Eleven to be offered this year Touch football and coed By ERIC THOMAS Capital Times Staff Reporter It is the crack of an aluminum bat. The snatching of a yellow or red flag. The slamming of a ball 60 miles per hour off a wall. It is intramural sports and it is underway at Penn State Harrisburg. With the arrival of the fall semester, students looking to participate in team sports have a chance to showcase their ability against one another in six different sports. Five more are tentatively set for the spring. "It's probably big because as far as team competition, it is the only team competition offered on campus," said Bud Smitley, Recreations/Athletics coordinator. "It is an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to "I think we will intercollegia, again with - Bud Athletil participate in team sports at a much lower level." While some cries for intercollegiate athletics will still be heard, Smitley wants everyone to understand the intramural advantage. "It saves money. I think we will talk about intercolle giate athletics again with the influx of freshman. But this is very competitive. This is more for fun," Smitley said. Starting Sept. 15, students, faculty and staff will begin participating in coed softball. Touch football and rac quetball will get underway in October, followed by coed table tennis, bowling and billiards in November. Five more sports are tentatively slated for the spring semes ter; they include coed basketball, volleyball, softball, table tennis and a 5K race. While these sports are strictly for fun Smitley also points out the rules each participant must follow. "We are strict on the rules. Rules keep people from getting hurt and we want to keep the participants injury free." "The past three years or so we've had few injuries, we don't want any animosity from the players and we want to keep the injuries down because they can get out of hand," Smitley said. He also said that the reason for the success of intra mural sports on campus is due to the scheduling of stu dents. Not everyone on campus has time for a total team effort. lntramurals will allow some flexibility to those who have other matters to attend to away from campus. While the re-addition of intercollegiate sports might not be far off, given the success rate of intramurals, they are here to stay and about to take flight. Some sports will take place inside the Capital Union Building (C.U.B) and the softball and football games will he held on the "lighted field" behind the C.U.B. located just off of College Avenue. Anyone wishing to obtain information should do so in room 122 of the C.U.B. intramural sports softball among those set to start this fall
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