Student Leadership Series 2014 Participants

Each year, Campus Recreation hosts the Student Leadership Series, a 4-week program designed to enhance, inspire, and prepare student employees for future leadership roles in both their work for the department, and beyond. This year, eleven students completed the course, and received a certificate, SLS sticker for their namebadge, and were treated to a banquet dinner at Gravity 1020. 

Student Leaders

The students who completed the Student Leadership Series for 2014 are:

  • Elise Blanton-Hubbard
  • Rebekah Connell
  • Dak Damour
  • Audra Eakins
  • Rachael Head
  • Paige Kempski
  • Sam Lilja
  • Adam Paton
  • Jesse Tyler
  • Lucas Williams
  • Ashley Zugschwert

About SLS

Students must apply to the SLS program and applications are reviewed by the Student Development committee, who also plan and excute the program. Each of the classes over the four weeks focus on various leadership topics including conflict management, dealing with varying personalities, peer mentorship, and discovering your own leadership style. Classes are led by campus experts, which included Keith Lopez of the Office of Orientation and Transition Programs, Jackie Peila-Shuster of the Education Department, and Chris Leck of the School of Social Work.

Congratulations to all the participants!

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CSU Students Selected to Officiate Regional Flag Football Tournament

Two Colorado State University students, Tyler Kersey and Shayne Wolfe, were selected to officiate at the Regional Flag Football Tournament in Lincoln, Nebraska this past weekend, November 8 and 9. Teams and officials come from schools all across the region, including University of Iowa, Northern Colorado, South Dakota, Kansas State University, Central Missouri University, and more. Over 42 teams competed in the tournament, and 36 officials were selected from the regional Intramural Officials. Teams competed in four divisions, men’s, women’s, coRec, and Special Olympics. 

Tyler, a senior in the Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology program, is currently an Intramural Manager for Campus Recreation, and is in his second year as an IM Official. Shayne is a freshman studying Business Administration, and is in his first year as an IM Official. Over the two-day tournament, Tyler and Shayne officiated ten games each, which determined the teams who would go onto the National Tournament. Arianne Judy, Coordinator of Intramural Sports for Campus Recreation accompanied Tyler and Shayne to Nebraska. 

Congratulations Tyler and Shayne!

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The Mac is Back!

After over a year and a half closure, the Mac Gym is reopening next week for recreation. The auxiliary gym located within the Student Recreation Center was closed in the summer of 2013 to provide office space for the Lory Student Center staff while the LSC underwent a massive renovation of its facilities. “LSC West”, as the temporary space was called, closed in late September of this year, and the offices moved back over the first week of October. After their departure, the facilties crew got to work removing the temporary cubicles, electrical wiring, temporary carpeting, and the wood floor placed down to protect the gym’s surface. After repairing some minor damage to the walls, floors, and a good cleaning, the space is now complete, and will be opening the week of November 10, 2014. 

The Mac Gym will host Drop-in recreation activities, including volleyball, badminton, and basketball, freeing up the entire main gym for Drop-in basketball. Download a copy of the new Drop-in schedule here. 

 

 

 

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Over 120 Students Participated in the First-Ever Zombie Tag

Campus Recreation hosted the first-ever Zombie Tag on October 28, 2014. 123 students participated in the games, with 28 teams of 3 “humans” and over 30 “zombies” to chase them down in the dark. The game started in the lobby of the Rec Center, where students who signed up as zombies met to strategize and “zombiefy” themselves with special-effect makeup. The human teams were given a map of the course that indicated the boundaries of the game, where each checkpoint was, and the points for each glowstick located at the checkpoints. Each human wore a flag football belt, which the zombies were tasked with trying to chase down and grab. Teams were given free range to decide which areas of the map to tackle first, as long as they were back in the lobby within the 30 minute timeline. 

Teams assembled outside, and at the sound of the bull-horn, the humans took off into the night to reach as many checkpoints as possible. Zombies were ready for them, hidden all along the course in bushes, dark alleys, corners, and on the dark IM fields. There were 5 checkpoints marked by a student-staff member with a handfull of glowsticks, and bonus glowsticks were hidden all along the course, enticing humans to take their chances in some of the darkest, most dangerous areas of the course.

At the end of the game, all the teams made it back on-time, but the flag football belts were certainly scarce. The winning team, The Supernaturals, ended up collecting all 5 checkpoint glowsticks, found a bonus glowstick on the course, and survived with all their flag football belts. Team members included Marcus Hauge, Jesse Jacobson, and Corey Muse. 

Zombies also competed with one another to see who could come back with the most flag football belts. That title went to Jackson Haider, who came back with 17 belts!

Campus Recreation cannot wait to host next year’s event, and hope to make the course even bigger and better, with more checkpoints, more zombies, and more challenges!

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2nd Annual Harvest Hang

The Outdoor Program at Campus Recreation is hosting the 2nd Annual Harvest Hang Bouldering Competition! All ability levels are welcome, and space is filling up fast. Sessions are divided into three segments, with half the competitors participating in the early session from 4:00 – 6:00 pm, and the second half competing from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. The top climbers from each session will then go head-to-head in the finals from 8:00 – 10:00 pm. Prizes are awarded to the winners, and a raffle will take place during the finals with tons of amazing giveaway items. 

 

Registration for the event is $12.00, and $14.00 if you register the day-of. Students and Rec Center Members are invited to compete, and can sign-up at the Outdoor Program desk in the lobby of the Rec Center. 

 

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