Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports
Annual Report 2007-08
Department of Intramural and
Recreational Sports
Dare to Play Fair!
2007-2008
Annual Report
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Table of Contents
I.
Executive Summary
II.
2008-09 Goals
III.
Intramural Staff
IV.
Academic Unit Support
V.
Staff Professional Development
VI.
Activities That Support Diversity
VII.
Departmental Issues and Challenges
VIII.
Informal Sports
IX.
Cardinal Corner
X.
Health Science Campus Facility
XI.
Intramural Sports
XII.
Marketing
XIII.
Assessment
XIV. Safety
XV.
Technology
XVI. Fitness
XVII. Sports Club Federation
XVIII. Special Events / Programs
XIX. Activity Evaluations
XX.
Facility Usage Statistics
XXI. List of Facility User Groups
XXII. Intramural Sports Statistics
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XXIII. All Campus Points Totals
XXIV. Intramural Champions
XXV. 2008-2009 Intramural Schedule
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2007-2008 Annual Report
Edited by:
Dale Ramsay
Prepared by:
David Rice
Contributors:
John Smith
David Hatfield
Debby Woodall
David Rice
Dale Young
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2007-2008
Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports
STAFF
Dale Ramsay
Janice Day
David Hatfield
John Smith
Debby Woodall
David Rice
Dale Young
Roger Metry
Garry Baker
Michael Richeson
Frank Nuxoll
Greg Johnson
Jerry Barry
Tim Lynch
Jessie Chandler
Bob Dwyer
Brittney Burress
Logan Davis
Brandon Fox
Dannie Commodore
Dusty Wolcott
Ebony Myles
Kennisha Hall
Brian Mahoney
Justin Franklin
Dillon Bennett
La’Kendra Hightower
Director
Unit Business Manager
Assistant Director- Facilities
Assistant Director- Marketing, Technology, Safety
Assistant Director- HSC Facility and Fitness
Coordinator of Sports Clubs and Facilities
Coordinator of Intramural Sports
Program Assistant
Facility Supervisor- SAC
Facility Supervisor- Humana
Facility Supervisor- SAC
Facility Supervisor- SAC
Facility Supervisor- Humana
Facility Supervisor- HSC
Facility Supervisor- HSC
Undergraduate Assistant- Intramurals/Game Room
Undergraduate Assistant- Intramurals
Undergraduate Assistant- Intramurals
Undergraduate Assistant- Intramurals
Undergraduate Assistant- Intramurals
Undergraduate Assistant- Intramurals
Undergraduate Assistant- Intramurals
Undergraduate Assistant- Intramurals
Undergraduate Assistant- Intramurals
Undergraduate Assistant- Facilities
Undergraduate Assistant- Facilities
Undergraduate Assistant- Facilities
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I.
Executive Summary
The Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports had another excellent year.
Approximately 16,000 members of the UofL community participated in at least one
area of our program. Participation in our program continues to be strong in
Intramurals. We had a record number of teams in both Flag Football and Basketball.
In Informal Sports, we again had approximately 500,000 users. Our Sports Club
program has a record 17 clubs. Our Group Fitness programs had a 65% increase in
participation. These statistics indicate that our program is vibrant and that our
popularity with the student body is at an all-time high.
The Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports also underwent a program
review this year. Ron Lee, Director of Campus Recreation at the University of
Kentucky, served as External Consultant. He spent two days on campus meeting with
various constituent groups, our staff, and the Student Affairs administration. His
review was extremely positive and served to validate the fact that our program does
an outstanding job of serving our students.
One of the primary strengths of our program is the volume and quality of
collaborations that Intramural-Recreational Sports has with different departments
across campus. These collaborations serve to enhance the department’s ability to
effectively serve our various constituency groups. The following is a summary of our
numerous collaborations:
SGA / Cardinal Corner Game RoomSGA contributes $10,000 to the IntramuralRecreational Sports Department. In return, students get to use the room for free. This
is an outstanding collaboration that enables the Cardinal Corner to be extremely
popular with our students.
Welcome WeekendIntramural-Recreational Sports was actively involved with
Welcome Weekend. We provided an open house where incoming freshmen
participated in Fitness classes, met with various representatives of our Sports Clubs,
played Dodgeball, and worked out in our weight room. This program allowed for the
freshmen to familiarize themselves with our various programs and services.
Athletics- We work closely with Athletics in cooperatively sharing the use of each
other’s facilities. Our students benefit from getting to compete in outstanding venues
such as Cardinal Arena (Basketball Championships), Bass/Rudd Tennis Center
(Tennis Tournaments), Wright Natatorium (Swim Meet), and the Trager Stadium
(Track Meet). Participating in these venues enhance the experience of participating in
Intramurals for our students.
Yoga ClassesIntramural-Recreational Sports collaborated with Student Health
and the Get Healthy Now program on establishing yoga classes for the University
community. Each department shared in the cost, hiring the instructors, and providing
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the space for the classes. The yoga classes were extremely popular and we are
planning to offer them again this year.
Financial Aid OfficeOur department works closely with Charlie Schnell in the
Financial Aid Office to recruit College Work Study students to work in the Intramural
Department. Our department is the most popular place for CWS students to work on
campus. By developing this relationship with Financial Aid, it assists us
tremendously with our student wage budget by having a large number of CWS
students.
International CenterIntramural-Recreational Sports works with the International
Center and offers two “International Nights” in the SAC, one in the Fall and one in
the Spring. The purpose of these programs is to expose International students to IMRec Sports. Many of the participants are part of our Badminton Club, which has a
high percentage of International students.
OrientationWe are very involved in Orientation. We have a table at the
information fair and are part of the presentation on campus involvement. We open the
Game Room at night during each session and pay for the cost of staffing the room.
We believe it is important to have a strong presence at Orientation to expose the
incoming freshmen to our program.
Louisville CardinalWe reached out to the Sports staff of the Louisville
Cardinal this year to improve the coverage of Intramural Sports. Sports Editor Trevor
Joelson and his staff did a tremendous job in covering our program this year. We look
forward to further developing their coverage in the future.
Marching BandWith the development of the “Extreme Makeover” project of
renovating the Intramural Field, we are now thrust into a collaboration with UofL’s
Marching Band. We will work with them in scheduling and field maintenance. We
have made it very clear to them that they are a full financial partner in the expense of
maintaining the Intramural Field.
NelliganOur arrangement with Nelligan continues to be a financially successful
one for our department. In this time of financial stress, Nelligan has done an excellent
job in providing our department with additional revenue that we need to operate our
program. Our partnership is unique in that we continue to be the only recreational
sports program in the country with an agreement with a sports marketing firm. They
even assisted us this year in getting a sponsor (Texas Roadhouse) for our
Faculty/Staff Golf Scramble.
University Emergency MedicineWe have a partnership with University
Emergency Medicine to enable us to have Automatic External Defibrillators in our
facilities. Dr. Price wrote our prescriptions on our AED protocols. This relationship is
important because of the necessity for our staff to be able to respond to a cardiac
emergency.
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Student Affairs Collaborations
Housing Move-In DayField DaysStudent Athletic TicketsFirst Aid Classes-
Speech / Literature
Distribution Policy-
We assist with Housing Move-In Day in August
Our department coordinates this Welcome Weekend
program for the Dean of Students Office.
Dale Ramsay assist SGA with the Student Athletic
ticket registration process.
John Smith teaches First Aid Classes for both the
Intramural and Student Activities staffs, as well as
other university employees.
Dale Ramsay, under the auspices of the Dean of
Students Office, works with off-campus groups to
ensure they are in compliance with the University’s
Speech/Literature Distribution Policy.
Physical Plant- We have an excellent relationship with the various trades in the
Physical Plant. We have spent a great deal of time cultivating these relationships. We
receive excellent service from the Physical Plant. In an effort to show our
appreciation to them we work closely with them on our extremely popular
Faculty/Staff Golf Outing. Many Physical Plant employees participate in the
tournament. They assist us in obtaining sponsorships for the event as well.
In addition to the extensive list of successful collaborations we had in 2007-08,
another accomplishment we are proud of is the level of sportsmanship displayed in
our competitive leagues. We continue to promote our “Dare to Play Fair” campaign
emphasizing good sportsmanship. Due to our continued efforts in this area, our
discipline problems in our competitive leagues are minimal. This reflects our
student’s commitment to participating in Intramural Sports in an appropriate manner.
Another significant accomplishment of the Department of Intramural and
Recreational Sports was its prominent listing on the redesigned University of
Louisville webpage. The fact that Intramurals is listed prominently on the main
university webpage speaks to both the popularity of our program and the level of
respect that we have throughout the university community.
We appreciate the strong leadership and support that we continue to receive from Dr.
Tom Jackson, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dr. Michael Mardis, Dean of
Students. Without their efforts in supporting our program, we would be unable to
move forward on a number of initiatives that are important to our department. Dr.
Mardis was a former employee of our Department and it has been a tremendous
benefit to our program having him back at UofL.
The Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports had another outstanding year.
Our participation remains strong and we have excellent relationships throughout
UofL. Our strengths continue to be a dedicated staff, a commitment to improving our
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program, strong customer service, and our continue ability to accept change. The
opportunity to serve continues to be our privilege.
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II.
2008-09 Goals
1. Work with the Vice President for Student Affairs, Dean of Students, and Student
Government Association on the creation of a Student Recreation Fee.
2. Work with various constituencies on getting an artificial turf field installed on the
Intramural Field.
3. Work with an architect to explore the feasibility of expanding the recreational
space in the Student Activity Center.
4. Continue to collaborate with Student Health and Get Healthy Now on offering
yoga classes to the UofL community.
5. Host a Fitness Instructor Certification Workshop.
6. Teach staff the new method of compression-only CPR.
7. Look for opportunities in the Cardinal Corner to expand outlets for student
gamers.
8. In the Fall of 2008, serve as a site for the ESPN-sponsored Strongest Man on
Campus competition.
9. Rebuild the Department of Intramural Sports website.
10. Refurbish and re-surface the SAC gym floors and racquetball courts.
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III.
Intramural Staff
The Department of Intramural Sports has 15 full-time employees. We also employ
approximately 150 student employees who serve as facility workers and sports
officials. The strength of our staff is their dedication and loyalty to the Department.
The full-time staff has in excess of 230 years of service to UofL in the Intramural
Sports Department.
We are losing two of our current staff members this year. Intramural Coordinator
Dale Young recently got married and is moving to Arkansas. Dale did an outstanding
job and made significant contributions to our program. Jessie Chandler, our evening
Facility Supervisor, is taking a position as Director of Compliance in the Athletic
Department at Arkansas Tech. Jessie did an excellent job and was extremely popular
with the HSC users.
We will miss both Dale and Jessie and we wish them the best with their professional
endeavors.
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IV.
Academic Unit Support
We have an outstanding relationship with the Health and Sports Studies Department
(HSS). HSS uses both the SAC and Humana Gym for the activity classes during the
Fall and Spring semesters. We currently provide space for over 30 classes. These
classes benefit our program due to the fact that the HSS students use our facilities and
get exposure to our program. We also provide valuable internship opportunities for
the HSS students. Dale Ramsay is also an HSS faculty member, teaching classes in
Recreational Sports Management and Sports Officiating.
We also attend the Internship Fair sponsored by the College Student Personnel
program. We offer internship opportunities to these students in our program to expose
CSP students to IM-Rec Sports, which is a non-traditional area of Student Affairs.
In the Fall of 2008, we are working with Dr. Ralph Merkle in the Communications
Department. We are hosting an event on campus called “The Strongest Man on
Campus”. This event is sponsored by ESPN. They have selected several campuses
throughout the country for this event. The competition will be aired by ESPN but will
be produced entirely by students in the Communications Department. This is a
tremendous opportunity for our students to get some practical experience producing a
television show.
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V.
Staff Professional Development
Dale Ramsay-
Taught two classes for HSS (Rec. Sports Management and Sports
Officiating)
Served as external consultant for Keene State College
High school and college basketball official
Contributing writer to High School Sports Magazine
Attended CPAK Conference
Attended NIRSA Conference
John Smith-
Taught First Aid/ CPR Classes
Red Cross Instructor
Conducted clinics for Kentucky High School Athletic Association
Assigning Secretary for High School Volleyball and Softball in
Jefferson County
Attended CPAK Conference
Attended NIRSA Conference
Dale Young-
Assigned officials for St. Xavier High School Intramural Sports
Assisted Jefferson County Public Schools with establishing a Flag
Football League
Attended NIRSA Conference
Debby Woodall- Attended Fitness Conference in Las Vegas
Served on Host Committee for Mid-Manager’s Institute
Attended CPAK Conference
David Hatfield-
Attended NIRSA Conference
David Rice-
Attended NIRSA Sports Club Symposium
Attended CPAK Conference
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VI.
Activities That Support Diversity
One of the strengths of our program is its diversity of participants. Our motto of “A
Sport For Everyone And Everyone In A Sport” promotes inclusiveness in all aspects
of our program.
In Intramurals, there is a high percentage of African-American students who
participate in Flag Football and Basketball. The student group Porter Scholars became
very active in the Intramural Sports program this year. The majority of our Intramural
Sports supervisors and officials were African-American students.
In Informal Recreation, the number of users of the recreational space in the SAC is
approximately 20% African-American. It is apparent that African-American students
are active participants in all phases of our program.
Our program is also popular with International students. We host International Night
both Fall and Spring semesters in the SAC. The majority of the members of our
Badminton Club are International students. A large number of International students
also participate in our Soccer Leagues.
It is obvious that all segments of our program are popular with the rich and diverse
student population of UofL. It is also apparent that these students view our facilities
as a place where they feel comfortable participating in our various programs.
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VII.
Departmental Issues and Challenges
The Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports has four major challenges to
deal with- getting an artificial turf surface purchased and installed on the current
Intramural Field, expanding the recreational space in the Student Activity Center,
working on the creation of a Student Recreation Fee to provide more critical funding
for our program, and the need to update the University’s ID system.
With the advent of the “Extreme Makeover Project”, we hope that there is still an
opportunity to purchase an artificial turf field at a significantly reduced cost. If we do
not turf the IM Field, it is going to suffer significant wear with the Marching Band
using it as its new practice field. The benefit of installing a turf field is that it would
allow us to expand the use of the field to include Sports Clubs and general student
use. We are precluded from allowing these groups to currently use the IM Field due
to over-using the field. We will be working closely with the Dean of Students and
others to move this project forward.
Another challenge that we have is a lack of dedicated fitness space for our students.
The weight room in the SAC has only about half of the square footage we need. Our
current Aerobics Studio is a combination of two racquetball courts. We are excited to
work with the soon to be name architect to see what can actually be done to expand
our fitness space in the SAC.
Working for the creation of a Student Recreation Fee is another priority for the
Department of Intramural Sports. Our program is currently funded by a combination
of hard and soft revenue. If we are going to expand our program (Turf Field, SAC
Expansion, Increased Fitness Programming, etc.) it is essential that we receive the
appropriate level of funding. Student Recreation Fees are the common method of
funding college recreational sports programs. In the state of Kentucky, the University
of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, and Western Kentucky University all
have Student Recreation Fees. Even though these are difficult financial times, the
only way we will be able to move our program forward is to create this fee. Our
consultant who conducted our program review was in complete agreement with this.
We look forward to working with the Vice President for Student Affairs, the Dean of
Students, and the Student Government Association on this issue.
Our last challenge is our current ID system. We are not able to collect the data we
should be able to off the current system (number of distinct users, breakdown of
users- faculty/staff, etc). We should be able to run reports where we can verify who
used our facility at any given time. There are also many different assessment projects
we could do if we could only access this data. Until the University makes the
financial commitment to upgrade the card system, we are unable to obtain the data we
really need.
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VIII. Informal Sports
The Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports operated five different
facilities: Humana Gym, Crawford Gym, Health Sciences Campus Fitness Facility,
Cardinal Corner Game Room, and the Student Activities Center Gym. These facilities
are open a combined 325 hours/week to provide recreational opportunities for the
UofL community. The 2007-08 facility participation totals are as follows:
Student Activity Center
Humana Gym
Crawford Gym
Cardinal Corner Game Room
Health Sciences Fitness Center
297,648
65,766
26,893
33,974
47,282
471,563
These numbers show a decrease of approximately 6800 users from the previous year.
We knew that our overall usage would decrease due to the fact that the TV Lounge in
the Game Room was unavailable due to construction for a long period of time and
some large groups did not have events in the SAC Gym this year. However, our
overall usage remains strong.
