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Department of Intramural-Recreational Sports2014-15 Annual Report

Table of Contents

I. Executive Summary

II. Collaborations

III. 2015-16 Strategic Initiatives

IV. Intramural Staff

V. Academic Unit Support

VI. Staff Professional Development

VII. Activities That Support Diversity

VIII. Informal Sports

IX. Health Science Campus Fitness Center

X. Intramural Sports

XI. Marketing and Promotions

XII. Assessment

XIII. Technology

XIV. Safety

XV. Fitness

XVI. Sports Club Federation

XVII. Special Events / Programs

XVIII. Activity Evaluations

XIX. Facility Usage Statistics

XX. List of Facility User Groups

XXI. Intramural Sports Statistics

XXII. All Campus Points Totals

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XXIII. Intramural Champions

XXIV. 2015-2016 Intramural Schedule

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2014-2015 Annual Report

Edited by: Dale Ramsay

Prepared by: David Rice

Contributors: John SmithDavid HatfieldDebby WoodallDavid RiceJustin Peterson

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2014-2015Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports

STAFF

Dale Ramsay DirectorJanice Day Student Affairs Business Center LiaisonKaren Zody Administrative AssistantDavid Hatfield Assistant Director- FacilitiesJohn Smith Assistant Director- Marketing, Technology, SafetyDebby Woodall Assistant Director- HSC Facility and FitnessDavid Rice Coordinator of Sports Clubs and FacilitiesJustin Peterson Coordinator of Intramural SportsFrank Nuxoll Facility Supervisor- Student Recreation CenterGreg Johnson Facility Supervisor- Student Recreation CenterTim Lynch Facility Supervisor- HSC Fitness CenterJustin Lucas Facility Supervisor- HSC Fitness CenterTad Porter Departmental Assistant- IntramuralsJoe Gamsky Departmental Assistant- FitnessChelsea Case Departmental Assistant- FitnessRyan Ramsay Departmental Assistant- FacilitiesAddina Tritle Departmental Assistant- HSC Fitness CenterAlex Claywell Undergraduate Assistant- Intramurals

Chelsea Cook Undergraduate Assistant- IntramuralsAnnie Fugate Undergraduate Assistant- IntramuralsLuke Guhy Undergraduate Assistant- IntramuralsRyan Long Undergraduate Assistant- IntramuralsChristian Rick Undergraduate Assistant- IntramuralsMary Elise Schlich Undergraduate Assistant- IntramuralsShannon Sloss Undergraduate Assistant- IntramuralsSamantha Taylor Undergraduate Assistant- IntramuralsChristine Exeter Undergraduate Assistant- FacilitiesStephen Russ Undergraduate Assistant- Facilities

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I. Executive Summary

2014-15 was an exciting year for the Department of Intramural-Recreational Sports as it was the first full year that the Student Recreation Center was open. The SRC has enabled us to serve students in ways that we could not do previously. From expanded fitness classes to record-setting numbers in Intramural Sports to hosting a wide range of campus groups in our meeting rooms, the SRC has changed the out-of- classroom experience at the University of Louisville.

2014-15 was an incredible year with many successes to highlight. The Student Recreation Center received an Outstanding Facility Award from the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association. The NIRSA Outstanding Facility Award recognizes state-of-the-art collegiate recreational facilities of NIRSA member institutions. In November, we hosted our colleagues at the Kentucky Intramural Recreational Sports Association Workshop at the SRC. With over 100 attendees, it was the largest workshop attendance in KIRSA history.

The usage of the SRC and the total program was remarkable. Between the SRC and the HSC Fitness Center there were 554,882 visits. The total number of unique student users was 15,549 between the two facilities, which represents over 70% of the student population. We had Institutional Research (IR) do an analysis of our first year usage. Of the students that averaged using the SRC at least once per week, 58% had over a 3.0 GPA. This supports our contention that student who use the SRC at a higher rate will do better academically.

Like all departments in Student Affairs, we benefitted from the leadership of Dr. Michael Mardis, who was the Acting Vice President for Student Affairs in 2014-15. Dr. Mardis served the demanding and challenging role of Acting Vice President for Student Affairs while still serving as Dean of Students. We are extremely appreciative of his support of Intramural-Recreational Sports and happy for his Acting VPSA appointment. We hope he will be appointed to that role permanently.

2014-15 was an incredible year. It was a transitional year from having to work on the details of opening the SRC and actually opening in the middle of the semester, to being able to focus entirely on being able to program this tremendous facility. We are now able to serve students through our various program areas (Intramurals, Fitness, Sports Clubs, etc.) in ways that we were previously unable due to facility limitations. Now, with the SRC, the possibilities are endless.

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II. Collaborations

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:

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.

U-Fit Program – Intramural-Recreational Sports is collaborating with Health Promotions in allowing them to use the Fitness Lab in the SRC for their U-Fit program. Health Promotions trains students on how to train other students. This is a very popular program and a good collaboration for us to be involved in.

Financial Aid Office - Our 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 Center - Intramural-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 IM-Rec Sports. Many of the participants are part of our Badminton Club, which has a high percentage of International students.

University Archives- This year we collaborated with University Archives to convert our Intramural Champions Board to digital form. They converted over 7,000 champions pictures to preserve over 50 years of Intramural history. These pictures were then loaded into a touchscreen television and prominently displayed in the front lobby of the SRC.

Orientation - We are very involved in Orientation. We have a table at the information fair and are part of the presentation on campus involvement. After several attempts, we now have the correct situation within the Orientation program where we are able to reach out to a high volume of students. We believe it is important to have a strong presence at Orientation to expose the incoming freshmen to our program.

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Marching Band - With the development of the “Extreme Home Makeover” project of renovating the Intramural Field, we were thrust into collaboration with UofL’s Marching Band. We worked well 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. They were extremely cooperative and while it is not our ideal situation, we are making the best of it.

Learfield Sports (Formerly Nelligan)- Our arrangement with Learfield continues to be a financially successful one for our department. In this time of financial stress, Learfield 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. We look forward to the future with the opening of the SRC and the new marketing opportunities that will develop.

University Emergency Medicine - We 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.

Service Solutions- One of the components of our successful operation is the work done in cleaning and maintaining the SRC facility. Service Solutions (SSC) is the cleaning company that we secured to maintain the SRC. They have done an excellent job in this area. Having a facility that is clean adds to the positive experience our students enjoy.

Bursar, Registrar, and Card Office- With the opening of the SRC and the advent of the Student Recreation Fee, we have developed a strong relationship with the Bursar, Registrar, and Card Offices. There are many intricacies related to student enrollment and the assessing of the recreation fee. All three of these offices have been extremely helpful in resolving issues.

Summer Athletic Camp- With the closing of the SAC, the Women’s Volleyball, Women’s Basketball, and the Cheer camps all transitioned to the Student Recreation Center. We look forward to continuing to host all of these groups in the SRC.

Welcome Week- Last year on the Wednesday of Welcome Week we hosted two events- the first, Playfair, was held on the SRC Turf Field. The second was held in the SRC at the conclusion of Playfair. It was called “Hit the SRC” where the incoming freshmen familiarized themselves with the SRC. SAB also set up a lounge on the SRC Plaza serving a variety of mocktails. Also, Dale Ramsay and Debby Woodall continue to lead a walking tour of campus athletic facilities on Friday of Welcome Week.

American Red Cross- The SRC has become an extremely important venue for the American Red Cross as they conducted five Blood Drives here last year. We are

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pleased to collaborate with the American Red Cross and assist them with this vital community service.

Student Affairs Collaborations

Housing Move-In Day We assist with Housing Move-In Day in August.

Field Days Our department participated in Welcome Weekprograms for the Dean of Students Office.

Student Athletic Tickets Dale Ramsay assists SGA with the Student Athletic ticket registration process. He and Justin Petersonchaperoned the student trip to the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando.

First Aid Classes John Smith teaches First Aid Classes to both theIntramural Sports and Student Involvement staff as well as other university employees.

Speech / Literature Distribution Policy 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.

Welcome Tents Dale Ramsay, David Rice, and Justin Peterson assist with the setup of the Dean of Students Welcome Tents for the first two days of classes. We scheduled the staffing of the tents and kept them supplied with water, apples, and information. This was extremely successful, as the students appreciated the fact there were people available to assist them during the hectic time at the beginning of the academic year.

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.

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III. 2015-16 Strategic Initiatives

1. Continue to stabilize the financing of the Student Recreation Center

2. Increase the use of the Student Recreation Center by partnering with other Student Affairs and University departments, as well as Recognized Student Organizations

3. Expand the number of Sports Clubs taking advantage of available scholarship opportunities through the Department of Admissions, resulting in the recruitment of a higher level of student

4. Over the next three years, produce a series of 20-30 minute workout videos available online to better serve our Distance Education community

5. Increase international student involvement by intentionally engaging various international student organizations

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IV. Intramural Sports Staff

The Department of Intramural Sports has 11 full-time employees and 5 Departmental Assistants. During 2014-15 we also employed 174 student employees who served as facility workers, fitness instructors, event assistants, student supervisors, and sports officials. The strength of our Department continues to be the dedication and loyalty of the staff. The full-time staff has in excess of 200+ years of service to UofL in the Intramural Sports Department.

We suffered a tragic loss of one of our employees this year. Rusty Michalski passed away last fall. Rusty was the evening facility manager at our HSC Fitness Center. In addition, Rusty was employed by Intramural-Recreational Sports while he was a student at UofL. His passing was a tremendous loss to our department and especially to the students at the HSC campus. In his memory, we have named an award for Rusty that is presented each year at the Intramural Awards luncheon.

We welcomed three new staff members this year. Justin Lucas is serving as the evening facility manager at the HSC facility. We were also able to create and hire two new Departmental Assistant positions. Addina Tritle is the new DA at the HSC facility and Chelsea Case is the new DA for Fitness.

We continue to have a close working relationship with the Department of Financial Aid to ensure we are able to get an ample number of Federal College Work Study students to fill our need for hourly student employees.

