Intramural sports keep students active through winter months

By Marshall Lee
Norwich Guidon Staff Writer

As students return from their Christmas vacation they look forward to playing intramural sports at Norwich. These team sports offer students some competitive fun to add excitement to the often monotonous winter months.

"I played intramural hockey last year, and the team I was on had great team chemistry, and we pretty much dominated the league. This year I am hoping for a season like last, a season to remember," said senior Jeff Lysaght, communications major from Wayne, NJ.

"Playing two intramural sports can be demanding, but it's something I enjoy doing. When I am finished with football for the year, I have to keep busy, somehow, and that's with hockey and basketball," said senior CJ major from Lisbon Falls, ME.

Starting the week of January 20th, intramural sports such as basketball, hockey, volleyball and now billiards and indoor soccer will keep Norwich students busy when they are not studying according to the NU Student Activities Director.

"Intramural sports have been pretty successful in the past. We don't get as much participation from the corps side of the students due to PT. That takes up a majority of their time, and it's hard for them to do both, but we look forward to seeing everybody, corps and civilians, get involved this year," said Student Director of Intramural Sports Senior Sean Maher, a CJ major from Rindge, N.H.

"Hockey is one of my favorite sports since I was a kid, and even though I chose to take the football route during high school and college, I felt I needed an outlet to play some of the other sports that I loved, and intramural hockey was my outlet here at Norwich," said Tommy Kennedy, a 20 year-old junior Communications major from Weymouth, Mass.

"This will be the first year I will be playing intramural basketball, and right now I am very excited about playing, because intramurals are all about fun without all the pressures that go along with playing sports on a school team," said junior Gio Graciano, a Communications major from Fitchburg, Mass.

For questions or concerns about intramural sports at Norwich, contact Sean Maher at x0402 or Chan Stowell at x2121.

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