100th Edition Club Sports Illustrated 9/21/18

CLUB SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

the 100th edition 9.21.2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS mission & philosophy 1 participating team list 2 baseball 3 women’s volleyball 6 men’s lacrosse 7 snowboarding 8 fencing 9 men’s ultimate 12 women’s ultimate 13 alpine ski 15 swim 16 cycling 18 women’s rugby 20 executive corner 21 how to submit 23 2

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Designed by: Lydia Shoffner, UREC Publicity Programmer Edited by: Caroline Baird 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@appstat.edu

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

Contact UREC

Emily Walker, Coordinator for Sports and Activities walkerea3@appstate.edu

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MISSION & PHILOSOPHY

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The Club Sports Program is designed to meet the competitive athletic desires of students, faculty and staff of Appalachian State University. Many student/athletes choose Club Sports because their sport is not offered through the Varsity or IM Sports programs or they do not wish to make the time commitment necessary for a Varsity sport. Unlike IM Sports, Club Sports competes against other institutions of higher education from the local and regional area on a non-varsity level.

Attracting and retaining students in competitive sports activity is the driving philosophy of the Club Sports Program. To meet this goal, the program provides leadership development through the Club Sports Council. Comprised of one elected officer from each team, the Council establishes and enforces all Club Sports policies and procedures. The Council strives to improve each team through leadership development presentations and activities by combining team resources.

Each Club Sports Team is a registered student organization that provides instruction, organizes practice and schedules competition in a specific sport. As a student organization, each team is administered, developed and coached by students on that team. Teams may have larger or fewer members based on the level of interest in that sport. Club Sports are partially funded through the University and no student athletes are on scholarships. Our student athletes play for the “love of the game” and the lasting relationships established with their teammates.

Through this administrative process, the club leadership is better informed and more efficient.

Subsequently, the Club Team’s members can get more from participation on their team.

The Club Sports Program is a part of the University Recreation department under the division of Student Affairs. Each Club Sport team is recognized as a Club within Student Engagement and Leadership at Appalachian State University. page 8, 2018-2019 Club Sports Program Handbook

ALPINE SKI ARCHERY BASEBALL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CLIMBING CYCLING EQUESTRIAN FENCING ICE HOCKEY MEN’S LACROSSE WOMEN’S LACROSSE

MEN’S RUGBY WOMEN’S RUGBY SNOWBOARDING MEN’S SOCCER WOMEN’S SOCCER SWIM TENNIS TRIATHLON MEN’S ULTIMATE WOMEN’S ULTIMATE MEN’S VOLLEYBALL WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

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BACK TO THEIR ROOTS: CLUB BASEBALL RETURNS TO DOMINANCE By : Nick Goard, Treasurer

photography by Marla Martin

When Club Baseball was founded at Appalachian State ten years ago, junior Eli Childress described the team simply as “stacked.”

In their second year of competition, the team went 17-5 overall and 11-1 in their conference, earning their first Regional Series appearance. Eight players made an All-Region team, including Childress, who said most of those players “could have played competitively at some Division II or III schools and [Junior Colleges].”

This year’s team seems to have turned back the clocks. Players have more passion, more dedication, and compete more than in years past. They expect to win—great news for a program that has struggled since 2013. Last year, the team seemed to turn a corner thanks The 2018-2019 team is not much different to veteran leadership and the college from the 2008-2009 teams that Childress transfers. They increased their win total by seven games and this year, they look described. Most players were recruited to earn a spot in Regionals. to play for Division I, II, III, or Junior College teams. Four returning players have collegiate baseball experience; Evan App State looks to dominate off the field as well. Childress—a current middle Edmiston, Nick Goard, Justin Greer, and school teacher and assistant high school Aaron Moore all look to help President and American Legion coach—said that Presson Norwood lead a new group of club baseball provided leadership young talent.

What’s ironic about the team’s early success is that their biggest obstacle was recognition. When asked about it, Childress said they “[didn’t know] if we were going to get enough votes to even become an official club team.”

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and learning experiences that helped his coaching career. As a teacher, he emphasized that club ball gave him the opportunity to focus on his studies and develop his teaching skills; opportunities he may not have had if he had he played varsity.