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V. Academic Unit Support

We have an excellent relationship with the Health and Sports Studies Department. HSS uses the SRC for many of their activity classes during the fall and spring semesters. These classes benefit our program in that they help drive traffic to our facility and expose them to our program. HSS is also using our classrooms to teach three classes. It is good that their students are in the SRC. 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. Many academic student groups as well as several academic departments are utilizing the meeting rooms in the SRC.

We also provide our facilities for many academic units who wish to have recreational programs.

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VI. Staff Professional Development

Dale Ramsay Taught two classes for HSS (Rec. Sports Management and SportsOfficiating)High school and college basketball officialServed as Clinician for KBOA Basketball Officiating CampAttended NIRSA Conference and KIRSA State ConferenceAttended ACC Director’s ConferencePresented at the KIRSA Conference

John Smith Taught First Aid/ CPR ClassesAmerican Heart Association InstructorStaff SenateConducted clinics for Kentucky High School Athletic AssociationAssigning Secretary for High School Volleyball and Softball in Jefferson CountyServed on Advisory Board for Louisville Area Red Cross ChapterAttended KIRSA ConferenceAttended NIRSA ConferencePresented at the KIRSA Conference

Justin Peterson Assigned officials for St. Xavier High School Intramural SportsAttended KBOA WorkshopAttended KIRSA ConferencePresented at the KIRSA Conference

Debby Woodall Attended NIRSA ConferenceAttended KIRSA ConferenceHosted NETA Personal Training Certification WorkshopACE Personal Training Certification

David Rice Student Awards CommitteeCoordinated Logistics for the KIRSA WorkshopAttended KIRSA Conference

David Hatfield Attended NIRSA ConferenceAttended KIRSA Conference

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VII. 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 are a high percentage of African-American students who participate in Flag Football and Basketball. The student group Porter Scholars was again very active in the Intramural Sports program this year. Our student staff is extremely diverse in both gender and ethnicity. The majority of our Intramural Sports supervisors and officials were African-American students.

Our program is also popular with International students. We host International Nights in both Fall and Spring semesters in the SRC. 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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VIII. Informal Sports

The Intramural-Recreational Sports program completed its first full year in the Student Recreation Center in 2014-15. In recent years we also previously managed Humana Gym, Crawford Gym, the SAC Recreational Center, and the Cardinal Corner Game Room. We no longer manage these facilities.

Our focus is now on the Student Recreation Center and the HSC Fitness Center. With a new software program we are now able to more accurately track our facility usage. During 2014-15 there were 15,549 unique students who used one of our two facilities. This represents more than 70% of UofL’s student population. This makes a tremendous statement about the popularity of our program. The following numbers indicate the total number of visits to our two facilities in 2014-15:

Student Recreation Center 512,595HSC Fitness Center 42,287

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This number of visits is a 21% increase over the 2013-14 totals. Again, these numbers reflect the interest our students have in the Intramural-Recreational Sports program.

Student Recreation Center

The University of Louisville Student Recreational Center is a NIRSA Outstanding Facility Award winner, an Education Finalist Award winner, a LEED Certified Gold facility and a leader in terms of student involvement on campus. The first full year of usage in the SRC has gone extremely well. With over 500,000 participants we have doubled our usage compared to our time in the SAC. To say this has made for a very busy year would be a massive understatement. Our dedicated staff was had the facility open on every snow day and weather cancellation that happened throughout the year. Even when the rest of the University was closed we were here offering the students an option of something to do on those inclimate weather days.

Here are the usage statistics for all areas of the SRC:

Main Weight Room 158,602Sport Club Room 7,5601st Floor Gym 94,706MAC Court 23,513Group Fitness Rooms 37,110Golf Simulator 2,021Running Track 7,481

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Racquetball Courts 9,560Mezzanine Fitness Area 62,4363rd Floor Gym 76,793Turf Field 23,336Classrooms 7,124Qdoba Gaming Area 2,353

Main Strength and Fitness Area

For our first full year of statistics we saw total usage of almost 160,000 users in the main weight room of the SRC. While we would always want more users, this number is an incredible total! In this one area alone we have seen over 60% of the total users that we saw for an entire year in the SAC. Without a doubt there are a lot of students developing some excellent fitness habits and lifestyle changes due to the SRC. The breakdown of males to females in the main weight room is about 62% male to 38% female. Currently the Main Weight Room has 86 cardio machines and 51 weight machines, a Lifefitness Synergy piece, as well as a large array of squat racks, power racks, free weights, benches, seats, adjustable benches, dumbbells, belts, bands, ropes, and thousands of pounds of weight plates. The amount of technology throughout the building is amazing and good deal of that is located in the weight room. Nearly every piece of cardio equipment has a TV/monitor attached to it so that our students can enjoy watching TV while they workout, and many of those pieces also have internet access as well. We also strived for as much diversity in the equipment as possible. There are two different treadmill choices out of the twenty-one treadmills in the main weight room, six different styles of elliptical machines, three different biking choices, rowing machines, stair climbing machines, hand bikes, vibration trainer, ladder climbing cardio machine, plate loaded weight equipment, weight stack weight machines, free weights with bars, dumbbells, benches and Olympic-style squat racks with bumper plates. Additionally there is a synergy piece with a heavy bag and adjustable step platform, battle rope, TRX strap and medicine ball return platform.

Sport Club Studio

The Sports Club Studio is a unique area in our facility. The studio is comprised of a 34’x34’ matted area and 5’ x 20’ wooden floor area. The studio also has a heavy punching bag and a television equipped with a DVD player. The room also has a mirror running the full length of the back wall. The room’s primary function is to accommodate our many martial art clubs. Clubs utilize the matted area to spar and teach the unique aspects of their specific art. The matted area was almost doubled in size from last year in order to satisfy a higher demand due to the high number of sport club participants. This area also serves as additional workout space for non-sport club members during the times when the clubs are not practicing. Many patrons use the matted area for stretching and exercise. The studio has seen a total usage of 7,560 patrons this year which is almost double from a year ago.

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Main Gym Floor

Other than the main workout area, our downstairs basketball courts are the most popular area in our facility. This area, like most other areas, experiences the most usage during the evenings. A unique aspect of this area is the giant windows that reach from the floor to ceiling, giving those inside a view out and those on the outside a look into the facility. This area has played host to Male’s project graduation festivities, The ACC Mascots Challenge, and countless pickup basketball games throughout the year. We were able to refinish the wood floors in this area last December, which rejuvenated the highly-used surface.

Multi-Activity Court (MAC)

The Multi-Activity Court (MAC) is a unique area that is capable of hosting a wide variety of activities. The MAC is completely enclosed area with 8’ x 10’ goals inset into the walls on either end. The floor is lined for indoor soccer, team handball and floor hockey. Though soccer is the most popular activity in this area by, many other activities and physical education classes have been hosted within the MAC. Activities such as boot camp classes, dodgeball, ultimate frisbee, touch football are common, as well as Cheer and Dance camps in the summer. The goal of our department when designing the MAC was to create a space that could be utilized in a highly diverse way in order to create an area in which we could accommodate as many users as possible. The total usage of the MAC this year was 23,513 people.

Golf Simulator

The Golf Simulator is another unique feature of the SRC. Located in a room that was originally designed as a racquetball court, the golf simulator gives members the experience of a golf course indoors with over 80 virtual courses represented. Members are allowed to bring their own clubs or they can check out a set from the equipment counter. A special aspect of the golf simulator is the shot diagnostic. This diagnostic feature is great for beginning golfers trying to learn the sport or for experience golfers trying to hone their skills. The golf simulator can be reserved on an hourly basis or if there are three or more golfers than it can be reserved for two hours. While the numbers have not been as high as we would like the area is still very valuable to our center. Every tour that we give or group that comes through the center are always impressed and intrigued by this unique area of the building. The total numbers for the year were 2245 with 71% of participates being men.

Running Track

The running track at the SRC is on the second floor and circles the main weight room area. With a great view both down below into the weight area and out the tall windows, the

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running track is a great place to walk, jog or run in a climate-controlled environment. The running track has a digital clock that has hours, minutes, and seconds so that users can track their pace while running, with 11 laps around equaling one mile. The numbers for this year stand at 7481 with a 53/47 split of men to women. The track provides another option for those users who don’t like to run on a treadmill or for those outdoor runners who need a place to run on rainy, cold, or very hot days.

Mezzanine Fitness Area

The Mezzanine Fitness area is located on the second floor of the SRC. We have tried to duplicate the diversity of equipment in this area that we have in the main weight room and feel we have accomplished that pretty well. This area was designed for our members who don’t like to be in the crowed main fitness area. It provides most of the same type of equipment but with a bit of privacy. We have an assortment of cardio equipment including six different styles of elliptical trainers with a total of 18 total elliptical machines, six bicycles of two different styles, eight treadmills and two stair steppers. There is also a complete line of weight stack weight machines as well as light free weights, benches and a matted area for stretching and core work, two ab machines and three stretching machines. This area has been very popular with our female population with 66% of the 62,436 users being female. The Mezzanine Fitness area is a place where members can work out without the feeling that they are being “watched”, which is comforting to many patrons, and what we envisioned when we designed the area.

Upper Gym Floor

The Upper Gym Floor has been tremendously popular and has served a significant need for us. We are able to provide physical education classes, intramural activities, and some clubs with their own space away from the ‘free play’ crowd which makes it attractive. While the total numbers for the year were less than the first floor gym it was not by a great deal. The breakdown was much closer to even as well, with the men to women ration being 56/44 percent of our total 76,793. We were able to refinish these courts last August, which helped tremendously. The best view on all of campus can be seen from our third floor courts. The entire north wall from floor to ceiling is glass, giving a beautiful view of the surrounding area as well as the turf field and the Downtown Louisville skyline!

