IN THIS
ISSUE 04
FINISH WHAT WE STARTED WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
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BLOWOUT TO SNOWOUT WOMEN’S ULTIMATE
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REGIONALS AT A GLANCE WOMEN’S SOCCER
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IT’S A WOLFPACK PARTY MEN’S ULTIMATE
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Director of UREC
Publicity Programmer
Joe Carter, carterjr@appstate.edu
Alyssa Gribble, gribblead@appstate.edu
Director of Club Sports
Executive Officers
Erin Sanders, sandersec1@appstate.edu
Activities Coordinator Chelsea Watson, watsoncg@appstate.edu
Philicia Gibson, gibsonpn@appstate.edu Ian McNeill, mcneillim@appstate.edu Katherine Uva, uvakr@appstate.edu
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READY FOR SOME SNOW ALPINE SKI TEAM
14 FINISHED
TRIATHLON TEAM
AND 16 DEFIANT DANGEROUS CYCLING TEAM
18 IDA HOSTING EQUESTRIAN TEAM
UP THE 20 WRAPPING FALL SEASON WOMEN’S LACROSSE
21 EXECUTIVE’S CORNER For more information on any of the club teams, visit the website: clubsports.appstate.edu email us at: clubsports@appstate.edu or call us at the Student Recreation Center (828) 262 2100
The November 7th Edition of the Club Sports Illustrated Designed by Alyssa Gribble
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
WRITTEN BY: ALYSSA HORAN, SECRETARY
Appalachian
States
Women’s
Club
being able to play due to injuries or busy
on November 14th-16th. Their practices
Basketball team is doing extremely well
schedules, it is a huge help to have these
are hard and intense in order to represent
this semester. Their companionship is
new players. It makes practices more high-
Appalachian State well at this regional
showing on the court and they are playing
energy because they are able to scrimmage
tournament. There is a lot of conditioning
like a unit. They continue to have a winning
and players can give it their all in games
and fast-paced drills to ensure that they
record and are becoming a nightmare for
because of more substitutions.
will be prepared for what they will face at
other schools to play. The team is very
JMU. The women’s team scrimmaged the
excited to have two new players that
The girl’s team is preparing for their last
boy’s team at a middle school in Watauga
joined this past week. With people not
tournament at James Madison University
County to compete against different styles
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of play. Hopefully with all this preparation,
mountain house together, and try to have
continue their intensity and represent App
the girls will succeed at this big tournament
team dinners together. It makes practices
State the best way possible.
and end the season with some wins. The
and tournaments more enjoyable when all
girls are stoked to round-trip up to JMU
the coaches and players on the team are
and spend the whole weekend somewhere
friends.
“THE TEAM IS PREPARING
that most of the players have never been. With the last tournament coming up, the This team is different from previous years
club team wants to give it all they have
because they are so close. Even with
at James Madison. This season has been
multiple practices a week, the girls want to
a blast and they want to end on a good
hang out and do fun activities. They have
note and make all the conditioning and
gone on haunted trails, spent a night in a
practices worth it. This focused team will
FOR THEIR LAST TOURNAMENT AT JMU ON NOV 14TH-16TH
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WOMEN’S ULTIMATE
WRITTEN BY:
This past weekend (November 1 and 2) the Women’s and Men’s Appalachian State Ultimate Frisbee teams hosted an awesome Ultimate tournament in Boone. This home tournament, titled the Blowout, took place at wonderful State Farm Fields. Teams
CORRIE MALONE,
from Asheville, Raleigh, and Greensboro all came to play with us, in total about ten
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The tournament went wonderfully thanks to the work of our lovely president Ingrid
women’s teams came to Boone. The men’s team also had a great showing of teams. Humphrey and the help of many others. Weather was certainly a big setback throughout the Blowout. Ahead of time, we knew to expect colder temperatures, but nothing could prepare us for the mini blizzard of Saturday and frigid air of Sunday. Waking up to four inches of snow on Saturday we had to delay games. Snow still covered the fields as brave women began to warm up for the first rounds of games. We were so impressed by the resilience and willingness of teams to continue play despite the snow and cold
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“ we were so temperatures. Unfortunately, two teams
In spite of the extremely cold
were unable to make it due to dangerous
temperatures and wind, playing Ultimate
conditions. The wind was also brutal.
in the snow was quite a fun experience.