At some point, this 2018-2019 club baseball team’s playing time will end.

But until then, this group looks to compete and to win. They will have the opportunity to continue playing the game as well as develop into leaders and competitors in their majors and in their future careers. In these ways, App State Club Baseball will get back to their roots.

photography by Phillip Timp

photography by Phillip Timp

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women’s volleyball THERE’S A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING By: Catherine W Looney, Secretary According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, undefeated means “not having suffered a defeat; not including any losses or defeats.” This was the case for the Women’s Club Volleyball Nationals team when they attended the National Women’s Club Volleyball tournament on April 12th-14th, 2018.

After flying into St. Louis, Missouri, our players were faced with the task of defeating teams from several universities around the country. Over the three-day period, our players dominated teams from Alabama, Auburn, Xavier, and Arizona State. The last challenge was defeating the University of Milwaukee for the championship. The game was well

played, but when the smoke cleared, Appalachian State Women’s Volleyball was on top.

Not only did the team get to play volleyball in St. Louis, but they got to explore what the city had to offer.

very tiring playing volleyball all day long, but when everyone wants to win that bad and everyone is in it 100%, it is the best feeling in the world,” Brooke Buchanan states.

This was the first time that The winning team consisted of the App State Women’s Club Erin Edwards, Sydney Edwards, Volleyball team had won Kacie Markle, Gracie Link, Sydney Nationals. They have set a Richardson, Brooke Buchanan, standard and a legacy that I, Christina Sports, Ally Macwhirter as a teammate, want to follow and Emily Heier. “It was a great and continue throughout experience,” said Erin Edwards. “I my three more years at have never played volleyball with Appalachian State. a group of girls that played and connected so well together. Even if we lost a set, we did not let that defeat us because the next set we came right back stronger than the last. It was hard and

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men’s lacrosse PROMISING ROAD AHEAD By: Sam Ingles, President After just two weeks of intense practice, the Appalachian State Men’s Lacrosse team has high hopes for the upcoming fall and spring seasons. This year, the team consists of a staggering 45 committed players, a new record for the fall season. All of the new players are hungry and ready to step in and make big plays at a moment’s notice.

On offense, a set of gun slinging transfers will help to beef up the attack and midfielder lines while veterans Sam Honchalk, Jonathan Winbush, and Conner New will continue to run the offense. Long stick midfielders Luke Haverstrom and Ryan Miller will continue their dominance from last season by creating game defining turnovers and furthering the ball in offensive transition.

Defensive midfielders Justin Blackely and Casey Bially will be huge contributions, using their experience and their nose for the ball mentalities to change the momentum of the game.

The defense this year consists of returners Michael Godwin, Sam

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Agee, and Sam Ingles. Anchoring a veteran defense between the pipes will be Griffen Glover, a player who is no stranger to the game.

The intensity that has been shown at practice throughout the past two weeks has really set the tone for the team’s success in the future.

First competition will take place on September the 30th at State Farm Fields against the App State Men’s Lacrosse Alumni Team.

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snowboarding SNOWBOARD TEAM PREPS FOR ANOTHER YEAR OF RIGHTEOUSNESS By: Benjamin Forcier, Secretary With the summer heat still lingering and the textbooks weighing heavy, the Appalachian State snowboarders are dusting off their boards in anticipation for the nearest snowstorm.

The lack of snow isn’t stopping our riders who are staying ready for the season in any way possible, whether it be skating around, going to the gym, or drinking a cold Lacroix to avoid the extra calories.

With over one hundred shredders at our first interest meeting, the team is looking forward to one of its’ biggest years yet! photography by Lili Rangel-Parra

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fencing OVER 100 YEARS OF FENCING By: Lauren Brackett, Public Relations Chair The fencing club was founded at Appalachian State in 1899, proudly making us the oldest Club Sport in university history. With origins in military sword fighting, people across the world have enjoyed the sport of fencing since as early as 1190 BC, according to research by the Olympic Games. Fencing is one of the oldest and most historic sports in the world and is the foundation of many other sports and arts such as ballet and synchronized swimming. For the

100th edition of the Club Sports Illustrated, we are celebrating and highlighting the legacy, positivity and friendship that our sport and team have upheld across the globe and across Appalachian’s campus for so many years.

