Club sports cleared to practice
With club sports at the University of Richmond now able to practice within certain limitations, a ray of hope for athletes has emerged.
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With club sports at the University of Richmond now able to practice within certain limitations, a ray of hope for athletes has emerged.
On a cold, rainy Friday evening, kids kicked soccer balls to each other in the parking lot of Chimborazo Elementary School in Richmond’s East End. “Old Town Road” played loudly, and the children sang along without letting it slow down their games.
An alumna from the University of Richmond, Julia Baer, who graduated in 2015, is a member of the U.S. Quidditch national team and will be participating in the 2020 Quidditch World Cup.
For many students at the University of Richmond, sports clubs are an integral part of their college years.
The University of Richmond club baseball team played rival VCU on April 5 at Pitt Field in a doubleheader series. The Spiders won both games handily, finishing 17-2 and 11-5, respectively.
The men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, the Richmond Spidermonkeys, defeated the country’s top-ranked Air Force Afterburn on its way to a 7-0 record in the FCS D-III Tune Up 2019 Tournament last weekend in Bermuda Run, North Carolina.
Although the University of Richmond might not currently have its own varsity esports program, campus clubs and community gaming centers suggest that competitive gaming is present and growing in Richmond, following a national trend.
When members of the crew club held elections in December for the club’s executive officer positions, a pair of first-year students were the only ones who ran for the top two roles.
The University of Richmond club swimming team hosted its first meet on campus against Virginia Commonwealth University in the Capital Cup on Nov. 17.
Volunteers from the Curling Club of Virginia hosted a media day and taught members of various media outlets the basics of curling on Friday, February 16.
The University of Richmond club hockey team finished its semester with two wins against Old Dominion University this weekend, beating ODU 15-1 Friday night at home, and 7-3 on Saturday night in an away game.
The word "Quidditch" typically invokes images of beaters, chasers and seekers from the "Harry Potter" series. Few think of concussions, broken bones, torn ligaments and stitches in the same breath as chasing the golden snitch, but Quidditch can in fact be a fairly dangerous sport.
On campus, there are many club sports that are well-respected – their successes are celebrated, and their losses are mourned. However, the quidditch team is relatively unknown, and the attention paid to it can be negative.
The University of Richmond Quidditch team will compete in the seventh annual International Quidditch Association World Cup this weekend in Myrtle Beach, S.C. "We are expected to advance further than we have in the last two years," Casey Schmidt, Quidditch team captain, said.
Two members of the University of Richmond Equestrian Team will compete in the zone finals competition Sunday, April 6.
Despite being the smallest team in attendance at the national championships at Miami University of Ohio, the University of Richmond synchronized swimming team achieved a 10th place finish.
Senior Ben Weisburger set an all-time scoring record of points made in a career on the men's club ice hockey team on Jan. 31.
In its paramount competitions of the fall semester, the Head of the Lafayette and Head of the South regattas, the University of Richmond club crew team excelled at unprecedented levels.
After the dismantling of the men's varsity soccer program last year, former players are filling up new free time with other campus activities.
With three short blasts of a whistle, the Richmond Spiders' quidditch World Cup hopes came to an end. Despite a 2-2 record in one of the toughest pools, the Spiders just missed qualifying for bracket play by only a point differential tie breaker. As the bruises started to form and the reality of the situation sunk in, I couldn't help but wonder how I got to this field in Florida playing a sport on a broomstick and why I constantly subjected myself to everything quidditch demands.