The Great Lawn

The Great Lawn is a 100yd x 60yd turf field located adjacent to the SRC. The Great Lawn’s purpose is to provide green space for the students to use, host club sports practices and physical education classes, as well as diversified outdoor events. The Rugby, Lacrosse, Ultimate Frisbee and Soccer clubs use this area for practice. The field has also hosted ultimate frisbee class, soccer class, and flag football class. During non-practice times the field is open for informal usage. No intramural events are played on the Great Lawn other

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than the one day Intramural Combine event. All of the other Intramural games are played at our fields behind Speed School freeing up this area for free play and club practices. Usage this year is at 23,336 with a 75/25 breakdown of men to women. Over the past year it became necessary re-seam some areas of the field that came loose and we have replaced the fencing at the north and south ends of the field when it became obvious that the original fencing was not durable enough.

Racquetball Courts

There are three racquetball courts on the second floor of the facility, one of which is convertible into a squash court. Members can reserve a court for one hour at a time. Reservations can also be made over the phone and online. The racquetball courts are mainly used for informal usage but are also home to our racquetball club and to the intramural racquetball tournament. This year’s numbers are a respectable 9560 users with a breakdown of 64% men to 36% women. The floors were refinished in December of 2014.

Outside Plaza

The Plaza in front of the SRC is a great area for a gathering, and we are hoping to do more in the way of planning and programming it in the coming years. Last year we hosted the ACC Kickoff Event that welcomed U of L into the Atlantic Coast Conference, which occurred in July and was attended by all the mascots from the ACC. The Plaza also hosted the Intramural Extravaganza and Play Fair Night at the SRC in conjunction with the Welcome Week festivities in August and drew over 1000 incoming freshman, which made for a great means to introduce all of these new students to their SRC. We also hosted a tailgate street party for the U of L vs Miami football game in September. The opportunity is there to host a diverse range of events on the plaza and we will be trying to take advantage of more of these things in the very near future.

Qdoba Gaming Area

The gaming area has four 60” HDTV’s. Connected to those TVs are two PS3s and two XBOX 360s where students can play their own video games or check them out at the equipment counter. When the gaming systems are not in use the TVs are turned on and students can watch television. This area has seen 2353 total students using the area. The breakdown was mostly male coming in at 64% men to 36% women. The usage of the video games has been minimal, with most people just stopping to watch TV before moving on.

Group Fitness Rooms

The group fitness rooms fill a tremendous need for us. They provide multiple areas to hold physical education classes, intramural classes, and informal workout areas for our members

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as well as the possibility to use as meeting rooms, club sports rooms, and much, much more. We have hosted NIRSA breakout sessions, video workouts, ballroom dancing practices, Fryberger practices, self-defense classes, and much more. Each room has a television and DVD player so when the room is not scheduled our members can come in and workout to a DVD or brings their own music and hold dance practice or any number of other activities. We have one room dedicated for use as a spin bike room and a TRX room. The usage statistics have significantly increased over last year as all of the classes have come online and have been very well attended. These areas have seen over 37,000 users this year, with over 72% of those being female.

Classrooms

Our classrooms have hosted a great variety of events this year, including physical education classes, managers meetings, staff luncheons, outside vendor meetings, HVAC meetings, the Tabletop Gaming Club, CCF and fraternity bible studies, and Red Cross blood drives. It is a high tech space with a computer in each classroom as well as a smart board and white boards. The two rooms are important to us in being able to offer a meeting space for our students and other clientele. The numbers breakdown worked out to 7124 total with a 60/40 split on men to women.

Improvements

After a year of operation it was apparent that several areas of the building were in need of attention.

After receiving feedback from the sport clubs we were able to double the size of the mat in the Sport Club room over the holiday break, providing a much larger workout area. The mirrors on the back wall were cut at waist level, with padding installed below that level to decrease the possibility of breaking the glass, and the railing was removed completely. Additionally, protective padding was added to the north wall. A volume switch was installed to control the amount of music that otherwise is heard throughout the rest of the facility

We reinforced the netting to the Great Lawn to keep soccer balls from sailing into the parking lot and we also replaced some of the fencing at the north and south ends of the field. The new fencing is much thicker and will hopefully stand up the pounding a little better than the original fencing.

We have also refinished all the wood surfaces throughout the facility, increasing the durability and traction of those areas.

In the Intramural Office, the space originally intended as a transaction area was renovated to create a new private office for the Unit Business Manager.

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IX. Health Science Campus Fitness Center

Now in our thirteenth year of operation the Health Science Campus (HSC) Fitness Center remains consistent in user numbers from previous years. During the 2014/2015 calendar year we amassed 42,287 facility visitors despite the fact that the HSC Fitness Center was closed on weekends and had reduced hours during the week for the first time since our opening. Compared to our modest size our user numbers are impressive. However, our lack of physical size is very prevalent during our peak hours (early mornings, lunch hour, and early evenings). During these peak hours it is not uncommon for patrons to struggle to complete their workouts in a timely manner due to wait times for desired machines. Lack of space remains the main issue facing our facility and something we are doing our very best to offset. With that said the current year brought about many changes to both the facility and facility staff to assist in providing the best possible services to our patrons.

The most impactful change made to the HSC Fitness Center during the current year was the replacement of nearly all cardio equipment. This was important not only to better serve our patrons, but also to alleviate some of the cost concerns with having machines out of warranty. Many machines were so old that parts weren’t available for them anymore. We did a great job of keeping them functional for as long as we did. The process of replacing the cardio equipment was very extensive, including identification of old pieces and selection of new, identification of vendors, purchase of new equipment, delivery and removal. Upon delivery each vender would remove agreed upon equipment, which lowered the delivery cost. We orchestrated a delivery plan for the three vendors to deliver the equipment on separate days to prevent any inconvenience closing the facility would cause our members. This was the facility’s first major upgrade since opening in January 2002. Other additions that have been well received by our patrons albeit on a smaller level are a new weight scale, five 45lb weight plates and industrial flooring rugs. The weight scale provides more functions for our patrons such as Body Mass Index (BMI) calculations. The weight plates allow for more weight benches to be used concurrently, which reduces some of the workout wait time for our members. The industrial flooring rugs were acquired from custodial services to protect the facility’s rubber flooring from the wear and tear of the winter season (salt). The rugs also assist in keeping the facility clean by preventing dirt from being tracked throughout the facility and protecting our new cardio equipment.

The last physical change to the facility during the current year was a new commercial dryer and finally an improved dryer venting system. The dryer allows the staff to do laundry more efficiently due to the increased number of towels we can wash and dry in a timely manner, which likely reduces water and electric cost for this facility. The new venting system helps in several different ways: it reduces the amount of heat produced from the dryer because it vents outside, it should prolong the life of dryer and allow it to operate at maximum efficiency, and it should reduce the amount of dust in the center, which in turn will keep the dust from collecting in the cardio machines operating mechanisms (lengthening their lifespan).

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One aspect of the facility that remains stellar is custodial service due to great communication between our custodian Rhonda Midkiff and facility staff. Rhonda continues to do an excellent job of keeping the facility clean and orderly. A shower cleaning (pressure washing) schedule has been improved upon. The custodial closet could not be kept more efficiently stocked and organized. There have been several membership changes during the current year. These changes were brought about due to the opening of the SRC and its membership pricing. The HSC’s summer membership was changed from $20 to $49 to ensure that summer member dues are consistent across the board. Our HSC Dependent ID’s increased to $25, up from $20 a year ago. The center’s visiting memberships can be complex and seemingly ever changing. The complexity comes from the HSC campus departments creating positions for visiting scholars, housing residents, and faculty. A lot of thought and discussions between facility managers, departmental assistant, and facility director went into working out an appropriate pricing system. The results of these discussions were that visiting students and visiting housing residents pay $25 per month which is roughly what UofL students pay. Visiting faculty/staff and scholars do not have to pay a fee because UofL faculty and staff use the facility for free.

There have been a few changes in the HSC Fitness Center staff. The Intramural Department was granted Departmental Assistants and the HSC Fitness Center was awarded one of those positions. Addina Tritle was hired to be the first departmental assistant for the HSC Fitness Center. She has been with us since August and has been a very beneficial addition to the center. Because of the makeup of our campus, most of our students are unable to take a job due to time restrictions. It is difficult to get students from the Belknap Campus to fight the hassles with coming downtown to work, so having a DA with flexibility to help cover the facility has been a tremendous improvement for us.

Another staffing change occurred due to the untimely passing of our evening facility manager, Rusty Michalski, who had held the evening manager position since 2008. Rusty suffered a heart attack, which lead to a coma from which he never recovered in October. It was a very trying time for our department as a whole as Rusty was dear to our hearts and very well liked. Addina was moved to an interim position to take over his evening position until a search could be conducted and a new facility manager hired. This led to the hiring of Justin Lucas in January 2015. Justin had previously worked for our department as a student and everyone felt very comfortable with him in the evening position. We lost four students, two to graduation and two to other career opportunities. To replace those who left we added five new student workers, of which two were work study, bringing our current student staff to nine..The HSC Fitness Center saw numerous upgrades, which have vastly improved our patrons experience at the center. We are looking forward to continuing the enhancement of the thirteen year old facility in the upcoming year. We have already begun looking at every aspect of our operation as a staff to insure we continue that trend.

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X. Intramural Sports

This year was a record breaking year for the Intramural component of the department. We saw a record number of teams registered in ten of our thirty sports that were offered. For the second straight year we had a record number of teams register for our Basketball league with 112 teams. This year we also saw a record number of participants with 3,025 unique participants and 9,677 total participants. The new student recreation center and the input that we get from the students greatly impact these numbers. We make great efforts to keep the schedule fresh and exciting from year to year.

We saw a higher than normal staff turnover this year, with three undergraduate supervisors graduating and the hiring of five new ones. We determined that we would need to expand our undergraduate supervisor staff due the expansion seen in our program before the year began. The luxury that we had was that the five new staff members that were brought onboard were very well prepared for the position and it took them little time at to step in and take charge.

In an effort to keep our students engaged in our social media efforts, we expanded the use of our Twitter account and posted every championship photo the same evening it was taken.

