CLUB SPORTS ILLUSTRATED October 11th, 2019 NO. 116
care. engage. transform.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ALPINE SKI EQUESTRIAN MEN’S LACROSSE WOMEN’S RUGBY MEN’S ULTIMATE WOMEN’S ULTIMATE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL HOW TO SUBMIT OFFICER HOURS SOCIAL MEDIA
UREC DIRECTORY
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Caroline Holland - hollandcn1@appstate.edu Nathan Kanning - kanningnh@appstate.edu Alison Looney - looneyar@appstate.edu Griffin Mercer - mercergs@appstate.edu Maya Townsend - townsendmj1@appstate.edu
UREC PRO STAFF Joe Carter, Director - carterjr@appstate.edu Erin Sanders, Assistant Director for Sports and Activities - sandersec1@appstate.edu Turner Goa, Coordinator for Sports and Activities - goat@appstate.edu Colin Wrba, Coordinator for Sports and Activities - wrbacm@appstate.edu
Contact UREC 828-262-2100 www.urec.appstate.edu www.clubsports.appstate.edu clubsports@appstate.edu
Club Sports Illustrated Edition 116 / / October 11th 2019 Designed by: Ashley Sessoms, UREC Graduate Assistant Articles by: Club Sports Team Officers
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Alpine Ski It’s More Than Just Slalom and GS Emily Urish, Secretary
As a team, we go to about five races a year. The competition is for the whole weekend, so we usually leave Boone on Friday and return on Sunday. We have two days of racing. On Saturday, we do slalom, and on Sunday, we do GS, a.k.a. Giant Slalom. Slalom involves skiing between gates, and as they are placed relatively close together, the skier needs to be able to make quick turns to be ready to go around the next poll. The hardest thing about slalom is how fast it goes. Personally, I feel like half the time I’m just dodging the gate and hoping that I end up going in the right direction. GS is similar to slalom in the way that the skier goes through the gates, but the difference is that polls in GS are more spaced apart. This allows the skier to make larger and wider turns, and it enables them to have a greater turn radius. This is one of the reasons why serious skiers have different sets of skis for slalom and giant slalom. Both of these are a whole lot more difficult than just trying to get through the finish as fast as possible. There are two different colors of gates: usually red and blue, and they alternate. The hard part is that
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the racer must go through the gate in a specific way. This means that if the skier misses the gate or goes through it in the wrong direction, they get disqualified. Each skier races down the mountain twice, and their times are added together and then compared to all the other racers. A typical race weekend is full of waiting in line to go down the mountain, and occasionally taking a risk and going to take a few runs of free skiing. Those five or six weekends of the year have some of my favorite memories. Not only do we get to have an amazing time skiing, but we also do activities as a team and get to know the other team. I believe that the people I’m meeting and the friends I’m making will be part of my life for a long time. It doesn’t matter that they go to another school and are a part of another team. In the end, we all love skiing, and it brings us together.
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TEAM NAME Equestrian Showtime
Katie McFeeley, Club Sports Representative
Family Weekend was busy for the whole university as parents and families flocked to the university to see their students as the first half of the semester comes to an end. This was no different for the equestrian team as all three discipline teams, Dressage, Western, and Hunt Seat travelled to their first shows of the season. The Dressage team had an amazing show at Bridgewater College in Wayers Cave, Virginia, where all the riders who showed placed in at least one class. In the Test classes, Jess Reimer took first place in Upper Training, Neicy Decker placed ninth in Lower Training, and Megan Weil placed fifth in Intro. In the Dressage Seat Equitation (DSE) classes, Jess Reimer placed third in Upper Training and Neicy Decker placed second in Lower Training. In the Intro level of DSE Ryan Carroll took home first place, Brooke Lockamy placed fourth, Megan Weil placed fifth, and Carmen Shore placed sixth place. Overall, this was a fantastic first show for the Dressage team and we know they’ll keep impressing as the semester continues. The Western team also had a great show out at St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Taylor Wooten placed fourth on both show days in classes 12A Rookie and Western Horsemanship.
