Intramural success brings more student interest
By Dan Vance
Intramural program has ended its most successful season yet. 1,474 players made up the 2007-2008 intramural season in 16 different activities.
That number is up 241 from the previous year’s total, something that pleases Ron Clark, who now has six years under his belt running the program.
The program pulled interest from students in several different ways this past year, including fliers and heavy promoting during the summer’s SOAR sessions. Clark also says that the website (ipfw.edu/intramurals) will be worked on over this summer to include more information and interactive ability for interested students.
At SOAR, there is a preregistration allowing students to check anything they are interested in, allowing their names to be in the intramural database to receive informational e-mails.
The sport attracting the most attention was basketball. While only 41 women participated, the men’s division was full with 30 teams and 473 participants.
“It’s always basketball,” Clark said about the most popular activity. “Usually it hovers around 24 teams, it was completely packed. There was no room to expand unless we can get more gym time.”
This year, a Body Blast Fitness program was added for Tuesdays and Thursdays. The class was offered free for the first 22 students who showed up either day.
“Students have been pretty positive. They get something consistent, are always getting updates on what is going on,” Clark said. “We just try to work with the kids on what is going on and what they are into.”
In total, the program offers two basketball leagues, dodgeball, two Body Blast classes, volleyball, flag football, racquetball, ping pong, golf, walleyball, sand volleyball, soccer, team tennis, ultimate frisbee and participation in the 5K Mastodon Stomp event.
The possible changes for next year include moving some events from multi-weeks to one or two days and adding a 3-on-3 basketball tournament to utilize the courts at the Waterfi eld Campus Housing site.
Clark also says including Ivy tech students may be possible.
“I think that they (Ivy Tech) underestimate how many students will take advantage of it,” Clark noted. “I think that building that relationship with them and adding more IPFW students will really increase the demand.”
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