Club sports Illustrated: March 30th Edition

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ISSUE N° 96 MAR 30.18

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March 16th Edition of Club Sports Illustrated Designed by Jarod York UREC Publicity Programmer Edited by Caroline Baird Articles by App State Students Cover Photo By: Nick Simpson

10 Lacrosse Women’s 12 Snowboarding 14 Ultimate Men’s 16 Executive Corner

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The Archers Went Down to Georgia By: Rowan Parris | President Archery

Rowan Parris

Lions. Tigers. Bears. Oh, my. The Rinehart 100 is the most anticipated archery competition of the year for the Appalachian Archers. And with just two days to shoot two 50 target 3-D courses in, the race is on. There’s nothing like the challenge of hiking the course as efficiently as possible while still taking the time to pause, focus, and release all your bow’s energy speeding toward that 12 point bullseye.3-D archery might be the most fun style of competition, at least for me, because it blends two of my favorite pastimes: the methodic, meditative practice of shooting a bow, and the adventure of hiking trails through the woods! You never know what might be around the bend; it could be anything from an alligator floating in a pond to a life-size T-Rex (let the hunter become the hunted)! The great thing about the R100 is that you’ll have the opportunity to shoot at targets you’ll never see on any other 3-D course. It really is the only competition of its kind. If by some chance, you manage to finish the courses early and your shoulder isn’t even sore yet, fear not! There are the ever popular array of novelty shoots to keep the dedicated archer occupied.

The Gallon Challenge is a blast for those who seek mastery of both precision and speed, while the Iron Buck is always a fan favorite for those high-stakes competitors who are confident enough to risk sending their arrow to death-by-steel-plate should they err too far off-center. Finally, the Dirty Dozen is for those who would rather team up and double their chances of taking home the gold. Whatever your style, whatever your level of experience, the R100 never fails to inspire a new enthusiasm for the sport, and for the people shooting beside us.

Our latest voyage to Homer, GA this March was my third trip to the R100, and I’m happy to report that it gets more fun each time I go, and this time I even brought home second place in my class. I also want to congratulate fellow recurve archer, Amy Litterer, on her third place score; compound archer, Caroline Holland, on her third place score; and compound archer Byron Burrell for finally earning that R1000 pin. Next year, I’m going for gold.

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High Country Cycling Classic Coming Soon By: Annie Pharr | President Cycling

Every year the cycling team hosts a road race weekend for collegiate teams in our conference as well as public racers in the area. We partner with the Boone Area Cyclists, which is a local cycling non profit that promotes bike events, the cycling community, and safety advocacy.

This year is especially exciting because not only did we change venues for both days, but we are also hosting a dual conference event where both the SEC and ACC cycling conferences will attend! This weekend is coming up fast on April 7 & 8, and the team members and officers have been hard at work to make sure it will come together smoothly. Planning the races takes so much time that the cycling team designates two of the officers just to being “race directors.” This year, David Burstein and Matt Jones (shown in the picture at the start line of last year’s Men’s C crit race) have taken on that responsibility, and have already proven their organizational skills and event planning talents with the success of our mountain bike race weekend in October. This upcoming weekend should be no different.

Sunday’s race is a criterium race, which is a slightly different style of racing. While still testing endurance, crit races are much faster and more technically demanding.

This is because they are not only on a shorter, more spectator friendly course, but they are also shorter in duration and last up to an hour rather than multiple hours. The crit race will have much less elevation in it as well, favoring racers with the most power rather than those with the best climbing legs. Our Mountaineer Crit will take place in the center of Downtown Boone for the first time in over a decade, and we are extremely excited about bringing the venue back to App’s backyard instead of going off the mountain. We encourage anyone who is not into racing to come spectate! The races will start at 9am, and different categories will be racing down Rivers Street and around Howard, Depot, and Water Streets until 5pm that afternoon. Being able to spectate from a local restaurant or bar downtown will be an exciting treat, and we are looking forward to showing off Boone to the other collegiate athletes in attendance.

On Saturday, the weekend will start with a road race in the beautiful cove creek area, challenging even the toughest legs with 1000 feet of climbing per lap. For the highest categories of riders racing 66 miles, that’s over 6000’ of climbing for the day! The course will start at the old cove creek school before making its way out on a loop up difficult hills and around scenic fields. Road races are a test of endurance where riders head out by category for a few hours of racing on a long course.