Throwing and catching the disk was
The ridiculous weather made for a lot of
taken to a new extreme as teams tried
silly plays and mistakes but it also added
their best to play in the strong gusts and
to the challenge of the game. Each team
snowfall with frozen hands. Regardless of
was forced to change up their strategies
the terrible weather, spirits were high and
and try out new things. Some girls even
most everyone had a great attitude. Due
claimed that diving in the snow was
to complications with teams leaving and
great fun. Next year it might be smart to
weather setbacks, we had to constantly
rename the tournament Snowout.
make changes. Luckily, we had Ingrid to
impressed by the resilience and willingness of teams to conTinue play despite the snow and cold weather
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help sort everything out.
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WRITTEN BY: TAYLOR BRANTON PRESIDENT
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LOOKING “SEASON, IT W
ONE OF THE B FOUR YEAR
WOMEN’S SOCCER The Women’s Soccer Club team finished our
practice. We worked hard in practice and
conference season this past week at Regionals
were able to push ourselves to be better.
located in Winston-Salem. Games started
We played each team we competed against
Friday evening against UNC-Chapel Hill. After
well and finished the season 2-2-1. While we
the final whistle we lost our first game after
only had five conference games, the spring
a hard fought battle. We were scheduled
semester will be more of a fun schedule
to play Florida and Clemson Saturday, but
competing against teams in UNC-Chapel
unfortunately the weather flooded the fields
Hill’s 7v7 tournament in April. We are also
and all games were canceled Saturday. We
looking at possibly going to Florida if all
were all called to a meeting to decide how
works out well. Most of the spring season
to finish the tournament. After much debate,
will consist of Sunday double headers
it was decided that we would play 20 minute
however, and we hope to play schools such
halves and single elimination, with golden
as Asheville, NC State, and other surrounding
goal if we were to go into overtime and if
schools in North Carolina.
still no goal, we would go into penalty kicks.
BACK ON THE WAS DEFINITELY BEST DURING MY RS HERE AT APP
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During regular games, we play 40 minute
Now that our season is coming to a close,
halves, so the 20 minute halves were really
we plan to have a few more day of practice
short games for us. We were scheduled to
to finish the season. We will start working
play Vanderbilt Sunday morning. Once we
on our spring schedule and budgeting for
all took the field, we played a great game,
the next season. We will use our off time
but unfortunately could not finish any of
to work on fundraisers and raising money
our chances. We went into our five minute
for the team. To keep our touches on point,
overtime and still no goal which lead us to
we will also encourage the girls to go play
PKs. Unfortunately we lost in PKs and that
pick-up any chance they get so we are still
was our end of the run at Regionals. After all
staying in shape. Thanks to all the girls who
the preparing and practicing, we made it to
came out this season and a special thanks to
Regionals to play a game and a half when we
the officers Carly, Meghan, and Madison who
were guaranteed three games. Even though
helped keep this season a great one! Also
we did not get all the playing time like we
a big thanks to Coach Smitty for putting up
wanted, it was still a good weekend.
with all of us girls and keeping us focused on the field!