Facility space inside the new student recreation center is not as hard to come by anymore as it was in the old building. Having three courts available at all times for both Basketball and Volleyball has made it much easier to accommodate our record number of teams. The MAC Court has allowed for us to easily expand our offerings for Indoor Soccer, Floor Hockey, and Team Handball. Outdoor facility space was a little more problematic this year than normal. Due to a shortened growing season last summer, the SGA fields did not have a proper root system and half of the field became unplayable after the fall. This created some major challenges for spring soccer season, but thankfully because of a very understanding student body we were able to modify the season and get all activities completed with less field space than in the past.

This was the second year of utilizing IMLeagues in our program. This year went much smoother than the first as everyone had a much better understanding of how to use the platform. We also made a major push to get our participants to download the REC*IT app, which is IMLeagues’ mobile application. The app allows for students to get intramural updates sent directly to their phone, which makes communication easier between them and the department.

All-Campus Points Championship

This year all 3 points races went down to the wire, with the last event deciding every points race. The organizations that were able to put together consistent performances all year ended up beating out all of the other competitors.

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The Fraternity Division had three organizations that separated themselves from the rest of the pack early on. These three organizations competed hard all year, with all of them finishing near the top of every sport we offered. This year’s point’s race was won by Pi Kappa Alpha by 127.5 points over Sigma Phi Epsilon.

The Campus Division saw a few very competitive teams but we saw one organization rise above all others this year. The winning organization competed at a high level all year and had teams entered into every single event that we offered. This year’s Campus points champion was the Intramural Sports Department.

The Women’s Closed points race was a competitive race all year with two organizations switching between first and second all year. This race was not decided until the last event of the year was over. This year’s point’s race was won by Kappa Delta by 155 points over Delta Zeta.

Sportsmanship

As with every year the department strives to encourage sportsmanlike acts while enforcing rules set in place to discourage unsportsmanlike conduct of the participants. Many protocols have been put in place to make participants aware of the standards the department has set for sportsmanship. Participants must sign a sportsmanship contract and are read a sportsmanship statement at every game prior to taking the field in order to remind them of their pledge to remain good sports. Ultimately the department would like to have zero ejections over the course of the year. Unfortunately this year we had twelve ejections, with five occurring in Flag Football, three occurring in Soccer, and four occurring in Indoor Soccer. All of the ejected participants were dealt with in a firm but fair manner. Our hope is that after participants are ejected once that they will not have any more issues on the field during Intramural play.

Intramural Handbook

The 2014-15 Intramural Handbook continued to be a valuable tool for the participants. This handbook gave participants answers to a lot of their questions and allowed them to become informed participants. The handbook serves as a measure of checks and balances for the participants in order to be certain that the Intramural program is upholding the responsibilities set in place in the handbook. The Intramural Handbook was updated before the year started to make sure that all rules and procedures for IMLeagues were up-to-date and clarified.

Officials

This year we continued our trend of having a lot of new and inexperienced officials for most of our sports. The students that came out to be officials this year spoke volumes about the

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quality of students that are on campus as they were all very intelligent and quick to learn even though officiating is not easy. Most of the officials that we had this year were freshman or sophomores so the Intramural Department is very optimistic about our officiating crews in the future. If any of these students return to officiating again this year then we will have a very strong core of officials to build off of.

Championship Nights

The Intramural Sports department has made it a point to create exciting events when possible for not only the participants but the spectators as well on “Championship Night”. This year we moved our basketball championship night back to Cardinal Arena, after holding it in the SRC last year. The participants love the opportunity to play in a Division 1 arena for their championship nights. We held the Flag Football Championships on the Intramural Field and made an effort to make it a bigger spectacle than in years past. Both were well attended by spectators and had a feel of something bigger than just an Intramural championship. Not everyone can say they played in a major Division I sports venue like the students who participated in the Swim Meet and Track Meet. Thanks to a great working relationship with the Department of Athletics our participants have been awarded these opportunities.

Intramural Sports Awards

This year was our 28th edition of the annual Intramural Sports Awards. This year’s Awards Banquet saw another large turnout at the George J. Howe Red Barn. We continued the tradition of giving out official’s awards in honor of Dale Orem, Frank Nuxoll, Alfred Smith, Tony Crush, Chris Brawner, and James Breeding. We created a new award this year in honor of one of our former staff member Rusty Michalski. The award that we are giving out in his honor is the Rusty Michalski Honor Award and is given to the participant who best embodies the characteristics that Rusty had. Qdoba sponsored our meal for the sixth straight year. As is the tradition for this event various students and organizations were recognized for their achievements throughout the school year. This year the awards were heavily discussed among the intramural staff to ensure the top candidate would receive each award. Ellis J. Mendelsohn “Mendy” Awards Female Heather Luce – Delta Zeta

Male Austin Dunn – Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sports Club Julia Grady- Gaming Club

Other Departmental AwardsDale Ramsay Sportsmanship Award Lambda Chi Alpha

Outstanding Male Chair Award Matthew Baker – Pi Kappa Alpha Outstanding Female Chair Award Jaclyn Schmitt – Zeta Tau Alpha Outstanding Sport Club Ice Hockey Club Rusty Michalski Honor Award

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Scott Sallade Dale Orem Flag Football Official of the Year William RJ Washington Frank Nuxoll Volleyball

Official of the Year Olivia Zarek Alfred Smith Basketball Official of the Year Dan Filipowski Tony Crush Soccer Official of the Year Madeline Jacob Chris Brawner Rookie Official of the Year Pierce Feltner James Breeding Official of the Year Jakson Deyer

Most Improved Fraternity Sigma Pi Most Improved Women’s Closed Kappa Delta Most Improved Campus Points Pi Kappa Alpha

IM Service AwardsUniversity of Louisville Parking Office Janice Day Suzanne Galbreath

Intramural Council

This year we continued to use the Intramural Council to keep our program fresh. Last year the council was responsible for adding several sports back to the Intramural schedule. The sports that they added were some of our most popular sports this year. The Intramural Council continues to be a valuable asset for the Intramural Department as they give us a direct opportunity to talk to each organization individually. The council members also had the increased responsibility of teaching all of their organizations members the ins and outs of both IMLeagues and REC*IT this year. Without their help it would have been very difficult for us to use these two platforms as effectively as we do.

Changes Implemented for 2015-2016

After discussions with IM Council it was decided to only make one change to the Intramural schedule for next year. The decision was made to make the golf tournament a golf scramble for the upcoming year. This will allow for more people to participate and also give more groups an opportunity to be more competitive.

Recommendations

Continue to develop partnerships with outside corporations to provide the best experience possible for the participants of the program.

Continue to develop ways to recruit and retain sport officials. Research ways to adjust our marketing techniques to match the needs of a very tech

savvy generation. Continue to adjust the Intramural schedule to keep it fresh and keep the student body

engaged and interested in the program.

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Make direct efforts to encourage participants to utilize the mobile application for IMLeagues to increase communication between the department and the students.

XI. Marketing and Promotions

Marketing was a major focus of our program this year. Our goal was to greatly expand our level of interaction with our student population, mainly through the increased use of social media as well as enhanced visual promotion within the SRC. During the year we released 3,198 pieces of information through these vehicles. They featured not only things like important dates coming up, classes, etc. but real time promotional releases from events while they were taking place. The entire staff has been a part of this emphasis and it has now become a part of our culture. The quality of our printed and designed materials was much better than it has been in the past and we increased our number of visual displays by a good number over previous years. This year we completed 36 different marketing projects. The projects included every program area and featured many times of “cross promotion” that included more than one program area. They ranged from tabling to social media to printed material to digital material. We are continually moving our marketing efforts to include many different platforms in an effort to reach the highest portion of our total community as possible. In addition to the visual and social media efforts, we made a number of personal, promotional appearances to groups like the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association, SOS staffers, and a host of other organizations. Hosting the state conference of our professional association gave us a great opportunity to promote the facility and program to our colleagues.

Twitter

One of our major goals was to become much more active not only in social media, but specifically Twitter. We conducted some extensive marketing projects during orientation and early in the fall to build our number of followers. We are over 1,200 now. We also made it a point to release information every day on events that would be taking place as well as to send out promotional “tweets” during activities to generate interest. All of our program areas have access to the account so we are able to get out information very consistently and quickly, which allowed schedule changes and weather conditions to be sent out very easily and actively “re-tweeted” by different organizations. We were also very active in the fitness area, promoting classes at both the SRC and the HSC Fitness center every day. The facility staff did a good job of promoting hours of operation, upcoming holidays, locker renewals and other things. We made a major step forward in establishing this as part of our daily routines with much of the staff and will look to continue so in the future.

Reach Television

As part of our overall marketing emphasis, we made much more effective use of our REACH digital monitor system. During the year we posted 187 different screens or slides on the

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system promoting every program area in some fashion. Every roster due date, change in hours of operation, special fitness class, as well as messages from our corporate partners were on the system, which goes out to 16 of our 42 monitors throughout the SRC. In addition, we have posted several videos on the system that promote different program areas. Our graphic art student did some fantastic work for us in this arena and came up with a number of slides that were very unique and attention-getting.

Summer Orientation

For the second year we had our own info fair during Orientation, partnering with the Greek system, which is a good fit for us. Every afternoon during the attendees’ break, they are able to visit us in the breezeway of the Life Sciences Buildings. We have been involved in many different formats with Orientation over the years, but this one works well for us. There are not a lot of other groups vying for the student’s attention at this session, which is great for us. We had staff from the intramural, fitness, club and marketing areas of the program at each of the ten sessions.

Web Page

With the implementation of Plone 4, we had to completely re-develop our web site. David Rice and John Smith attended a series of training sessions conducted by the IT Department to learn the new system. The University had a deadline for launching the new versions of every web page hosted by the UofL. Many departments did not meet that deadline but we were one of the earlier ones to be completed and ready for launch. Our new design has eliminated some redundancy in our previous site and is much easier to navigate. We are making good use of it in every program area. With the re-design, we now have the Student Affairs event calendar running on one of our scrolls which is great not only for us, but helps cross-promote events through other unit sites. Our page continues to be one of the cornerstones of our overall marketing program.

