Rec Insider - Spring 2017

REC INSIDER SPRING 2017

What’s New at the Rec

Outdoor Pursuits Sport Clubs Group AXE

Yummy Recipes Health & Wellness:

Decluttering for a Healthier Life

SFA Homecoming 5K Recap!

RECreate Yourself.

Ken Morton Director Cody Kuykendall Assistant Director Facilities & Member Services Grace Saldaña-Romero Business Supervisor

From the Director

Kelley Consford Administrative Assistant

Welcome to the latest edition of the Rec Insider!

Hooray, it finally happened! That’s right we finally got a restroom facility out at the Challenge Course. And not just any old outhouse, but a state of the art, solid constructed, heavy duty (think bomb shelter ), good looking, double restroom. We hope that all of the groups that we have out at the Challenge Course appreciate that we have facilities for them to use.

Travis Lankford Assistant Director Competitive Sports & Camps Chris Morriss Coordinator Intramural Sports & Camps

Ken Morton

We also have some new fitness classes and a new sport club to read all about inside. And Jessica has written an article on decluttering just in time for those spring cleaning projects. Also check out our Directory of SFA Alumni that we have started. See who is on the list and spread the word and encourage others to submit their current information so we can stay in touch.

Speaking of staying in touch, for those going to the NIRSA Annual conference in DC, we will once again have an SFA and Friends social. It will be held on Wednesday night from 8-10pm in the suite of current NIRSA President Stacey Hall. A big shout out to Stacey for letting us use her suite. We will pass out invitation cards at the conference with more details.

Lastly, don’t forget about the Dr. Raymond Lee Worsham Scholarship Fund (info found on page 11) and please consider making a contribution to it. This directly helps a current SFA Campus Recreation student.

Steven Whitman Coordinator Outdoor Pursuits Dan Harbuck Challenge Course Manager Katie Yandell Coordinator Aquatics & Safety Amie Simmons Coordinator Fitness & Wellness Jessica Waguespack Coordinator Employee Wellness Sarah Kouliavtsev Coordinator Promotions & Sponsorships

Graduate Assistants: Sonia Nieto - Fitness & Wellness Katie Taylor - Facilities & Member Services Brittany Morriss - Aquatics & Safety Anna Niemeyer - Outdoor Pursuits

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WHAT’S NEW AT THE REC

Challenge Course Receives new install ation

Arriving aboard a semi-truck and craned into place, the SFA Challenge Course received a much needed amenity - a fully functional restroom! Special thanks to the SFA Administration for helping us fund this new addition! Installed in early November 2016, the restroom will be available to our participants during programmed events and clinics. ●

There’s a New Club in Town!

For the first time, SFA Campus Recreation now houses a Women’s Rugby Club. The club began as a student organization in the spring semester of 2016 and was awarded status as a Sport Club in September 2016. The initial club has been brought together thanks to the effort of President Tyler Ayres, Vice President Kayla Pearce, Secretary Morgan Oliver, and Treasurer Gabrielle Baskin. The club has been practicing on weekends in order to get them ready for competitions.

The club participated in their first competitions this semester. Their first match was against East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, TX on October 22. The club came up short in their first match, but had a performance they could build upon as they continued to grow and improve. The

that continue to grow the club and the sport around Nacogdoches. They have a group of coaches helping get their players in shape for the rigors of the sport. In the spring, they hope to join the Texas Rugby Union and compete for the full season.

improvements were visible the very next day as the club hosted a round robin tournament in Nacogdoches with teams from LeTourneau University out of Longview, TX and the University of Houston. After defeating the Cougars from UH, the club fell to LeTourneau to finish the day at one win and one loss. The club was also able to compete at a tournament in Houston where they again finished the day with one win and one loss.

The future of the club looks bright.

They have a dedicated group of officers

For more information on the Women’s Rugby Club and how you can help, please contact Travis Lankford at 936-468-6051, or at lankfordtc@sfasu.edu. ●

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WHAT’S NEW AT THE REC

Meet me at the

Barre

By: Sarah Sanchez, Group AXE Instructor

Not your typical toning class!

Barre classes are on the rise gaining popularity and praise in the U.S. as more people discover and dedicate themselves to this specialized class.

Picture this - fast paced upbeat dance music, holding on to the barre for dear life as you stretch in flat back pulsing your leg straight behind you in the air, burning, sweating, shaking, giggling next to your friend as they too burn their gluteus and inner thighs off, finishing your last rep, hearing your instructor cheer you on. Sound like fun to you? It is, at least, that is what my students say.