Looking back on the season, it was definitely one of the best during my four years here at App. We had a strong number of girls repeatedly come out and participate in
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MEN’S ULTIMATE
T
WRITTEN BY:
he Appalachian State Men’s Ultimate team recently competed in the Wolfpack Invitational Tournament
RYAN SCHANZ,
in Raleigh, NC. This tournament marked the first time the team played as one unit, and the first big
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tournament of the fall. Knowing that this would be the toughest competition they have faced thus far, the Nomads brought as many players as possible, to keep their depth as their biggest strength.
quarterfinals. The Nomads took care of business in this last game
The first game on Saturday served as a warm up for the Nomads
of the day. After trading points with Duke early, the Nomads could
as they disassembled a NC State developmental team that was
smell the Zaxby’s chicken waiting for them, so they kicked it into
comprised primarily of freshman and sophomores. This game did
gear and toasted Duke, like the perfectly toasted Texas toast they
give the Nomads the opportunity to play a lot of younger players
were about to devour.
who were able to gain valuable experience against a weaker opponent. The next game against a veteran William & Mary team
The second day of the tournament brought in new troubles and
did not follow the same tune though. The Nomads had to fight
new heroes for the Nomads, with a quarterfinal match up with
against this Williamsburg squad to get what they wanted, and the
UNCW. The game was tense and the points were long. The Nomads
Nomads did just that. After taking a late first half lead, the Nomads
know that UNCW always bring their A game, and a chippy one at
rolled in the second half, and were able to rotate in younger players
that. The game was filled with ups and downs for the Nomads,
who took advantage of the chance to playa better team. The
and a lot of positives besides the ending result. The #5 nationally
rookies played valiantly against W&M, and showed their stripes as
ranked UNCW team eventually bested the App team after a hard
the Nomads trounced them in their second game of the day.
fought debacle. The last two games of Sunday for the Nomads were lighter, as the team played a lot of rookies, while ailing veterans
The final pool play game of the day pitted the App squad against
cheered on from the sidelines. With a final placement of 6th, the
the recently named preseason number 1 in the country, UNC
Nomads broke their initial seed of 8th, and turned a lot of heads
Darkside. This game would prove to be the toughest game of the
in the process.
tournament for the Nomads, but they still gave everything they had. After going up a break on the UNC team early, the Nomads
The next major tournament of the fall is Fall Easterns, a regional
were in a favorable position to win. Unfortunately some late costly
affair in Wilmington, NC that is filled with nationally ranked teams.
errors doomed App, and the Nomads eventually dropped the game
The Nomads look to build off their momentum from Wolfpack and
9-13. With this result, the Nomads were now scheduled to play a
put together a solid performance at the beach.
crossover game against Duke, to decide which team made the
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“the nomads
broke their initial seed of 8th, and turned a lot of heads in the process
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SNOWBOARDING TEAM
W
ell, not exactly. It’s still Fall according to the calendars, but that snow that fell on Halloween says otherwise. Here in the high
country, winter is moving in. For anyone that has lived in Boone for more than a week knows how temperamental the weather here can be. It was in the 70s at the beginning of the week, yet snowing at the end, and while I sit here writing this article it is a beautiful 63 degrees outside and Ray’s Weather says it is going to snow again on Friday. So you may ask, “What did the team do with all of that snow?” We shredded some pow of course! I personally, had to work, but others like Vice President Byron Dollar, and alumni Alex Martin took to the backcountry and found a foot of snow. With the snow came the opening of Sugar Ski Resort, where you could find many of the Snowboard Team getting in their first ride of the season.
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Needless to say, it was an exciting weekend for all,
HERE IN THE HIGH COUNTRY, WINTER IS MOVING IN
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with the snowball fights, backcountry slopes, and resort slopes. We can’t wait for this to happen every weekend.
WRITTEN BY:
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MIRANDA MARTIN, SECRETARY
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WRITTEN BY REBECCA PURKEY, CLUB COUNCIL REP
S
ki season is just around the
boots and start skiing. Our regular practices
corner, and the team could
don’t start until January, but that doesn’t stop
not be more excited. We’ve
us from getting out there as soon as there’s
been working hard to perfect
snow to ski on. We’ll be practicing both
our form and build strength at dryland
slalom and giant slalom every week so, come
practices and learning racing techniques in
race weekends, we’re ready to ski the course
the classroom with our faculty advisor, Dr.
as fast as we can.
