CSULB students Kira Gillin and Jenny Desmond choose to stay active by signing up for teams at the Intramural Sports office. Yulian Danusastro/Online Forty-Niner

 

Cal State Long Beach's intramural sports keeps students active

By Katrina Sanft and Amanda Parsons
Online Forty-Niner
Contributing Writers

We have all heard the call of the blue t-shirt that yells things out in some strange foreign language. But it's all Greek to us. What's that Zeus? Oh yes, it must be fraternity and sorority season again, a time for 49ers (and Dirtbags) to question the potential of their very own social lives. However, some have successfully dodged (skills acquired in sports play) these temptations.

On campus involvement, physical fitness and new friendships await at the doors of the Intramural Sports office. Tame that beer belly and close that pocket book. For the small fee of $10 per free agent, you can participate in a number of co-ed or same gender sports teams. But if you are more into the group thing, there is a team option where cost and number of players varies from sport to sport.

If ou have a group of 15 you can either play co-ed flag football, open softball, co-ed softball, co-ed soccer or single sex soccer. With 10 players you can play six feet and under basketball or open basketball. Or try teams of eight with the option of women's basketball or co-ed volleyball. For smaller groups there is a three-on-three basketball league. The rosters final due date is on Sept. 24, but it is highly recommended that you register ahead of time to ensure a spot on a team.

If you do not play well with others try signing up for a more solitary sport like golf, tennis, badminton, dodge ball or Ultimate Frisbee.

If transportation is a problem, have no fear. The meetings and games are all conveniently located on the Cal State Long Beach campus. Picture the beauty of an open parking lot around game time and the freedom that comes with it.

Director of Intra-Mural Sports, Glen McDonald, agrees that participation in Intra- Mural sports is a great way to get involved in campus activities in addition to helping facilitate the opportunity to meet new people.

"College students out of high school tend to abandon their sporting pastimes that they had throughout their adolescent years," McDonald said. "Let intramural sports at CSULB help to rekindle that physical fitness, as well as friendships that we all treasured in our youth."

Transfer student Frances Xavier Smith, II, said, "I played soccer throughout high school and I felt so pumped to see the flyer for co-ed soccer hanging in the Student Union. Now I get to meet hot babes and bust a sweat all at the same time. I signed up as a free agent immediately and have started training at my local park."

If you are interested in signing up or would like more information, contact the Intramural Sports Office located in PE-1, room 20 A. Or call 562-985-4668 Monday through Friday 10a.m.– 4p.m.