Certified in Barre, Mat Pilates, Zumba Level 1, Zumba Gold, and Zumba Toning

How did Barre start?

Suffering from a back injury, German dancer Lotte Berk combined the rehabilitation therapy with her dance training and conditioning to stay active and efficient. She opened up her first studio in her basement in the late 50’s, and began to train others.

What to Wear

Bring socks! Because we slide our feet on the floor to execute Ballet moves, your feet need to be able to slide smoothly. Any fitted exercise attire that allows you to downward dog without your shirt collapsing to your face or your shorts from hiking too high up your rear. If you would like to wear a leotard, go for it! Refer to Campus Recreation guidelines for more info on appropriate attire. (http://www. sfasu.edu/campusrec/692.asp) Bring your own mat if you have one, if not, we have plenty to borrow. One to two water breaks will be taken, so bring your own water bottle if you’d like. There are also water fountains just outside the room, if case you forget to bring your own! And one last thing to have the best workout, bring a friend!

What is Barre?

Barre is a class that utilizes body weightbearing exercises pulled from Pilates and Ballet. Don’t let the Ballet part turn you away; this class is designed for beginners who have not taken Ballet before. For those of you out there who have taken Ballet in the past and would like to jump back in, this is also a class for you. The entire body will be exerted individually through small isometric contractions rather than large compound movements. This is the class to join if you are wanting to tone and shape your body.

This is not a cardio focused class.

off with a relaxing 5-8 minute cool down.

Many variations and props are inserted in this basic outline, of course. Dumbbells, Thera-bands, resistance balls and magic circles are used frequently in Barre to intensify and work muscles in new ways.

Fun activities such as partner stretching, floor Barre and dance sequences are added in every once and a while to let loose while still getting your toning on.

Overall, Barre aims to improve core strength, agility, flexibility, and motor control. If any of these spark your interest, give Barre a shot.

An American student of Berk brought this fusion class to the states in 1971. Over time, instructors branched off and formed their own style. Physique 57, The Bar Method, Core Fusion, Barre 3, and Pure Barre are a few of the many styles of Barre.

Want more info? Contact me at sanchezs12@sfasu.edu ●

Class Outline

A general class begins with a 2-5 minute warm up, followed by arm exercises such as tricep dips, push ups, bicep curls, plank variations..etc.

The barre section is next, providing students with plies, calf raises, arabesque lifts, attitude pulses, wall sits and stretches. The class continues on the mat with an abs series and finishes

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Decluttering For A

Healthier Life By: Jessica Waguespack, Employee Wellness Coordinator

Clutter is present in all of our daily lives, from our work, to our home, and even in our personal lives. But too much clutter - excessive clutter - can cause additional stress, can distract you from completing even the simplest tasks, can cause you to take longer to complete things, and in general weigh you down. But when life has to continue to move forward and you have a mountain of actual clutter to go through, commitments to keep, and figurative clutter in your life, how do you start, where do you start? By taking it step by step, and committing a little bit of time each day, in your already hectic schedule. If you follow the following blueprint, things will slowly become less cluttered, the stress will slowly dissipate, and your overall health will begin to improve.

Your Work

The majority of us spend at least eight hours a day, five days a week at work. This adds up to more waking hours at work, than at home.

Decluttering at work can help you become more productive and focused on your work.

Your desk. Start off by completely clearing off your desk, including your drawers. Begin to sort through your various piles, and try to toss anything you don’t need to keep: broken pens, freebies from vendors that you’ll never use, and even retirement announcements.

For your remaining pile, sort it into a “To Be Filed” pile, an “Address Immediately” pile, and lastly a “Delegate” pile. Your desk should only have your phone, computer, printer, what you’re currently working on and maybe a special photo or two.

Your computer. Your computer will automatically come with stock programs. Get rid of any of the programs you don’t actually use.

If you tend to save documents directly on your desktop, stop it. If your computer crashed, you’d end up losing all of the files and it simply causes too much clutter on your desktop to find the document you’re looking for. Create a file system to save similar documents in the same file that are saved directly to your computer’s hard drive.

The information. In today’s digital world, it seems some days I receive so much junk email that includes distribution lists that I have a difficult time sorting through what’s junk and, more importantly, what is not.

For the daily marketing/news emails you get from clothing, tech, travel, and even health companies, choose to either unsubscribe, or change your email preferences to be emailed once a week. For those emails that you do like to read, put a limit on how you read each day.

Your Home

Following work, you spend the next longest amount of time at home, sometimes sharing the space with, one, two, three, and even more people.