The race weekend will not only be fun and challenging for participants, but it will be a great way to showcase the area of Boone as a cycling mecca, introducing the community to cycling and racing when they may have never spectated at this kind of event before. If you want to learn more info about race times and locations please visit our event website, hcccyclingclassic.com

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SIFA Success By: Lauren Brackett | Secretary Fencing

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Last weekend, over 20 members of our club traveled to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for the annual Spring SIFA competition! The highly anticipated tournament attracted over 10 teams from universities across the Southeast, including the University of Florida, William and Mary, and East Kentucky University to name a few. As usual at SIFA, the competition was tough and plentiful. Despite the snowstorm in Boone early on Saturday morning, our cars were able to make the journey down the mountain in time for the 8am final registration.

App State Fencing was represented by over 6 squads, 3 of which were sabre. President and junior epeeist Maria Cilenti said, “Our team brought a record-breaking number

of fencers to SIFA this year and each one of them excelled beyond our expectations.” Congratulations to everyone that competed over the weekend!

Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 14th because we will be hosting our first tournament! While there is much planning left to be done, the officers are so excited to have secured a date for our event. The entire team is looking forward to welcoming other clubs to our campus, in addition to our families and friends. We encourage spectators to come out and support the event. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to plan!

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There’s Snow-thing Like Lax By: Maddie Marcellino | Club Sports Representative Lacrosse Women’s

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April 5th High Point @ High Point April 7-8th UNCW Tournament @ Wilmington April 13th NC State @ Home April 14-15th Mountaineer Meltdown @ Home

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Our annual Mountaineer Meltdown tournament was canceled because of the snow. BRRRRR!!!!! Officers are working diligently to schedule a make-up tournament as well as additional games to play those teams that cannot make it to a re-scheduled tournament. It is very important to our team (especially our slaying seniors) that host a tournament as it is a way to share our love for lacrosse with our friends and family.

The updated schedule is in the table to the left…CHECK IT OUT! The schedule is not set in stone as officers continue to work with teams and find available times for make-up games.

Our more recent weather has been beautiful and so have our practices.

Attendance is high and team dynamics have noticeably improved.

Playing time is based off attendance and skill. As the saying goes…“hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work.” We gained a decent amount of new members and they seem as if they’ve been on the team for years already. I know our team will only continue to grow as we eagerly recruit new members and they quickly fall in love with the team.

Officer elections are underway as our season descends to its end.

Many lovely lady laxers are running for positions and current officers know they will be leaving the team in good hands. New officers will be announced by March 30th! As club council representative and social

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chair, I have had such a great time being an officer! Officers must lead on and off the field to make sure our team reaches its potential. Here’s a huge shout-out to the outstanding officers for all they have done so far this year! Our President is Emma Bouma, Vice President is Margaret Griggs, Secretary is Daisha Williams, Treasurer is Taylor Reynolds, and Club Council Representative/Social Chair is Maddie Marcellino.

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Out with the Old in with the New By: Stephanie Shapiro | President Snowboarding

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As the season ends we have to say goodbye to some of the seniors graduating. Chris Taylor, Ben Stone, and myself joined the team our freshmen year and never looked back. The team members are some of my closest friends and I think everyone else feels the same. I am bummed to see the season end and know it is my last year on the team as well as a few others. We are starting a new chapter in our lives after graduation and have all the great memories of the team. There is never a time I think back on team trips and didn’t smile or bust out laughing. This team has become a small family that

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loves to stay hydrated and shred the mountains together. The best feeling is seeing the new members in the beginning wondering what the team will be like or whether they will “fit in”. After the first weekend of traveling, everyone becomes close and start to become comfortable with some of what will be their best friends in college.

I can’t say enough about the other officers this season and making everything move so smooth at every competition. Not to mention how hard everyone rode this season! Everyone gave it their all no matter what their condition was after a long Saturday night. Nationals turned out amazing and even better than we expected. We hope to have even more at the following nationals. The team has developed so much over the past couple of seasons.

I know the new officers will take care of business and grow the team even more than it was this season. Dirty south is always repping no matter the season. You can find us out cruising the greenway with the warmer weather, waiting for the snow to come back. For now we say goodbye to the cold and enjoy the beautiful summer weather in the high country!