Since Appalachian’s founding as a teacher’s college in 1899, fencing has played a large role in the recreational athletics scene of the university. We are known for welcoming members of all

experience levels, whether you are new to the sport or have been fencing for years. As the least expensive club sports, the team prides ourselves in our best attempt to include students from all walks of life. To us, the sport of fencing is just as important as our friendships with each other, which was evident as I gathered comments from the team. Read on to discover our team’s favorite memories from the last few years!

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team memories Senior epeeist Sean Bowerbank’s favorite fencing memory took place last March at the Spring SIFA tournament. It was the last bout before direction eliminations and App’s squad was tied 4x4 against the opposing team. Sean described the scene, “We needed one more win to pull us into the DE’s. I ended up winning that last bout, but it wasn’t the fact that I won that was the best part. It was the fact that my entire team was there cheering me on.”

A highlight for junior saberist Nick Bayne’s fencing career was last September on his 20th birthday. Nick says, “I was deathly sick, but the team threw me a surprise birthday party. No one has ever done that for me before and it really meant a lot. It was the best birthday I ever had.”

Junior epeeist Keegan Mele’s favorite memory is our trip to the beach in April 2017. Specifically, he said, “I loved spending time with the team after fencing in Wilmington. It was a blast walking around downtown, grabbing dinner as a team, and just having a good time with everyone.”

“While it seems impossible to narrow down the best moments from the last 3 years of fencing, I especially loved the support we received after our office flooded last August. The vast majority of our electric equipment was ruined, but our GoFundMe raised over $2,000 in donations from our community to offset the cost of damages. It was so amazing to see our families, friends, and alumni support us during that time of immense need.” - Lauren Brackett “Of course, our Nashville trip was legendary. Other than that, the first clinic we went to as a team at ECU was a lot of fun. We played pirate-themed mini golf and ate Oreos in our hotel room. We were just starting to know each other and I feel like we became much closer during that trip.” -Patrick Arsena, senior saberist

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photo submitted by Jacob Louie

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Men’s ultimate CRAFTING THE MARBLE By: Jacob Louie, Secretary With two weeks of practice under our belt, the Alien Mountain Nomads are off to a great start. The great thing about frisbee is that most people have never played before they come to college so you get to see potential. You’re like Michelangelo with a slab of marble waiting to be made into the Statue of David. The first few practices are all about getting the rookies up to speed. Other than a few rookies, most people have to learn from the ground up about frisbee. From the technique to the strategy, everything has to be learned before our first tournament.

Zach Johnson has been doing a great job teaching the rookies, while our veterans have also been getting back up to speed. After the summer, our cardio and throws have to be improved. We have had four practices so far, and the turnouts have been great. With

around 50 people at our last practice, we are excited to see how many people stick through the metaphorical and literal storm.

first taste of competition against real opponents rather than teammates. The first tournament also gives a good chance for the veterans and the rookies to get to know one Our first tournament of the another. At this point, many of year has been scheduled on the rookies and veterans don’t September 29th and 30th in even know each other’s names, Charlotte. Although we have seen but after a 3 hour car ride a lot of improvement in the first there and back and an entire two weeks, we have to improve a weekend together, everyone lot more before we are ready to should get to know each other go full speed in Charlotte. With very well. experienced teams such as UNC Charlotte, Davidson, and Elon We hope everyone stays safe going to this tournament, we during the hurricane, and we hope to give our rookies some hope to get back out there and great game experience against start practicing again. Thanks stiff competition. for all the support for your Alien Mountain Nomads as we The first tournament of the year chase Nationals. We’ll see you is always one of the most fun. in Texas this May. Getting quality frisbee after the summer is always exciting.

Watching the rookies get their

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women’s ultimate RECAPS, RETURNERS, AND ROOKIES By: Bri Hibner, Secretary What’s popping? It’s App State’s Women’s Ultimate and we are looking forward to a totally dope season ahead of us. To catch you up, last year the Nonads put up an awesome fight against Wilmington for the last spot to compete in regionals. Sadly, we lost by a few points, but we put up a good fight and sent some awesome layouts.