Your rooms. Start off by picking everything off the floors and placing it in its ‘home’. You have blankets left on the floor, put it where it belongs. A board game left out from two weeks ago, put it away. Once everything is put away in its rightful home, start one room at a time by making piles to throw or donate.

As you’re trying to decide should I keep it, toss it, or donate, think about: do you ever use it, did you forget you even had it, is it functional, sentimental? If you’re holding onto something because it’s broken, and you’ve planned to fix the past ten years, you’ve gotten along just fine without it so far.

For the millions of kitchen gadgets that you bought thinking they would save you so much time, but forgot you even have them, chances are, you really don’t need the lettuce knife and the tear free onion goggles.

Your closets and drawers. Closets are great spaces to store things when you’re trying to clean up the house in a rush when family is coming in. As such, they’re great stuff collectors for items you simply forgot about.

Declutter your closets by following the same rules as decluttering your rooms.

Have you worn that shirt at least once this past year? Are you saving your skinny clothes for when you lose weight, or your larger clothes, in case you no longer fit into

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your skinny clothes? If you have duplicates of something, try donating a few of the older pieces.

Your Life

Saying you need to declutter your life can sound very negative. But when we are all pulled into twenty different directions and have a difficult time saying no, it’s sometimes necessary.

Your commitments. Begin by writing down all of your commitments on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. From the things that you absolutely have to do: take children to school, go to work, grocery shopping, to all of the things that you don’t have to do.

Your civic duties, your weekly Friday night dinner with friends, the three community organizations you’re a part of, your children’s piano practice, being Secretary for the school’s PTA program and more. Making the list can become an eye opener to show how spread thin you are.

Evaluate each of the items for the value it brings, the time you invest and the joy it brings you. Commit to those things you absolutely love, and let go of the rest.

Begin to be stingy of saying yes to new commitments. Assess, do you have the time to take on one more thing?

Your routines. Having a routine and structure will help organize and allow you to become more productive in your daily life.

A way to create structure is to lump the same types of tasks together. Pay all of your bills at the same time, whether it is on a biweekly or monthly basis. You have a lesser chance of forgetting to pay a bill. Instead of doing the laundry a few times a week, complete it all in one day. Having a routine will help with fitting in your commitments

and the unplanned events that sometimes happen.

Your friends and family. Decluttering your friends and family can sometimes seem downright impossible and incredibly ruthless.

You’re sometimes going to have those friends that cause you to ask, why am I friends with them? But you think, we’ve been friends for 20, 30 years. Your family, you cannot change.

The control you do have is who you surround yourself with, whose social media accounts you follow. Do you surround yourself with people who make you a better person, who truly care about you as a person? Do they worry when you’re sad, are they a person you want to call when you’re going through something serious? Do they challenge your ethics and values?

Are they the type of person that is always negative?

When you’re working on decluttering and you’re staring at the mountain of clutter, remember; take it one step at a time. The clutter didn’t collect like that overnight. It may be daunting now, but afterwards you’ll be grateful for the time you took. ●

Sometimes we just need to declutter.

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RECIPE CORNER

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ALUMNI NEWS

Where Are They Now?

A Directory of SFA Rec Alumni - Staff, Students, & Participants Samantha (Simmons) McLeod ‘09

Christina Wyatt ‘13

Kathryn Thies ‘09

Brittany Lee ‘14

Forney ISD North Forney High School Teacher and Coach brittany.lee@edu.forneyisd.net

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Campus Recreation Program Coordinator of Fitness john.mcelrath@unlv.edu

Taylor (Carney) Lovinggood ‘10

Justin Ellerbe ‘15

Scott Wagner

Scott Berkowitz ‘11

Tony Hensdill ‘11, ‘15

Jess Varlack

Sarah Shea ‘12

Bo Slaton ‘15

Kate Houlik

Dan Belcher ‘12

Bethany Williams ‘15

Cory Eiffert ‘16

Lauren (Bayona) Cunningham ‘12

Derrik Neal ‘13, ‘ 15

Troy Johnson ‘16

Saint Louis University Department of Campus Recreation Member Services Coordinator mcleodsa@slu.edu Loyola University - Chicago Department of Campus Recreation Program Coordinator kthies@luc.edu Channelview ISD Payroll Clerk trlovinggood@yahoo.com

Sam Houston State University Department of Campus Recreation Assistant Director of Fitness sberko@shsu.edu Purdue University Department of Campus Recreation Assistant Director of Facilities shea5@purdue.edu University of Houston Department of Campus Recreation Assistant Director of Operations dkbelche@central.uh.edu RocketBrand Production Coordinator lc@gorocketbrand.com