Student Activities Recreational Center
Facility Report 2007-2008
The Student Activities and Recreational Center attendance seemed to drop a bit this
year. Much of this is due to the loss of nearly 3 weeks of user time in December due
to our flooring renovations. The following is usage breakdown from each area.
Strength and Fitness Center
Weight Room Annex
Multi-Purpose Floor
Racquetball and Squash Courts
Aerobics Studio
101,369 (-7740)
15,467 (-1325)
97,160 (-3773)
15,399 (+248)
12,464 (+1222)
Strength and Fitness Center
The numbers for the Strength Fitness Center are down a bit from last year, although
nothing really significant considering the loss of so much time due to the flooring
renovations.
Currently the weight room consists of a full line of Nautilus Nitro weight stack
machines, and plate loaded machines, Hampton rubber coated dumbbells, Hampton
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rubber coated weight plates, a full line of free weight benches, and racks. We also
have an extensive collection of cardio equipment, including: 5 True treadmills, 5 True
recumbent bikes, 9 Precor cross training elliptical machines, 3 Tetrix stair climbing
machines, 3 Cybex Arc Trainers, 1 Concept II rowing machine, and 2 Lifefitness
cross training machines.
Ellis J. Mendelsohn Multi-Purpose Courts
The user numbers are down slightly for the Multi-Purpose Courts. This once again
can be attributed to the loss of so much time in December due to the flooring
renovations, but we also had very poor turnout for the Science Fairs this year due to
an untimely snowstorm that cut the Manual Science fair viewing time in half and
forced the cancellation and movement of the Jefferson County Science Fair. The
confusion this created in concert with the poor weather really kept our number down
for this particular event which generally creates very good numbers for the center.
The number of male users did increase which indicates the daily usage was up, but
the number of female users was down which is probably due to the number of
cheerleading camp participants being quite a bit smaller than in past years.
This very versatile space has hosted a wide variety of events, tournaments and
gatherings. In addition to hosting a huge array of intramural events, we regularly play
host to badminton tournaments, local science fairs, graduation night lock-ins, and
national volleyball tournaments to name a few. We also host numerous camps
throughout the summer including boys and girls individual and team basketball
camps, volleyball camps, cheerleading and dance camps. This turns what would
normally be our slowest time of the year into the busiest, and fosters great community
good will, as well as introduces campus to a huge number of prospective students.
The number of requests for gym space is almost endless, but we are always conscious
of whom we are here to serve, and that is the students. We try to do our best at
scheduling rentals and events in our off peak hours when our university community
user base is lowest, and will affect the fewest people. In doing this we feel like we
have struck a nice balance of giving the students as much time as possible while still
generating some revenue in order to purchase equipment and supplies to keep our
users satisfied.
Racquetball and Squash Courts
The Racquetball and Squash Court numbers were up slightly this year but seem to
have basically leveled off at around 15,000 users per year. The Racquetball Club has
a small but dedicated following and hopes to increase its numbers in the coming
years. Racquetball Court 2 did again host an evening of playing Nintendo’s Wii!!
Using the front wall as a 15 foot video screen, a projector and the game itself, Court 2
was turned into a huge video game. Faculty, Staff and guests alike all enjoyed the
event during our annual Up All Night.
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Weight Room Annex
The Weight Room Annex numbers, while down slightly, still are standing solid at
over 15,000 users. Once again this justified our change from a racquetball court to
this well-used area.
The Annex now consists of a full line of 14 Trotter selectorized weight machines, and
35 feet of mats for stretching, abdominal and general floor work, as well as 4
medicine balls and 4 fitness balls, and a set of body bars.
Aerobics Studio
This year we added a rack of 14 fitness balls to the array of hand weights, stretchy
bands, jump ropes, stretching mats, steps, and risers. This area is still a very popular
and versatile space for us and the number of activities and uses for this area has
increased over the years. Our user numbers were up this year in the aerobic room and
we truly think this trend will continue with so many groups looking for a dedicated
area. In the last year this space hosted fencing practice, martial arts practice,
numerous dance practices, ping pong tournaments, SAB functions, meetings for
camps and other events, a sleeping area for the graduation lock in, physical education
classes, as well as all of our aerobic classes.
Additional Improvements & Purchases
This year saw the elation of the managerial staff increase ten fold at the removal of all
of the carpet throughout the weight room, hallway, and racquetball lobby. This simple
act will save us untold hours of cleaning carpet throughout the year as well as
eliminate the need to shut down for several days each semester to try and clean carpet
that looked dinghy no matter how much cleaning we did to it. The carpet was
replaced with rubber flooring. This new flooring looks great, feels very cushiony to
walk on, generally only needs periodic damp mopping to keep it looking good, and
should last for 15 years or longer. New carpet replaced the old in both the women’s
and men’s locker rooms. So while there will still be a little time spent cleaning
carpets we will likely not have any down time in the facility to accomplish this. Thus
our users win all around.
We were also able to refinish all of the wood surfaces throughout the facility. The
gym floor, all 5 racquetball courts, aerobic room and the racquetball hallway all
received a fresh new coat of sealer.
All in all, it has been an excellent year. The performance of the student staff has been
wonderful in terms of dedication and commitment and customer service. It makes all
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of our jobs here tremendously easier when we have a supporting cast of truly solid
students to depend on.
Recommendations
Although last year we were able to refinish the basketball courts, after 18 years we
are overdue to have the courts sanded down to the wood, get rid of all the old faded
varnish, and get everything re-lined. The courts have taken on a very yellow tint and
the lines have faded over time, the volleyball court lines especially, are very hard to
see. With the change in the NCAA three point line we are also discussing the need to
move the line back to the new distance or possibly just add a new line at the NCAA
distance. This would also be the time to cut out some dead sections and replace or
repair these areas. The lane portion of court one has quite a few dead spots and could
definitely use some work.
Another area of concern for us is the woeful shape of our locker rooms. Cracked tile
in the shower area, deteriorating drywall in the bathrooms, plumbing that backs up
frequently in the sinks whenever someone lets the water run during shaving, and in
general just an overall outdated shabby appearance to the sink, toilet and shower area
of the men’s locker room. Other than new carpet this year and a pair of new counter
tops more 5 years ago, we have had no real work done to the locker room area since
we opened almost 18 years ago.
We also would like to begin to explore the possibility of expanding our facility. In an
ideal world we would like to expand our building out toward the street from the
weight room windows and at least triple the amount of space we now have available
to use in the weight room. When we opened in 1990 our weight room was pretty fair
sized for a student weight room, but by today’s standards we seem to be way behind.
Today with increased emphasis on health and fitness we believe the trend will have
our number of users escalating and we would like to be ahead of the curve and not
playing catch up. We need to invest in our student’s physical well being as well as
their intellectual and to do this we need to expand our facilities and equipment and to
do this we need space. In addition to the weight room expansion a large space that
could be used for aerobics or meeting room(s) is definitely a must. At the moment
there is no space available for PE classes to meet on days they are not doing activities
or on test days. The need for a bigger aerobic room is critical as well. The trend
toward variety for the aerobic customer has created a need for different forms of
exercise. The popularity of classes like spinning, jazzercise, yoga, tae-bo, body pump,
circuit, pilates, core, and many more has created a need for space that we cannot
accommodate in our buildings current configuration. With this in mind, a second
level above the proposed weight room could do much toward alleviating our space
problem in this area.
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International Night
The Intramural Sports Department once again hosted two International Nights this
year. Friday evenings are a popular time amongst the International Students who use
our facilities, and it was decided to market specific events toward this population
during these times. This year’s version were similar in format to previous
International Nights, which included setting up the gym for different unstructured
activities, including basketball, volleyball, badminton, and wallyball. We again
worked with the International Center, who helped us market the event directly to the
various international clubs. For the Spring semester, we attended the International
Banquet in an effort to further advertise the event and give it more exposure to the
international community. Finally, in addition to the Badminton Club, we also brought
in the Tae Kwon Do club and Racquetball Club for demonstrations, greatly adding to
the atmosphere of the event. The increased amount of marketing and programming
paid off with a significant increase in the event attendance, and many positive
comments from the participants. These evenings were appreciated by the participants
and were good outreach efforts for our department towards our International student
population.
User Guide in Foreign Languages
The Intramural Sports User Guide was again printed in several different languages
and made available to students during the International Nights, and remained openly
available in the gym afterward. The languages included Italian, Spanish, German,
French, and Chinese, in addition to English. This was an excellent effort designed to
reach out to our international community that drew praise from these groups. In the
future we will look to update these user guides and perhaps expand the number of
languages we can offer.
Suggestion Boxes
The suggestion boxes placed in our various facilities continued to be a valuable
means of communication with out users. Most suggestions that concerned the facility
or our policies were posted on a bulletin board outside the SAC Equipment Room for
all users to view. This has evolved into an educational process, whereas users would
ask a question or enter a comment, and the staff would use the opportunity to respond
with answers that informed our users as to the reasoning behind departmental
policies, scheduled maintenance and improvements, and other programmatic issues.
Users also enjoyed the opportunity to less formally or anonymously contact the
department with comments and suggestions. This program was a successful one and
should definitely be continued well into the future.
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Student Employee Picture Board
The Student Picture Board in the SAC facility was updated this year to reflect the
current student staff. This served the dual purpose of informing our users of the
identities of our student staff as well as recognizing these individuals. This was met
with praise from both student and staff alike and should be continued into the future.
Crawford Gym
Facility Report 2007-2008
Crawford Gym saw an increase in usage numbers during the 2007 – 08 year, 5,783
usage increase over the same period from 2006 -07, for a total of 26,893 participants.
This number was expected and easily explainable considering the HSS Department
had a larger presence during the evening operation with classes on Monday and
Wednesday nights and a consistent RSO’s user bases of group usage on Friday nights.
The Department of Intramural Sports continued to utilizing the gym floor area at
Crawford for evening and weekend usage. The gym floor area was dedicated to
informal events from RSO’s usage, Sports Clubs and HSS Classes. Crawford
continues to serve as a vital part in the day-to-day offering to the university
community as an overflow facility for group activities.
Crawford Gym itself has been an important part of the University and its history since
1961. While an older facility, we are sure Crawford will continue to play an important
role in the life of the University and its students. It continues to provide activity space
for our programs and serves its purpose well for our users. We look forward to
continued success with this facility.
The facility success and increased of usage is a direct reflection on the all-student
staff at Crawford. Adam Casson served as the evening weekday supervisors, while
Kedrick Davis handled weekend supervision responsibilities. Both young men did a
tremendous job and played vital role in Crawford’s success.
Humana Gym
Humana Gym continues to be a popular option for our users that want to avoid the
crowds at our other facilities. Continued improvements to equipment and the physical
structure of the building make it an attractive alternative for non-traditional students
as well as commuters who have difficulty finding parking on Belknap Campus. Total
user hours at Humana Gym for 2007-08 totaled 65,766, which is an increase of 752
users over the 2006-07 total of 65,014. Participation totals throughout the facility
remained very steady, with the exception of the mat room, which saw a decrease in
overall usage. We consider this a continuation of strong usage numbers and solid
evidence that our users continue to enjoy the benefits of this facility.
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Humana Gym continues to serve as the primary usage facility for the Intramural
Sports Club program. Of the seventeen sports clubs currently active, four (Kempo
Karate, Aikido, Badminton, and Fencing) used Humana Gym as their primary
practice facility. Tae Kwon Do used Humana Gym during the summer months while
camps were being held in Crawford Gym. With the growth of the Sports Club
program, Humana Gym no longer was viable as a meeting space for the Sports Club
Federation, whose meetings were moved to the SAC to better accommodate more
participants. As well, Humana Gym was the primary practice facility again for the
Louisville Thunder Volleyball Club. Finally, space was made available to the HSS
Department to house activity classes during the morning and afternoon hours.
Few improvements were necessary to the physical structure of the building this year,
which speaks well to Humana Gym’s durability. Several cosmetic and equipment
additions were made to increase the appeal of the center. The gym floor was
refinished and sealed with polyurethane in the Summer 2007. A new surveillance
monitor was purchased to replace the 25-year old model in the equipment room. The
equipment room also saw a new cash register arrive in the Fall. The facility’s ice
machine was removed after it became unusable and an ice freezer was purchased in
its place. In the cardio room, several new pieces were brought in to replace older
models; amongst these were two new cross-trainers, two new arc-trainers, and a stairclimber donated by the Athletic Department. Four reconditioned treadmills are
scheduled to arrive in the Summer 2008, which will replace the four existing ones.
Finally, after many years of research, high-speed internet in the equipment room was
welcomed, which significantly decreased the amount of time it took scan IDs and
access the web.
The facility continued to implement the computerized ID system, which greatly
improved the Sports Club IDs, which are only made at Humana Gym. The staff was
trained in its use, and now sports club IDs can be easily created, saved, and updated
each semester
A new process was put in place that significantly improved the areas of health and
safety. With the ongoing discoveries and emergence of such diseases as MRSA, we
began proactive measures to fight their spread. We began spraying each piece of
equipment in the evenings with specially mixed disinfectant designed to prevent the
spread of disease. We also now use special gloves to handle dirty laundry while it is
being transported and loaded into the washing machine. These small efforts will go a
long way in helping prevent the spread of disease amongst our users.
We are investigating future improvements to the facility as well. Several windows
throughout the facility are in need of replacement. The daily-use lockers in the facility
are always an issue due to them being see-through, and we continue to look into the
possibilities of replacing those. With the expansion of our sports club program, the
sign outside the facility has become dated, and we will look to replace that with a
current board in the near future.
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The University One-Card system continued to be fully implemented at Humana Gym,
and we are pleased to report that the number of instances of people forgetting their ID
cards again significantly decreased this year. This is a testament to the consistency of
the staff with scanning of IDs that our user population has become accustomed to
bringing their One-Card to the facility and being asked to present it when they enter.
Mention should be made of our two facility managers, Jerry Barry and Michael
Richeson, for their consistent and conscientious application of their duties, as well as
a fine student staff consisting of Justin Franklin, Jason Cheeks, Daniel GoLightly,
Maurice Bunton, and Allen Murphy. Without the dedication and support of these
individuals, we would not be able to provide such fine programming at Humana
Gym.
At the request of the Dean of Students a workgroup was established to evaluate
Humana Gym. This group was chaired by Assistant Director David Hatfield. The
purpose of this committee was to review the overall purpose of Humana Gym, the
services it provides, and how those services fit within the total recreational sports
program. The workgroup was comprised of Intramural Staff members and users
consisting of faculty/staff, alumni, and students. The findings of this committee
indicated that Humana Gym will continue to be a significant part of the
comprehensive programming offered by the Department of Intramural and
Recreational Sports. There were several recommendation related to the physical
improvement of the facility, which we hope in time we will be able to fund as money
becomes available.
It has been an exciting year for Humana Gym. With the many physical improvements
and steady participation numbers, the quality of service our department can provide
its users continues to maintain a level. We look forward with anticipation for what the
future may bring for Humana Gym.
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IX.
Cardinal Corner Game Room
“This Games On Us!” the SGA promotion that paid for the game room to be free for
students, faculty and staff has completed it’s third year. The program continues to be
amazingly popular. This year we got great news that the program has become a line
item budget program for SGA which means funding for the program continues on a
more permanent basis.
Table tennis sustained its’ explosion of the previous year. It is not uncommon at all
anymore to come into the room and see every table of every kind being used when it
used to be quite rare to have more than 4 or 5 billiards tables going at once and hardly
ever more than 1 table tennis table. We re-configured the room, with Steepleton’s
coming in to move a billiards table for us, to get one more table tennis table in the
room. That proved to be a great move for us as it is not uncommon at all to see all 4
of them in use. We also purchased some court dividers that we had made by a sign
company that add a lot to the ambiance and atmosphere of the room. They feature
UofL, the Cardinal Corner and Table Tennis Club.
We continued to grow the relationship with the gaming crowd. A “town forum” about
the future of the area was conducted that attracted a standing room only crowd. There
is no doubt that gamers make up a majority of the current graduating high school
classes and that little is being intentionally done to provide programming and more
importantly space for them. Right now they all play in dorm rooms and whatever
nooks and crannies they can find around campus. The unique characteristic of gamers
is that they seek each other out. We wouldn’t even have to go “gather them up” to get
them participating in something, just have some space developed to be conducive to
gaming and they will fill it up. The gamers are a good and dedicated group of
students. It would be beneficial to us to renovate the room to more meet their needs.
That would involve installation of at least two quality monitors and some internet
connections. The furniture is all miss matched and consists of whatever we have been
able to salvage from surplus and other departments. This is an area that we have a
chance to make a niche in as over 80% of current high school students are gamers to
some extent. It represents a great opportunity for us to engage a group of students that
other intramural departments don’t often get.