We are losing a few seniors, and they will be missed, but we are optimistic that this team will be the best team the Nonads have ever had. Where we ended last year is a great spot for us to build off of with a strong core of returners, and some new rookies.

Coming into this semester we have a handful of new rookies with awesome attitudes and bubbly

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personalities. They all have been very patient learning new throws and field awareness in games. Some have even been brave enough to come out to scrimmages with our team. We hope that they stick with it and learn to love Ultimate as much as the returners do.

We’re starting off our competitive season next weekend as we travel down the mountain to go kick some phoenix booty in Elon NC. The journey begins on September 21st as we load cars, boogie on over and we will come home, hopefully champions, September 23rd. Stay tuned for play by play results.

We’re hoping that this hurricane didn’t bring too much rain so

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we can continue to practice outside and have fun! If it does rain a lot then we will have a great layout practice when it ends.

Thanks for following along and supporting your Appalachian State Nonads. We hope you stick with us through thick and thin this year as we try to make it regionals. Stay safe during the hurricane, nothing the mountaineers cannot handle, and we’ll see you next time.

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alpine ski PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT we are not practicing our turns in the parking lot, we like to do Throughout the fall semester, other sports to help build the we have the need to ski. To most muscle groups crucial to skiing. people, fall means hot cider, cozy We love to play ultimate frisbee blankets, and beautiful foliage, but because it helps work our legs to us skiers, it means winter and while building stamina. Similarly, mother nature’s sugar, otherwise hiking is an excellent way to known as snow, is not far away. Fall build leg strength and endurance also says that it is time to get our necessary for when you are in the tired summer legs ready for carving middle of the ski course. through the snow and getting ready for our race season.

We hold our practices on Monday and Thursday. Keeping wishing We begin our dry-land practices for the snow, it will be here soon early in the fall season, so we are enough! We hope to ski all of you ready when the first flakes fall upon there!! our beautiful town of Boone. Our dry-land practices are an excellent time for us to meet and engage the new members, thus getting us in shape for the ski season. Our team advisor, Dr. Kosmala has a Trikke that simulates the movement of skiing. He is kind enough to teach us how to use it and train us. Dr. K sets up a course for us in a parking lot at Watauga High School, and we will mimic the same turns that we do when we ski a race course. The more precise our turns are, the faster we ski. When photography by Claire Biaggi By: Mikel Smalle, Club Sports Rep.

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swim NEW SEASON, NEW OFFICERS

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By: Rebecca Field, Predient and Erin Geiszler, Club Sports Rep. A new season calls for new officers!

The Appalachian State Club Swim Team is starting fresh this year with brand new officers who are excited to lead. Rebecca Field, Charlotte Murphy, Christian Honaker, Camryn Allred, and Erin Geiszler are representing club swim as officers for the 2018-2019 year.

They are thrilled for the upcoming season and have been preparing all summer. As of now, they have come up with new practice plans, team bonding activities, as well as trying to form solid relationships with other club sports.

The team is looking forward to having a well-rounded season, which includes breaking some more records and setting new personal bests. In order to do this, the team will need to be focused and maintain good communication throughout the year. Communicating with your teammates is key to achieving success. Everyone should be able

to ask their teammates for help since this is a team sport. This will also help incoming freshman to make new friendships and open themselves up a whole new world.

With a couple of weeks of practices under our belts, the team is starting to look very strong. The officers are excited to start planning meets for the rest of the semester and finalize the design of our apparel. While most of our members are new and either a freshman or sophomore, we are a younger team with a lot of amazing talent. This gives us a positive outlook for not only this season, but the years to come.

Other things that the team is looking forward to include going on hikes, movie nights, team dinners, volunteering around Boone, and of course supporting Mountaineer Football.

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cycling REEB RANCH GOES BLACK AND YELLOW FOR BREVARD’S RACE WEEKEND By: Cole Jordan, Public Relations Chair Appalachian State’s Cycling Team had its first race over Sept. 8-9 at Brevard College’s race weekend presented by The REEB Ranch.

