My favorite Compiled by Carla Carlton intraMUral sPort The national champion basketball team, Division I lacrosse program and new swim teams might get more attention, but Bellarmine’s Intramural Sports Program actually draws more participation – nearly 600 students in the fall semester playing on 169 teams, a record, in sports ranging from flag football to Ping Pong to Wiffleball. And then there is mud volleyball, by far the most popular intramural activity at Bellarmine. More than 330 people on 45 teams got their hands dirty – and their faces, and their feet, and their hair – at the Sept. 7 tournament. Below are some of the other responses we received when we asked our readers about their favorite intramural experiences. TheDormsoftball league One year my girlfriends and I My favorite intramural (Kennedy/Newman), 1962 playedintramural football. While sport was volleyball. thru 1966. Joe Composeo most teams were all male, we Somehow, I managed was the commissioner, and hoped to bring some spirit and fun to get a hairline we had great rivalries to to the intense competition. I believe fracture in my ring include the Ball and Chain we were the most relaxed team in finger, but it didn’t (the guys from Chicago) and the league and provided everyone faze me. It was so fun our team. We were made with laughter/entertainment. – that when I married up of guys from St. Louis, Megan E. Larkin ’07, Charlotte, N.C. and moved to Ohio Florida, Indiana and Kentucky. several years later, I There were 12 of us and played several years our name was the Apostles I miss the oldsand volleyball in the company Twelve. It was great fun. I courts! I think there is a new dorm volleyball program played intramural basketball sitting on top of them now (so we at Ohio Casualty all four years as well. Great can’t use them), but nevertheless, Insurance. –Karol memories of the hardwood of that sure was great fun! –John (Hagan) Wolf ’74, Knights Hall. –Dick Baine ’66, Blakeney ’95, Cincinnati, Ohio Oxford, Ohio Norristown, Pa. winter 2013 7
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