Kosmala. As a team, we’re working on being better skiers this year so that we can compete
As the semester comes to a close and most
at our best. Since our competitions don’t
teams are wrapping up their seasons, we’re
start until early January, we will continue to
just getting started. Obviously, the thing we’re
train in order to be ready to hit the slopes
most excited about is starting our season off
with confidence and skill. Since September,
on the right foot with lots of powder and
we have had two Trikke sessions with Dr. K.
many trips out to Sugar. We’re anxiously
Using the Trikke helps simulate skiing a giant
anticipating the start of race season, and
slalom course, but without the snow. This
weekends full of team bonding and lots of
allows Dr. K to observe our form and give
shredding. Cheering each other on as we race
us pointers on how to correct how we move
down the hill is one of the best parts of the
through the course to that we can become
weekend; that’s what makes racing so much
better, faster skiers.
fun. But competition aside, nothing beats hanging out with the team and skiing with
With the arrival of a great first snow of the season and the opening of Sugar Mountain, the team is more than ready to get back in the
some great friends every weekend
ALPINE SKI TEAM
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THE TEAM IS MORE THAN READY TO GET BACK IN THE BOOTS AND START SKIING
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TRIATHLON TEAM
WRITTEN BY: RILEY PARR, SECRETARY
After back-to-back race weekends and
desert. It feels so wrong, but also feels so
say no to more food while your metabolism
countless training hours, we are through.
good. You love all of the food. Soon, you can’t
drops back to normal. Congratulations, you
Even though it has been a great season, it has been exhausting physically and mentally, and I am pleased to say that the team is now in the process of recovery. This multi-week period is relished in nearly all sports, from football to golf to triathlon. After training and competing for so long, we now have time to sit back and relax. During this time of doing almost nothing, there is a certain number of things that just about every athlete will do. First, you will eat inordinate amounts of food. You will redefine gluttony and feed your painfully high metabolism until your stomach explodes. You can now eat the full box of mac and cheese by yourself with a full can of tuna, a cup of milk and cheese cake for
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“I AM PLEASED TO SAY THAT THE TEAM IS NOW IN THE PROCESS OF RECOVERY
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have now put back on those five pounds you worked so hard to lose getting to your optimal “race weight”. You will go from training “so hard” everyday to couch potato. I have watched full seasons on Netflix in an afternoon. Comment wars on YouTube and Facebook have become a new pastime of mine. And I get to oogle at erroneous amounts of bike gear online. I can do all of this now because I am “recovering” I can now focus on my studies. Once our season is over, we can now spend those training hours in the library learning about science, reading and math, all aspects of our life that should be at the forefront right now. I hope my mom is reading this so she knows how invested I am in my education now that I
am no longer training. Please be proud of your favorite son and send me cookies. However, soon all of the above will get very old. You will gain weight, have nothing exciting going on, and the hours of chemistry your brain is taking in is going to make you yak. So after a couple weeks, or a month, or four months, you will want to start training again; but this time, you will train so much harder, become way stronger, and mold yourself into the best you can be; that is, until your recovery period starts again
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WRITTEN BY: CRAIG STEWART, SECRETARY
CYCLING TEAM
A rock and roll season leaves the Appalachian
we sent kept ASU in contention for the
of events the Appalachian State Cycling team
State Cycling team at 7th in the nation
conference lead. The season was then nearly
brought more racers out to compete than VT.
among D1 schools. Most of the teams that
halfway over. Many of our racers were gaining
However, luck was not on our side. A number
placed above us are varsity programs. It’s
fitness in preparation for our goal of top step
of crashes during gravity events along with
been a hard fought season to reach this
on the conference podium. One of our top
mechanicals for one of our female riders,
step. We began mountain bike season with a
category riders, Alex Jerome, was sitting in
Annie Pharr, left us fighting closely with
strong showing. Riders new and old came out
first place for the individual overall. Next was
VT for points. Alex Jerome was racing hard
to help us clinch victory in the Atlantic Coast
West Virginia, which was a hard fought race
to stay on the top step of the conference
Cycling Conference (ACCC). Without winning
at the beginning of October that let us regain
podium. Two elite competitors arrived for the
our conference championship we could not
and extend a lead on
have done as well at nationals.
the conference. The next weekend was a turning
The season started well before our first
point in competition.
race at NC State, many of our racers trained
Our biggest competitor,
over the summer in preparation for total
Virginia Tech (VT), held a
annihilation of the ACCC. The first race
full weekend of races on
September 6-7th at NC State resulted in
October 11-12th.
