It’s a new semester, which means it’s time to play intramural sports. Campus Recreation, formally known as the Intramural Department, is offering basketball, indoor co-ed soccer, softball, co-ed softball and ultimate Frisbee this spring for all students.

Currently, Campus Recreation is in the third week of their basketball season and is about to kick-off indoor co-ed soccer. They also recently hosted a volleyball tournament.

Campus Recreation constantly evolves each semester. In the past, intramural teams had to sign up on paper, creating a hassle for students who struggled to get an entire team’s worth of 917 numbers, wasting time and money. Now, the department has incorporated an online system called imleagues.com, a free website that students can use to sign up their teams and create a player account.

Starting with softball students, intramural players will be able to pay for their teams using the website. The system also helps to enforce sign-up deadlines, which have to be followed so that teams cannot unfairly add new players mid-season.

“I want everyone to be able to play, but we have to have deadlines so make sure you sign up by the registration deadlines,” said Edward Croy, assistant director of Intramural Sports. “Imleagues.com has many services to help get students signed up. Students can e-mail imleagues at any time for help.”

The University of West Georgia currently has many great intramural teams. Hitman, a flag football team from UWG, are the consecutive state champions. They have also competed as an elite team at the national level.

The department continues to make changes on many levels, including the Male Athlete of the Year Award, now called the Jay Chapman Award. The name was changed as a memorial to Chapman, who won the award three times while he was a student at UWG and who is arguably one of the best all-around intramural athletes UWG has ever had. He also worked for Campus Recreation as a referee. Chapman, who was a beloved brother of the fraternity Pi Kappa Phi, died in a car accident in the summer of 2009. The Campus Recreation staff knew what he meant to the department and decided that it was only fitting to name the award after him.

The registration deadlines and playoffs dates for spring intramural sports are:

For more information about intramural sports, upcoming deadlines, or for questions about imleagues.com, contact the Campus Recreation department at 678-839-6617.

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Anonymous

Sun Mar 21 2010 12:20

Sounds like he has a pretty good grip to me. I'd say that sounds exactly like Intramurals.

Anonymous

Fri Feb 12 2010 15:16

David needs to get a grip.

David

Wed Jan 27 2010 09:08

Yes! I can't wait! I can't wait for refs to be smoking black and milds on the fields...I can't wait for a ref to have his back turned during play so he can eat his cheeseburger..I can't wait for refs to blatently ignore calls b/c they have friends on the team..I can't wait for Ed to drive around in the back of the woods to go smoke his "cigs" and not do anything about it...Where does all our money go to..

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