Intramural volleyball set to serve this weekend
Venture into more co-ed intramural sports begins with volleyball
Andy Buss
Issue date: 4/16/09 Section: Sports
This Sunday, the Sigma Chi and Alpha Tau Omega fraternities will host the first annual intramural volleyball tournament on their outdoor sand courts. The games will go from roughly 1 to 6 p.m. Fifteen teams have signed up to play.
Resident Life Advisor and Director of Campus Recreation Ashley LaCarter said the student community has requested IM volleyball and the tournament intends to meet that desire.
"There's been a lot of push to get volleyball IM," she said. "I know a lot of people have come to my office asking for it. It's easy enough to put together, so we thought we'd give it a try."
Senior Tom Korte is looking forward to soaking in spring.
"I love volleyball," he said. "The tournament's cool. And I think it will be fun just to be outside and use the sand pits a little bit."
LaCarter said the tourney also serves as a good trial run for the sport in the context of IM sports.
"It's a good way to test out the interest level to see if maybe we'd like to have a season in the future," she said.
The tournament is single-elimination. There will be seven games and one bye in the first round. Rally scoring will be used. Teams will play a two-game series with the team collecting the most points or sweeping the series moving on. The 15 teams must have a minimum of six players and at least three girls per team. There must be at least two girls on the court at all times for each team, and men are not allowed to have three consecutive hits.
Senior Kurt Weil, the student intramural coordinator, said volleyball is a solid candidate to mix in some co-ed IM sports on campus.
"We're really trying to introduce co-ed sports since we don't really have any of those in IM sports," he said. "We thought this would be a good start."
Still, not everyone is convinced the new sport will work out beyond the tournament.
"I don't know about it as an IM sport," Korte said. "I think there's already enough IM sports where I don't think the popularity of volleyball will translate - not enough interest."
Resident Life Advisor and Director of Campus Recreation Ashley LaCarter said the student community has requested IM volleyball and the tournament intends to meet that desire.
"There's been a lot of push to get volleyball IM," she said. "I know a lot of people have come to my office asking for it. It's easy enough to put together, so we thought we'd give it a try."
Senior Tom Korte is looking forward to soaking in spring.
"I love volleyball," he said. "The tournament's cool. And I think it will be fun just to be outside and use the sand pits a little bit."
LaCarter said the tourney also serves as a good trial run for the sport in the context of IM sports.
"It's a good way to test out the interest level to see if maybe we'd like to have a season in the future," she said.
The tournament is single-elimination. There will be seven games and one bye in the first round. Rally scoring will be used. Teams will play a two-game series with the team collecting the most points or sweeping the series moving on. The 15 teams must have a minimum of six players and at least three girls per team. There must be at least two girls on the court at all times for each team, and men are not allowed to have three consecutive hits.
Senior Kurt Weil, the student intramural coordinator, said volleyball is a solid candidate to mix in some co-ed IM sports on campus.
"We're really trying to introduce co-ed sports since we don't really have any of those in IM sports," he said. "We thought this would be a good start."
Still, not everyone is convinced the new sport will work out beyond the tournament.
"I don't know about it as an IM sport," Korte said. "I think there's already enough IM sports where I don't think the popularity of volleyball will translate - not enough interest."
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