We are also hosting all orientation groups over the summer in the room which should
provide a great public relations and awareness tool for us. The sooner we get students
aware of their opportunities in our department the better.
There is still concerned about participation on the weekends. The room is hardly used
on weekends even though we changed the hours of operation a year ago to more
closely match the anticipated needs of resident students. There are many weekend
days that sometime have no users at all. Weekends are expensive for us from a
personnel standpoint as it is hard to get work study students to work weekends thus
we end up spending our student wage account money for something that we get no or
little benefit from.
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X.
Health Science Campus Facility
Now in our seventh year of operation, the fitness center continues to play an
important role in the lives of students, faculty and staff on the Health Sciences
Campus (HSC) and remains a scheduled stop on the HSC tour for new faculty and
staff as well as new recruits for students and residents at U of L. Our overall numbers
were down about 1850 from last year with about 400 less in the group fitness room.
We lost a Pilates instructor in December and could not hire a replacement due to a
University-wide hiring freeze in January, so our numbers were down for a couple of
weeks until we could hire the instructor and get the pilates classes back on the
schedule.
No major renovations were done this past year at the facility other than upgrading
some of our fitness equipment. We did purchase a new front load washer since our
old washing machine was showing signs of aging and beginning to break down. With
a front-load washer we can now wash the yoga mats at the fitness center instead of
having to transport them to a laundry mat or to the SAC and bring them back to hang
dry. Four of our treadmills were out of warranty in April, so we ordered four (4) new
Star Trac treadmills and will rotate the True 850’s to Humana gym and replace four
of the oldest treadmills there. We did not get to order a dual-stack functional trainer
as we had hoped, but hope to do so in the next budget year. The research has been
done and we received quotes form several companies but the funding was not there.
The flooring we had installed last May is holding up nicely, however we have found
it requires more vacuuming on a daily basis since the dust settles on top of the floor
instead of settling into the carpet where is was not so visible before. It is a little more
labor intensive to mop the floor instead of vacuuming, but the rubberized flooring
looks better than the old carpet.
Our goals for the upcoming year are to purchase a dual stack functional trainer, some
pilates rings for the group exercise classes and a few fitness accessories to keep in the
group fitness room for usage when classes are not in session. We will continually
update the bulletin board with healthy lifestyle tips and articles as well as offer mini
fit-checks and fitness assessments. Our current staff is wonderful at the fitness center
and coverage has been great with the variety of everyone’s schedules this past year.
The staff’s customer service skills have been super this year and we have not received
any negative feedback regarding unpleasant experiences at the fitness center service
counter. We will continue to build relationships with the health sciences campus
community to ensure our facility is maintained and considered for expansion as the
Health Sciences Campus continues to grow as well.
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XI.
Intramural Sports
Program Overview
The Intramural Sports program this year, as a result of a higher enrollment in the
freshman class, proved to be the year of growth. With the 2006-2007 year being the
year of new leadership and new ideas, the thought of building on the foundation of
the new leadership was the main focus.
The focus of this year’s staff was adjusting to growth and improving on the
foundation that was experience as supervisors. The program experienced a record
number of growths in many of its major events, which were unspoken testimonies to
the growth of the department. With the core of Undergraduate Assistants continuing
their experience with the department, it was a great opportunity to take advantage of
the growth through capitalizing on the previous year’s endeavors. These endeavors
were building on to what already existed by listening to the participants in the
programs and trying to address their needs the best way possible. Some overall issues
that were addressed and look to be implemented into the upcoming year are more
balance and consistency in both scheduling and timing of events offered. Though
these are going to be tough challenges, the groups of experienced Undergraduate
Supervisors appear to be both motivated and very talented in terms of capabilities and
potential. Look for exciting things from the intramural program and its staff in the
2008-2009 school years.
The All-Campus Points Championship
Teamwork, communication, and consistency were the words that best described this
year’s champions and their competitors. However, this year’s point race was decided
prior to the completion of the last event. With very little to no hope at all, the
participants still came out to continue the fight and represent their organizations with
pride.
The Fraternity Division was an interesting race all the way into the middle part of the
spring semester. With several respective organizations giving themselves a chance to
win the race to the finish, it still proved to be anyone’s trophy. However, as the end of
the season drew to a close, it seemed as if we had a race between last year’s two
finalist, Sigma Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, for the championship trophy. So, with
the race coming to a head in the mist of basketball season, it was only fitting that
these two play in the semi-final of the fraternity basketball playoffs with the hopes to
dash the others chances of prevailing to victory. In front of a student body crowd of
200+ the men of Sigma Chi Fraternity went on to defeat the men on Sigma Alpha
Epsilon Fraternity in what would prove to be an important victory that would propel
them to the All Campus Championship in the Fraternity Division.
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Just like the Fraternity Division was determined prior to the end of the school year,
the Campus Division proved not to be a very different. However, ever the tides
changed from the way the outcome was in the fraternity division. Just as the two
fraternities battled it out in the fraternity point race, there was another rematch
between fraternities taking place in the Campus Points Race. The men of Tau Kappa
Epsilon Fraternity and Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity kept pace by picking up just
where they left off, making consistency and participation it’s main focus throughout
the year. However, the key element of perseverance became the main ingredient as
the men of Sigma Alpha Epsilon stepped up to the occasion not to be denied another
opportunity of victory.
This year’s race for the Women’s Closed Division seemed to be a shut and closed
race from the beginning to the end. Though the ladies of Chi Omega along with
everyone else they gave it there best shot, the ladies of Delta Zeta once again proved
to be an overwhelming force, showing why they are repeat champions year after year.
Sportsmanship
The last several years, the program’s main focus has been to stress the importance of
sportsmanship to its participants. Last year proved to be a great year with little or no
conflict at all. This was a great testament to the students participating in the program
and what they can achieve. However, each year is new, with new participants and just
like the year before the same speech and attention has to be given to this area of focus
regardless of its past. So, it goes without saying that the possibilities of
unsportsmanlike actions were at some point going to be the inevitable and happen.
Though the year was great overall there were some bumps along the way.
Intramural Handbook
The 2007-08 Intramural Handbook served once again as a great tool for the
participants in the program. It was very evident that the participants took full
advantage of the resource and information inside. Participants this year showed up a
lot more prepared and educated about what was going on and how things work. Next
year’s Intramural Handbook looks to have few changes that will help the program and
participants grow and evolve.
Officials
This year’s group of officials has by far been the largest group in terms of retention
from the previous year. And there was no doubt they were experienced from their
performance on the fields of play. In the past, each group of officials has had a lot of
newcomers, which meant training started from ground zero. This year it was very
noticeable that the officials were a lot more experienced and were looking to become
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more involved. There is definitely reason to be to be excited, for next year should be
even better.
The Unity in Sportsmanship Challenge
The Unity in Sportsmanship Challenge took a small detour this year, merging with
the Up All Night All-Star Game, creating the Unity in Sportsmanship All-Star Game.
This was a great idea, with a great turnout in terms of crowd involvement. Everyone
seemed to really enjoy themselves while participating at Up All Night. The true
essence of what intramurals is about was definitely showcased. Both participants and
staff witness the success of a great program.
Championship Nights
Throughout the course of the school year, championship night has proved to be a
night of fireworks and great competition. Just like in years past, intramurals had the
privilege and opportunity to perform in some of the major venues offered by the
university. They range from Cardinal Arena and Ralph Wright Natatorium to the
Women’s Varsity Lacrosse field. The success of Championship Night and some of
the venues used to provide the participants with best facilities is a testament to the
great working relationship that we have with the Department of Athletics.
Intramural Sports Awards
This year Intramural Sports celebrated its 21st Annual Intramural Awards Cookout in
the newly renamed George J. Howe Red Barn. This year’s guest speaker was no
stranger to the program. Dr. Michael Mardis, a former employee of the department
and Coordinator of Intramurals Sports and now the Assistant Vice-President of
Student Affairs was the guest speaker for the awards ceremony.
Just as year’s gone by, various students and organizations were recognized for their
accomplishments throughout the course of the year. These individuals and
organizations at some point during the school accomplished tasks and goals they had
set out to achieve during registration of events. This year’s award recipients were
unique, due to the varied array of recipients that illustrated the diversity of the
participants.
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Ellis J. Mendelsohn “Mendy” Awards
Female
Male
Sports Club
Katy Spradlin- Delta Zeta
Zach Brooks- Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Dan Palmer- Bowling Club
Other Departmental Awards
Dale Ramsay Sportsmanship Award
Outstanding Male Chair Award
Outstanding Female Chair Award
Outstanding Sport Club
Official of the Year
Lou Frankel Softball Umpire of the Year
Outstanding Flag Football Official
Outstanding Soccer Official
Outstanding Volleyball Official
Outstanding Basketball Official
Official Newcomer of the Year
Most Improved Fraternity
Most Improved Women’s Closed
Most Improved Campus Points
Phi Delta Theta
Robby Niehaus- Triangle
Katy Spradlin- Delta Zeta
Women’s Polo
Shawn Newton
Cassie Bryant
Dannie Commodore
Robby Niehaus
Svetlana Dukule
Andrew Powell
Andrew Allen
Phi Delta Theta
Alpha Omicron Pi
Pi Kappa Alpha
IM Service Awards
Louisville Cardinal
Charlie Schnell- Financial Aid
Joni Burke - Greek Life
Intramural Council
The Intramural Sports Council each year assists the department by playing an integral
part in the success of the department. They come together once a month and represent
a portion of the voice of the student body, by given input and presenting new ideas
through thought and feed back. These groups of students are very important in that
they also represent their respective organizations. Overall the council had a great
year, and really gave the students a voice and platform to voice their opinions.
Changes Implemented in 2008-09
After council recommendation, it moved to change Softball to a Division I in both the
Fraternity and Campus point championship.
Other changes that will be made in the 2008-09 school year will be the rotation of
Fall Soccer League and Floor Hockey League to a spring sport in exchange for
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Volleyball League and Spring Soccer Tournament. The other change to be
implemented is that of bench decorum from both players and fans during all
intramural sports contest.
Recommendations
It was recommended by the department and discussed and agreed upon by the
members of IFC and Pan-Hellenic to have set days in which intramural programming
would take place for the Fraternity Divisions and the Women’s Closed Divisions for
the 2008-2009 school year. The Fraternity Division agreed upon Thursday and
Sundays. And the Women’s Closed Division’s agreed upon Monday and Tuesday.
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XII.
Marketing
Marketing
With the continued association with Nelligan Sports Marketing, our marketing
program has become two distinct operations. One is marketing in the sense of
program promotion. The other is the sponsorship area. From a marketing standpoint,
our annual marketing project planning meeting has turned into a great staff
development tool for our department as it generates a master plan for the upcoming
year. This is of particular importance because every program area is involved with the
development of the project calendar and it gives each of our program areas a chance
to see how they can impact the operation of all other program areas. We make a
concerted effort at promoting our various programs and facilities. We also are very
involved in revenue generation from a marketing standpoint through membership
programs. This year we had 63 planned projects, of which we completed 57. The 57
projects represent a significant contribution from staff to plan our academic year.
With staff input, over the past 4 years we have grown from 36 annual projects to the
current 63. Those that were not completed were due to a variety of reasons. Some
were not logistically feasible such as the installation of a computerized check out
system for the SAC or were hampered by continued problems such as the
photo/graphics editor of the Plone web system and our planned focus on more student
pictures on our web site.
Summer Orientation
Orientation was better with the change back to lunch information fairs. The only draw
back was the lunch time programming done by the orientation staff. They usually had
activities going on from the stage that precluded people from visiting the info fair
itself. Regardless, we will continue to be active with the entire orientation program.
We host a social event in the Cardinal Corner on the first day of each session which is
good exposure for us. Getting to speak at a regular meeting of all orientation
participants was especially good for us. Michael Anthony and our staff representative
were the lead presenters at the session which featured speakers from RSOs, Student
Activities, Leadership and Intramural Sports.
Web Page
Our web site continues to be one of the more active on campus. We made over 500
editorial changes to the site over the year. We are preparing to move our pages to a
new address which will be much shorter and easier for people to find. A very
significant accomplishment for us was to be included as a direct link on the front page
of the main UofL page. To our knowledge, we are the only intramural department in
the nation to be featured in such a way. Typically, intramural pages are at least two
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layers deep in all other web sites. The UofL stats system is down right now so we can
not get reports on our exact number of page visits but for most of the year when they
were checked we were by far the most visited pages of any Campus Life area
One thing we are learning is that the page is viewed by many high school students
and programs like ours are becoming more important in the collegiate choice process
than before. Most students we talk to at various Orientation activities tell us they have
already visited our pages and know something about our program.
Nelligan Sports Marketing
We continue to push the envelope nationally via our relationship with Nelligan Sports
Marketing. We still know of no other intramural sports department that has
professional representation from a firm like Nelligan that is usually exclusively tied to
an athletic department. It looks like everything we anticipated about our relationship
with that firm is coming to fruition. Nelligan is very connected to the Big East
Conference and is a national player in terms of sports marketing. At the NIRSA
Annual Conference Marketing Roundtable nobody else had entered into anything like
this. It is especially gratifying now to look back and when we decided to get into the
marketing/sponsorship end of things with just about zero knowledge about it and then
to see us doing something ahead of everyone else in the nation.
With the agreement we have entered into with Nelligan comes a whole new area of
sponsor program compliance. We had several meetings this year with mainly the
intramural staff to insure we were doing the right things compliance wise.
In addition to some existing sponsorships and relationships that have been forged by
Nelligan, we are now going to have Texas Roadhouse as a presenting sponsor for the
faculty/staff golf outing which may lead to other opportunities with that group.
Electronic Message Boards
These continue to receive good visibility and are seen by many people who are not
regular users of ours. The boards are still a good means of promoting special events
and informing people of hours of operation, special situations etc. We have made an
increased effort at keeping the boards more up to date and changing information on
them often. To date we have made 90 changes to the boards, which is slightly higher
than last year’s total of 82 but that 82 was a large increase over the year before. This
year’s total of changes shows a consistent effort at keeping the boards current and
informative.
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Market Source LED Board
We receive a glass-enclosed bulletin board with an LED screen from Market Source
in exchange for posting their ads in one section of the board. The board is currently
located in the Cardinal Corner Game Room. We continue to retain editorial privileges
with the ads and have rejected several of them over the past year. The board is in a
good location and receives attention from a group of potential users who are not part
of our traditional program. It is a good outreach tool for us.
Advertising Banners
Banner locations have been turned over to Nelligan per their agreement with the
department.
Alumni Memberships
The alumni program is doing well. We just completed our second year with the new
ID system and now have everyone that is a current member updated in the dedicated
computer. The system is working well and has moved our ability to process
memberships to a higher level.
Our renewal rate remains strong and we continue to work with the Registrar’s Office
in promoting the program to every graduate of the university. This year we were able
to distribute almost 5,000 pieces of information to current graduates.
Dependent ID Validations
This program continues to be popular and appreciated by students, faculty and staff.
In a period of time when cost of living raises are small, benefits cost more and more,
and general inflation eats up more of everyone’s discretionary income, a real value
like this is a very strong public relations tool for our department. We have had a
strong response from families at the Health Science Campus Fitness Center and have
intentionally marketed the program to those families.
Summer ID Validations
The summer validation program allows students to use intramural facilities over the
summer if they were enrolled in the spring. This is very popular with our students as
so many of them live in the Louisville area. In addition to being a good revenue
stream to us, it is a good value and appreciated service to those students.
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XIII. Assessment
Assessment
For the year we completed 25 of 27 scheduled assessment projects. One was delayed
and then ran into the launch of another, more important SLO project at Humana Gym.
Another was hampered by the new UofL card system. The 25 completed projects
represent a benchmark for our department. Included in them were four SLO projects.
We are evaluating our assessment process for next year and intend to make it more
relational and interview based than so many written tools that we have no way of
responding to answers from. By having larger focus group/town forum meetings and
fewer written tools, we will be able to have much more dialog and hopefully generate
more new ideas for the programs. It should also lead to a better level of understanding
for both participants and our department.
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Begin student staff retention tool
Strategy meeting: August 1, 2007
Planning team, John Smith, David Hatfield, Debby Woodall, David Rice,
Dale Young
Implementation date: Start of fall semester
One of the “connections’ that we talk about to so many students takes place within
their on the job experience with us. This tool will capture and track emple ID
numbers of our student staff and follow them throughout their collegiate career to see
how many of our student staff matriculate successfully. This will be an on-going
project that will last at least 5 years.