Appalachian victory in most every category we entered. After gaining a conference lead
Blacksburg is always a
early we had tough decisions to make. Our
difficult venue. The largest
next two race weekends were far away with
turnout so far this season
very few races each. We sent a few of our
had arrived ready to duke
dedicated riders up to William & Mary and
it out for conference
George Mason. Great results from the racers
points. In a surprising turn
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PHOTOS BY: PAUL HECKERT, THE APPALACHIAN
VT weekend. The two ended up sweeping the races with our very own Miles Hubbard taking a hard fought 3rd right behind. The team was able to extend their lead but still needed to close out the season strong. Two races remained, Virginia (UVA) and the conference championship at ASU. We sent a strong contingent out to Virginia taking several lower category victories which helped us retain our conference lead. As a note, the team is made up of 3-4 levels of riders from beginner to expert. Each level earns the team points and without having racers in each level the team wouldn’t even be close to winning the overall conference. With the consistent results of all of the ASU racers the team came into our home venue, and conference championship, with a solid lead overall. However, everyone still had work to do. Alex Jerome was barely holding on to his individual lead with a UNC and UVA rider close behind. Miles Hubbard was rallying hard to break into the top three in individual standings. This became important because
having a top result in conference gives
with extremely difficult courses. Our bad
the team a front row start at the national
fortune from Virginia Tech struck again
championship at Beech Mountain. With fun
with many of our gravity racers such as
being had by all, Alex Jerome was able to hold
Sarah Roland and Trey Cooke crashing out of
onto first by the skin of his nose. Overall, the
contention. Trey Cooke had qualified 11th for
team was able to win the weekend therefore
his preferred event of dual slalom. Still with
taking a demanding victory in the conference.
difficult luck, Miles Hubbard was able to claw
Many of our lower category racers, such as
away for 12th and 13th in his cross country
Jacob Richard and Nikolai Hesterberg, won
events. His results along with the rest of our
their categories as well.
well rounded team placed ASU 7th overall in the nation. We had a couple racers at
National Championships at Beech Mountain
nationals as freshmen, Byron Rice and Annie
saw beautiful weather but stiff competition
Pharr, so continue to watch them develop!
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THE TEAM WORKS TREMENDOUSLY HARD IN ORDER TO PREPARE THE HORSES, RIDERS, AND GROUNDS FOR SHOW DAY.
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EQUESTRIAN TEAM On October 26th, 2014 five other
tears the dressage team pulls together
say that a particular horse is beautiful or
college teams traveled to Hickory, North
and prepares some of the best horses
that he/she performs beautifully makes
Carolina for the ASU IDA show. Every
in the region for the Appalachian State
the team realize how important and how
year the Appalachian State University
University IDA Show.
wonderful this show is.
Equestrian Team hosts at least one IDA (Intercollegiate Dressage Association)
The
task is
Also, the ASU Dressage team performed
Show. This show is the most important
preparing the grounds for the show. Here
very well at the show. In First level,
and most exciting event for our semester.
the entire teams comes to work together
Kristen Gore received 1st place, Halie
The team works tremendously hard in
and produce amazing results. The arena
Cunningham received 4th place, and
order to prepare the horses, riders, and
must be cleaned, the grass must be cut,
Jennifer Buchanan received 8th place.
grounds for show day. On the day of the
the horses must be washed, clipped, and
Sage Cooney received 6th place in the
show we watch the magic unfold and
their tack cleaned along with many other
Upper Training Division. Ann Marie Geno
celebrate all of the work that we put into
things. In only two days the wonderful
received 5th place in the Lower Training
making a great show!
members of the equestrian team carpool
Division and Marisa Bumgardner received
second
most
difficult
to the barn to help with all of these tasks.
