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Osu Quidditch seeks a magical national title >Hayden Applebee leads the club after playing in Quidditch World Cup.

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s the sun sets on Willis Fields, Hayden Applebee scrambles around on the lush, supple grass. He forms an endless chain of movement, a continuous series of jolts and jumps connecting each link.

He’s the center of attention — the backbone of an Oklahoma State quidditch team he helped build.

One month ago, Applebee, an agribusiness senior, was on a similar field 5,000 miles away in Frankfurt, Germany, participating in the Quidditch World Cup. It was a massive milestone for Applebee, who three years ago, found himself a novice in the sport.

“When I came in, I was in a position with no leadership, and I’ve worked myself into the officers and eventually to captain,” Applebee said. “I’d like

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Oklahoma State’s Hayden Applebee (center) earned a roster spot with the U.S. Quidditch team for the Quidditch World Cup in Frankfurt, Germany, over the summer.

to think that I’m a good leader, so I’m just trying to lead by example.”

Applebee’s dedication to the sport is what allowed him the opportunity to play for United States Quidditch.

After filing extensive

paperwork and providing ample game footage, Applebee garnered a spot on the national team roster and a chance at a World Cup. USQ quickly advanced through the tournament in Frankfurt and found

themselves in the finals facing Australia. Unfortunately for Applebee, the team was forced to settle for silver after falling in a close match.

Adam Clark, assistant coach for OSU quidditch, said Applebee’s experi-

ence is invaluable to the team.

“It’s huge having him on the team,” Clark said.

“It’s great to have someone who has played against so many play styles. That helps bring new ideas to our play and gives more options when it comes to strategy.”

When Applebee arrived on the OSU campus, he had hardly heard of quidditch, let alone played in a match.

He had, however, taken part in his fair share of sports while in high school. He competed in wrestling and football while he was a student in Woodward, a town of about 12,000 in western Oklahoma near the panhandle.

It didn’t take Applebee long, however, to come into contact with quidditch after arriving in Stillwater.

During Welcome Week of his first semester at OSU, he and a posse of friends were eating dinner at IHOP after one of the introductory week’s several events.

Applebee’s table was occupied with former high school athletes all too eager to discuss their sporting exploits. Fortunately for Applebee, a handful of members of Oklahoma State quidditch overheard the conversation.

At the time, OSU quidditch was only a tiny blip on the club sport radar and was fishing for new members, especially athletes.

The quidditch players came over and offered Applebee and his friends a chance to play a new and interesting sport. For Applebee, graduating high school left an absence of competition, and perhaps quidditch could fill the void.

“My roommate at the time was really into the Harry Potter series and had read all of the books like four times each,” Applebee said. “So, he was really excited about it for that aspect, but I knew it was a full contact sport, and I needed something to do.

“We showed up to the

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cove r s t o ry of a keeper, two beaters and three chasers, whose first practice, and it was a objective is to throw a volblast.” leyball, or quaffle, through Quidditch is pulled directly from the Harry Pot- three hoops standing on the opposing team’s end ter universe. Through the of the field. The beaters series’ immense popularity and keeper’s objective is to in books and films, quiddefend their hoops. ditch has spread quickly, The last player on the particularly on college field is the seeker, whose campuses. It even lured only aim is to capture the someone like Applebee, snitch. who wasn’t familiar with The snitch is a neutral the book series beforeplayer who runs around hand. the field avoiding capture.

To the uninitiated Once the snitch is seized, viewer, quidditch might the game ends, and the seem difficult to follow. capturing team is awarded Two teams of seven play10 points. ers, each of which are Applebee adjusted in constant movement, quickly to the rules of occupy the field. The rules quidditch, and in three themselves, though, are years, he has made tremenfairly simple. dous strides. Each year, Each team is composed he’s steadily progressed STORY CONTINUEd from page 2

within the club on the field and off.

“Once I Sept. 3: Oklahoma Kickoff at Oklahoma Baptist commit to University in Shawnee something, I’ll always be dedicated,” Sept. 24: Breakfast Taco Tournament at Sam Applebee Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas said. “Quidditch has Oct. 15: Kansas Cup at the University of Kansas in been able to Lawrence, Kansas maintain my interest for a long time Nov. 5: Cowboy Cup at Colvin Intramural Fields at now.”

Oklahoma State University With the season around the November: Diamond Cup at Texas State University corner, in San Marcos, Texas Applebee and the rest of this season could be the qualified for four straight the club are club’s chance to go further nationals, it hasn’t been gearing up for what they able to traverse through expect to be a solid season. than it ever has.

Applebee said he thinks Although the team has the tournament. In his final

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year, Applebee is hoping for more.

“Each year, we have progressively done better,” Applebee said.

“This year, I think with the tournaments we’ll go to and with some new recruits, I expect to do better.

“I’ve seen teams with less talent than us make it far at nationals.”

Riley Medill is a multimedia journalism senior from Bixby. He can be reached at rmedill@ okstate.edu.

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‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ gives 2016 its first masterpiece added a second classic to its name.

Inspired by ancient As today’s leading stopJapanese culture, “Kubo and motion animation company, the Two Strings” follows Laika has been on my radar its titular character’s life in since 2009. With its haunta humble shoreside village. ing imagery and memorable By day, the young boy tells characters, the studio’s debut epic stories to the villagers by film, “Coraline,” is definitely manipulating origami with in the running for my all-time his three-stringed musical favorite animated movie. instrument.

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Director Travis Knight’s reverence for Japanese iconography shines throughout this movie. Combined with the most effective marriage of stop-motion animation and CGI, this is easily one of the most visually striking movies in recent memory.

There’s an unbridled sense focus features of adventure to this movie, as the plot progression is similar to retrieve his late father’s to a video game or an epic samurai armor — the only poem. Each individual trial weapon capable of destroying of Kubo’s quest culminates the monsters who hunt him. in a grand-scale boss fight, Almost right from the out- effectively making this a de set, our hero-in-the-making facto “Legend of Zelda” film. accompanies a guardian However, the movie monkey (Charlize Theron) breaks up each chapter with

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With such a relatively small cast, “Kubo” offers plenty of time to connect with the hero and his two companions.

Theron’s Monkey is the master of tough love, which lends itself to more than a handful of hilarious moments.

However, McConaughey’s turn as Beetle makes for the most endearing animated film character I’ve seen in years.

Without spoiling anything, his McConaughey-isms gel perfectly with his clueless demeanor.

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When things get thematically heavy in the film’s latter half, “Kubo” goes from great to exceptional. Its captivating mythology and unique visual presentation are extra layers on an already fantastic story.

Seriously, Laika’s latest is not only its best outing since “Coraline,” but also it’s the best movie of 2016 thus far.

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