Intramural Web Site Statistics

Visits – 55,343 Pageviews – 155,939Duration – 1:45Page per session – 2.82Unique Users – 19,283

Learfield Sports Properties

We continue to be one of the only Intramural-Recreational Sports departments in the nation to be represented by a professional sports marketing agency. We have seen a few others

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begin to use our model, but we will always be one of the pioneers in this model nationwide. Learfield is very connected to the Atlantic Coast Conference and is a national player in terms of sports marketing. Marketing in our context is about corporate relationships and financial gains for the department and not promotional ventures.

Partnerships with corporate entities come with a high level of expectations from a compliance standpoint. It is crucial for us in our ability to retain current partners and attract new ones, that we complete all of our obligations in a timely manner. This entails a consistent effort and awareness from our entire staff. Last year we did not fail to complete any of our obligations to any of our partners. John Smith has regular meetings with the Learfield representative responsible for our program to insure both our compliance and to investigate potential corporate partners.

Our partnership with Qdoba remains very strong. Even though we have had the partnership for several years, Qdoba is so popular with the students that there is still the same level of excitement associated with the program. We have established good relationships with several other corporate agencies and continue to develop those.

In addition to the Learfield related marketing, we have been working closely with Glenn Gittings from the Vice President of Student Affairs Office in procuring sponsorships for the new Student Recreation Center. Currently, due to restrictions in place on a University level involving these types of efforts, we are not allowed to do much but we are hoping for some changes in this area soon.

Graphic Arts Student

One of the best things we have ever done on the marketing and promotion front was to hire Nick Cook to help us with the visual presentation of our materials. Nick is a very talented graphic artist and very creative person. He has significantly raised the quality of every area of our program in this area. His work has appeared on our web site, REACH digital monitor system, posters and printed materials. He still has two years of school left and we hope to retain him for both of those but having a student skilled in the area of graphic art will be a consistent goal of our program.

Alumni Memberships

We continue to work with the Registrars’ 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 through a printed information sheet placed in the diploma package. We are starting to see an increase in the number of students who paid the recreation fee prior to the opening of the new SRC who are eligible to receive 6 months of membership (free) for every semester they paid the fee prior to opening. We want to make sure and include that information on the materials we are able to distribute through the Registrars’ Office. We

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hope to retain a high number of those former students as alumni members when their free period of membership is completed.

With our new format of allowing alumni to join for 3, 6, 9 or 12 months at a time, our number of members is very fluid and fluctuates greatly depending on the time of the year. The main factor that drives memberships is parking. The lack of parking, and more importantly free parking, for alumni anywhere near the center will always be a determining factor in how successful the program might be. The opening of a 24 hour fitness center in the nearby Cardinal Station shopping area will also have an effect on our membership as they have free parking and membership rates of $10 per month. We know of a number of alumni and faculty staff former members of our’s who now use that facility.

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 more intentionally marketed the program to families on that campus. We released information through the UofL Today email feature at the start of each semester. As with other membership programs, our rates for dependent IDs have changed to reflect the student recreation fee.

Summer ID Validations

The summer validation program allows students to use intramural facilities over the summer if they were enrolled in the spring or can show proof of registration for the upcoming fall semester. 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. To be consistent with other membership programs, the fee matches the student recreation fee. We do not think anyone should be gaining access to the SRC for less than the students are paying so all membership fees are based off that amount.

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XII. Assessment

For the year we completed 27 assessment projects that were included on our annual Master Plan. Now that we have been in the SRC for a period of time, our assessment focus is moving from decision making (i.e. equipment selection etc.) and now into use and the impact on retention and recruitment we have. Every program area was looked at in some fashion during the year.

Review Learfield status on a regular basis

John Smith meets with Lisa Turner on a regular basis to insure compliance and discuss future sponsorship opportunities.

Select and hire Department Assistants

Department Assistants are regular employees of the University only they are 80% FTE. We will have to go through the regular hiring process to add these positions to our staff. We have DA openings in the fitness and HSC Fitness Center areas to hire this year.

We hired two new Department Assistant positions this year. We followed all University hiring protocols and conducted thorough screening and interview processes during their hiring.

Critical Thinking Assessment Project

This will be a department-wide project to measure the impact and recognition of our Fundamental and Powerful concept statements. We have taken our statements and the Critical Thinking Traits that support them and developed a rubric. We will release the rubric to every program area at different times of the year. Our statements could also be viewed as our core value statements.

We developed a rubric using intellectual traits from the Paul/Elder critical thinking framework to collect from different areas of our program. We had 649 valid responses. The results were very encouraging as they indicated a high level of awareness and agreement with the intellectual traits we associate with the program.

Tool StructureThe tool was written to gauge the level of identification between students and our five “fundamental and powerful concepts” per the Critical Thinking framework. For each of the

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five statements, students were given four possible responses and asked to pick the one response they felt most described themselves. The four responses were structured in such a way that the responses increased in agreement with critical thinking traits. For example, choosing the second response would be considered a “stronger” response than the first or the third would be a stronger indication of critical thinking traits than the second. Responses of the third or fourth option would indicate a desired level of awareness and agreement of critical thinking. Responses were totaled by both program area and overall.

Overall Observations72% of all participants choose a response of 3 or 4. This shows that our participants are more aware of critical thinking and the traits that support our fundamental and powerful concepts than we would have anticipated.

With only a few minor differences, it was very surprising to see the responses be so close to each other when compared to different program areas.

The strong response to the “win with dignity, lose with respect” question is very encouraging. It shows the carryover of some things like respect and accountability into competitive situations whether those are organized IM events or informal games.

Because these aren’t things we talk about and directly promote to most of our participants (except mgrs. Meetings, council, etc.) we can take some satisfaction understanding participants are picking up many of these traits (qualities) from actual participation.

Group Fitness Showed a very high level of agreement with the “Win with class, lose with dignity” statement. 62 responses in the 4th option out of 94 total. You wouldn’t think that this response rate would be so high in a non-competitive, individual activity setting.

Group fitness is very strong in the personal accountability question with 90 of the 99 responders choosing either the 3rd or 4th answer.

The program area also scores high in “respect” with 84 of the 99 responders choosing the 3rd or 4th option. We believe this comes from the cooperation in many fitness activities such as working in on a piece of equipment, sharing floor space in yoga, etc.

Informal RecreationWe kept three separate totals for the informal program, an SRC AM and a SRC PM, as well as a separate HSC Fitness Center total.

SRC ResultsWe are surprised that the results from the different shifts are so similar. We really expected the PM to be much lower in a couple areas just from infusion of probable competitive intramural participants in that group. Directly across the board, the responses to the statements are very close to each other for both shifts.

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The statement relating to the pursuit of the common goal gets the lowest response to any of the questions, probably because most of our program areas, and largest areas, are individual based such as informal recreation and group fitness. 72% of our total responses in the informal area were either the 3 or 4 responses. Higher than we would have anticipated before the tool was released. The most surprising total to us was the PM responses to the “win with class” question given we have a lot of IM participants in the evening and we don’t know who is filling out the survey when they enter. The statement had the most people of any choose response 4, 93 of 166 and 113 of the 166 combining response 3 and 4.

Accountability and respect also scored high in both the AM and PM responses. Again, due to the need to work in on machines, rotate games in pick-up basketball, etc. HSC Fitness Center Results78% of all responses from HSC participants were in the 3 or 4 response categories.

Our speculation is this is due to the advanced level of education combined with a certain core level of respect/service for individuals connected to their area of study coupled with the fact that there is no team or competitive activities at the center.

Intramural ResponsesWe were surprised, one good, one disappointing, with responses from this group.

We expected the “pursuit of the common goal” responses to be much higher in the 3,4 area because of the team/organization format of the structured IM program. Less than half (47%) answered with a response of a 3 or 4.

We expected the “competition” question to be much lower than it was. Although the responses were exactly divided between the 1 and 2 responses compared to the 3 and 4, we still expected the 1 and 2s to be greater than they were. Sport Club Responses83% of all responses from the sport clubs were in the 3 or 4 groups, the highest of any single program area.

We expected the “competition” question to be much lower with this group as a number of our programs are very competitive in nature, but were surprised to see the higher recognition of critical thinking traits even in this category.

Again, we would have expected a higher rate of strong responses from the “pursuit of the common goal” question, especially from a program area like the clubs which are by definition, made up of people that share a common interest.

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SRC One Year Statistical Study

When the SRC reaches its one year anniversary, we want to do a complete statistical analysis of the center. We will want to pull total visits, distinct IDs and other user information that we are able to capture. This will come from the CSI system and will require us to become proficient at another one of the modules available through that platform.

This study was compiled by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning on March 20, 2015 with utilization data provided by the Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports. The utilization data were collected upon each visit a student made to either the new Student Recreation Center or the HSC fitness center by the student having their ID card swiped into a scanning system. To be included in the analysis, students must have used either the HSC Fitness Center or the Student Recreation Center an average of one visit per week during the time period from October 28, 2013 to October 27, 2014. That time period represents the first year of operation for the new Student Recreation Center. There were 6,055 students who met the criteria. Those students are referred to as “regular” users in the observations below. There were 14,425 unique student users at the SRC plus an additional 1,124 students who used the HSC Fitness Center but did not use the SRC, for a total of 15,549 unique student users. (2,812 students used both the SRC and HSC Fitness Center.)

This represents approximately 70% of all students at the University of Louisville.

58.7% of regular users had a grade point average of 3.0 or higher. (30.2% of regular users had a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher and 28.5% of regular users had a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 to 3.49)

78.5% of regular users had a cumulative grade point average above a 2.5. (19.8% of regular users had a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 to 2.99) 73% of all visits were made by undergraduate students under the age of 24.

The majority of utilization is by females. 61% of all regular users who utilized the facilities were female.

Females accounted for 68% of all visits by regular users.