University of Texas, Austin Department of Campus Recreation Assistant Director of Fitness & Wellness wyattc@austin.utexas.edu

University of Nebraska - Lincoln Department of Campus Recreation Member Services Assistant jellerbe2@unl.edu Boy Scouts of America Development Director tony.hensdill@scouting.org

Plano ISD Murphy Middle School Teacher and Coach bo.slaton@gmail.com Lamar University Family and Consumer Sciences Graduate Assistant bcwbrunette@yahoo.com International Leadership of Texas, Arlington K-8 Performance Coach Head Middle School Boys’ Basketball Coach dneal@iltexas.org

Stuti Gakhar ‘ 15

Temple University School of Pharmacy Pharm D Student stutigakhar@gmail.com

John McElrath ‘15

University of Nebraska - Lincoln Department of Campus Recreation Assist. Dir. of Mem. Services & Dev. swagner15@unl.edu University of Nebraska - Lincoln Department of Campus Recreation Assist. Dir. of Inst.Outreach & Aquatics jvarlack2@unl.edu City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Health & Wellness Coordinator houlikk@bouldercolorado.gov

The University of Arizona Department of Campus Recreation Facilities Services Coordinator ceiffert@email.arizona.edu Willis Towers Watson Actuarial Analyst johnsont2016@gmail.com

Kati (Van Dunk) Bailey ‘09, ‘12

Young Life Lone Star Region: Admin & Development Associate Blanco County: Middle & High School Ministry kati@lonestarregion.younglife.org

Steve Dooling ‘13

Technogym Sales Account Manager dooling34@gmail.com

Nathan Rector ‘13

The Woodstock School - Mussoorie India National Outdoor Leadership School Head of Outdoor Education & Field Inst. nathanrector@woodstock.ac.in

Ryan Wigley ‘13

University of North Texas Health Science Center Third Year Student Doctor of Physical Therapy ryan.wigley28@gmail.com

Joe Wise ‘12

University of Texas, Austin Department of Campus Recreation Assistant Director of Intramurals joe.wise@austin.utexas.edu

Let’s Keep In Touch!

Join our directory as a way to help current Rec Employees to connect with Alumni.

Send a quick email to KouliavtSG@sfasu.edu with the following information: • Your Name (including Maiden, if applicable) • Graduation Year(s) (if attended SFA) • Current Employer • Current Position Title • Email Address

SPRING / 2017 This scholarship was created to provide financial assistance to current student employees of the Campus Recreation Department. Dr. Raymond “Ray” Worsham was the Intramural Department Director at SFA for 43 years prior to the creation of the Campus Recreation Department.

Dr. Worsham was the keystone to the Intramural Department for more than four decades and his dedication and lasting impact is something that we will celebrate for decades to

come with the creation of this scholarship. Under Dr. Worsham, intramural sports flourished to the highest numbers the program has ever seen.

Thousands of students spent nights playing on the intramural fields, in the HPE and around campus over Dr. Worsham’s tenure.

The strong intramural tradition lives on through our current sport offerings, The Intramural Champ shirt, the contact we have with former student athletes in the program and we are privileged to honor him with this scholarship.

2016-2017 Recipient An honors student with a 3.42 GPA majoring in Finance, he has worked for Campus Rec for two years. He says that, in that time, he has grown a lot as a person, and that Campus Rec’s “student development mentality” has played a major role. He goes on to share that his biggest success story (so far) that he can attribute to his employment at Campus Rec is his professionalism, interpersonal skills, and interview skills.

In addition to being a Head Lifeguard and Operations Manager here at the Rec, he currently holds the Philanthropy chair of his fraternity and is involved with Greek Wide, a branch of Campus Crusade for Christ International.

Ken Morton (Director), Kaleb Castor, and Sarah Kouliavtsev (Alumni Committee Chair)

FOR MORE INFORMATION

One of his letters of recommendations described him very accurately, and I’d like to share that quote with all of you: “[He] is a high character guy. He is polite and respectful. He has a selfless and car-

about the Dr. Raymond Lee ing heart that drives him to want to invest in the lives of people.”

Worsham Scholarship contact Promotions & Sponsorships Coordinator Sarah Kouliavtsev at (936) 468.5844 or via email

Kouliavtsg@sfasu.edu

Congratulations!

- Sarah Kouliavtsev, Alumni Committee Chair

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SFA Campus Recreation is committed to developing a culture of Lumberjack wellness through excellent facilities and inclusive experiences in adventure, fitness, sport, and play.