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APRIL 13, 1978/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/PAGE 3 Intramurals College sports more fun than competition by ROB DAVES WCU News Bureau Most people think of college sports as Saturday afternoon football games, basketball rivalries, talented athletes on big scholarships, and the super-excitment ot post-season bowl games tournaments. That's the world of sports in which a few students compete and the rest sit in the stands and watch. But at WCU, college sports also mean year-round involvement in mon- familiar activities like football and basketball and some other, mon- exotic sports like trap shooting, fishing derbies, and even a game call floopball, This is the world of intramural sports, where the competition is just as keen as the varsity, but where the fun overrides the competition. "One of the main objectives of intramural sports is to provide sports opportunities for those who aren't skilled enough for varsity activities," WCU Intramural Director Mike Creason emphasized. Other qualities that intramural sports helps develop include leadership ability, loyalty, and group spirit, he said. And to do all of these things there are more than 30 sports that students can choose from. In the winter, basketball is the most popular intramural activity with nearly 100 teams and more than 800 students participating. In addition to basketball, winter intramural sports include swimming, water polo, wrestling, handball, weightlifting, badminton, paddleball, and racquetball. When the warmer days of spring roll around, there are a host of sports to choose from including tennis, a fishing derby, track and field events, and the most popular, coed softball. Last spring there were 56 softball teams with residence hall, fraternity, and independent leagues competing. Creason estimated that nearly 1,000 students play intramural softball each spring. Other spring sports include handball, horseshoes, paddleball, water polo and innertube water polo, swimming, bowling, racquetball, and even a contest where contestants compete to see who can throw a frisbee the farthest and the most accurately. When the leaves paint the mountains in the fall, tag football is the most popular intramural sport. But many women complained that tag football wasn't that interesting to them, so Creason came up with a game he especially designed for women—floopball. Floopball is played with a small, round utility ball on an 80-yard field and is similar to the kickball game that many women played in grammar and high school. Other fall intramural sports include handball, bowling, pocket billiards, badminton, volleyball, tennis, and table tennis. Two other popular intramural sports are the run-and-stay-fit and swim-and-stay-fit programs, which are individual sports and are done on a year-round basis rather than by semesters. When you see people wearing the green or red tee shirts with the name of the swimming or running program on it, you know they've really worked hard for it. To qualify for a run-and-stay-fit shirt, the runner has to pound out 300 miles during the academic year. To get a swim-and-stay-fit shirt, the swimmer has to log 75 miles—what physiologists have determined as the equivalent of 300 miles of running. That's a lot of swimming and running. More than 100 people started running last year but only 17 got the tee shirts. Thirty-nine started the swimming program but only six qualified for a shirt. One swimmer, Jeff Neff, chalked up 130 miles. This much activity takes a lot of coordination and not a small amount of administrative skills. That's whe,i WCU's department of health, physical education, ana recreation comes in. Upperclassmen in the department are required to be varsity athletes, team managers, or assistants in the intramural program. So a large number of intramural officials and assistants come from the pool of health, physical education, and recreation majors. We think this is a good policy," Creason explained. "Not only does it provide personnel for intramurals, but it gives good educational training for those who are nearing graduation." But intramural assistants are not solely physical education majors. Many assistants are volunteers from the student body. "We have one student who is a certified basketball official who comes in to help each year," Creason explained. Most intramural sports have been around for a while but when there is enough student interest for experimentation with a new sport, Creason and his team are receptive. Recently an experimental program, trap and field shooting, was such a success that it will probably be an annual event. The intramural program will soon be expanded to include night events on lighted fields. The lights were installed this summer. "Every year there are a few more teams, even though the student body population stays about the same. Dr. Jim Hamilton, head of the department of health, physical education and recreation, said. He explained that because of the increased participation, more playing areas were needed and consequently the intramural program is turning to flight games and thus the need for lighted fields. They will be used mostly for softball, tag football, and floopball. Even though there is not the pressure of intercollegiate competition, students take intramural competition seriously. Win-loss records, point standings superlatives, and other statistics are kept, enough so that the trophy case in front of Reid Gymnasium is filled with the glinting gold of trophies and the glossy photos of outstanding players. But since fun is placed before competition, intramural rules are structured so that everyone will have an equal chance to participate. For example, varsity- athletes are not allowed to participate in an intramural sport in which they lettered. So competition is not the focal point. "We mainly try to pursue fun." Creason said, "and that's what sports is all about.' Turn to Page 15> Please. Energy conservation at Sylva-Webster The League of Women Voters of Jackson County is sponsoring an Energy Conservation Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Sylva-Webster High School gymnasium. Steve Yurkovich will open the day at 10:30 a.m. with a talk on "Is the Energy Crisis Real?" Dr. Yurkovich received his Ph.D. at Brown University and is employed in the earth science department at WCU. At 11 a.m. the "Sandy Mush Proposed Nuclear Power Plant" near Asheville will be discussed by Kenneth J. Durant. He is representing the Carolinians for Safe Energy. A retired engineer, Durant received a M.Sc. from Ohio State University. At 11:30 a.m., Immo Redeker will talk about the "Olivine Brick Converter." Mr. Redeker is chief engineer of the North Carolina Minerals Research Laboratory. "Junk Wood Burning" is the topic that will be discussed by Dr. Raymond S. Ferell at 1 p.m. Dr. Ferell received his PhD. from Iowa State University. He works as the director of the Applied Research Division at the WCU Center for Improving Mountain Living. At 1:30 p.m., Dr. John Thomas Wilcox, an associate professor of earth Science at Western Carolina University, will discuss "Energy Storage." Dr. Wilcox
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