The project has been started with the collection of 69 student emple ID numbers. A
code has been developed to record not only if a student does not either return to the
University of Louisville or the Intramural Sports Department, to indicate the reason
why. These codes contain such reasons as co-ops, major related jobs, etc. These
initial students will be tracked for up to 5 years or until they are all either no longer
pursuing a degree or have graduated. During the administration of this project we
have encountered a problem with accessing emple IDs with the new ID system. We
need to decide if this is a viable project that actually provides us with “useable
information” or is just going to provide with something interesting to know.
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Document releases to the UofL Today email feature
Strategy meeting: July 15, 2007
Planning team: Tuesday morning staff meeting staff
Implementation date: Start of fall semester
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Coupling with the above marketing goal for the year, we simply want to be able to
document how many releases we made during the 2007-08 academic year for our
own knowledge. Whenever anyone makes a release to the service, they will be
instructed to forward notification to John Smith, who will maintain the cumulative
log.
During the year we released information on the Dependent ID program and all group
fitness classes, personal assessments and orientation sessions. We have also released
information on the faculty staff golf outing. This totaled close to 40 overall releases.
The program is good but goes only to faculty and staff and limits the number of
activities/programs that are eligible for us to promote through it. Never the less, it is
effective at getting information to faculty and staff.
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Conduct a diversity awareness tool (SLO project)
Strategy Meeting: July 8, 2007
Planning Team: John Smith, David Rice, David Hatfield
Implementation Date: Early fall semester and late spring semester
As part of investigating applicable CAS standards, we will conduct a project to
measure informal recreation participants’ awareness of diversity and the associated
benefits of healthy lifestyles, self-esteem and meaningful personal relationships. The
tool will be in the form of a pre and post test, designed to gather open ended
responses from informal participants. As part of the project, intentional outcomes will
be promoted to participants through various media including signage and emails.
Student
Learning
Outcome(s)
Through
participatio
n in the
informal
recreation
program,
students
will gain an
increased
appreciatio
n of
diversity.
(CAS
Standard
Identify
Evidence
Conduct
class
presentation
s to student
participants
to ascertain
their level
of
awareness
relating to
identified
CAS
standard.
Conduct
Assessment
Measures Timeline
Goal of
80% of
students
involved
with
survey
participati
on
indicating
they have
experience
d gains in
their level
appreciatio
n of
We will
present our
information
to classes
the week
after Spring
Break and
administer a
written
survey to the
involved
classes
within two
weeks of our
presentation
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Observation
/ Evaluation
Results
Of 50
respondents
:
74% said
informal
recreation
has
increased
their
exposure
to diverse
cultures
within the
University.
Plans for
Improvement
(Please be
specific)
Continue
to work
with HSS
class
sections to
promote
values of
recreationa
l sports to
a
traditionall
y freshman
and
sophomore
group of
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Appreciatio
n of
Diversity,
Meaningful
Interperson
al
Relationshi
ps)
written
documentati
on tool to
gauge
effectivenes
s of
presentation
materials.
diversity
through
participati
on in the
informal
recreation
program.
Goal of
80% of
students
indicating
they have
experience
d gains in
Meaningfu
l
Interperso
nal
Relations
as a result
of
participati
on in the
informal
recreation
program.
(s).
HPES
activity
classes will
be used as
participants
for the study
test as they
represent a
“captive
audience”
and we will
be able to
speak to
them as a
group.
students.
66% said
informal
recreation
has
increased
their
appreciatio
n of those
diverse
cultures.
94% said
that
informal
recreation
has
positively
impacted
their
ability to
lead a
productive
lifestyle.
68% said
that
informal
recreation
has
improved
their skills
in
developing
meaningful
relationshi
ps.
89% said
that
informal
recreation
has helped
them
achieve a
balance
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Include
informatio
n on social
developme
nt and
diversity
awareness
to student
staff of all
facilities.
Continue
to provide
training to
all staff
members
as to the
benefits of
informal
recreation
within the
Student
Affairs
model of
student
developme
nt. By
making our
staff more
aware of
those
benefits,
they will in
turn be
able to
have
dialog with
participant
s in those
areas and
thus
further
increase
awareness
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between
academic
and leisure
pursuits.
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of the
benefits.
Continue to emphasize SAC focus group to be more customer service oriented
and take on more of recommendation making role in the future
Strategy meeting: May 20, 2007
Planning team: John Smith, Dale Ramsay
Implementation date: start of fall semester
The continued emphasis with this group to focus on customer service is good for us
as it provides us with a “watchdog” group to assist us with assessing our customer
service. Nobody other than John Smith and Dale Ramsay know the members of this
group so they are able to use our facilities without receiving special attention given
their membership status. They are able to make recommendations or provide input
relating to customer service from a genuine standpoint. We also want this group to be
very active in a recommendation role given the many physical changes we would like
to implement in our facilities.
The focus group was comprised of a faculty/staff member, alumni member and 3
College Student Personnel students. The group provides a good platform for the CSP
students to be involved in another area of Student Affairs and gain some experience
in a recreational sports setting. The group met 3 times during the year, early in the fall
semester, just before Christmas break and again at finals time of the spring. The
group was very active and involved. They demonstrated a sound foundation of
knowledge about our program and our goals. A list of topics covered is below. It
should be especially noted that the group strongly supports the implementation of a
student and faculty/staff recreation fee.
Expansion/renovation of the SAC
Hours of operation
Budget and dependency on college work study students
Air flow problems at the SAC
Preview installation of new floor in lobby, weight room areas
Preview of new equipment for weight and cardiovascular areas
Customer service expectations of staff
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Continue SAC Suggestion Box
Strategy Meeting: June 21, 2007
Planning Team: John Smith, David Rice
Implementation date: June 21, 2007
The SAC suggestion box has been a well-utilized tool from many users. Given the
number of changes that have been made in the past year it is prudent to continue to
seek feedback and suggestions from our participants. The suggestions/questions are
reviewed by David Rice and if appropriate brought to staff meetings for discussion.
We want to make an emphasis on bringing more of these to staff meetings this year.
All are replied to and posted in the SAC hallway. It is good to see the responses all
posted and it is not uncommon at all to see people stopped in the hallway reading the
different postings. This is not only a good information-gathering tool for us but helps
show our genuine desire for that feedback by posting the responses.
The SAC Suggestion Box has turned into the SAC Vent it Here Box. Of the 75 cards
that were turned into the box this year, maybe 10 of them were actual
suggestions/questions and the rest were “fire this supervisor” or “change your staff
shirt color” or the most popular “give you student staff a raise.” The valid suggestions
we received were replied to and posted on the board in the main hallway. They
usually revolved around hours of operation, requests for a speed bag and new pieces
of equipment. David Rice does a nice job of responding to these
questions/suggestions.
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Provide means for gamers input into renovation of current TV lounge
Strategy meeting: Completed
Planning team: John Smith, Dale Ramsay
Implementation date: Pending funding of renovation
We have requested funds to renovate the current TV lounge into a gamer’s center.
This is to modernize our options for incoming and current students. Research tells us
that 82% of current high school and middle school students are involved with
electronic gaming in some fashion. Our lack of facilities/equipment in this area is
very visible. The inclusion of a center for gamers would have a positive impact both
on our current students as well as our ability to recruit new students.
A “Town Hall” meeting was held in the gamer’s area of the Cardinal Corner in the
fall semester. The meeting was standing room only, with over 50 in attendance, which
demonstrates the dedication and interest of this group of students. Possible plans for
the room/space were discussed in great detail along with possible streams of revenue.
The group also provided input as to what would make the room/space the most
attractive from their standpoint relating to monitors, internet connections, furniture,
window treatment etc. A total renovation project cost projection was compiled as a
result of this meeting.
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Perform demographic tool for Humana Gym users
Strategy meeting: January 3, 2008
Planning team: John Smith, David Hatfield, David Rice
Implementation date: Start of spring semester
Humana Gym has a unique group of users due to its’ older building and atmosphere.
Every several years we like to perform a demographic tool for the facility just to
make sure we stay in touch with this group. This tool will need to include items such
as commuter students, faculty or staff, year in school, alumni member and more.
We performed this tool several years ago and were going to compare results of the
two releases. We put this project on hold though as the fitness SLO project was
delayed and ended up being released at the time this tool was originally scheduled
for. Since both were directed to the same group and we didn’t want to bombard them
with assessment projects we put this project off to next year. The fitness SLO was
originally designed to be a pre test/post test which would have significantly impacted
the users of Humana Gym. We must decide if this is “useable information” or just
interesting information and whether it is something we really want/need to complete.
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Keep a log of changes to LED Boards
Strategy Meeting: May 15, 2006
Planning Team: John Smith, Dale Ramsay
Implementation Date: current
We will keep a log of changes to the LED board similar to the one we keep for all
web page updates. This will allow us to document to potential advertisers the activity
on the board will help to show the useful nature of messages delivered over the board.
All roster due dates (34) hours of operations changes in facilities, special events and
programs from other departments that we were requested to help promote were
programmed into the LED boards. The boards are easy to use but are very limited in
our ability to create eye catching and attractive messages. Given the age of the boards
and the fact that they are probably the only things at the university still running on
Windows 3.1, we do not have the ability to create new graphics. We are limited to
text only other than the few graphics that originally came with the boards. LED
boards have advanced significantly since these were installed and now it is common
to have boards that can do movement, movie clips, graphics and even photograph
reproduction. To really capture the thousands of students who walk through the lobby
right in front of our 1st board we should investigate replacing the boards with current
generation products.
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Continue Web Page Update Log
Strategy Meeting, May 11, 2007
Planning Team: John Smith
Implementation Date: Current
We have kept an annual list of web page updates to document the active nature of our
page since it’s’ inception. We will continue to document those site changes. It is a
good public relations and time justification tool for us as web functions continue to
become even more important to our students. Over %70 of the participants in our
intramural leagues indicated they used our web page on a regular basis. This shows
the importance of keeping our pages current and devoting the time it takes to do so.
Our web editing log is kept within Plone and right now we do not have access to it. It
is safe to say however that our pages are some of the most active at the university.
When any of our league programs are in progress, nightly results are updated every
morning before 9:00 AM. All hours of operation changes are publicized on our main
page. All of our due dates were promoted through the calendar feature of Plone. It
would be a conservative estimate to say that we made 200 changes to our pages over
the year.
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Document the installation of critical updates and virus protection installations
Strategy Meeting: July 8, 2007
Planning Team: John Smith, David Rice
Implementation date: Underway
We will document the number and dates of all critical updates and virus protections
upgrades we perform on our machines. This will give us credibility in the event of a
campus wide problem, as was experienced this year, that our machines were current
and properly updated.
This year we performed 990 critical updates and virus protection updates. Our
machines are in good working order and have been so all year.
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Measure level of awareness of Fitness promotions regarding healthy lifestyles
and health risks to users of the SAC and Humana Gyms. (SLO project)
Strategy Meeting: July 7, 2007
Planning Team: John Smith, Debby Woodall, David Hatfield, David Rice
Implementation Date: Start of Fall Semester
This will include documentation of all promotional efforts in the areas of healthy
lifestyles and health risks during the academic year, a pre and post test to gauge the
level of recognition of these promotions by student users and a written effectiveness
tool for those promotions. Our department puts a significant amount of time and
energy into trying to promote healthy lifestyles, which fits into several CAS standard
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areas such as enhanced self-esteem, realistic self appraisal, healthy behaviors and
social responsibility. This will be an attempt at measuring the impact these
promotions may have on new students to the HSC Fitness Center.
Last
Year’s
Plan for
Improvem
ent
Student
Learning
Outcome(
s)
Assessment
Identify
Measures
Evidence
Students
who
utilize
the SAC
and
Humana
Gym
fitness
centers
will gain
exposure
to
informati
on
promotin
g healthy
lifestyle
behavior
s and
health
risks.
Documenta
tion of
materials,
promotiona
l efforts and
activities
provided by
the
Intramural
Sports
Department
relating to
identified
CAS
standards.
(CAS
standard
Healthy
Lifestyle
and Self
Appraisa
l)
Conduct
written
documentat
ion tool to
gauge
effectivenes
s of
promotiona
l materials
awareness.
Conduct a
pre test and
post test
written tool
gauging
change in
participant’
100% of
promotion
al
materials
will be
document
ed.
Goal of
80%
students
showing
an
awareness
of offered
programs
and
activities.
Timeline
ment
(Please
be
specific)
Pre-test will
be targeted
to random
users of the
SAC and
Humana
Gyms at
the start of
the 2008
spring
semester.
Post test
will be
given prior
to spring
break of
2008.
Goal of
Documenta
75% of
tion of
students
materials
showing
will be onan
going
increased
through the
awareness first half of
of the
the spring
Intramural semester.
Departme
nt’s
Promotiona
efforts at
l awareness
promoting written tool
healthy
will be
lifestyles
administere
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Observation
/ Evaluation Plans for
Results
Improve
There
were 72
participant
s in this
study. It
was
originally
supposed
to be a
pre-post
test but
only 5
people
agreed to
the post
test so the
tool was
amended
to a survey
only.
It is
somewha
t obvious
that
current
participan
ts in
informal
wellness
are more
knowledg
eable
than the
general
public in
the areas
of this
study.
82% knew
the proper
blood
pressure
for their
age group.
We need
to look at
ways to
market
student
wellness
to those
who are
not
current
participan
ts in the
program.
75% knew
We need
Students
are very
health
conscious.
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s awareness
of
identified
CAS
standards.
and health
risks.
d late
spring
semester.
the proper
body fat
percentage
for their
age group.
84% knew
proper
dietary
balances
of fruits,
grains,
meats,
fats,
vegetables
etc. for a
healthy
diet.
86% rated
exercise as
at least
very
important
to
reducing
stress in
their lives.
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to be
sensitive
to
opportuni
ties to
cross
promote
wellness
into other
areas of
the
overall
intramura
l program
such as
leagues
and
clubs.
A more
intentiona
l student
wellness
model is
probably
due for
our
campus.
This is a
great time
for that to
happen
with the
RFP for
the next
food
service
on
campus
currently
open.
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Assess officials in all sports
Strategy Meeting, August 16, 2007
Planning Team: John Smith, Dale Young, Designated UGAs
Implementation Date: Concurrent with start of IM program
We have always included questions on our team sport tools about officiating but
honestly, what kind of feedback do we get from participants about officiating? Given
the level of in-house expertise we have, we want to start an evaluation process of our
officials both for our benefit and theirs. It will help us with training and thus improve
the level of officiating for the participants as well as help individual officials improve
to the point where they may be able to get some of the community work we have
access to.
Officials were observed by the IM Coordinator and all supervisory staff during the
year. Daily game reports had a space for them to be rated. At the conclusion of each
sport the officials were rank ordered and that order was used to determine post season
assignments. It is also a good experience for our student supervisory staff to learn to
do evaluations and observations as well as a good experience for the officials
themselves.
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Continue to formalize/document Council agendas
Strategy Meeting: August 6, 2007
Planning Team: John Smith, Dale Young
Implementation Date: First council meeting
Last year we began keeping agendas from all council and IM Staff meetings. These
are helpful in the event of a problem after the meeting, we can go back to our agenda
and document that the topic was covered. It also helps us to document our efforts at
building community and our continued efforts at improving sportsmanship. We will
continue to formalize our Council agendas and document all topics covered. This year
the agendas will each include targeted SLO for that weeks’ meeting.
Formal agendas were developed for all council meetings. In addition to pertinent
information for current and upcoming events, various CAS standards and program
benefits were covered at the meetings. This was part of our intentional effort to
educate students to the core values and goals of our program in a different light than
in the past. We are trying to convey to our participants the fact that our program is
founded on the principles of qualities such as developing community, appreciation of
diversity, ownership with the university etc. and critical thinking. It appears that this
effort is taking root as student responses on team sport surveys etc. indicate a higher
level of recognition of these benefits than in the past.
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Conduct Team Sport Satisfaction surveys for each major team sport, SLO
Project
Planning Meeting: two weeks prior to completion of each regular season
Strategy Team: John Smith, Dale Young, Dale Ramsay
Implementation Date: Second week prior to playoffs in each sport
We survey each team, by written tool, to find out their level of satisfaction with the
soon-to-be-completed season. We develop a set of questions that will be asked in all
sports along with several other specific sport questions. This allows us to compare
results from various sports. This tool has been very beneficial to our department in
making program changes for the next year. This year we have two specific areas we
want to make sure and ask. We have used the same basic format for the tool for
several seasons. This year we will investigate new questions or topics for the tools
before the first release date. Also the SLO project for intramurals will be included on
the team sports tool to insure a good response rate.