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Congratulations to Taylor on such an awesome first show! The Hunt Seat team had an outstanding show at Averett College in Providence, North Carolina. Two riders, Erin Engel and Anna Celeen, both tied for overall High Point Rider of the show. The two girls also placed first in their flat classes, and second in their jump classes. In the Novice class, Jessica Kirkpatrick took home first place and Caroline McAtee placed third. In the Introductory class Amy Perkinson received fourth place. This was especially exciting as the competition at Averette was Amy’s first show. This show was an overwhelming success for the Hunt Seat team for both new and returning riders. The Hunt Seat team went on to have their second show of the season at Wake Forest this past weekend. The results have not been received yet, but everyone on the team was extremely proud of how they performed. This first month of lessons and competitions have been fantastic for the entirety of the Equestrian team. Even in such a short amount of time all of the riders are showing tremendous growth in their skills and horsemanship. As the rest of the fall season continues, we look forward to more amazing shows and making even more amazing memories!
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Fencing Fencing Season is in Full Swing Keegan Mele, Secretary
Fencing season’s in full swing for the Appstate fencing club, as we’ve officially started our tournament season. The season started off strong with about 40 new members attending the first few practices, bringing our total number to about 100 active members! The team’s been in full overtime helping train all the new people, and we have a lot of great new fencers. We started the tournament season strong by attending the Midsouth Fencing Tournament in Durham on September 28th. Everyone on the team did superbly, and Charles Atkins placed in the top ten out of 30 competitors. This past weekend we travelled to visit our good friends at Clemson who were kind enough to host us for the Fall SIFA tournament. This is generally the biggest tournament of the semester, and it went incredibly well. AJ Fitzgerald, Patrick Harris, and Jacob Thorsheim won 1st place for the first time in inexperienced Saber, and Rachel Arnold and Caroline Gorman placed 3rd in Women’s Saber. In experienced Saber Nick Bayne, Ben Lockwood, and Nathan Potvin took 1st place. Drake Bogart, Cody Edwards, and
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James Kuhns took 3rd place in Men’s Foil, and on a composite team with our friends from the University of Charlotte, Parker Duck scored 2nd place in inexperienced Foil. While epees did not place, they all did phenomenally. Ethan Ketchel did an incredible job at his first tournament, and was given advice by our returning members Daniel “Muffin” Whitten, Aaron Swerngan, and Ian Clapp. Overall it was an incredible tournament and it was great to see our friends from other schools again. There’s a halloween tournament hosted by Georgia Tech that we’re planning on attending on October 26th and 27th. Otherwise practice continues as usual and we continue to improve everyone’s skills. We’ve been quickly working through footwork, point control, and parries, as well as doing a good amount of free-fencing to get everyone on the strip in bouts.
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Men’s Lacrosse Men’s Lacrosse Jack Nixon, Secretary
Men’s Lacrosse has been prepping for this upcoming fall season very hard. We had about 15 new guys come out this fall, which is pretty big. We have been practicing since the beginning of September, 3 days a week at State Farm. On the 29th we organized and played in Switch Stick game with the women’s team. We were hoping to kick off the fall season with a game against Wake Forest, but due to some extenuating circumstances, Wake cancelled hours before the game. We continue to prepare this week for our away game at Montreat College this Saturday at 7:30. We are very excited for this game, it is under the lights and is their big homecoming event. We are expecting a big crowd to be there with a lively atmosphere, something we don’t get to experience that often. We also play our alumni game on October 20th and November 2nd we travel to St. Andrews University to play both them and conference foe Coastal Carolina. We close out the fall season on November 17th at home against UNC Charlotte, a big rivalry to end this semester. This year should be a very successful one, we only lost 4 seniors last year and have a bunch of new guys that are contributing to the program big time. We are excited to start this season and continue to grow App State Lacrosse.
