The Retirees are now two time intramural flag football champions earning the coveted champion t-shirts with a 20-28 win over the Bear’s Lax team.
A school’s culture is different from campus to campus. Some schools value intramural sports and some don’t. Ursinus is a school that clearly values its intramural sports. According to the Ursinus Website there are seven different intramural sports that students can get involved in.
For a small school to offer so many intramural sports there must be a high level of interest among the students and the interest level was shown through the attendance at the game. The attendance for the championship game was comparable to that of some varsity sports on campus.
Such strong support coming from the student body makes the games all the more fun to play. Junior Logan Duffy, the captain of Bear’s Lax, commented on the attendance saying, “The fans came out in support of both teams and it set a great atmosphere for the game. We were excited to be a part of it.”
As exciting as the championship game was, the excitement is not over. On November 21 the Retirees will be competing against other local intramural champions at Cabrini College.
This is the first time that Ursinus will be sending an intramural team to another school to compete. Senior Tim Keiper is the Staff assistant of intramural sports. As staff assistant it is his job to schedule game times as well as general organization.
When Todd Bartley, the Director of Intramural sports at Ursinus, sent an email to Tim about the competition at Cabrini, he knew it would be an interesting experience for the flag football champions. “I think it is a great idea. To have that competition against other students from our own school is great, but to compete against other schools is a unique idea and I think it will be a lot of fun for the students involved.”
Captain of the Retirees, Senior Steve Cacciavillano also thought that going to Cabrini would be a great idea. “Since freshman year a lot of us stopped playing varsity sports. Because of this we didn’t get a chance to play other people from other schools. A lot of us are seniors and this is our last chance to play on such a competitive level.”
Fellow Retiree, Senior Anthony Ambrogi also voiced his excitement to play intramural football for the last time as an Ursinus college student. “I’m excited to compete against other teams from other schools and to extend my last intramural football season. Cabrini will be my last time playing and I am excited to see how our team stacks up against the other schools. Obviously we plan on going out with a win.”
The tournament on November 21 should be a good one. The best intramural teams from several different schools will match up and see whose school is the best. It would be great for the Retirees if students would make the trip to Cabrini to support them as they try to prove Ursinus has the best intramural flag football team in the greater Philadelphia area.
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