Basketball
Scheduling
Officiating
Rules of Play
Supervisor Staff
Game Safety
Event Ops
Variety
Overall Satisfaction
6.1
7
7.5
8.6
8.5
8.5
8.4
8.6
Flag
Football
7.74
7.3
8
8.5
8.7
8.5
8.7
8.5
Soccer
Improved communication
skills
Improved leadership skills
Improved interpersonal
relationships
Improved appreciation of
diversity
Improved collaboration sklills
Improved sense of
owenership/UofL
Improved healthy behavior
skills
3.8
3.7
3.9
3.6
4
3.8
3.9
3.8
4.2
4
4
4.3
3.8
4.1
4.1
3.8
4.2
4.3
4
3.96
4
Used the league web site
Found the site to be helpful
36
31
22
21
20
18
7.6
7.9
8.1
8.6
7.7
8.3
8.8
8.7
A couple of responses stand out in this year’s team sports satisfaction comparisons.
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The most note able being the low response for the scheduling question on the
basketball tool. The responses were in response to a record number of teams entered
in the program that filled all available court times. That left us with no open court
time to move games to if a group had a problem with a game date or time. Obviously
a nice problem to have as it is an indication of the popularity of the program, but still
a frustrating situation for the participants.
It is interesting to note the higher responses from the soccer tool than the other sports.
This is probably due to soccer having the most qualified group of officials.
Regardless of everything else, the most important factor in groups having a quality
experience in a team sport setting is most directly related to the level of officiating at
that event. That is given more credibility when you consider the officials in the soccer
program received the highest overall rating from the respondents on the tool for all
sports.
It is encouraging to see our on-site staff continue to receive high marks for their event
supervision. Along with the officials, they are without question the most important
part of the success of the activity. The on-site supervisors have received consistently
high evaluations from participants for several years and are a reflection of the effort
that has been put into sportsmanship training as well as staff development.
Last
Year’s
Plan for
Improvem
ent
Student
Learning
Outcome(s
)
Intramural
participant
s will
demonstrat
e improved
levels of
appreciatio
n for CAS
standards
through
intentional
educationa
l
promotion
s.
(CAS
Identify
Evidenc
e
Promote
specific
intentio
nal
outcome
s
during
structure
d
intramur
al
contests,
IM
council
and
manager
s
Assessment
Measures
Goal of
100%
documentat
ion of
intentional
outcomes
covered at
managers
meetings
and IM
Council
meetings.
Observation
/ Evaluation
Timeline Results
Ongoing
througho
ut fall
and
spring
semester
s.
Written
tools
will be
distribut
ed to
Goal of
participa
75% of
nts
participants during
showing
the last
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151
respondents
On a 5
point scale
with 1
being
strongly
disagree
and 5 being
strongly
agree;
Improved
communica
tion skills
3.6
Plans for
Improvem
ent
(Please be
specific)
It is
obvious
that several
years of
promoting
values of
participatio
n in
intramural
sports are
starting to
be taken
seriously
by many
participants
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Standards
Leadership
,
Interperso
nal
Relationsh
ips,
Diversity,
Collaborati
on,
Healthy
Behaviors)
meeting
s.
improved
level of
understandi
Promote ng and
various appreciatio
CAS
n of
Standar identified
ds
CAS
through Standards.
printed
material
s
distribut
ed to
teams
i.e.
league
schedule
s,
publiciti
es, rules
etc.
week of
regular
season
play in
flag
football,
soccer,
basketba
ll and
volleyba
ll.
Improved
leadership
skills 3.8
Improved
personal
relationship
s4
Improved
appreciatio
n of
diversity
3.9
Improved
collaboratio
n skills 4
Improved
sense of
ownership
and
belonging
to the
University
3.9
Improved
healthy
behavior
lifestyle
skills 3.93
With all
response
totals being
close to 4,
which
would
indicate a
strong
agreement
with the
tool
statements,
overall
responses
should be
considered
to be very
encouragin
g.
Continue to
promote
values and
benefits
such as
these in
managers
meetings,
pre-game
captains
meetings,
staff
meetings
etc.
Continue to
promote
special
events
which
feature
these
benefits
such as
Unity in
Sportsmans
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hip Night,
Dare to
Play Fair,
Pre game
sportsmans
hip
discussions
.
The results of this project are very encouraging and show an improved understanding
by intramural participants regarding their understanding of values and benefits
experienced by participating in those programs. Such strong responses, especially in
the areas of improved sense of ownership with the university, improved collaboration
skills, improved appreciation of diverse cultures and improved healthy behavior
lifestyles demonstrate a level of understanding by our participants in the overall
qualities promoted by student affairs. There was a time when benefits from intramural
participation were thought to be only in the areas of fitness and skill acquisition. It
has been our belief that intramural sports represent one of the strongest areas of
acquisition for those benefits. It is gratifying to see students starting to realize those
same things.
It is significant to note that even though the above results were from a compilation of
three different sports, the results from sport to sport were very similar and contribute
to the accuracy of the tool.
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Conduct overall satisfaction tool to alumni
Planning Meeting: September 2, 2007
Strategy Team: John Smith, Dale Ramsay
Implementation date: with above direct mail campaign
We tried this tool last year in written form and got a very poor response. With the
advent of the new Plone system that may make on-line forms available we want to try
the tool again only in a web format. This would be our first effort at an on-line tool
but if it is successful could open the door to a number of on-line tools that would
greatly expand our assessment capabilities.
We have learned one thing from the attempts at on-line tools. Although the common
rationale may be that they are very convenient and easy to administer, the reality is
that they generate a much lower than thought return rate. We got only a few returns
from this tool, far from enough to make any credible observations from.
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Implement CPR/AED training for appropriate clubs
Strategy Meeting: July 8, 2007
Planning Team: John Smith, David Rice
Implementation Date: ASAP
Most of our clubs are supplied with CPR/AED coverage at their practices just from
the use of our facilities. On many occasions though, a club may travel to practice or
compete in a venue not operated by our department. We will implement a new policy
that any club that is going to conduct or participate in an activity outside of any of our
facilities will be required to have someone certified in CPR/AED use in order to do
so. All certifications will be documented so the club sport coordinator will have
ready access to records and will be able to grant approval of such participation
without delay.
We conducted a CPR class that was available to all clubs. Four clubs had someone
present for the class. We also heavily promoted the class to the clubs. While it was
great to have the clubs we had present, if we want to put some real teeth to this we
need to look at what clubs practice or compete at venues that we do not have trained
personnel at already, and make attendance at a class mandatory.
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Document all AED inspections
Strategy meeting: Completed
Planning team: John Smith
Implementation date: August 21, 2007
Per our prescription from the physician that oversees our AED program, all machines
must be covered by a warranty that includes inspection by an outside agency. That is
in place. When the machines are inspected we receive a written documentation stating
the machines are either in compliance with required standards or need a repair done.
If a repair is needed, a certificate of compliance is provided when the repair is
concluded.
All machines have been inspected, pads inspected for expiration dates and all
machines/pads are in good order. We did replace two batteries during the year and I
have an extra battery on site so we can immediately replace another that may go out.
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Document all staff certifications
Strategy meeting: Completed
Planning team: John Smith
Implementation date: Current
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We keep a spreadsheet on every certification issued from our department training
classes through the American Red Cross. We also keep the certification sheets turned
into the Red Cross for documentation as well. We are able to provide information on
any staff member’s certification at any time. This also helps us track renewal times
for every certification.
I issued 86 certificates to 66 people during the year. In addition to our staff, which
have been moved up to Professional Rescue level training, I certify staff for the
Student Activities Department and Residence Life Department. Our department
oversees the AED program not only in each of our facilities and the outdoor AED, but
also for two AEDs in the West Wing of the SAC and in the George Howe Red Barn.
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Track all injury reports
Strategy meeting: Completed
Planning team: John Smith
Implementation date: Current
With this tool we want to develop a database so that we can track all reported injuries.
We then will be able to compare injury rates between indoor & outdoor activities,
structured program to informal program. We will also categorize the severity of all
injuries and compare statistics between sports and related activities. This may have
implications in our future training and certification plans.
We had 63 reported injuries this year. Of those, 13 required advanced medical
attention such as surgery, casting or stitches. Our staff did a great job of responding to
all medical situations. Following is a breakdown of reported injuries. It is interesting
to note that our reported EMS runs were much lower than previous years although
serious medical injuries (ones that required more advanced care) were up just a
couple. I think many students are becoming more and more conscious of the cost of
being transported by EMS and are having friends or Public Safety transport them if
that option is available.
Lower body joint injuries
Blood injuries
Upper body joint injuries
Loss of consciousness
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30
25
5
4
Include a specific question on injury response to team sport satisfaction tools
Strategy meeting: September 3, 2007
Planning team: John Smith, Dale Young
Implementation date: Concurrent with first team sports tool
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We have had a question relating to safety on the previous team sport tools but we
don’t think our participants understand the question. We think they may understand it
to be more relating to facility safety etc. than our response to injuries. We will change
that question to be more specific about our injury response program and review the
data collected. This fits with our marketing goal of improving participant’s
knowledge of our injury response capabilities.
We had 151 total responses on Team Sport Satisfaction tools this year. Of those, 32
had injuries that required attention by a supervisor. On the satisfaction tool, they were
asked to rate the response by those supervisors on a scale of Excellent, Above
Average, As it should be, Below Average or Poor. 82% of respondents said care was
either excellent or above average. No responders said care was below average or
poor. I think our training programs are very credible and prepare our staff to
competently take care of injuries that they can be certified to respond to.
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Inventory response bags on regular basis
Strategy meeting: Completed
Planning team: John Smith, Dale Young
Implementation date: August 13, 2007
Our current system of keeping our response bags properly equipped needs revision.
Our procedure now is for people to notify John if they use supplies in the bags so they
can be replenished. This doesn’t happen on a regular basis and invariably bags
become depleted of supplies or run too close to depleted. We will begin a routine
inventory of bags by John to insure they are properly equipped.
The response bags were inventoried three times during the year. They were inspected
and stocked once prior to the start of the fall, another time prior to the start of the
spring semester and a final time at the conclusion of the spring. All bags were kept
current with supplies needed for staff to respond to medical situations that they are
qualified to perform.
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Compare injury statistics between turf and grass fields
Strategy meeting: Completed
Planning team: John Smith, David Hatfield, Dale Young
Implementation date: Start of fall semester
Now that we have the grass surface fields developed and in use at SGA Parkway
Field, we want to determine if the grass is a significantly safer surface than the
artificial surface used at Trager Field for many of our activities.
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Per injury reports, we did not use Trager Field enough to gather data regarding
reported injuries from that facility so the tool could not be completed. In fact, we had
no injuries reported at Trager Field at all.
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Implement a marketing plan checklist for all clubs
Strategy Meeting: July 8, 2007
Planning Team: John Smith, David Rice
Implementation Date: ASAP
For two years we have stipulated that all clubs submit a marketing plan for promotion
and recruitment efforts of their club. This is simply an effort to document the fact that
each club has done so. All marketing plans will be kept in the Intramural Office so we
have ready access to them.
All clubs submitted a marketing plan to the Sport Club Coordinator that outlined
recruitment plans, promotions and general marketing projects. The coordinator
reviewed all plans to insure compliance with university and department policies. As
the sport club program continues to grow, this is an area that we probably should take
more of a lead role in. Having our marketing staff person attend a Sport Club
Federation meeting to assist the clubs in the development of their plan would
probably be a good start to achieving a more formalized marketing plan.
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Conduct a diversity awareness tool (SLO project)
Strategy Meeting: July 8, 2007
Planning Team: John Smith, David Rice
Implementation Date: Early fall semester and late spring semester
As part of investigating applicable CAS standards, we will conduct a project to
measure sport club federation participants’ awareness of diversity and the associated
benefits of healthy lifestyles, self-esteem and meaningful personal relationships. The
tool will be in the form of a pre and post test, designed to gather open ended
responses from federation participants. As part of the project, intentional outcomes
will be promoted to participants at regular club practices and functions by the
organizations leader. We did this tool on a limited basis last year (Badminton Club)
and the results were so good that we have decided to expand it to the other clubs and
do it on a much larger scale this year.
Club
Aikido
Ballroom
Dance
Bowling
Fencing
Responses Diversity Self Esteem
8
3.4/3.8
3.7/4.1
21
3.8/4.8
3.7/4.7
24
12
4/4.4
3.5/4.3
3.3/4.1
3.4/4.4
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Lifestyle
3.7/4.2
3.6/4.5
3.7/4.3
3.8/4.6
Relationships Balance
4/4.8
3.3/4.1
3.7/4.4
3.3/4.2
3.6/4.1
3.8/4.6
4.2/3.5
3.7/4.2
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Polo
Racquetball
Tai Chi
Tae Kwon
Do
6
9
5
12
3.3/3.5
4/4.2
4/4.3
4.1/4.1
4/4
3.5/4
4.2/4.5
4/4.2
4/4
3.5/3.8
4/4.3
4.2/4.3
3.8/4.1
3.7/4.7
4/4.5
4/4.5
3.5/4
3.6/4.2
4/4.1
4.2/4.3
OFFICE OF CAMPUS LIFE
ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
2007-2008 Academic Year
Department: Intramural Sports Sport clubs
Date: May 2008
Last
Student
Year’s
Learning
Plan for
Outcome(s)
Improvem
ent
Participants
in the Sport
Club
Federation
program
will
demonstrat
e that their
involvemen
t with the
program
provides
them with a
meaningful
outlet for
achieving
balance
between
academic
pursuits
and leisure
activities
and also
increases
their
Assessment
Measures Timeline
Identify
Evidence
Observatio
n/
Plans for
Evaluation Improvem
Results
ent
(Please be
specific)
Administrat
ion of a pre
test and post
test written
tool that
will
measure
levels of
personal
expectations
of identified
CAS
standards.
Tool will
very “open
ended” by
design so
that
responses
on the post
test will
show
genuine
improveme
nts in
identified
Goal of
80% of
total
responde
nts giving
either
strongly
agree or
agree
responses
on post
test tool.
In
addition,
within
the goal
of 80%, a
goal of at
least 50%
indicatin
ga
strongly
agree
response.
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Pre test
will be
administer
ed in the
early
spring
semester
pending
organizati
on of the
test club.
(badminto
n)
All
groups
showed
increased
response
rates in
post test
on all
questions
with only
two
exception
s and
those
Post test responses
will be
remained
given late unchange
in the
d but did
spring
not show
semester, a
after
reduction
spring
of any
break and kind.
before
final
The most
exams.
significan
For several
years we
have made
a
significant
effort at
making
values and
benefits of
participatio
n in all of
our
programs
more
visible to
our
participant
s. Many of
our
participant
s are
recognizin
g the more
community
based
benefits
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exposure
and
awareness
to the
diverse
university
population.
outcomes.
t increases
were in
the areas
of healthy
lifestyle
and
balance
between
academic,
self
esteem
and
leisure
pursuits.
Although
every
organizati
on
showed a
particular
area of
increased
response
rate. For
example
the
ballroom
dance
club
showed a
much
higher
rate of
increase
in the area
of
appreciati
on of
diverse
cultures.
(CAS
Standards
Appreciatin
g Diversity,
Enhanced
Self
Esteem,
Productive
Lifestyles,
Meaningful
Interperson
al
Relationshi
ps)
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more than
the
traditional
health and
activity
benefits,
which is
good.
We need to
continue
our efforts
at
promoting
values
such as
diversity,
self
esteem,
sense of
ownership,
feeling of
community
etc. to the
leaders of
the groups
at Sport
Club
Federation
meetings
so they can
in turn be
examples
in those
areas to
their club
members
and be able
to talk
from a
more
informed
standpoint
to those
values.
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Review Nelligan status on a regular basis
Strategy meeting: July 7, 2007
Planning team: John Smith, Dale Ramsay
Implementation date: Concurrent with awarding of contract
We are finishing up our second year into a project that no other intramural department
in the nation has done before. We are partnering with Nelligan Sports Marketing to
generate income for our department through the selling of advertising and other
promotional programs. We continue to review and explore new ways of furthering
our relationship with the firm. Nelligan has been aggressive in pursuing potential
leads for us and several promising relationships appear to be close.
The representatives from Nelligan were met with on several occasions during the year
for updates regarding their recruitment of new sponsors and to insure compliance
with current sponsors.
XIV. Safety
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Safety/Risk Management
We have 29 staff members certified to use the AED machines and respond to
emergency medical situations through the American Red Cross. Our department
provided over 60 American Red Cross certifications in Professional Rescue, Adult
CPR, First Aid and Preventing Disease Transmission. We had all of our AEDs
inspected and approved by Physio Control as required by our prescribing physician.
