammates to be warm, welcoming, and eager to exchange information about our very different cultures. Joining a sports team abroad was a great way for me to be immersed in the culture and to be treated not as guest in the country but as an equal. In hindsight, if you took away the skills of the sport I learned while practicing, my time on the team would have been 100% worth it for the relationships I formed.

Fortunately, I could gain a lot of skill and experience playing rugby there. As a varsity athlete, we had a lot of resources at our disposal. We had amazing coaches, sometimes we would get players from Zimbabwe’s National Team to come

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and coach us for a game. We had access to weight lifting facilities, and massage therapists. But the factor that made me improve the most was being able to practice with the men’s team. Rugby is one of the only sports that the rules of the game aren’t effected by gender, so it was very empowering to sprint alongside, and even tackle some men.

women’s rugby

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alpine ski

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HITTING THE BOOKS BY: MIKEL SMALLE, CLUB SPORTS COUNCIL REP. Before we even hit the slopes, we start preparing for the season.

The Monday before Fall Break we met with our coach, Daniel Jones, to go through the different styles of competition. We have two different styles of competition, Giant Slalom and Slalom.

For our season, we are expecting a large class of freshman to join the team. Coach Daniel wanted to help the new freshman and returning members with the two competition styles and the common rules surrounding these two styles. Coach Daniel went over Slalom style. Slalom is the more technical and fasterpaced style of competition that requires skiers to navigate through different combinations of single gates. With this style of competition, the rules are a bit

more complicated than with our other style of competition, Giant Slalom.

Giant Slalom is the longer, faster variety of competition. The goal in this style is to get through the double gates quicker and less technically than slalom. The rules surrounding this competition are a lot simpler. Things such as losing a ski or missing a double gate are automatic disqualifications, unlike in Slalom.

Coach Daniel helped us with Giant Slalom by explaining the stylistic difference between the two types and how the course can differ between the two styles.

gates can then be used on their own or they can be used in conjunction with other gates to form combinations. These combinations can vary in length and complexity. Giant Slalom, on the other hand, does not have such combination and focuses more on the speed and precision of your turns to have the fastest time possible without as complex courses.

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fencing

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CLEMSON BOUND BY: LAUREN BRACKETT, PUBLIC RELATIONS CHAIR

October is flying by! Next weekend, App State Fencing will be attending one of our most anticipated tournaments of the year. Clemson University is hosting their annual Tiger Open on October 27th and 28th. This USFA-sanctioned competition takes place every October and draws fencers of all weapons from universities across the Southeast.

Teams from UNC Greensboro, North Carolina State University, University of Florida, East Carolina University and more will be in attendance, and we are looking forward to reuniting with friends from other clubs.

Foil and epee mixed events will take place on Saturday with mixed

saber to follow on Sunday morning.

In years past, fencers from our team have done exceptionally well at this tournament so we are excited for even more success and friendly competition this coming weekend. Because this tournament is sanctioned by the United States Fencing Association, also known as USFA, fencers of all weapons and experience levels have the opportunity to earn a ranking.

USFA rankings are on the national scale and are designed to recognize individual fencers for their skill.

Rankings also make individual fencers eligible to compete in North American Cups, also known as NACs, and may also qualify a person for competition in

the Junior Olympics and World Championships. This is an exciting opportunity for both our new and returning members to experience a large scale, high-competition event and possibly earn a ranking.

Clemson University’s Club Fencing team is one of the largest in the Southeast. They are a studentcoached, student-run organization and are one of 39 club sports teams offered at Clemson University.

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WEEKEND FULL OF LAX BY: BEN ROMANOWSKI, DEFENSEMAN App State Men’s Lacrosse had an awesome opening weekend.

The Mountaineers won their two games on Saturday in matchups against High Point University and UNC Chapel Hill.

Both Saturday games were full of fast-paced excitement. In the first game against High Point the Mountaineers started off with a couple quick goals from Guilford College transfer Rhen Bumgardner and the sophomore Maryland man himself Sam “Huncho” Honcholk.

Defensively, junior defender Ben Romanowski started off the game with a hard hit on an HPU attackman that gave the Mountaineers defense the momentum to play solid, tough defense throughout the day. HPU almost came back with a couple unanswered goals near the end of regulation, but the Mountaineers pushed through and ran away with the game and took home

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a win. The momentum from the win against HPU helped the Mountaineers play an even better game against Chapel Hill.

