Intramurals adjust due to greater interest
By Maggie Thach
The Collegian
Last semester, the intramurals
department signed up 73 teams for the basketball season. They had to turn
away at least six teams, due to shortage of court time and officials.
“Last year, we ran out of room for men’s teams and the way
the women’s league was growing,” said Edson Barrantes, an
intramurals official. “The girls didn’t want to do co-ed,
just women’s league.”
So, along with flag football, volleyball, soccer, ping pong and racquetball,
co-ed basketball has been added to the fall line-up. Sign-ups for women’s
flag football are also new.
Intramurals official E.J. Edmerson thinks the change will hike up participation
numbers.
“Volleyball turns out a lot of women,” Edmerson said. “Hopefully,
we can get that volleyball crowd onto the basketball court.”
Bart Ballard, who has been heading the progarm for five years, is starting
an interest list for tennis and a chess club.
“We’re looking to make the program reach out to more people,”
Ballard said. “The bottom line is the program is for Fresno State
students.”
The intramurals department is expecting participation numbers to increase
with the completion of the student recreation center in December.
“I think it’s going nowhere but up,” Edmerson said.
“It’s a statement to how good of a job Bart has done with
the facilities and money available. I think we’re just building
so much of an interest.”
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