These 29 trained responders are called “designated responders” and were certified in
CPR/AED use, Standard First Aid and Preventing Disease Transmission certified
through the American Red Cross. At least one of these staff members is on duty in
our facilities and at our programs at all times. As a staff, we responded to 63
documented emergency medical situations last year that were deemed serious enough
for our supervisors to complete written reports. That is only 1 injury different than the
previous year’s total (64). Given the nature of our program and activities, it is prudent
to anticipate that we will have emergency medical situations on a regular basis. Our
current method of training designated responders makes our response to these
situations quicker and more thorough than our previous method of mass training.
Each of the 63 injured participants that had a response form filled out received a
follow up call to see if they needed assistance of any kind and just to show concern
from our part. Five of the injuries required a run by EMS and at least 13 participants
ended up having surgery, stitches or casts.
Lower body joint injury
Upper body joint injury
Blood
Head injury
Total reported injuries
30
5
25
4
63
We continue to be represented by John Smith on a Louisville Area Chapter Red Cross
steering and quality assurance committee which insures that we stay well informed in
the event of any protocol or method changes that would impact our response training.
Any of those changes or new information would be presented to the oversight
committee before being released to the general public so we are assured of having the
most up to date emergency response information available.
We also continue to oversee the AED coverage of two machines in the SAC West
Wing and Red Barn along with the training of their appropriate staffs under the same
responsibilities for coverage as applies to the machines in the intramural areas of the
university. Last year we certified 19 people from the staffs of the SAC
Administration, SAB and Red Barn.
In addition our Emergency Procedures Manual is still being used by the Louisville
Area Chapter of the American Red Cross as a template for other agencies to use in the
development of their own. That should be considered to be quite a compliment for
our department.
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We also developed a training session relating to MRSA and implemented department
protocols to insure we were on the leading edge of dealing with this potentially
deadly virus. There are no current certifications available from national health/safety
agencies which prompted us to develop our own training program.
XV.
Technology
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Technology
Technology continues to impact the way we do our jobs on a daily basis. Technology
is an area that can be as time-consuming as we allow it to be. There is always
something that can be done on the web site, to virus protection, critical updates or just
cleaning up machines hard drives and performing de-frag procedures. There is so
much that can be done with technology that we have to be careful to maintain a
balance of time management reflective of other functions that our technology people
need to do. It would be very easy for a department with the number of machines to
maintain and the web space that we maintain to dedicate someone completely to that
area.
The continued evolution of the Plone content management system is one that still
presents many challenges to us but has an upside that makes it worth the extra work
and time commitment, at least for now. The new version of Plone does have some
really advantageous features for us though. We had every one of our roster deadlines
and other events posted on the Plone calendar, which is a good feature of the current
system that will be carried over to the new one.
Much of our technology efforts this year were in the area of virus protection and
system updates. To date we have performed 990 critical updates and virus protection
upgrades to our machines. We had no machines impacted because of our work at
keeping the critical updates current. This is significant because we are now
maintaining 14 machines, which is the same size as many of the computer labs on
campus. It also helped us this year to enter into the Microsoft Campus Agreement.
Through the licensing capabilities of that program we were able to update every
machine to the XP operating system as well as the newest version of Microsoft
Office. We will continue to be involved with the agreement program as it makes
license renewal and acquisition much cheaper than other avenues.
Every machine in our department is now as current and efficient as possible. They are
all at the point where if they could not perform a needed task they would need to be
replaced as there are not other upgrades that could be done to them.
We are currently in the process of moving our web site to a new address and new
look that has been created for Student Affairs by IT. It will be completed by mid
summer and fully functional by the start of the fall semester. The address will be
much easier for people to find and use.
In collaboration with David Horrar, the Tier-One for Student Affairs, we developed a
written document detailing steps in re-formatting a machine. This was very time
intensive and involved actually re-building a machine while we were developing the
document. Now that the document is completed, it should save various Student
Affairs departments significant downtime when a machine needs to be rebuilt.
XVI. Fitness
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Group Fitness Classes
After completing a survey of our group fitness classes at the end of the Spring 2007
semester, we decided to increase the number and variety of group fitness classes on
the Belknap campus. We added a new time slot of classes in the fall and spring
semester so we had 2-3 classes per day in the group fitness room at the Student
Activities Center (SAC). We added a class in the 4 - 5 PM hour to target students who
finish classes in early to late afternoon and do not want to wait around for the 5:15
PM class that we offer to accommodate staff who work until 5 PM. Those classes
were well attended at first but attendance tapered off as the semester progressed and
students’ schedules became too busy. In the spring we expanded the program again
when we collaborated with Campus Health Services (CHS) and Get Healthy Now
(GHN) to offer yoga classes on the Belknap Campus. CHS renovated space and
opened a multipurpose room in January and we incorporated 8 yoga classes into our
group fitness schedule. The Intramural Sports Department paid for the mats, straps,
blocks and one instructor and CHS and GHN split the expense of the 4 new
instructors. Those classes have been well attended and average from 4 to 10
participants per class.
The group fitness class schedule consisted of 31 classes during the spring semester up
from 18 per semester during the 2006-2007 academic year. We increased our class
number by 33% in the fall to 24, then another 33% in the spring semester to 31 for a
total of 66% growth in one year. There were 282 participants for the group fitness
classes in 2007-2008 an increase of 65% from 2006-2007 when we had 183 total
registrations. The increase in the number of group fitness classes offered was a huge
strain on the student wage budget, but looking at the overall picture the 65% increase
in participation justifies the increased expense and need for more funding in this area.
Of the 282 participants in the group fitness classes for 2007-2008 academic year, 225
participants were distinct users. We need to look into continuing to fund the
expansion of this program since it is serving over 200 distinct participants and could
grow even more with more concentrated marketing efforts to the incoming freshman
class.
Fitness Assessments
The Fitness Assessment program numbers were down 25% from last year after a 10%
decrease from the previous year. Though the numbers have decreased for the past two
(2) years we feel this is a viable program and will continue to offer dates for these
services. The value participants receive for the money we charge and the service we
offer is a great deal. One obstacle we face is the Get Healthy Now (GHN) program
offers the same service for participants at no charge. However students are excluded
from those programs and we are the only resource for these services on campus. A
second obstacle we face is not having dedicated space to offer the assessments on a
drop in basis or an appointment as requested at short notice. Currently, there are
various dates set at the beginning of the semester and someone may schedule an
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appointment on those dates only. The reasoning behind this system is that the space
that is used to conduct fitness assessments serves dual purposes and needs to be
scheduled and furniture re-arranged in order to conduct the assessment. Equipment
must also be transported between the Health Sciences and Belknap Campuses in order
to conduct the assessments. The third reason behind the decrease in number may be
due to the addition in the mini fit-checks program through our department. Instead of
the fitness orientation classes we used to offer as an introduction to the weight rooms
at our three facilities; SAC, HSC & Humana Gym, we offer mini fitness check-ups
outside the weight rooms on various dates throughout the semester. They are free and
people can walk up and have their body composition measured, blood pressure taken
or just ask any fitness related question for free.
Mini Fit-Checks
The mini fit-checks program has evolved over the years trying to engage more
students into adopting healthier lifestyles and become more active during their
collegiate years. We used to offer fitness orientation classes where participants would
have to commit to a one hour session which would take them through a tour of the
weight room/ fitness center and were shown how the equipment works and what the
benefits of exercise are. Those sessions were not well attended, so we assessed the
program and changed it to offer mini fitness checks where we just stationed the
fitness director outside the weight rooms at the three fitness centers and offered body
composition assessments and blood pressure screenings at no charge. These were well
received at the Student Activities Center (SAC) and Humana Gym and often there
were long lines of students waiting to have there body composition measured or their
blood pressure taken. The mini fit-checks were not as well received at the HSC
facility and few people took advantage of the services. In addition to the body
composition and blood pressure screenings we conducted, the students, faculty and
staff had the opportunity to ask fitness related questions which could be answered
immediately or the information taken down and they were responded to via e-mail
after research was done and sent to them. Demonstrations were also done on the
equipment when patrons had questions about how certain equipment worked and
what it was used for. We do not have any numbers as to how many people were
served through this program, but there were two to three dates at the SAC that we had
could not serve everyone waiting for the service and we had to refer them to the next
scheduled date.
“Your Fit Weight” Program
This is a new program we are working on to collaborate with Campus Health Services
(CHS) and Health Sciences and Sport Studies (HSS) to begin when the students
return for the fall semester. It will be a minimally guided, educational program to help
students adopt healthy lifestyle habits that will last a lifetime. We hope to obtain one
or two junior or senior level interns from the exercise science department to help
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administer and track the program participants. Students will be recruited to participate
in the semester-long program where they will receive an initial weigh-in as well as
have their body composition and measurements taken. They will be taken through a
first-time work out and one or two follow-up workouts to teach proper techniques on
the exercises. The students will be asked to keep track of their workouts and turn in
points earned based on exercise sessions or healthy lifestyle sessions they attend
throughout the semester. CHS is offering a walking club/program beginning this fall
and we are trying to coordinate the two programs so students may participate in the
walking club to earn points. We are also working with Instructional Technology (IT)
to develop an online tracking system that students may log onto and track their
mileage and strength training workouts.
We traveled to Western Kentucky University (WKU) to tour their new student health
center and visit with their health and wellness staff since they have a similar program
already implemented that we can look at as a model. We hope to learn a great deal
from their experiences and use it as a model for our program and modify it to fit the
needs our students and our available resources. This program has the potential to be
great, but it will take a great deal of collaboration with HSS to get qualified interns to
help administer the service to the students for the initial weigh-ins and workouts.
XVII. Sports Club Federation
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Sports Club Federation
The 2007-08 school year was an exciting one for the Sports Club Federation. The
Federation began the season with 16 members but that number quickly and
significantly fluctuated. Cycling and Shotokan Karate became defunct over the course
of the year. Tennis, Disc Golf, and Women’s Lacrosse were added, swelling our
number to a record 17 clubs. Founded on the ideas of promoting student interests in
particular sports, the clubs have been allowed to expand and include community and
alumni members as well, which lends stability to the clubs by not limiting
involvement to just the few years you are with the school. We believe we are the one
of the few, if not only, sports club programs in the country that allows community
members, which is something we are very proud of. The clubs are lucky to have the
strong leadership that they enjoy, with many clubs having an experienced and
dedicated individual overseeing all aspects of their respective club. This is perhaps
the largest contributing factor for the continued success of our clubs and one that we
will continue to foster amongst the membership.
A new committee was formed this year which greatly improved the quality and
ability of our clubs to offer programs. The Dean of Students Office Club
Programming Committee was created in the Spring semester with the intention of
providing funding for University student groups to offer programs that would benefit
the campus community. In the first semester of this committee, it provided funding
for programs for 8 of our clubs. This is a tremendous benefit to our club program due
to the fact that we are unable to provide departmental funding for any of our groups.
We would like to thank the Dean of Students Office for creating this wonderful
opportunity and we look forward to working with them long into the future.
The following is a brief outline of the accomplishments of our seventeen clubs for the
2007-08 academic year:
Lacrosse Club
In their first year playing a full season, the Lacrosse club finished with a 4-2
conference record and 9-3 record overall in intercollegiate play. The team played well
in all contests, representing their university with pride and composure, even in defeat.
Playing in the Midwest Conference of the National Collegiate Lacrosse League, the
club was able to play a full schedule with a roster of 30 players. With the assistance
of the Club Programming Committee, the club was able to host a match against the
University of Kentucky Lacrosse Club at St. Xavier High School’s new stadium, with
approximately 3000 people in attendance. This was a tremendous marketing
opportunity for the club, and a super overall event for the club and our department.
The Lacrosse Club continues to do very well competitively, and we hope that the
coming season will be more of the same.
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Fencing Club
The Fencing Club had an exciting year and grew in membership as well as quality.
While some of their older fencers moved on, the club has a good amount of young
talent. They taught three beginners classes this past year and retained over 50% of the
students for continued training. The Club traveled to play a match against the
University of Cincinnati in the spring. Our fencers also attended the Bluegrass State
Games, Holiday Open, Cory Stauble Memorial, Night of Swords, and the Junior
Olympic Qualifier tournaments. The group is very close to becoming a registered
club with the United States Fencing Association, a status they can only attain through
competition. While numbers may vary from week to week, the University of
Louisville Fencing Club has a bright future that continues to grow from a strong past.
Aikido Club
The Aikido Club had another productive year. Promotional testing was held in
November and April, with several members rising in rank. Members attended training
seminars in October, January, and April. The club also held promotional testing in
September and October. Several members participated in the Walk for Hunger on the
riverfront. Dr. Pat Hardesty and Mrs. Alicia Hardesty, lead instructors for the club,
have taken a more active leadership role in the daily operations due to turnover in
membership, which we feel can only be considered a positive. The department would
like to thank Eric Otten for his leadership over the past year. It will be important in
the coming year for the club to put more effort into recruitment. The Aikido Club is a
consistently strong member of the club program and will no doubt continue to be so
in the future.
Kempo Karate Club
2008 has been another productive year for the University of Louisville Kempo club.
There are 5 black belts in the club with several brown-belts progressing towards dan,
or black-belt levels, and several beginners that have signed up in the last two
semesters. The club hosted a self-defense seminar in May, which was well-received
by those who participated. The club plans to market itself more aggressively over the
summer and fall in an effort to increase its membership. Once again, the Kempo Club
continues to do well under the leadership of Jeremy Briley. Kempo is one of our
oldest clubs and it continues to be a leader in the Sports Club Federation.
Tai Chi Club
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The Tai Chi Club continued its trend of active participation in the Tai Chi community
this year. The Club performed Tai Chi demonstrations at the International Kite
Festival in Georgetown, KY in April and hosted World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events
on April 26, 2008 at Humana Gym. The latter was a very successful event, which saw
over 50 people in attendance. Demonstrations and free workshops were presented.
Mayor Jerry Abramson issued a Proclamation, recognizing April 26 as World Tai Chi
& Qigong Day in Louisville. The club will also be co-sponsoring (with the Kentucky
Tai Chi Chuan Center) a three-day seminar in June. Under the strong leadership of
Mr. Carl Meeks, we expect nothing but good things to come with this group.
Tae Kwon Do Club
The Tae Kwon Do Club is perhaps the most consistently productive group we have
the honor of hosting in our department. Each year, the group has a rigid structure of
testing and promotion, and executes this plan with diligence. Demonstrations were
held in August, January, and May. Promotional testing was successfully administered
in September, December, March, and May. The group performed at both Intramural
Sports International Night events. An Instructor Clinic was held in August as well.
Club members also attended the ACTA Advanced Instructor Testing in June 2007.
The club hosted a self-defense seminar as well as in intra-club tournament in March,
as well as the ACTA Junior Tournament. The group once again held a Holiday Food
Drive, where they gathered food baskets and distributed them to needy families over
the Christmas season. To top it all, the club celebrated its 30th Anniversary at the
University of Louisville in December with an awards banquet and dinner in the Red
Barn. The best compliment a club can receive is to say they know what they are doing
and they do it well, which certainly applies to the UofL Tae Kwon Do Club.
Badminton Club
The purpose of the Badminton Club is to provide an opportunity for both recreational
and competitive play for university as well as community members. It is one of the
longest-tenured clubs on our roster, being active for nearly 30 years. During the past
year the club has had consistently good attendance for the Tuesday and Friday nights
classes at Humana Gym. Membership of the club consists of a strong international
contingent, with members from Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Japan, Singapore, Hong
Kong, Nepal, India, Russia, Germany, England, Scotland, Canada, and the United
States. The club is truly one of the most multicultural and diverse of all student
groups. Several clinics and training sessions were held this year to assist the members
in improving their skills. The club once again hosted the Kentucky State Open
Badminton Tournament in January, as well as the Kentucky State Senior Games
Badminton Tournament last May. The club donated canned goods for Christmas food
baskets and also made contributions to the Angel Tree. Finally, the group was a guest
at the Intramural Sports International Nights held in October and March, where their
diverse membership was a welcome addition to the evenings. In the near future, the
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club hopes to organize a competitive team to play against local colleges and
universities, as well as regional and perhaps national tournaments. This aspect of the
club was common for many years, but recently the group has become more
recreational then competitive. We hope to see the club return to the realm of
competition while remaining a thriving recreational outlet for our international
community. The Badminton Club continues to flourish under the leadership of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Norton, and will no doubt continue to do so.