The difference between the number of females (61%) and the number of visits made by females (68%) was the largest of any category meaning females are not only the largest group of users, but also have a higher rate of utilization.

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While 17% of all undergraduates live on campus in either University dorms or affiliated housing, undergraduates living on campus comprised 40% of all undergraduate students utilizing the facilities and 38% of the total undergraduate visits.

17% of all visits by regular users were made by members of the Greek community.

25.7% of all regular users were minority students.

12.9% of all regular users were African American

Continue to document monthly facility inspections

Thorough monthly inspections of every facility are an important piece of our risk management plan. The inspections need to include every piece of weight and cardiovascular equipment as well as all other pertinent equipment. The inspections must be in writing so we are able to provide documentation regarding what was checked, when it was checked and what action was taken to correct any problems. All inspections are to be sent to John Smith for storage and review.

Both facilities are inspected monthly and results documented by John Smith. The SRC has a system loaded on an iPad that allows our fitness staff (DAs and above) to complete the inspections more efficiently.

Continue informal focus group

With the advent of the new SRC, the scope and makeup of this group is going to change. The students on our panel graduated last year so they would have been replaced this year anyway. The faculty, staff and alumni members of this group will all need to be members of the SRC.

Our focus group for the SRC is now forming. We are also looking to implement one for the HSC Fitness Center as well.

Select new cardio equipment for the HSC Fitness Center

All of the cardio equipment at the HSC is either out of warranty or within a couple months of being so. We are starting to make numerous repairs to the equipment and have squeezed all the life out of most of the machines as possible. We want to replace the cardio equipment of the center to better serve our clientele on that campus and give them the same type of experience as members of the new SRC receive.

We selected new equipment for the HSC Fitness Center last summer. The process was aided by the fact that we already have such a wide variety of new equipment in the SRC, we already had an idea of what our users preferred and how well the different pieces performed.

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We installed 27 new pieces using this information as a guide to the model and number of pieces to be purchased.

Investigate the installation of REACH at the HSC Fitness Center

We would like to add a REACH station at the HSC Fitness Center to promote hours of operation, classes, upcoming events on both campuses etc. We have a great location for one at the entrance ramp of the center where it would get great visibility. Tim and Rusty could both develop announcements for the system. The use of a digital promotion system is something that has been missed at the HSC for a number of years that could have great benefits for the department.

We are installing a REACH system for the HSC this July.

Continue web statistics study

We are now utilizing Google Analytics to track hits, page visits and duration of visits. A pageview is a record of the individual pages someone visited while in our total site. Those records will help us shape the look, feel and function of our page in the future.

We have found that the IM Leagues program drives a lot of our traffic. Our web page continues to be very active and is a great outreach tool to potential students. It is always somewhat surprising to hear how many new students at orientation sessions tell us they are already familiar with our program because of our web page.

Document the installation of critical updates and virus protection installations

We changed our machine to do updates automatically which means we no longer maintain a record of the updates. Previously, when updates were released John and David R. would manually come around to each machine in the office to complete the updates. Having them done automatically is safer for the department as it protects the machines during the time that John and David would have been coming around to perform the updates. The important thing is that we did not lose a machine to a virus or preventable problem during the year.

We have all of our machines set for automatic updates so we no longer track the actual number of updates etc. that we perform. When we did those manually we had an actual count.

Continue Global Viewer

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Global Viewer is a program that will enable us to control the tuning of all TVs and monitors in the SRC from a desktop computer. John, David Hatfield and David Rice will have administration rights to the system. Through the system, all of the TVs in the SRC can be controlled from a person’s desktop pc. This includes having the sets come on at a specified time and go off at a specified time so the facility manager does not have to go around the entire facility making sure they in an appropriate setting at any given time.

We continue to utilize the Global Viewer system provided with the opening of the SRC. It is a decent system but is not doing everything we wanted it to and it still requires a daily inspection of the entire facility to insure that all monitors are on the correct channels and functioning properly. Many times the default station will change on the 16 dedicated monitors for the REACH system. Since the system only has a power button to hit, if night custodial turns a set on or off it will be reversed when the system “hits” it again at opening or closing.

Continue to evaluate needs for SRC instructor staff

Keeping our classes current and making sure we are knowledgeable about new fitness trends will require us to continually evaluate the need both for numbers of instructors but also types of instructors. The new class format of being free and not fee based will no doubt have ramifications in our ability to stay current with the fitness industry.

Debby has tracked attendance numbers of different class types. Schedules for the summer and fall are being developed according to the popularity of the classes as much as possible. The availability of instructors is the main determining factor in what classes are offered.

Monday Classes: Total AverageCycling 11:30-12:15 35 3Boot Camp 12:05-12:50 4 2Boot Camp 5:30 pm 174 16.00Turbo Kick 5:30 Pm 80 7.27Cycling 5:30-6:30 215 19.55Zumba 6:35-7:30 208 18.91Power Yoga 6:45-7:45 354 32.2

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Power Yoga 8-9 AM 76 7Cycling 9-9:50 am 44 3.6Barre 12:30-1:30 133 11.2No Limits Circuit 4:15 112 9.3Zumba 5:30 pm 88 7.3Group Cycling 5:30 pm 283 23.6TRX Circuit 7:45 PM 99 9

Wednesday Classes:Core Blast 9-9:45 AM 51 3.9Zumba 5:30-6:30 PM 211 16.2Belly Dancing 5:30 PM 65 5.4Group Cycling 5:30 PM 219 16.8Power Yoga 6:45 PM 487 37.5Boot Camp 8-9 PM 189 14.5

Thursday Classes:Group Cycling 9-9:50am 67 5.6Cardio Blast 12:05-12:50 8 2.6Barre 12:30-1:30 PM 122 11Core Blast 4:15-5:15 pm 139 12.5Belly 27 2.5

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Dancing 5:30 pmGroup Cycling 5:30 pm 248 20.10Zumba 6:35-7:30 PM 61 5.1TRX Circuit 6:45-7:45 pm 63 5.25

Friday Classes:Barre 10 am 140 11.7Power Yoga 10 AM 200 15.4Zumba 3-4 PM 88 6.7

Sunday Classes:Zumba 6:45-7:45 PM 62 5.6

Total Participants 4352

Document attendance numbers of all classes and personal training sessions.

We will need to document the attendance/popularity of the classes. With the launch of the personal training program, we will want to be able to document the number of sessions and number of people taking advantage of the program.

We documented all certified personal trainers, number of clients and total sessions. Specific details of those results are included in the fitness area of this report.

Assess officials in all sports

We want to continue the process of evaluating 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.

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Justin, Tad and the IM supervisors performed observations and evaluations on all officials. That information was used to determine post season/tournament assignments. It was also used to give the officials a plan of improvement. Officials are observed at all contests

Continue to formalize/document Council agendas

Five years ago 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. We also cover either one of our Fundamental and Powerful Critical Thinking Concepts or one of the supporting traits of those statements.

All council agendas are documented and on file. Each agenda contained critical thinking talking point(s). The council meetings have become an important part of our Dare to Play Fair sportsmanship program.

Conduct Team Sport Satisfaction surveys for each major team sport

We have been conducting a written team sport satisfaction tool for a number of years. Results tend to be pretty close to the same from year to year. We usually get some comments on a few of the surveys but have no way to follow up with people on them. Four years ago we changed to a focus group type of setting. At the conclusion of every team sport we will have an open forum discussion that all teams will be invited to attend. A member of the staff not directly associated with the intramural program will serve as the moderator for the meeting so the attendees will feel more open to discuss things that are important to them. We will have a prepared list of talking points. This will allow for a more inclusive setting and promote dialogue rather than limited written responses.

We held a Town Hall meeting at the end of every team sport. Talking points always included officiating, facilities, supervisor attitudes on site, safety and injury response as well as anything that was specific to that sport. Participants were always given the opportunity to bring up anything they wanted from the floor as well. It was difficult getting people to engage in the conversations. We need to look at a different format or making it a stand-alone meeting and not part of a council meeting.

Review IM schedule

After being in the new SRC for most of a year, we will want to review our structured intramural program to investigate different sports, programs etc. This will be done through the IM Council year end meeting and internal staff meetings.

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As a result of participation in activities, we have added wallyball, and expanded indoor soccer into a league from a tournament. We also re-implemented racquetball and badminton, which did not play the previous year because of the construction schedule. All indoor activities have had a record number of teams/participants over previous years. That was the second year in a row that had happened in our program.

Continue follow up phone contact with injured participants

Last year we made 125 phone calls to participants who had been injured in our program. Every person who had an injury report filled out received at least one call checking on their condition and offering the departments’ assistance. The calls are very good tools for us. They show concern and intent to follow up with our participants. We talk to many parents when making the calls and the good will we receive from the calls is very significant. From a legal standpoint they are important but more importantly from a moral standpoint they are critical to our department and should be continued with no question. Our number of injuries has risen significantly, from an average of 88 to an average of 130, with the increased participation and new activities in the SRC. It is vital for us to continue this part of the response plan.

Document all AED inspections

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. Our inspection for the current year has been completed and all machines are in compliance.

Document all staff certifications

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.

All staff certifications along with expiration dates are maintained and available from John Smith. Because we are on a two year certification cycle and staff graduate or leave the University, our numbers fluctuate throughout the year but we average 40 certified responders at any given time.

Track all injury reports

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

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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.

Information on these results are included in the safety area of this report.

Include a specific question on injury response to team sport satisfaction tools

Injury response is a topic at all town hall team sports meetings. There were no responses from anyone reporting poor response to an injury situation. Most people had compliments to the way our staff responded. This has already been a regular talking point in all of our town hall meetings but should be continued.

We know that half our injuries involve bone/joint issues. Around 34% involve blood situations. Around 14% involve head and/or concussion symptoms and the rest are assorted instances of sudden illness, fainting etc. Our training is geared to address each of these scenarios in detail.

Inventory response bags on regular basis

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.

We inventoried our bags on a regular basis this year as well as inventorying the first aid room of the SRC on a regular basis.