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Women’s Rugby Lying in Wait
Charlotte Murphy, Club Sports Representative
Since day one this team has been working hard and going all out in practice, and so far, that has paid off. Our first game went by with a breeze, but in order to ensure that our second game will turn out the same way we are constantly practicing. Monday through Thursday the team is out working on endurance, speed, strength, and technique. Some players are even taking the time outside of organized practices and going on their own to the Student Recreation Center. Putting in work at the student gym has already improved the team’s ability by so much. The teammates are always encouraging one another and pushing their bodies into top physical shape, and that is what being on a team is all about. There is more to playing a sport than just attending practice. To really be a part of a team, one has to dedicate their heart and soul to that sport and have a drive to improve. In the end, this
team has displayed that type of dedication and then some. The team’s next upcoming game is the alumni game that will happen during Appalachian State’s Homecoming weekend. It will be held at the State Farm Fields around noon on Sunday. The alumni game will bring even more knowledge and experience to the team, seeing as how all the experienced alumni are coming and can bring some helpful hints with them! All in all, the team gets stronger and stronger every day and the captains could not be prouder. Look out for the new T-shirts that the team will be sporting at our next game the design comes from one of our very own players. If you would like to contact our team for sponsorships, fundraisers, or more information follow our Instagram @aho_wrfc or check out our website on the club sports webpage!
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Men’s Ultimate The First of Many Aiden Todd, Secretary
The Nomads had an excellent tournament down in Charlotte. The team saw many valleys and mountain tops throughout the weekend which is expected when it’s the first tournament of the year. We played five total games over the weekend and came out with a 3-2 record earning us 5th out of the 16 teams there. Over the weekend rookies Kanta, Stone and Quinn all gained valuable experience in their first ever competitive games. They learned what an official game of frisbee is like as well as making some fantastic plays on both side of the disc. Captains Jacob and Matty where a key part in helping these rookies understand and their influence on the team as a whole can not be understated. Zach Angerson had a break out tournament as well, using his speed to created intense pressure and caused several key turnovers. Harrison Karlock and Haywood Ferguson continued their dominance in the deep space making it impossible for anyone to stop them from scoring. Over the weekend we play quite a few familiar faces. Saturday, we began our morning playing Wake Forest, who allowed us to cruise through with a victory of 12 to 4. Next, we played an Alumni team from UNC Charlotte that comprised of a bunch of old guys trying to relive the glory days we beat the old men 12 to 10. We finished our day off against the formidable UNC Wilmington. The team started out slow going down 7 to 4 at half, but the
nomads where not prepared to go down with out a fight. The team tightened the boot straps and rattled off an unforgettable second half that pushed the game down to the wire. With time expiring the game was left at 10 to 10, The Nomads had a scoring opportunity that we could not capitalize on and Wilmington marched down the field scoring and winning the game 11-10. The team left the fields on Saturday a little disappointed but we had another day to make up for it on Sunday we started played Duke whose intelligent defense and quick movement thwarted The Nomads thoroughly causing us to losing our second game of the tournament 12-9. After consecutive loss the team had one more game to play and it was against none other than our good pals at UNC Wilmington. The boys where fired up after the close loss to them the day before and that fire propelled us to play better than ever. Through will power and effort the nomads defeated UNCW 12-10 not only redeeming ourselves from the day before but also notching the nomads first win against a UNCW team in school history. We take what we learned from the weekend with us as we look to take what we learned from the weekend and turn it into Ultimate Excellence.
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Women’s Ultimate Another Day, Another Club Brianna M. Hibner, Secretary
The Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team had an exciting weekend filled with rookie points, new cheers, cookouts and another tournament win! The Nonad’s traveled to Elon University for their second tournament of the season. They played in 4 games Saturday and 3 games Sunday, Winning every game making it an undefeated tournament. App started off their Saturday beating Elon 13 to 0, winning against Wake Forest 9-1. That was following by beating University of Ashville 10-1, and beating DUFF 13-1. On Sunday we beat University of South Carolina 12-7, UNCA 8-2 and finally beating University of South Carolina again in the championship round 10-6. We are super happy with our rookie class; they all are understanding different positions on both offence and defense. Out of our 93 points played this weekend the Nonads scored 75, 47 of which were made by rookies. Our captains Magy Llamas,
and Casey Butt both had 17 assists. The team also had 111 Defensive plays where we regained position of the disc. Abby Barry had the most defensive plays rounding in 19, followed by Magy Llamas with 15 and Sophie Manning with 13. Everyone who was not injured played at least twenty points. We also are super happy that two of our injured players still came to cheer on the team which was much appreciated for the intensity and excitement the whole weekend. As a team we are looking forward to Blowout, our home tournament on the 26th and 27th. It will be hosted at state farm fields, so if you are wanting to see what the ultimate team is all about come on out! If you are interested in making a team and competing please reach out to asunonadultimate@ gmail.com and we can work something out! That’s all for now, see yah next time!
