By: Samantha Borawski
Sports Editor
Seventy-five percent of Saint Mary’s University students participate in
some type of intramural during the academic year as a fun and competitive way
to get involved on campus.
Intramurals offer a variety of sports each session. Session one offers a
selection of outdoor sports such as sand volleyball and flag football. Sessions
two and three offer indoor sports like soccer, volleyball, bowling, wiffleball
and hockey. Finally, session four offers softball and other outdoor activities.
There is a lot of diversity in participants involved in one or more of
the sessions, including student-athletes. Some of SMU’s varsity teams like to
make their own individual team for certain intramural sports.
“The best part about playing intramurals is the relaxed setting and
being able to be with my team in a different environment,” said sophomore
Jessie Burns, who is a member of SMU’s cross country team. “We put together a
team because we like to hang out and find fun things to do outside of practice.”
Intramurals are unique
because of the difference in teams. There are teams that have played together
since they were freshmen and dominate one particular sport. There are also teams that serve solely
as a social opportunity as they include a mix of students who have never met
one another.
“Intramurals are about just having fun and playing with friends,” said
sophomore Luke Buehler.
For each sport in each session, there are playoffs and a championship
game that can be very competitive. Only the top teams get to compete, and the
winner receives a student-designed intramural champions t-shirt.
“We strove to make it to the championship game all season,” said
sophomore Sadie Lange, who is a member of current sand volleyball championship
team “French Toast Mafia.” “It was exciting to win the championship game, but
it was also cool to get a free t-shirt.”
Aside from a creative student-designed shirt, each team entered in a
session needs to pick its own name. Teams normally have creative and catchy
names that are a play on words. Such names during this current intramurals
session include: “The Boston Three Party” for 3-on-3 basketball, “Dodge Fathers”
for co-ed dodgeball and “Take a Wiff of This” and “Wiffle While You Work” for
co-ed wiffleball.
Intramurals are offered for anybody who wants to get involved,
regardless of their physical activity level.
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