2nd place in the Intro Division. Team A
Perhaps the most difficult task in order
These work days provide the perfect
received 3rd place overall!
to prepare for the show is schooling up
opportunity for team bonding!
the horses so that they are physically and mentally capable to perform on show
Finally, it’s show day! Everything has
day. This requires a lot of effort from the
been completed and individual jobs have
Dressage team. It is their responsibility
been assigned and members are able to
to prepare the horses and often some
see how their hard work has payed off.
team members are out at the barn riding
The team watches the horses compete in
for more time than they are in Boone
the ring that they prepared and hear the
during the weeks leading up to the
other teams complement their work. In my
show. However, even with all of the
opinion, this is the best pay off! Hearing
necessary hours, sweat, and sometimes
Virginia Tech or any of the other teams
WRITTEN BY: HALEY MCCUNE, VICE PRESIDENT
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Elon. We will also be playing Richmond and other teams from all over the east coast. We are excited for a good weekend of lacrosse and bonding as a team. As the pre-season comes to a close your ASU Women’s Lacrosse team is in great anticipation for the regular conference season to begin next semester. We have a strong close-knit group of girls who work
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
really hard and enjoy being with each other. We are proud of our team and how much improvement has already been made. We can’t wait for what next semester has in store for us! Go Mountaineers!
WRITTEN BY KATIE VAN GURP, CLUB SPORTS ILLUSTRATED CHAIR
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ur team has continued to work hard as the pre-season comes to a close. This past weekend, our team traveled to Elon University to play. It was a close evenly matched game, but after a tough game we didn’t come
out with a win. The team looks forward to playing Elon again this coming weekend. With hard work comes a lot of play for your Lady Mountaineers though, the past few weeks have involved a lot of team bonding as well. On the practice before Halloween the team celebrated by dressing up and enjoyed festive treats. Earlier in the month the team also volunteered at the Western Youth Network where they helped less fortunate children learn the game of lacrosse. We enjoyed bonding and having fun teaching the children the game we love. This weekend the season will reach it’s grand finale as the team travels with the Men’s Lacrosse team to Greenville, NC to play in East Carolina’s Pirate Invitational Tournament. It will be a big weekend for our team as this will be our first championship style tournament of the season. We will be playing two conference teams: NC State and
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THE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM IS GREATLY ANTICIPATING THE REGULAR CONFERENCE’S BEGINNING NEXT SEMESTER
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WRITTEN BY PHILICIA GIBSON, CLUB SPORTS EXECUTIVE
This week was a big one for Club Sports
funds were divided up between Cycling,
really great feedback. The executives are
Council! We are getting to the end of the
Volleyball, and Snowboarding.
hopeful that council will be able to vote on
semester so those loose ends are needs to
this at the last meeting.
be tied up. All of the teams are starting to
The executive then updated the council
wrap up their seasons. Teams like Cycling
on their work on the “Brother/Sister Team”
Lastly, the publicity committee petitioned to
and Women’s Soccer even made it to
program. The program has been renamed to
council to donate money to them to pay for
nationals! The Men’s and Women’s Ultimate
AppTogether and the idea behind it is for
Club Sports bumper stickers. They hope to
teams hosted a tournament this past
teams to start building relationships with
sell 500 of them and make over $1,000. The
weekend. Despite the six inches of snow,
one another and becoming a “family.” The
council agreed to give them the money.
they held out and teams still competed.
Council was very intrigued and gave great
Unfortunately, the weather did put a damper
feedback.
on everyone’s playing, but overall it was still a good weekend for the teams.
are looking forward to seeing how the end Next, Philicia presented on what she has been working on with the Developmental
During council, the representatives voted on
Tier. She presented a powerpoint to the
the National Championship reimbursement
council about what she has done so far
for teams who petitioned to get reimbursed
and then opened it up for discussion. The
for going to nationals last year. The allocated
council brought up great points and gave
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