By Jacob Brown, Staff Writer
With the semester winding down, only three intramural events remain, giving students a last opportunity to compete, connect and have fun.
First up will be 3-on-3 basketball, which will start on Tuesday and continue April 21 and 24. Games will start at 7 p.m. each week in Fugate Gymnasium.
Next up: Bubble soccer intramurals will happen on April 30 at the practice soccer field across from Carrocci. Start time is 6:30 p.m. Though Newman students played Bubble Soccer against Friends University the past two years, the students who organized those matchups have since graduated.
Pop darts will wrap up the intramural season on May 4. Students who want to play will throw suction darts at a target on a table. Whoever gets as close to the target gets the most points. The games will start at 6:30 p.m. inside Dugan Conference Center.
Students can sign up for all of the intramurals in the Student Life office on the ground floor of the Student Center in Dugan Library. There are clipboards with sign ups posted up on the wall for each event.
Josh Prilliman, director of student activities, wants all students to sign up in person.
Too many people who have signed up online in the past have later backed out of games, he said. In-person signups require students to go out of their way and put their names on a piece of paper. He added that it also allows students to make conversation with whoever is in the office.
“Sometimes, convenience is the enemy of community,” he said.
Prilliman said that it's hard to keep intramurals constantly going.
Courts aren’t always available. Students can’t get their schedules to work. And student athletes aren’t usually allowed to play if they’re in season. He also can't pay people to work the events, he said. He said he wants to encourage students to approach him if they have a specific intramural in mind that would help him bypass such obstacles.
“I will never say no to an idea,” he said. “I will work hard to try and make it work, but it doesn’t always happen.”
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