Racquetball Club
The Racquetball Club continued its impressive growth as a club. Individual club
members participated in tournaments in Murray, Lexington, and Louisville, as well as
an open tournament in Indianapolis in January. The club traveled in two
intercollegiate tournaments: one held at The Ohio State University and the other at
Purdue University. The club sponsored its third annual tournament in April, which
hosted players from five different universities. Dr. Gordon Henry continued his role
as lead instructor and advisor of the club, and it is his strong leadership that continues
to direct the club in a positive direction. The Racquetball Club is quickly becoming
one of our premier groups, and we are proud to be able to assist in this growth.
Ice Hockey Club
The 2007-08 Ice Hockey season brought many ups and downs for players and
management. One again, the club played and practiced at Iceland Arena, which
hosted the club for its 10th season. The club’s success was measured in that it played a
full schedule and gave a respectable effort throughout the season. After playing an
abbreviated schedule in 2006-07, a full schedule was played this year. The
Department recognizes club president Bryan Block for his tremendous efforts in
keeping the club organized and cohesive. While not always successful, the club
continues to pursue the puck with enthusiasm. With teamwork and determination the
team will be very successful for years to come.
Women’s Polo Club
The 2007-08 season for the University of Louisville Polo team was one of
recuperation and growth. Following the previous season, the future of the club was in
doubt. However, after a lot of hard work and dedication from the returning players
and the newly recruited, the club was able to manage its affairs with more care. Both
the men’s and women’s teams did a fair amount of traveling and playing. The
women’s team took trips to Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, as well as Lexington. Both
teams traveled to Virginia to compete in the Southeast Regionals to advance to
Nationals. Finally, in April, the club was able to host a match with the funding
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provided by the Club Programming Committee. Due to its efforts, the Polo Club was
awarded Outstanding Sports Club at this year’s Intramural Sports Awards.
Ballroom Dance Club aka: “Dancing with the Cards”
“Dancing with the Cards” is a relatively new club but is quickly becoming on of our
best. This year members learned the Merengue, Hustle, Bachata, Cha-cha, Waltz,
Foxtrot, Rumba, Salsa, Mambo, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Quickstep, Bolero, and East
Coast Swing. The club hosted several events, including the Dark Masquerade, Winter
Ball, and Swing Into Spring. The group performed at the International Banquet, as
well as a fundraiser for the Junior League of Louisville. Finally, in March, the group
was invited to teach Bachata at the USA Ballroom Dancers Association of Louisville
Dance. The department would like to thank Allison Thompson and Boris Yelin for
their continued leadership. Our Ballroom Dance Club had a tremendous year, and we
look for continued success from this well-organized and energetic group.
Bowling Club
2007-08 was a tremendous second season for the Bowling Club. The group arranged
for practices to be held at first Kingpin Lanes and later Executive Bowl. It joined the
American Heartland Conference and immediately began competition. The group
participated in tournaments in Pittsburgh, two in Toledo, Youngstown, St. Louis,
Notre Dame, Indianapolis, Chattanooga, and Louisville. At the conference finals in
Lorraine, Ohio, the club finished 5th overall. The group ended the season with an
awards dinner where members were recognized for their efforts. Dan Palmer,
President of the club, was awarded the Sports Club Mendy Award for his
organizational efforts as well as prowess on the lanes. The Bowling Club had a
wonderful season and we hope to see more of the same in the coming year.
Tennis Club
The Tennis Club was restarted this year after a year’s absence from the Department.
The group was able to secure sponsorship through the USA Team Tennis program,
which was implemented in the fall semester. Practices were held at the Bass-Rudd
Tennis Center. In April, the club was able to sponsor its first tournament, with the
assistance of the Club Programming Committee, which hosted teams from Purdue,
Southern Illinois, and Xavier. Thanks go to Paul Berrier for taking the leadership role
and making the efforts needed to restart the group. The Tennis Club had a good first
season, and looks to be a strong contributor to our program in the coming school year.
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Disc Golf Club
The Disc Golf Club was founded in the Fall 2008 as a recreational club with the
future goal of competition. The club met regularly at Iroquois Park disc golf course.
In the spring, the club had 50 discs created with the Cardinal Bird logo and sold them
for a fundraiser in an effort to raise money for a portable goal. The Disc Golf Club is
a young one and time will tell if it is able to continue as a viable club. For now, it is in
good standing and has found its place in our department.
Women’s Lacrosse Club
The Women’s Lacrosse Club was restarted in the Fall semester after a two-year
absence. Although strong efforts were made to get the club started, little was done in
the spring to organize the group. In the immediate future, efforts will need to be made
to see that the group gains some momentum and is able to flourish in the department.
A strong local Lacrosse community will be a solid foundation, as many high school
players graduate and come to UofL looking to play lacrosse.
Table Tennis Club
The Table Tennis Club was active during the Fall semester, with practices being held
regularly in the Cardinal Corner. During the Spring semester, the club did not hold
many practices due to some personal matters concerning the president of the club.
While still an officially recognized club, the group will have to come together as an
organization and decide if it wants to continue with our Department. Every effort will
be made to assist the group as it hopefully reconvenes in the Fall 2008.
Gymnastics Club
This year was another building year for the Gymnastics Club. The focus of the group
became more recreational then competitive this year, but the group was not very well
organized. Unless some further structure is put in place, the future of this club will
continue to be in doubt. We will provide any help necessary to see that this club
continues.
Shotokan Karate Club and Cycling Club
The Shotokan Karate and Cycling clubs closed their doors this year after one year
with the department. Hopefully these clubs will be able to be restarted at some point
in the future.
XVIII. Special Events / Programs
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Faculty/Staff Golf Scramble
The Intramural and Recreational Sports Department sponsored the 16 Annual
Faculty/Staff Golf Scramble, which was held on Friday, June 1 at Hidden Creek Golf
Club. This event brought together 140 golfers from the university community
consisting of faculty, staff, retirees, spouses, alumni and vendors. The teams were
requested or chosen according to their handicap or average score. Everyone who
participated received a round of golf with cart, a pre-luncheon cookout, U of L logo
Golf Shirt and a chance to win team prizes, individual Skill prizes, and a $280 skins
game. The weather was outstanding for the day of the scramble and played a vital
role in the tremendous success of the event. Currently, the Intramural Sports Staff
and Golf committee is coordinating the 17th Annual Golf Scramble to be held at
Nevel Meade Golf Course on Friday, June 13, 2008. A very special thanks should be
given to Dennis Keefe, Bill Monahan and Steve Michals for soliciting university
vendors to sponsor holes to off set the departments cost. This annual golf event has
provided a great opportunity for the Department of Intramural Sport to give
something back to the university faculty / staff community.
Project Graduation
Project Graduation is one of the best outreach programs that our department is
involved with. For the past fourteen years we have provided the recreation space in
the Student Activities Center for post-graduation celebrations. Parent groups from
both Male and Bullitt Central High Schools coordinate activities and provide food
and door prizes for the graduating seniors. Project Graduation provides a safe
alternative to the alcohol-related parties normally associated with high school
graduation.
This past year the Department of Intramural sports hosted Male High School and
Bullitt Central High School Project Graduation lock-ins. Both evening events brought
over 400 graduates to campus. Their parent organizing committee did an excellent
job in assisting with the evening activities. Most students arrived around 11:00 p.m.
and left around 5:00 a.m. Currently, we are planning on hosting the same two schools
in late May and early June of 2008.
NCA/UCA Cheerleading and Dance Camps
The Intramural and Recreational Sports Department for the 15th year has hosted
Cheerleading and Dance camps for National Cheerleading Association (NCA). These
camps are well attended and the organizers are extremely pleased with how they are
accommodated at U of L within the recreational facilities. This past year we hosted
five NCA Camps (One NCA Dance Camp, three youth NCA Cheer Camp and one
College Camp for Cheer, Dance and Mascots). The NCA camp brought over a 1000
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campers to campus and we had another outstanding year. Currently, the department
is negotiating another agreement with NCA Cheer and Dance for additional four
camps during the summer of 2008.
Louisville Regional Science Fair
The Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports hosted both the Louisville
Regional and Manual High School Science Fair during March 7 & 8 of 2008. Due to
inclement weather the event was forced to postpone regional science fair portion until
the following weekend The recreational center gym floor area was used for their
exhibit area. The event brought over 500 local middle schools and high schools
students to campus. The department worked closely with Student Activity Staff who
co-hosted the event. The event coordinators were extremely pleased with the area
and the service our staff provided for them over the two day event. The organizers
have already contact the department for arrangements on the 2009 Louisville Science
Fair.
U.S. Senior Olympics
During June of 2007, the Department of Intramural Sports had a tremendous
opportunity to assist in hosting the 2007 U.S. Senior Olympics games in Louisville.
The department coordinated facility space for Racquetball singles and doubles
competition. The event bought over 750 participants and spectators to campus over
the seven day event. The event was a tremendous success and the event brought
national wide attention to the university and Louisville area. The event coordinators
were extremely pleased with the facility and the service our staff provided for them
over the seven day event.
Louisville Thunder Volleyball Club
During the 2007-08 year the Department of Intramural Sports once again provided
practice space for Louisville Thunder Youth Volleyball Club at Humana Gym. They
practiced Monday through Friday evenings. The group had two separate teams, one
youth and one upper-teen, which necessitated the significant amount of practice time.
They used the gym floor during non-utilized hours, which allowed us to increase
overall usage and allow Humana to generate outside revenue for additional equipment
purchases and physical improvements to the facility. Renting the facility to this group
again proved to be beneficial to all parties involved. Hopefully, we can continue to
provide space for outside groups like the Thunder Volleyball Club.
Canoe Regatta
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This continues to be the only event on our schedule that features higher female
participation than male. This year there were 202 female participants and 140 males.
It continues to be one of the largest and most consistently popular events on campus
every year. We have averaged over 300 participants for 6 years in a row now. UPS
again covered the cost of the canoe rentals and have made this a regular part of their
campus exposure. This year we moved lunch to the Red Barn and used Chartwells to
cater the event. Everything was smooth from that end. Over 250 attended this year’s
lunch. The entire event hinges on the availability of McNeely Lake. The reservation
process from the Louisville Metro Parks Department has been different every year. In
fact for the past two year’s we’ve just shown up and used it. Often Metro Parks tells
us it’s a state park and not theirs then the state parks tell us just the opposite.
Sometimes we reserve the shelter area and the use of the lake comes with it. Other
times we are told to just show up and use the lake. We have had rescue personnel
from the Louisville Police and Fire departments the past five years and it appears that
we have found a more consistent group to work with in this critical area. They have
been more than cooperative and have provided a high level of emergency response
capabilities should they be needed.
Track Meet
The track meet this year built on the success of the last 5 year’s meets when we made
the most significant changes in the events history. We moved the event to early in the
fall schedule hoping more teams would be involved given that the points race was
still wide open. We also were able to implement use of the video board/scoreboard.
Music was played over the sound system throughout the night and the event was held
“under the lights.” Participation continues to grow in this event. Now that we have an
outstanding facility for the event, we have started an event record sheet with the top
time and distances in all meets. We should be able to use these in promotions for the
event and to generate interest. It will be good to have the current records in the press
box during the actual event and be able to announce “a new record in the women’s
200 has just been set by…” This will only add to the quality of what is rapidly
becoming one of our benchmark events. This year we had 7 new records set. These
records have the chance to become one of the traditions on our campus now that we
have established their existence to the participants. Next year we should look at doing
something to recognize new record holders like a special champion shirt etc. One
very cool thing that happened at this year’s meet was Delta Zeta setting a new meet
record in all 3 of the relay events.
The help of students from the Administration of Recreational Sports class has been
very significant to the success of the event. They have provided timers and judges for
the finish line for several meets now. The assistance of the track and cross country
coach has been very beneficial as well. Ron Mann has been very cooperative in
walking the track with me to show me the staggers and starts, explaining how to run
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different events and making a ruling on a protest we had a year ago. It’s good to get
cooperation like that from someone nationally recognized person like Coach Mann.
Track Meet Record Holders: 7 new records were set at this year’s meet.
Event
Women's 100 Meters
Men's 100 Meters
Women's 200 Meters
Men's 200 Meters
Women's 400 Meters
Men's 400 Meters
Women's 800 Meters
Men's 800 Meters
Women's 1600 Meters
Men's 1600 Meters
Women's 4 X 100
Men's 4 X 100
Women's 4 X 200
Men's 4 X 200
Women's 4 X 400
Men's 4 X 400
Women's Shot Put
Men's Shot Put
Women's Discus
Men's Discus
Women's High Jump
Men's High Jump
Women's Long Jump
Men's Long Jump
Time/Distance
0:12:09
0:11:00
0:27:75
0:22:93
1:07:00
52:59
3:10:59
2:08:00
5:39:00
4:43:00
57:84
0:46:54
2:04:62
1:39:07
4:57:00
3:47:00
33'8"
50'3"
71"2
136'10"
4'10"
6'2"
17'0"
22'3"
Person
Akojie
Matthew Bradley
Akojie
Jonathon Jones
Monica Murphy
Phil Naseman
Megan Reeves
Obehi Akajie
Amy Jay
Chris Belcher
Spradlin, Sartaine, Brady, Guidugli
Blackmon, Williams, Robinson, Hibbs
Spradlin, Sartaine, Brady, Guidugli
Blackmon, Williams,Warmath, Hibbs
Reeves, Guidugli, Boldery, Erwin
Blackmon, Gill, Wiggins, White
Rebecca Popham
Ben Porter
Jill Sullivan
Mike Albanese
Rachel Lageman
Edwin Welsch
Kelly Faber
Matt Piekarski
Organization
Independent
Blackout
Independent
Tornado
Chi Omega
SAE
Delta Zeta
Black Knights
Law School
Team Gold
Delta Zeta
Sigma Chi
Delta Zeta
Sigma Chi
Delta Zeta
Sigma Chi
Independent
Independent
Pi Beta Phi
Beta Theta Pi
Chi Omega
Black Knights
Med School Women
Law School
SAC…..Up All Night
This years’ Up All Night saw the event return to prominence on campus. There were
several hundred participants during the evening bolstered by the free throw
competition at the start of the night. What was very exciting to see though was the
complete change in crowds. As the evening wore on, a number of the mainly Greek
free throw participants left and we saw a huge influx of on-campus students come in.
The all star games were great and well received. The annual dunk contest had 6
participants and was as exciting as ever.
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$5000.00 Shot
As a special part of the Late Night we started taking an insurance policy out for a
$5,000.00 basketball promotion by four of the participants. This has been a popular
addition to the Late Night event. Contestants have an option of two contest formats. It
is exciting to watch and the fans all get into the shots. Good addition to the Up All
Night event.
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XIX. Activity Evaluations
Ultimate Frisbee
This year the Intramural Department had an increase of 14 teams from 11 teams of
last year. The league including the tournament lasted about 1 – 2 weeks in length. The
level of participants increased tremendously from those of the last 2 previous years.
Overall there were a total of 197 participants which is higher than last years 161
participants. This year’s champion which consisted of many of last years winners was
team Crash-n-Burn.
Suggestions:
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Stress sportsmanship and less physical play and aggressiveness.
Review rules, players are much more experienced.
Women’s Kickball
Kickball once again consisted of two leagues: Closed and Open. The closed league
had a total of 8 teams and the open league a total of 7 teams, which were 4 more than
the previous year. The total number of participants was 250, which was more than the
previous years 204 participants. This year’s winners were Kappa Delta in the closed
division and Crash-n-Burn in the open division.
Softball
Softball over the past years has faced many challenges when it came to the weather,
however this year the rain spared the participants holding off for the majority of the
season. The season was able to be completed in a timely manner. There were 11
fraternity teams and 10 open teams, with a total of 205 participants. This year’s
winners were: Fraternity- Sigma Chi and Open- Squad Up.
Flag Football
This years Flag Football season was a huge success before it even got started with a
total of 83 teams submitting rosters. This was an increase from 61 teams last year and
51 teams the year before. Along with the increase of teams was also an increase of
284 participants to 1,285. This year’s teams proved to be a lot more competitive as
well as a lot more diverse.
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Suggestions:
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Consider having an educational workshop for team captains and players on
the rules of the game.
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Consider actually making the mandatory managers meetings mandatory in
order to participate.
Tennis Singles
This year’s tournament went smooth but it took a long time to get done. We started
at1 PM and I didn’t leave until bout 9 PM, so this event lasted for 8 hours. We had
81 participants, of those there were 31 forfeits and defaults. There were 6 divisions,
which is 1 less than last year. We did have good weather. We had 8 courts outside
and 6 courts inside the Bass Rudd facilities. All games were played on stand-by
bases, versus having a scheduled match time. Nobody really left because all teams
wanted there points, but there may have been one or two that did.