The Mountaineers offense really started to click against Chapel Hill, with about six different Mountaineers recording goals in the game; there really was no worry about losing. Jackson Harris, a transfer from division one Mercer University, recorded 4 goals against Chapel Hill and multiple assists.

On Sunday the Mountaineers matched up against conference rival Wake Forest. Unfortunately App State fell short to WFU with a final score of 13-12 in an absolute nail biter of a game. The Mountaineers came back from a 10-4 deficit at the beginning of the second half scoring 5 unanswered goals from senior midfielder Cole Eglow, Sophomore attackmen Jonathan Winbush and Sam Honcholk, and

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two from Mercer Transfer Jackson Harris. The Mountaineers defense were also a big help with the (almost) comeback. After a rough first half, allowing 10 goals, they came back after halftime with a completely different mindset.

Defenders Sam Ingles, Michael Godwin, Sam Agee, Ross Parham and Ben Romanowski were just some of the Mountaineers defenders that helped Goalies Griffen Glover and Owen Hughes hold the WFU offense to only 3 goals in the second half.

Both Michael Godwin and Sam Agee had a pair of great cross field clears to help give the Mountaineers offense possess the ball which all resulted in Goals. The Mountaineers have one of the largest and most talented rosters in App State Men’s Lacrosse history, and are very excited about the upcoming season.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

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service and leadership

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yes, we can!

CLUB SPORTS HOSTS CAN FOOD DRIVE Over the past few weeks, Club Sports teams have hosted a can food drive to aid in hurricane relief for the coast of the Carolinas.

Teams took to social media to encourage members to donate as many cans as possible to this amazing cause. The drive was organized quickly under the Executive Team and has already collected an insane amount of donations. Teams were awarded budget points for their donations up until the 10th, but cans are still being brought in, showing our students dedication to service.

We are proud of our student athletes for their initiative in this time of need!

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WHAT’S HAPPENING ?

give ‘em the bird INTRAMURAL SPORTS HOSTS 5K RACE

Intramural Sports is hosting its 6th Annual Give ‘Em The Bird 5K run this year. The event will be held November 16th at 1pm at State Farm Fields. Registration is FREE and earns student participants the chance to win a frozen turkey in the Mens, Womens, or Open leagues. There will also be giveaways and food present at the event thanks to partnering sponsors. Participants who register before Oct. 24th and submit their t-shirt size to imsports@appstate.edu before noon will receive a free t-shirt!

Register online at IMLeagues.com or IMLeagues App.

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6th Annual

GIVE 'EM THE BIRD 5K FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16, 1PM @ STATE FARM FIELDS

Registration Info: Guaranteed T-shirt Deadline: Oct 24, 12pm Closes:Â Nov 13, 12pm

More info & to Register: IMLeagues.com

Free

to participate

THE WINNER OF EACH LEAGUE WILL RECIEVE A FROZEN TURKEY! Prizes, Giveaways, and More!!

Email: imsports@appstate.edu or Call: (828)262-2100

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EXECUTIVE CORNER UPDATE FROM EXECUTIVE OFFICER, PATRICK ARSENA With Fall Break coming to an end, we are starting to get back into our regular schedule at the UREC Office. The end of MIC season is finally here, needless to say everyone in the office is ecstatic. The slow trickle of people submitting late MICs has stopped, and just in time for the submission of competitive rosters. Now we turn our sights to getting each team’s competitive rosters finalized, and in the system for the remainder of the year.

At Club Sports Council this week we continued with our three committees: Fundraising, Promotion and Social.

Following a fairly lengthy discussion in our committees, the council reconvened and we heard about all the great ideas our representatives came up with. Fundraising discussed the possibility of selling t-shirts to make money, and they also informed us about the benefits of fundraising with Chipotle vs. other establishments.

When Promotion took the floor, they suggested a Club Sports social media takeover, and filming a commercial for the program to get our name out there. Finally, Social committee is continuing to plan the campfire event, and will send out a poll with a list of possible dates the event could take place.

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CLUB SPORTS EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OFFICE HOURS IN SRC MAIN OFFICES Patrick Arsena WEDNESDAY: 12PM-2PM THURSDAY: 4PM-6PM

claire biaggi

WEDNESDAY: 2:30PM-4:30PM THURSDAY: 1PM-3PM

Sam ingles

TUESDAY: 2:30PM-4:30 PM THURSDAY: 2:30PM-4:30 PM

greg liles WEDNESDAY: 2PM-4PM FRIDAY: 9AM-11AM

ivy wagner

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