Continue regular facility inspections

Every month a detailed inspection is completed on every facility including all equipment in that facility. The inspection forms are turned into the safety coordinator and documented there. This is a critical component of our overall risk management plan.

Monthly facility inspections are completed and turned into John Smith for documentation. Inspection forms include all weight and cardiovascular pieces of equipment as well as building and general equipment.

Conduct a site review for safety response

Our clubs practice and play in various locations. We need to review those locations to make sure our clubs have appropriate mechanisms in place in case of an emergency medical

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situation. Those that cannot document the availability of a certified first responder with CPR and First Aid certifications at the various facilities used should be required to send club members to become certified through our office or through existing classes with the Louisville Area Chapter of the American Red Cross. This should be completed by the sport club coordinator and a written report filed with the safety/risk management coordinator upon each visit. The Sport Club Coordinator has reported that all facilities have been inspected for their specific activity and are safe for our programs to utilize.

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XIII. Technology

Technology continues to drive most of our daily functions. Fortunately for us, most of our equipment is relatively new and we had very few issues to deal with. From an operations standpoint, having 160 points of connection and 20 computers in the SRC, a satellite television system, digit television system and touchscreen display, projectors and smart boards, we are very technology dependent. All of our machines are up to date on virus protection and malware programs. Given the number of machines and different platforms we are dealing with, it is critical that we maintain and utilize these in the best manner possible. One of the best advancements we made in the area of technology was being able to gather information from different sources than ever before. We were able to supply Institutional Research with a wealth of information for a demographic study that compares “regular” and “non-regular” users of our facilities to grade point average and persistence. (details are in the assessment section of the report) We continue to look for new ways to use technology in every phase of our operation.

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XIV. Safety

We have over 40 staff members certified to use the AED machines and respond to emergency medical situations through the American Heart Association. Our certifications are now on two year cycles so the number of responders certified in a given year and the number of responders available to use are not the same figure. A number of our responders were certified in the previous year and some of our responders graduate or leave the department for one reason or another. Since changing to the American Heart Association rather than the American Red Cross for our certification and training programs, we have received much stronger support. Louisville Fire and Rescue uses American Heart and has a center dedicated to CPR/AED and First Aid downtown. The same people that teach the professionals how to respond to any situation are available to help us with any scenario we may encounter. Our certifications are now done in office rather than have to go through Kansas City, making it much timelier in getting them done.

These 40+ trained responders are called “designated responders” Heartsaver CPR and First Aid through the AHA. 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 125 documented emergency medical situations last year that were deemed serious enough for our supervisors to complete written reports. That is a decrease of 10 over last year. Even though this was a decrease in overall numbers, it is important to understand that it still 25 to 40 more injuries than we typically responded to before moving to the SRC. The increased numbers of participants as well as the increased number of available activities combine to make or ability to respond and be properly staffed paramount.

Our current method of training designated responders makes our response to these situations quicker and more thorough than our previous method of mass training to a lower level of skill. Each of the 125 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. Some of these injured participants are from out of town or even international students who do not know a doctor or where to go in Louisville. We refer to orthopedic and general practice medical professionals when asked as well as provide assistance in communicating with Risk Management regarding insurance protocols.

Our injury breakdown remains about the same as it has been. A slight majority of our responses are to bone/joint injuries. Blood injuries make up the next most responded to situation (close to 35%). Head injuries coupled with concussion symptoms comprised make up between 13 and 15% of our injuries and the other 2% were random cases of dizziness, nausea etc. We have seen an increase in the head/concussion injuries which is likely related to the increased number of sports that have the potential for collisions such as indoor soccer,

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team handball, and the increased popularity of flag football and soccer. The increased numbers of people in the informal program participating in pick-up basketball have also had an impact on that injury rate.

A great addition to our response in the SRC has been the new First Aid Room. We have what amounts to a physician’s exam room adjoining the front counter area of the facility. Now, if a person is hurt, and we are able to move them, we can provide privacy and a better level of treatment with the room. We have used the room a number of times since opening the center and every patient has commented on the improved comfort level they derived from the privacy provided.

We also continued our department protocols for MRSA 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 dealing with the prevention of MRSA, which prompted us to develop our own training program.

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XV. Fitness

Group Fitness Classes

With one full year of operation in the Student Recreation Center (SRC) under our belts, the group fitness area continued its upward trajectory of offering more classes and increasing participation numbers. The number of classes offered increased by 5%, however the types of classes offered expanded to include Barre Fitness, Belly Dancing and Turbo-Kick which had never been offered in the past. With the addition of these classes and increased number of classes offered in the evenings (after 5:30 PM) our participation hours increased by 34% jumping from 7000 participation hours to 9400 at the Health Science Campus fitness center and Student Recreation Center combined. Our classes averaged anywhere from 2 students to as many as 37 students per class. Our highest class averages were Power Yoga, Zumba, Boot Camp and Group Cycling with 16-37 participants per class compared to 15-24 per class last year. Our Group Cycling classes were so large in the spring semester we pulled 5 additional bikes into the studio to accommodate participants and not have to turn students away from participating in the class. As a result of the popularity of these classes we have ordered 5 additional bikes to keep in the studio so the staff does not have to transfer the bikes into and out of the room on a daily basis. Our Power Yoga classes that were offered in the evenings were even more popular with as many as 64 participants on one occasion and over 45 on 5 occasions prompting us to order 10 more yoga mats to accommodate the participants.

Due to the growth of the group fitness program we developed and implemented an in-house group fitness instructor training program to assist students interested in becoming certified group fitness instructors. Our new Departmental Assistant who was hired in August was instrumental in this endeavor as she took the lead on this project and led the training sessions with about 8 students participating. This class was successful as it led to 4 students obtaining their group fitness instructor certification. This class was held prior to our department hosting 2 group fitness certification workshops, last August and February, which 4 of these students participated in and obtained their group fitness instructor certification through the Aerobic Fitness Association of America (AFAA). This in-house training program will be continued as the need to hire group fitness instructors will never end due to student instructors graduating leaving vacancies in the group fitness class schedule. We will continue to recruit students in the HSS Department majoring in Exercise Science or Health Promotion with a passion for fitness and sharing their knowledge and expertise in their field of study. Due to the inquiry of several students’ interest in becoming certified to teach yoga we have contacted a national company, YogaFit Inc., to come to campus and offer a YogaFit Level 1 certification workshop.

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Personal Training

The Intramural and Recreational Sports Department is always innovating new and exciting ways to engage the University of Louisville student, faculty, and alumni members in programs to improve personal health. One recent addition to our department over the last year has been the offering of personal training services. This service is an expanding success thus far on campus! We served over 25 clients this past year totaling over 390 sessions which resulted in the clients’ personal fitness goal being expedited through this service. The program has generated revenue for our department which will be invested back into the program to purchase additional equipment and replace used equipment. Imperative to our program is educating our clients on lifestyle changes that will enhance their success after their sessions are completed. This is a fundamental principle we work hard to instill with our clients. We are expecting continued growth as we continue to educate our trainers with the newest trends in exercise science. Moreover, we will continue to educate our members on the many benefits physical fitness can provide in other areas of life!

Fitness Assessments & Mini Fit-checks

Through the utilization of our personal trainers and interns from the Exercise Science Department we continued the Mini Fit-check service of providing free weekly body composition testing and blood pressure screenings throughout the year. This proved to be a win-win as a free service was provided for the university community and our trainers and interns gained invaluable experience practicing their skinfold caliper testing skills. This program allowed the trainers to connect with SRC users and promote their knowledge and expertise in the field to obtain potential clients. This program will be continued and possibly expanded moving forward.

We continued our collaboration with the Office of Health Promotion in providing facility space to offer their U-Fit program for U of L students. We created a schedule for the Departmental Assistants’ office/ Fitness Lab to accommodate the U-Fit interns and personal trainers so the privacy of the client was protected and service was not compromised. If our personal training program continues to grow and the U-Fit program expands we may need to re-visit the utilization of this space and look at other options so that the integrity of both programs is maintained by ensuring client privacy during one-on-one meetings.

Max Night

Max Night is a new program we began last fall that is offered one night per month in which students can test their limits in various lifts. Each night features a different lift allowing the participant to attempt their maximum lift in a safe environment with experienced staff available to provide a spot and teach proper lifting techniques. We had our Department Assistants, Exercise Science Interns and fitness staff on hand to administer the program and ensure participant safety. The lifts we offered were bench press, squat and deadlift as well as a competition for most push-ups and pull-ups and longest held plank. The contests were well

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attended at the beginning of the semester and will generate even more participation if prizes were offered. We will continue the program next year and look to invest some resources for prizes and possibly find a sponsor for the event.

CardFit Challenge

We collaborated with the Office of Health Promotion to offer two CardFit Challenge special events at the beginning of each semester for students to participate in and become familiar with the SRC and socialize. In August we offered an obstacle challenge course on the turf field during Welcome Week and in January we offered a dodgeball night of fun on the MAC court. Both events were informal meaning students did not have to register in advance and could just show up and participate in the event. We look to continue this collaboration and possibly combine it with another event to attract even more participants and market it more aggressively. There will be a concerted effort to utilize social media a great deal more to increase awareness of this program and attract increased participation.

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XVI. Sports Club Federation

The 2014-15 school year was another excellent one for the Sports Club Federation. The Federation began the season with 20 members and added four clubs (Women’s Rugby, Women’s Softball, Tabletop Gaming, Golf) while losing two over the course of the season (Power Tumbling and Wrestling) bringing our number to 22 active groups. We met with several groups concerning the formation of future clubs, which we look forward to in the upcoming year.

Sports Club are student groups dedicated to a particular sport, which separate them from other recognized student organizations and competitive intramural sports. Our roster currently enjoys competitive clubs, instructional clubs, and social groups. This diversity lends strength and credibility to our program and allows us to offer a wide range of differing sport and recreational options.

Our Sports 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 participants attend the university. We believe we are 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. This also would not be possible without our community membership program, which justifies its existence in a strong and very visible way.