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Delicious Mystery By: Myles Grady | Secretary Ultimate Men’s The Nomads are quietly on the come up. Flying just under the radar, ready to turn up on some teams in a minutes notice. Not many know what to expect of us at sectionals. I’ll tell you what to expect. Dubs. Dubs, Dubs and more Dubs. We’ve got two weeks until sectionals and we are not letting any time go to waste. We got dudes working in the pool, on the track, on the pitch, in the weight room, in their deep sleep, you name it we’re working. It’s a “Nomads vs. The World” mentality the rest of the season. And you might want to hop on the bandwagon before all the seats get filled. Our young guns are turning into tanks, our old heads are sharpening their blades. We’re gearing up for battle. I’m talking our captains Otto and Matty or as they are known together as Leonidas, and we, the troops, are the Spartans.

Sectionals is the first step towards getting to nationals. At sectionals we will face teams from North and South Carolina. This year there should be 6 bids to regionals from our section meaning we have to place top 6 at sectionals. This will be a challenge but if I had to do it with anyone it would be with my guys on the Nomads. We’ll have to face UNC-Chapel Hill, UNCW, NC State, Clemson, Duke, University of South Carolina on our path but we will give it our all.

We have a planned day trip to Asheville the weekend after Easter to go and scrimmage the UNC-Asheville Frisbee team and hope to tune up any final wrinkles in our game. Should be a great learning experience for us because we have not played them this year and it will be good to play people who you haven’t played against before.

I also think I never got the chance to write about our victory down in Charleston. We traveled down south the weekend of February 17th and 18th.

Started off a little shaky against Wake Forest but we were able to pull out the 12-8 victory. The rest of the day we cruised to 4 straight wins over Liberty, Western Carolina, Wingate, and High Point. Sunday we came out and beat Radford 13-0, an excellent way to come out on Sunday morning. Then we played North Greenville in the semi’s and won 13-7. In the windy final we played University of Tennessee, it was a good game overall and we came out on top 13-7. Overall a great trip.

I look forward to update you with out results at sectionals in a couple of weeks, until then take it easy. :)

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End of the Year Projects By: Courtney Forbis | Executive Officer Executive Corner

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The executives have been very busy with our end of the year projects for the past few months. Along with our projects we are still chugging along with the team matters each week and our committee work for Council.

Mikhala is working hard to make sure that Symposium is going to be the best it’s ever been! She has some great ideas in store to make sure that each officer gets the most out of their time at Symposium.

Make sure that every one of your team’s new officers are able to make it to Symposium on Sunday April 22 from 5:00pm-8:30pm in PSU. I have finished with the survey portion of my Club Sports Story and I am working on creating discussion topics for the focus groups. So if you said that you are willing to participate in a focus group be on the look out for an email from me!

Kevin has being putting in many hours working on the budgetary proposal so Club Sports can hopefully get a little more money next year. We are patiently

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waiting to hear back from the Budgetary Committee as to when we will go and present to them. Wish us good luck!

Emma has been diligently working on helping teams with their officer elections. This is a huge process for a team to undertake and that is what Emma is here for!

So if you need help with anything reach out to her for advice. She has also been working on the process to elect new executive officers for 2018-2019. We will be voting on those positions very soon.

Bryce has been organizing and planning the Banquet for the end of the year. We just voted on the awards for the year and we will be announcing those at the Banquet so make sure you are there, your team might just win! The banquet will be Monday April 30th 2018.

We are all so excited about projects and can’t wait to see the final results at the end of the semester!

To learn more about Club Sports go to clubsports.appstate.edu

Executive Officers

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Kevin Meyer meyerkc@appstate.edu

Kevin Meyer meyerkc@appstate.edu

Emma Bouma boumaec@appstate.edu

Emma Bouma boumaec@appstate.edu

Mikhala Dougher doughermc@appstate.edu

Mikhala Dougher doughermc@appstate.edu

Courtney Forbis forbiscj@appstate.edu

Courtney Forbis forbiscj@appstate.edu

Bryce Helms helmsba@appstate.edu

Bryce Helms helmsba@appstate.edu

Coordinators for Sports & Activities

Coordinators for Sports & Activities

Joe Carter carterjr@appstate.edu Alex Purivs purvista@appstate.edu Erin Sanders sandersec1@appstate.edu John Marion marionjs@appstate.edu

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Joe Carter Director of UREC Alex Purivs purvista@appstate.edu Erin Sanders Assistant Director of Sports & Activities John Marion marionjs@appstate.edu

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