Forming o team while building friendships While many studentS eagerly looked forward to participating in club sports, it was not often that they shared their opinions on other clubs or the sports 1n which they competed. This year, we decided to take a survey to find out some of those opinions, and juniors Caroline Snell, Mark Moore, Hannah Stewart and senior Nathan Wilhelm offered some insight into what students really thought about club sports. What social club are you in? Snell: Zeta Rho Moore: Chi Sigma Alpha Stewart: Pi Theta Phi Wilhelm: Kyodai Which men's and women's clubs do you think are the best at club sports overall? Snell: Titans for the men and Zeta Rho for the women. Moore: I would have to choose between TNT and Knights, and DGR and Zeta Rho. Stewart: Delta Gamma Rho always comes to play. Wilhelm: TNT always seems to be one of the better clubs at every sport. Sub Tis usually the best at football and basketball. What club or sport do you think is the most competitive? Snell: DGR. Hands down. Moore: Sub T-16. Stewart: Kojies get pretty fe1sty sometimes. Wilhelm: Basketball is the one people seem to care about the most. It's the one club sport that's closest to playing the real thing competitively. Next would be flag football, but flag football isn't as intense as playing in pads. Which club is the most entertaining to watch and why? Snell: DGR is fun to watch because they're usually good. And it's always fun to watch your friends play. Moore: Knights do really random funny things. At one of the1r basketball games, they were all wearing throwback NBA jerseys, short shorts, long socks and headbands. Stewart: Gamma Sigma Phi is fun to watch because so many people from the club come out to watch . Club sports are not as much about the actual sports as the community watching the sports together, joking around, taunting the other team good-naturedly and cheenng together. Wilhelm: I think any club's A team playing basketball is entertaining. Most of the players have had experience before. I was also surprised _at how entertaining some of the A team volleyball games were. ,_ How are men's and women's club sports different, in your opinion? Snell: The guys are so competitive. Girls can ggt.QJetty competitive sometimes, but overall I think girls just like having fun with our friends."Ihe guys' version of fun is winning. The girls' version is goofing off. Moore: The amount of focus guys put into sports is greater.The girls seem to focus on Spring Sing. Stewart: Men's sports are taken more seriously. More people come to guys' games. That could just be because girls are trying to impress that guy who sits beside them in biology class by coming to watch him play. Wilhelm: Men's clubs care more about winning and recruit club members for sports. Most of the teams are usually pretty even, but you can still usually predict who will win. Also, most men's club members try to be on A team, while often girls sign up for C team just to have fun . Sarah Eason athletics 2 59
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