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03-02-2009, 07:36 PM
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Rec Sports to add club football
Garren Cabral
Issue date: 2/17/09 Section: Campus
PrintEmail Article Tools Page 1 of 1 Jim Tressel isn't the only one scouting out for football players right now. Sophomores Joe Budgake and Marshal Carpenter are scouting for exceptional athletes to add to their team too.
Next quarter, Recreational Sports will add club football to its more than 70 competitive sports teams. Carpenter, a sophomore in business and co-president of club football, was surprised this sport was not offered when he came to the university last year.
"Joe and I played football in high school," Carpenter said. "We had the chance to play in [division three] but we decided to go to OSU. I figured the biggest campus would have club football but they didn't."
Budgake and Carpenter separately took the initiative to start club football last spring. They were roommates during orientation, and decided to combine their efforts to start club football for Autumn Quarter 2008.
The club won't start until Spring Quarter because of a changes in Recreational Sports and the sports club program, according to the Recreational Sports' Web site.
One of those changes requires every sport club to be a registered student organization that offers student activities, said Ken Hill, the competitive sports director for Recreational Sports. His department and the Council of Student Affairs have worked together to implement this policy to streamline the process of creating a sport club, Hill said.
"They have to have a president, a treasurer and constitution," Hill said. "It makes them more accountable for their actions."
Another requirement is mandatory alcohol training for every freshman, sophomore and club officer on the team.
Because club football is a contact sport and requires much paperwork, club football is not popular at many colleges and universities, Carpenter said.
But being a registered club brings benefits, such as access to event space for practice, and graphic design services for marketing and promotion, according to the Sports Club Manual. For Carpenter and Budgake, it means being allowed to participate in Ohio's Midwestern Conference to play competitively against teams such as Miami University, Xavier University and the University of Michigan.
Club football will be competing in the conference by Fall Quarter 2009, Carpenter said. They will hold tryouts and host practices in May.
"Everybody is welcome to tryout but we are keeping it to a small number of 35 to 40 guys," Carpenter said. Tryouts are open to women as well.
Once on the team, players will have to pay $400 a quarter for uniforms, equipment and travel costs. The cost will decrease as the team gets sponsors and hosts fundraisers, Carpenter said.
Because the team wants to compete as soon as possible, it will be hard for freshmen to participate, as players must be available for summer practices.
Jojiro LeCroix, a freshman in engineering, is interested in playing on a club football team. He played varsity in high school, but an injury prevented him from playing in college.
"It would feel great to come back to have the same feeling as those Friday nights," he said.
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Home > Campus
Rec Sports to add club football
Garren Cabral
Issue date: 2/17/09 Section: Campus
PrintEmail Article Tools Page 1 of 1 Jim Tressel isn't the only one scouting out for football players right now. Sophomores Joe Budgake and Marshal Carpenter are scouting for exceptional athletes to add to their team too.
Next quarter, Recreational Sports will add club football to its more than 70 competitive sports teams. Carpenter, a sophomore in business and co-president of club football, was surprised this sport was not offered when he came to the university last year.
"Joe and I played football in high school," Carpenter said. "We had the chance to play in [division three] but we decided to go to OSU. I figured the biggest campus would have club football but they didn't."
Budgake and Carpenter separately took the initiative to start club football last spring. They were roommates during orientation, and decided to combine their efforts to start club football for Autumn Quarter 2008.
The club won't start until Spring Quarter because of a changes in Recreational Sports and the sports club program, according to the Recreational Sports' Web site.
One of those changes requires every sport club to be a registered student organization that offers student activities, said Ken Hill, the competitive sports director for Recreational Sports. His department and the Council of Student Affairs have worked together to implement this policy to streamline the process of creating a sport club, Hill said.
"They have to have a president, a treasurer and constitution," Hill said. "It makes them more accountable for their actions."
Another requirement is mandatory alcohol training for every freshman, sophomore and club officer on the team.
Because club football is a contact sport and requires much paperwork, club football is not popular at many colleges and universities, Carpenter said.
But being a registered club brings benefits, such as access to event space for practice, and graphic design services for marketing and promotion, according to the Sports Club Manual. For Carpenter and Budgake, it means being allowed to participate in Ohio's Midwestern Conference to play competitively against teams such as Miami University, Xavier University and the University of Michigan.
Club football will be competing in the conference by Fall Quarter 2009, Carpenter said. They will hold tryouts and host practices in May.
"Everybody is welcome to tryout but we are keeping it to a small number of 35 to 40 guys," Carpenter said. Tryouts are open to women as well.
Once on the team, players will have to pay $400 a quarter for uniforms, equipment and travel costs. The cost will decrease as the team gets sponsors and hosts fundraisers, Carpenter said.
Because the team wants to compete as soon as possible, it will be hard for freshmen to participate, as players must be available for summer practices.
Jojiro LeCroix, a freshman in engineering, is interested in playing on a club football team. He played varsity in high school, but an injury prevented him from playing in college.
"It would feel great to come back to have the same feeling as those Friday nights," he said.
Report to moderator 72.49.9.152
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