Suggestions:
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Just make the finals the best two out of three sets
Maybe just have the matches be a 6 game pro set with a 10 point tie breaker.
Golf Tournament
This year’s golf tournament went smoothly with the weather being cooperative. The
tournament lasted a total of about 6 hours, with a total of 68 participants. The winners
for this year’s scramble in the team division were the men of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Floor Hockey
This years Floor Hockey League was ran very sub par. There were a lot questions
about the rules and rule interpretation. The players seemed to however still have fun.
There were a total of 5 teams, all of which were in the closed division. There were 17
games played with no forfeits. The winners of the league were the ladies of Kappa
Delta.
Graduate Basketball
The graduate basketball league this year had a total of 10 teams, with 93 participants.
The teams in this league are very competitive and sometimes don’t think the rules
apply to them. Something must be done to grasp the concept of sportsmanship and
respect for staff.
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Suggestions:
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Make managers meeting Mandatory for each team in order to participate.
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Consider making this a league a Friday League. Many of the students are nontraditional and may not travel home.
Badminton Tournament
This event ran very smoothly with the help of Mr. Norton. We had 106 participants
in the singles and doubles combined. This event was spread out over a 3 day period.
Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.
Suggestions:
 Order some more equipment for future tournament.
Fall Soccer
There were a total of 722 individual participants this year for the fall soccer league
which made up 60 total teams. This year the competition was very tight with many of
the teams becoming more aggressive as the games went on. This caused for some
injuries such as twisted ankles and knees, and small cuts or scrapes from being
tripped or kicked. But happily there were no serious injuries to report. The School of
Business won the Women’s Closed championship. MACH took home the Men’s B
shirts while Cavity Searchers were Men’s A champions. Sigma Chi was the top
contender in the Fraternity division and their fellow fraternity friends, SAE won the
Campus division. Ribery took home the Co-Rec title.
Suggestions:
 For next year make sure that each players ID number is checked before the games
start because there was a lot of confusion about eligible players.
 Make sure to un-highlight players that have come in to sign the roster. Many
players were will highlighted when they shouldn’t have been.
Tug-O-War
This year’s tug-o-war played host to the cold and wet weather of homecoming week.
However, that didn’t stop the participants from coming out a battling for bragging
rights of group with muscle. There were a total of 12 teams in both the fraternity and
women’s closed combined. The event lasted about one and a half hour with the
winner’s being Sigma Alpha Epsilon for the fraternity division and Delta Zeta for the
women’s closed division.
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Halloween Basketball Tournament
This year’s tournament for the most ran smoothly with a total of 18 teams, 4 of which
were women’s teams. The teams displayed good sportsmanship and seemed to really
enjoy themselves. This year’s winners were the Diaper Dandies in the men’s
tournament and Watch-n-Learn in the women’s tournament.
Suggestions:
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Make sure enough officials are available.
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Consider Regional Tournament Format (Pool Play with top 1 or 2 teams
advancing to tournament.) Guarantee at least 2 games
One on One Basketball
This year there were a total of 47 participants wit 8 forfeits. 41 games were played
which lasted 2 hours. The winners were the following: Fraternity-Harrison Rich
(Sigma Chi), Women’s Closed-Brittany Boldery (DZ), Women’s Open-Ewa
Urbanowska, and Men’s Open- Brandon Johnson. The event went well and we were
out of there sooner than we thought we were.
Bowling Doubles
Bowling Doubles once again hosted at Ken Bowl, played host to 208 participants
which was a great decline from tournaments hosted in the past. However, it did not
tarnish the spirit of what intramurals is all about, many participants came out and
participated in what was more of a semester end celebration. Participants had fun in
what could be viewed as a non-competitive environment.
Suggestions:
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Create a system to get the participants to come in for Champion Pictures.
Turkey Trot
This year’s road race was the 54th Annual Turkey Trot. There were a total of 85
runners registered in the race. The race lasted 2 hours. The winners were Emily
Erwin- Delta Zeta and Patrick Reed- PIKE. Once again the race ran smooth with the
assistance of the campus police.
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Swim Meet
This year’s swim meet once again was hosted in the Ralph Wright Natatorium. With
the assistance of students from Dale Ramsay’s class the event seem to flow very
smoothly. Going into this year’s event the knowledge of the non-functioning
scoreboard proved to be very beneficial, allowing the staff enough time to plan.
Another thing that proved to be a great help for the participants was the new picture
system. Participants were able to take pictures on sight versus extra trips into the
office. There were a total of 116 participants with an increase of 31 participants from
last year.
Suggestions:
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Continue using the dry erase board during the pictures at poolside.
Racquetball Singles
Racquetball went good for the most part. If everyone would have shown up it might
have taken all day. I would suggest starting the event an hour or two later; because
there was several forfeits. To reduce the forfeit number starting later could possibly
work. Maybe more courts would be sufficient to reduce how long the event lasts.
Racquetball Doubles
It was a fun event to watch. It didn’t last as long as racquetball singles. I would
suggest starting the event at a later time, so there would less forfeits. More courts will
always make the event time run shorter. Every participant followed the rules and
knew the rules so it made things smoother.
Billiards Singles and Doubles
There were 78 participants that participated in this event. There were 4 divisions
which included: Fraternity, Women’s Closed, Campus, and Men’s Open. We
separated the event into 3 separate nights. The first night involved the Women’s
Closed and Campus. The first night started off a little later because there was a
special guest in the game room, Dr. Cue. But the night was good turnout still. In the
Women’s Closed Singles, M. Whittle from DZ won against Albritton from Chi
Omega. In the Women’s Closed Doubles, the ladies from Chi Omega won,
Ahern/Albritton. They defeated the ladies of Sigma Kappa. In the Campus Division,
Hamilton from TKE won the singles. He also won the doubles in Campus Division
along with fellow teammate Owens of TKE. So TKE had a good night. The next day
featured the Women’s Open which weren’t any and Men’s Open. In the Men’s Open
there were only 7 participants who signed up but only 2 showed up. So they just
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played the best 2 out of 3 for the championship in which Joe Moore took home the
title. The last night which was the biggest night was the Fraternity. The winners of
that night were Bratton from TKE in the Singles over Niehaus of Triangle. In the
Doubles, Triangle took the title over SAE. The winners for Triangle were
Niehaus/Stivers. Overall, billiards was a good event and turnout. The event lasted 2
hours each night. 94 games were played total and there were 26 forfeits.
Basketball League
This year’s basketball league played witness to great growth. There was an increase
of 14 teams from 73 teams in the previous year. Along with the great growth of teams
was the retention of officials. This year there was a larger number of officials
returning with experience from the previous year. The combination of these two
ingredients set up the equations for a successful season. With 911 participants playing
in 6 different leagues the season proved to be successful and operate smoothly with
few to no incidents at all. This year’s overall champions were: Campus- 4th Year Med
Men, Fraternity- TKE, W. Closed- Delta Zeta, W. Open- Lady Dandies, Men’s Open
B- Most Known Unknowns, and Men’s Open A- Legit.
3-on-3 Basketball Tournament
The 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament this year had a total of 139 participants, with 41
teams registered. Teams came out in full force bringing there fans out with them. The
event was once again completed in 3 hours. The winners for the various divisions
were: Fraternity- Sigma Chi 1, Campus- TKE 4, Women’s Closed- Delta Zeta 1,
Men’s Open- Diaper Dandies, and Women’s Open- 2 Good 4 College.
Table Tennis
This years Table Tennis tournament was once again hosted held in the Cardinal
Corner game room. On game nights the area was filled with participants just waiting
to get their chance to play. Although the singles and doubles tournaments for the
Fraternity and Women’s Closed division have many people playing the event flows
smoothly because there are constantly people using the tables. This year the Men’s
Open winners were Derek Thomas for singles and Matthew Erwin and Jeremy
Newton for doubles. Women’s Open singles winner was Jessica Logsdon and doubles
were Charis Botelho and Meredith Lavin. Fraternity Singles was Dayne David(SAE)
while Jared Stewart and Ross Wiegle (TKE) won the Fraternity doubles. Pi Phi
swept the Women’s closed with Christie Mudd winning singles and Dana Gahafer
and Christie Mudd winning doubles. Campus winner were Chris Hamilton(TKE) for
singles and Kyle Cooper and Eric Buda(SAE) for doubles.
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For next year we may look at combining Open and Campus on the same night since
they had the least participants. That way it will only take 3 days to run the whole
event.
Free Throw Competition
Free Throw Competition was an event going on during Up All Night. The number of
participants was a lot less than that in the past, however it was not evident because
there were many spectators on the sideline looking on. We used two courts for the
event which proved to be sufficient for the number registered to participate. This
year’s winners were: Women’s Closed- Maggie White and Fraternity Ross Wiegel.
Volleyball League
This year’s Volleyball League was competitive in nature which was a complete
opposite from last year. Although there was a slight decrease in the number of
participants many of the team participants were a lot better. As a result of the league
being a lot more competitive the number of forfeits and defaults decreased from 29 to
20. This year with the league being officiated by the women’s athletic volleyball team
and more competitive play made for a recipe of a successful league.
Suggestion:

Change to fall semester event in the place of Fall Soccer.
Dodgeball
This year dodgeball had a decrease of participants, however this did not change the
level of interest for the event and the fun the participants displayed while playing.
The winners of this years were: Men’s Open- Flying Spaghetti Monsters, FraternitySAE, Campus- Phi Tau B, and Women’s Closed- Delta Zeta, and Co-Rec.- Imaginary
Friend Coalition.
Suggestions:

Have a minimum of 5 officials for each game.
Spring Soccer
This year spring soccer saw many teams forfeiting or defaulting because it is not a
point’s event. For this reason many of the Greek organizations do not participate and
this keeps the number of teams that participate overall very low. But even though
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participation levels are not as high as other sports we still saw some great games. For
the women’s tournament The Big Green took home the championship t-shirts. Team
Soccer ended up winning on the men’s side.
Tennis Doubles
This year’s event was held outside and was rescheduled due to inclement weather.
However, following the event being rescheduled it allowed for the use of the indoor
courts, which made the tournament run smoother and quicker. Also allowing for a
more pleasant experience was the staggering of the check in times. In the pass all
participants would have started at once, and there would have been a lot of standing
around and waiting. This year there was a total of 20 teams despite the event having
to be rescheduled for another date.
Suggestions:

Book both inside courts and outside courts just in case bad weather hits.
Bowling Singles
This year we had 80 people who signed up to participated in this event with 9 forfeits
and 2 defaults. This event was held at the Ken Bowl Lanes. It only lasted for about
an hour at most, without any incidents. Misty, an employee at Ken Bowl, said that
this year’s participants were the best she has ever dealt with. The winners were as
follows: Men’s Fraternity- Derek Carpenter, Women’s Closed- Kim Bradford,
Campus Points- Randy Cross, and Men’s Open- Jeff Rees.
Putt-Putt Golf
This year putt-putt golf was pretty laid back and fun with the point’s race pretty much
under wraps. Many of this year’s 107 participants signed up to participate for fun and
stress relief being that finals were right around the corner. The winners of this year’s
tournament were: Fraternity- Cohor Heine (Pike), Women’s Closed- Lindsay
Buschermohle (DZ), and Men’s Open- Andrew Willett.
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XX.
Facility Usage Statistics
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XXI. List of Facility User Groups
University and Community Groups Using Recreational Facilities During 2007 2008.
Sports Clubs
Aikido
Badminton
Ball Room Dance
Fencing
Kempo Karate
Lacrosse Club
Racquetball Club
Shotokan Karate
Tae Kwon Do
Table Tennis
Tai Chi
Athletic Camps
Men’s Football
Men & Women’s Soccer
Men & Women’s Tennis
Men’s Baseball
Men’s Basketball
Women’s Basketball
Women’s Field Hockey
Women’s Softball
Women’s Volleyball
High School/Church
Manual High School
Science Fair
Project Grad. Lock-In:
Male High School
Bullitt County High School
RSOs
African Student Union
Air Force ROTC
Army ROTC
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Omega
ASB
Asian Student Association
Association of Black Students
ASME (Speed School)
Baptist Student Union
Beta Theta Pi
Black Engineers
Campus Crusade for Christ
Chemical Engineering Assoc.
Chinese Students Association
Chi Omega
Collegiate 100
RSO’s Continued
Delta Sigma Theta
Delta Zeta
Delta Upsilon
Flying Cardinals
IEEE
IFC
ISA
Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Delta
Kappa Sigma
L’ Raisers
Mechanical Engineering
Med. School AMSA
Muslim Student Association
Omega Psi Phi
Pace Setters
Phi Beta Sigma
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Kappa Tau
Pi Beta Phi
Pi Kappa Alpha
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Chi
Sigma Gamma Rho
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Spanish Club
Society of Porter Scholars
Society of Women’s Engineers
Student Activities Board
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Vietnamese Student Organization.
Zeta Phi Beta
Youth Camp/Community
Sponsored
Bulldogs in the Bluegrass
PEPP Program
Upward Bound
Summer Orientation
Summer Undergrad Research
Program
Non-University Groups
Deaf Youth Sports Festival
Jefferson County Board of
Education
Jewish Community Center
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Non-University Groups
Continued
Louisville Thunder Volleyball
Louisville Metro Senior Games
National Senior Olympic Games
Louisville Regional Science Fair
Mid-west Badminton Tournament
NCA Cheerleading & Dance Camp
State Badminton Tournament
Departments
Admissions
Athletics
Dental School
English Depart.
HSS Classes
Justice Admin.
Law School
Marching Band
Math Dept.
Medical School
Military Science
Music School
Orientation
Philosophy
Residence Life
Speed School
SPI (Southern Police Inst.)
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During the year the following groups or organizations hosted functions in the
Cardinal Corner Game Room:
Reach
Alpha Sigma Kappa
Phi Mu Alpha, music
African Student Union
SAE
SX
Kappa Sigma
WINGS, Medically fragile children
service group
International Student Union
Later Day Saints Student Association
SGA
AKPsi Business Fraternity
Psi Chi Pyschology Fraternity
RSA (Resident Student Association)
SAB (Student Activities Board)
GAMMA
Triangle
Golden Key
Goul (Gamers of UofL)
Upward Bound
Speed School Student Council
Several private birthday parties
Louisville Hall
National Association of Black
Accountants
Summer Wind Band Institute
UofL Swim Camp
African Student Union
Chinese Student Scholars
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XXII.
Intramural Sports Statistics
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XXIII. All-Campus Points Totals
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XXV. 2008-09 Intramural Schedule
Fall 2008
Aerobics……………………………………
Canoe Regatta*……………………………
Ultimate Frisbee League………….……….
Kickball (W)*……………………………..
Softball (M)**……………………………..
Flag Football**…………………………....
Golf Tournament (M)*……….....................
Track Meet*………………………………..
Tennis Singles**………………..................
Graduate Basketball……………………….
Badminton (S, D)**….……………………
Fall Soccer Tournament (no co-rec) …..
Tug-O-War*……………………………...
Volleyball League **….………………….
Halloween Basketball Tournament……….
1-on-1 Basketball*………………………..
Turkey Trot*……………………………....
Swim Meet*……………………………….
Bowling Doubles**………………………
Roster Due
Play Begins
September 8
September 3
September 3
September 3
September 8
September 8
September 8
September 15
October 1
October 1
October 8
October 8
October 22
October 27
October 29
November 17
November 24
December 1
September 14
September 10
September 10
September 10
September 15
September 12
September 16
September 21
October 9
October 6-9
October 20-24
October 16
October 27
Oct. 31-Nov. 2
November 3
November 24
December 2
December 4
Spring 2009
Aerobics…………………………………...
3-on-3 Basketball Tournament**………… January 13
January 20
Racquetball (S, D)**……………………… January 14
January 24
Billiards (S, D)**………………….……… January 14
January 21-26
Basketball League**……………………… January 15
January 25
Table Tennis(S, D)**………………..……. January 28
February 2
Free Throw Competition*……………..…. February 17
February 21
Up All Night………………………………
February 21
Soccer League **…………………..….
March
2
March
9
Floor Hockey League (W)*……………….. March
9
March
23
Dodgeball Tournament**………………… March
23
March
26
Tennis Doubles**………………………… March
31
April
5
Putt-Putt Golf**……………………….…. April
7
April
14
Bowling Singles**……………………….. April
9
April
16
IM Awards…………………………….….
April
23
* Denotes events for All Campus Championship Points Race
** Denotes events for All Campus & Campus Division Points Race
(W) Denotes events for All Campus Championship Point Race in Women’s division only
(M) Denotes events for All Campus Championship Points Race in Men’s division only
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