While App State participated in an out-of-conference event at a Southeastern Collegiate Cycling Conference (SECCC) competition, the turnout of Mountaineers was stronger than any past App State cycling event in recent history.

On Saturday, Kyle Ellis placed third in Men’s category A Cross Country, Kyle Kimball placed fifth in Men’s category B Cross Country, Marinne Frey placed second in Women’s category B Cross Country, Daniel Osborne placed third in Men’s category C Cross Country, and David Powell placed third in Men’s Category C Dual Slolam.

Overall, sixteen racers competed in the cross country races on Saturday (9/8) and fifteen racers competed in either the short track cross country or downhill races on Sunday (9/9.) The highlights of the weekend include the multiple top five placings on both days.

On Sunday, Marinne Frey again placed fourth in Women’s category B/C Downhill and third in Women’s category B/C in Short Track Cross Country, Kyle Ellis placed fifth in Men’s category A Downhill and third in Men’s A Short Track Cross Country,

David Powell placed fifth in Men’s category C Downhill, and Daniel Osborne placed third in Men’s category C Short Track Cross Country. If the rest of the season progresses as well as Brevard’s weekend did, the 2018 mountain biking season will be a fondly remembered staple of the Cycling Team’s history.

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women’s rugby AHO HARD AT WORK By: Hannah Koon, Club Sports Rep. The beginning of the season has been full of successful recruitment with a dozen new committed ruggers joining the team. All the captains and returning players have seen the amazing potential and hard work everybody has been putting into practice throughout the last two weeks. We’ve been practicing for our upcoming alumni game at the end of September.

It’s been a long running tradition amongst AHO Women’s Rugby to host alumni during homecoming weekend at Appalachian.

and vets the opportunity to bond with experienced players who may have gone through similar struggles on the field. Alumni weekend is always kicked off with an optional laidback get together, followed by tailgating for the homecoming football game and a rugby game on Sunday between the alumni and current AHO players. It’s a carefree weekend that allows everybody involved to relax, reminisce and get to know fellow ruggers.

AHO really appreciates the support that we receive from the alumni through generous donations and moral support at our games.

Alumni weekend gives the rookies

Last year, our ruggers participated in the rookie scavenger hunt in order to get to know the alumni and Grayson Arthurs, our social media chair,

won the prize of discovering who their vet was early!

Grayson has been committed to AHO since last fall semester, and recently celebrated their nineteenth birthday with AHO in order to bond with the newest members of the team!

AHO is so excited to bring home a lot of victories this year, and these new rookies make it look like a promising year.

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EXECUTIVE CORNER ITZZA MIC PIZZA PARTY: IT WAS A SLICE OF FUN By: Claire Biaggi, Executive Officer Unfortunately, due to the wild and wet weekend, we did not have Club Sports Council last Wednesday. The Executives have yet to meet and decide when the new date and time of the make-up meeting, but as soon as we figure it out we will let the teams know. We are still in the process of finishing up MICs and travel forms.

A couple of weeks ago, the Execs had a MIC Pizza Party where we cranked out a ton of MICs. It was a great bonding experience and we got a lot of work done.

For the past three weeks we have been conducting monthly meetings with teams to discuss the Google Drive and receive their receipts and bank statements from May until August. We are doing these monthly meetings to speed up the budget point process as well as alleviate some of the pressure of keeping up with receipts. On behalf of the Executives, we are so excited to be working with the teams with any questions about the program or our role to help them individually.

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

office hours in UREC Offices of SRC Patrick W: 12pm-2pm R: 4pm-6pm Claire W: 2:30pm-4:30pm R: 1pm-3pm Sam T: 2:30pm-4:30pm R: 2:30pm-4:30pm Greg W: 2pm-4pm F: 9am-11am Ivy M: 11:30am-1:30pm W: 3:30pm-4:30pm R: 12:30pm-1:30pm

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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

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thank you, club sports

100 issues of Club Sports Illustrated in the books. A huge thank you to all the many faces of the Club Sports Program! Thank you to all the student athletes, the foundation of this organziation!

Thank you to all those in the Mountaineer community who have supported the Club Sports Program endlessly. Keep playing!

Here’s to another 100!

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