Thursday, September 3, 2009
A player soars for a layup in a file photo. Intramural sports often involve teams made up of fraternities and sororities.
Though intramurals is a way to stay active for anyone who would like to participate, it is also an activity prevalent in the greek community. Sororities and fraternities across campus are fine-tuning their skills for their competition in flag football, which started play on Sunday.
Intramurals get competitive in the Greek community, meaning extra effort is put into games against other fraternities and sororities.
“You want to compete, you want your house to be the best obviously. So winning against another fraternity is a lot bigger deal then just winning against a random group of guys,” Ben Wilinsky, Overland Park sophomore said. “It’s always more fun to play other organizations, there’s always that competition in everything.”
Wilinksy said there are no rivalries beforehand, but if friends from other houses are on a team, that makes it more competitive.
As for playing other fraternities as opposed to a group of non-Greek students, Drew Jarrett, Winston-Salem, N.C. freshman, said he is motivated to play harder if he is playing a fraternity on campus.
Greek members are also interested in winning at intramurals because they hope to build a reputation as a winning house.
“I heard Beta might be pretty good at intramural sports,” Jarrett said, referring to fraternity Beta Theta Pi . “I know our house hasn’t been good in the past at flag football, so hopefully this year we will turn it around and make it pretty far.”
Alicia Ring, Marysville sophomore and Alpha Chi Omega flag football team member, said it was hard to determine who the team to beat would be this year.
“Usually everyone is pretty even, pretty good,” Ring said. “It just depends on the girls and who plays that year.”
Wilinsky said that the fraternity known for its athletics is Phi Delta Theta, the house of which he is a member.
Playing on his house’s team is mainly for fun and exercise, Wilinsky said.
“I don’t like to work out that much so I just like to go out and play football,” Wilinsky said.
Jarrett shares in those feelings.
“I think it’s more about competiton,” Jarrett said. “ Especially being in the greek community. You want your fraternity to be the best. At everything: grades, sports, the best on the hill. I know it’s like that with more guys, they want to win more than to have fun.”
— —Edited by Tim Burgess
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