In­tra­mu­rals Will Be­gin with Out­door Vol­ley­ball

MISHAWAKA--On Mon­day, Au­gust 29, Bethel In­tra­mu­rals will be­gin for the se­mes­ter. Out­door vol­ley­ball will be the first sport of the year. The event will start at 7 p.m. at the sand vol­ley­ball pits and will end around 10 p.m.  

Nick Geever, the res­i­den­tial di­rec­tor of Oak­wood, has been re­spon­si­ble for or­ga­niz­ing in­tra­mu­rals since last year. 

Both un­der­class­men and up­per­class­men are al­lowed to par­tic­i­pate; how­ever, some var­sity ath­letes may be ex­cluded.  

“The real lim­i­ta­tions come in term if you are a var­sity ath­lete,” Geever said. “For ex­am­ple, we have had var­sity soc­cer play­ers play fut­sal, but this time we are not al­low­ing var­sity vol­ley­ball play­ers to play in vol­ley­ball.” 

Geever said they still en­cour­age var­sity play­ers to par­tic­i­pate, just not in the sport they com­pete in. “In­tra­mu­rals is kind of this op­por­tu­nity where we ob­vi­ously have a lot of col­le­giate ath­letes, and if you come here and play a var­sity sport that’s awe­some, but there is this huge group­ing of peo­ple that don’t, or maybe they play on their spe­cific sport but they like play­ing other sports,” Geever said. “In­tra­mu­rals is re­ally just a uni­ver­sity or­ga­nized op­por­tu­nity for stu­dents to make teams and com­pete against each other in var­i­ous sport­ing events.” 

The in­tra­mural sports this fall se­mes­ter will in­clude out­door vol­ley­ball, in­door bas­ket­ball, and end with in­door vol­ley­ball. Each will take place for around three to four weeks. Our spring se­mes­ter will in­clude pick­le­ball and fut­sal. Small week­end events may take place as well through­out the se­mes­ter.  

Cur­rently, there are 10 teams signed up for out­door vol­ley­ball and more are al­ways wel­come. To sign up or for any ques­tions, con­tact Nick Geever di­rectly through his email, nicholas.geever@bethelu­ni­ver­sity.edu or at Bethel Uni­ver­sity In­tra­mu­rals on In­sta­gram and Face­book.