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Women’s Volleyball My Club Volleyball Experience Sophia Garmon, Treasurer My entire life I have been involved in sports. When I was in fifth grade, I decided to try out for a volleyball for the first time. Ever since then, volleyball has been my favorite sport and the event, I’ve dedicated the most of my time and effort towards. I played club volleyball and school volleyball all throughout middle and high school. Like a lot of student athletes, I was challenged with facing coaches who were bullies and had a very rough experience playing volleyball my senior year of high school. I found myself burnt out and wasn’t interested in playing volleyball for any colleges. Once I got to App State, I took a break from sports my freshman year, I then found myself missing volleyball because it had been such an important part of my life for so long. My sophomore year I decided to try out for App State’s Women’s Club
Volleyball team. This ended up being one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in college! All the girls were extremely welcoming and there was a place for everyone to fit in, no matter the skill level. Club Volleyball is the perfect balance of competition and fun. The fact that its student led makes the club special as well, there are no coaches yelling at anyone, instead it’s all of the girls working together to create a fair, balanced playing environment. I also met some amazing people through club volleyball, who I genuinely consider my good friends. I am so glad I decided to give club volleyball a chance, club sports are an amazing thing that schools have to offer to students.
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HOW TO SUBMIT 1. WRITE YOUR ARTICLE • Articles should be: • 1-1.5 pages long • Double spaced • 12 pt. font • Word doc file •Articles should include • Title • Authors name • Author’s position on team •Generic prompts may include: • What are you most looking forward to this season? • What made you want to join your team? • Does your team have a rival? How did that originate? • Whats your favorite memory of being on your team? • How have you seen your team grow since you joined? • Where would you like to see your team in a year? • Check spelling and grammar before submiting the article • Save article as SPORT_DATE.doc 2. CHOOSE YOUR PHOTOS • Submit 2-5 photos that relate to your article • Photos must have Photographer name Associated • Photos MUST be high resolution • DO NOT put the photos in the word document 3. SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLE • Articles are due the Tuesday before the Illustrated is published • Submisson by App Sync Form • Direct any questions, comments, & concerns to clubsports@appstate.edu
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OFFICER HOURS Caroline N. Holland Club Sports Executive Officer Archery, Cycling, Rugby - M, Tennis, Ultimate - W 828-551-2846 / hollandcn1@appstate.edu Weekly Office hours for Fall semester: T: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm W: 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm F: 9:30 am - 11:30 pm Alison R. Looney Club Sport Executive Officer Climbing, Softball, Ultimate - M, Volleyball - W looneyar@appstate.edu Weekly Office Hours for Fall semester: M: 10:15 am - 11:30 am R: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm F: 10:15 am - 11:30 am Griffin S. Mercer Club Sports Executive Officer Baseball, Basketball - W, Rugby - W, Swim mercergs@appstate.edu Weekly Office Hours for Fall semester: M: 10:00 am - 12:00 PM W: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Nathan H. Kanning Club Sports Executive Officer Alpine Ski, Fencing, Lacrosse - W, Snowboard, Soccer - M kanningnh@appstate.edu Weekly Office Hours for Fall semester: M: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm W: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Maya J. Townsend Equestrian, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse - M, Soccer - W, Volleyball - M townsendmj1@appstate.edu Weekly Office Hours for Fall semester: M: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm W: 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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