Softball Season Continues On

The weather has provided for a great backdrop the last two weeks, as softball is once again digging in at Springbrook park. There has also been quite the matchups, with Tim Conner's Big Sticks defeating the Coaches team last evening in a frenzied, back and forth hitting game. Several teams finally got on the board with runs this week as well, as the stiffness of winter has finally been shed. The biggest surprises have been on the ladies side of the schedule with five teams competing this year, and proving that seniority doesn't always prove to be what wins games. Two teams full of soccer ladies have shown they can compete and come from behind to win games. Twice this week, that has been the case. Regular season games wrap up next week and playoff races tighten to see who makes the very selective field this year.

March Madness Wrap-Up

The men's championship game between Chris Carney's team and Tim Conner's team proved to be a close one. The rematch from a quarterfinal matchup took until the last few minutes to decide. Conner's team was overmatched though with the storied experience of Carney's team which included Asst. Basketball coach Kendal Wallace, former varsity players Tyler Fosnes and Carney, as well as ex-JV star Donald Rucker.


The Women's game was decided between teams who had not played in over two weeks due to forfeitures by their opponents. The Soccer Girls proved that their athleticism on the pitch was just as effective on the hard court. Jess Petersen led the team to their second consecutive championship in Intramural basketball.

March Madness tips off

Below are some pictures from the first night of Intramural basketball.

Dodgeball concludes with two champions

February has drawn to a close, thus finding Intramurals bidding adieu to Dodgeball. Mandi Smith's Dodgeballerz took home the championship in the women's division with a decisive victory over Lauren Miller's Ball Busters. Tim Conner's team, the Step-Dad's, took home the championship on top of their undefeated season in Dodgeball. When asked why he chose that name, Conner informed us that "It's because we beat you and you hate us."

March Madness basketball has started and will continue throughout the month, with eight men's teams and four women's teams competing this year.

Intramurals raises money for Haiti

With Dodgeball registration this year, teams were asked to pitch in five dollars towards the campus-wide campaign to raise $10K for Haiti relief. Any additional dollar over that amount the team member donating money could earn an additional 100 points for the I-Cup. This incentive allowed several students who were high ranking in the standings to catch up a little on Chaz Elrod's secure hold on the number one spot. All total the initiative raised over $110 to go towards campus efforts. A huge thanks to Donald Rucker's team for bringing in the most money.

Games began on Tuesday night in Cooper and will run throughout the month of February, with the playoffs concluding the season.

Kickball Champs

Keita Yamada's team beat the all-freshmen team of Monstars to win the Kickball tournament championship on January 28.

Intramurals in on relief work

Kickball is still going on in Cooper, but in Bartlett the Intramurals staff is hard at work planning the spring semester's lineup of events. Dodgeball will be the first event to kick off the next semester. However, instead of canned food collection for this event, Intramurals has decided to do a monetary buy-in for the event. The money collected will not only get your team registered, but for every dollar your team donates we'll exponentially increase your points throughout the event. All of the money raised will go towards Haitian relief efforts through Partners in Health. The student body has set a goal of $10,000 to raise between now and May. So help support this great effort and be a part of something bigger than just Intramurals!