We knew that with the opening of the new Student Recreation Center in October 2013 many changes were in store for the sports club program. Whereas previously we had clubs meeting and practicing in various different areas of campus and in the community, we now have a facility that is capable of housing a variety of different clubs and hosting a multitude of activities. With the center’s opening, we are able to provide dedicated practice space to 14 of our clubs in one facility. Sports Club Federation meetings are now held in the classrooms of the building. We also saw the SRC leading directly to the formation of two new clubs (Tabletop Gaming and Golf), providing facility space for these pursuits that were not previously available. In the future, it will be entirely possible to add several clubs based solely on our ability to provide appropriate practice and meeting space in the SRC, which is a luxury we previously did not enjoy.

Another exciting change to our program was our new partnership with the Office of Admissions. This year we began working with Admissions in an effort to attract a higher

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level of student and athlete to our program by educating potential incoming freshmen of the availability of academic scholarships from the university. Our clubs were able to use this information to actively recruit potential club members and offer them the possibility of receiving significant financial aid. This effort will not only bring high academically achieving students to the University, but also allow the clubs to recruit better athletes to their teams. Initially this idea was implemented through four of our competitive clubs, and we believe that there will be strong positive outcomes when we see the incoming class of students. In the future we hope to open this idea to all of our groups and introduce some better athletes to our club program.

Our clubs once again participated in the Dean of Students Office Field Day as well as the RSO Fair at the beginning of the school year in August. For the first time this year, all of the clubs were invited to participate in Campus Preview Day, which for us was held in the Student Recreation Center. In addition, several of our clubs were included in the five-minute promotional video for the overall Intramural Department. 2013-14 Sports Club Mendy Award Winner Spencer Wise represented the sports club program in this video and did an outstanding job.

The following is a brief outline of the accomplishments of our twenty clubs for the 2014-15 academic year:

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Aikido Club

The Aikido Club had a successful year in 2014-15. The group continues to see a consistent membership with 12-15 students attending regularly. Club meetings were held on Tuesday and Friday evenings and Saturday morning in the SRC. In the fall a demonstration was held demonstrating techniques of various levels. The club benefitted greatly from the Mat Room expansion in December 2014, which doubled the usable mat space and provided a safer and larger environment to practice. Five members of the club were promoted in rank this year, with two more scheduled to do so later this year. In March the club attended a seminar in Cincinnati which was taught by a direct descendant of the founder of Aikido in the US. The club currently has five black belt-level or above instructors. This level of leadership gives our club one of the highest levels of accomplished instructors in the region and speaks to the dedication they have to their discipline. Aikido is one of our oldest clubs and continued its long tradition of excellence this past season.

Badminton Club

The Badminton Club is one of the longest-tenured clubs on our roster, being active for over 35 years. Practices were once again held on Friday evenings in the SRC. 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. 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 November and March, where their diverse membership was a welcome addition to the evenings. The Badminton Club continues to do well under the leadership of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Norton, and will no doubt continue to do so.

Ballroom Dance Club aka: “Dancing with the Cards”

“Dancing with the Cards” had an outstanding year. This year members learned a number of different popular dances, including the cha-cha, foxtrot, west coast swing, lindy hop, and argentine tango, and hustle. These dances were taught in a structured monthly rotation, with a new dance each month taught at their Tuesday evening practices. The club hosted monthly dances in Lutz Hall which were well-attended. A highlight of these events occurred in October when the entire club learned the Michael Jackson “Thriller” dance and performed it to a rousing ovation. The club also did a demonstration at the Belknap Farmer’s Market in October, as well as co-sponsored a dance with Manual High School in March. With the

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continued solid leadership of Jim Beggan and a strong core of student participants, the club looks to become more active in the dance community and increase its membership in the coming year.

Baseball Club

Our Baseball Club posted an impressive 9-9 record. Included in that record were two impressive wins against Eastern Kentucky University, which was nationally ranked and about to enter postseason play. The spring season saw scheduled games against schools such as Xavier, Wright State, Dayton, Eastern Kentucky, Ohio State, Edison Community College, and the Battle for the Barrel against Kentucky, which the team took with a 2-1 series win. Home games were once again played at Beechmont Park, and Mother Nature was not kind to the team this spring, forcing numerous cancellations and reschedules. Off the diamond, the Cardinal Nine had members volunteer to work at McDonalds during a Kentucky Derby Fesitival event in April. The future of the club baseball team will include a summer season in the River City league which will consist of 20 games, all played locally. The Baseball Club had an exciting season and looks to back it up with an even better showing in the coming year.

Men’s and Women’s Bowling Club

The Bowling Club had another solid year on the lanes. Practices were once again this season held at Executive Strike and Spare on Tuesday nights. This year the Men’s and Women’s clubs competed together in the same events, allowing them to travel together and save on entry fees and travel expenses. The group competed in a total of 8 events this season, four each in the fall and spring semesters, and while they did not have any high finishes as a group, several members secured high finished individually, led by Kyle Abel and his top 5 finish in the Southern Kentucky Classic. The leadership status of the club has stabilized this past year so we are hoping that a sound foundation has been laid for future success for the Bowling Club.

Fencing Club

The Fencing Club once again proved to be a fully functioning recreational group that continues to do its business well. Weekly practices were once again held in the SRC on Monday and Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoons. The club has a consistent 8-10 members attending class and continues to attract individuals from the University’s physical education class. In the future the group is planning to host a tournament in the SRC, with competition to be held in the MAC Court area. The Fencing Club is the oldest active club on our roster, with continual existence at UofL since 1948, and we look for it to remain a strong club well into the future.

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Golf Club

Golf was a new club this year, a direct result of the opening of the Student Recreation Center. With the popularity of the golf simulator it was clear that some sort of organized activity would spring from it, and the Golf Club was the result. The group met on Thursday evenings in the SRC with a consistent group of 6-8 members gathering to play the various courses available. In the future the club looks to play some competitive matches against local and regional schools as well as join a collegiate golf club conference.Ice Hockey Club

The UofL Ice Hockey club experienced what was by all accounts its most successful season ever in 2014-15. The group completed a full 37-game schedule and posted an excellent 21-14-2 record. The team had a roster of 27 players at the beginning of the year and skated their way through a midseason losing streak to win 10 of their last 11 games. In October, the club played a weekend series with the University of Akron in pink jerseys, and after the second game the jerseys were auctioned off to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Iceland Arena was once again the venue for their home matches this year and the group was able to travel to Cincinnati, Kentucky, Lindenwood, Robert Morris, Miami of Ohio, Ohio, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Dayton, Indiana, Bowling Green, and Wright State for contests as well. Qualifying second for the TSCHL Tournament, the club brought home its first Conference Championship since 2000. Additionally, Coach Brian Graham was named TSCHL Coach of Year. In April the club hosted a recruiting weekend for prospective student/athletes. They should benefit greatly from our partnership with the Office of Admissions to bring in better student and potential club members. It was an outstanding year for our Ice Hockey Club and we look forward to many more in the future.

Kempo Karate Club

The University of Louisville Kempo Club completed another productive and successful year. Practices were again held in the SRC on Monday and Thursday evenings. The group currently has 5 masters and 8 overall black belts which provide a consistently high level of instruction. The club benefitted greatly from the Mat Room expansion in December 2014, which doubled the usable mat space and provided a safer and larger environment to practice. Members of the club were able to test and advance in various disciplines, including Kempo, Jujutsu, Aikijujutsu and Karate. The group continues to bring in guest instructors at its clinics, which has been well-received by the members. The Kempo Club is another of our oldest and most well established clubs and continues to lead by example on how to run a successful group.

Men’s Lacrosse Club

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During the 2014-15 school year, the Men’s Lacrosse Club at U of L rebounded from a 1-7 season a year ago to post a 5-3 regular season record and the club’s first invitation to postseason play since 2008. Practices began in the fall and the club was on the SRC field on Monday and Wednesday evenings. The spring schedule saw a trip to Marshall and Bellarmine, with another trip to Dayton cancelled due to weather. Home matches were played at Thurman-Hutchins Park against Eastern Kentucky and Bellarmine. The season was highlighted by a special match against Eastern Kentucky held at the Elizabethtown High School field. With the club’s postseason invite secured, the group travelled to Tennessee-Chattanooga in April, where they were beaten by the host school in the NCLL Deep South Conference Championship game. For their efforts, in May the team was awarded the NCLL Midwest South Team of the Year. We are proud of the club’s turnaround in fortune and we look forward to the Men’s Lacrosse Club’s continued success into the future.Racquetball Club

Participation in the Racquetball Club continues to be an in question. While practices were held on Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoon, and inconsistent turnout has hampered the club’s ability to grow. The group did not participate in any tournaments this year. At this time, the future of the club is uncertain. We will attempt to provide the necessary support to ensure that the Racquetball Club strengthens its position in the coming year.

Men’s and Women’s Rugby Club

The Men’s Rugby Club completed its seventh season in a rebuilding mode. After graduating several players the club was faced with a younger team with not very much experience. Practices were held on Tuesday and Thursday evening on the SRC Great Lawn. The group was able to secure a 2-6 record for their fall season, with trips to Bowling Green State, Miami of Ohio, and Ohio University. Home matches were again played in Cherokee Park, where they hosted Cincinnati, Dayton, Central Michigan, and Western Kentucky. The spring season was mainly played with 7-man sides, with trips to Clemson and Bowling Green State. They club did manage to qualify for the MAC postseason tournament, where they finished 7th

overall. Off the pitch, the men sponsored a Blood Drive in the SRC in conjunction with the American Red Cross. The group made recruiting trips to Chicago and Nashville, and hosted a recruiting weekend in April for prospective student/athletes. They should benefit greatly from our partnership with the Office of Admissions to bring in better student and potential club members. From its beginning, we charged the leadership of the Rugby Club to do things the right way, and it is obvious that they are taking this charge seriously. We are excited about the future of our Men’s Rugby Club.

The Women’s Rugby Club was formed at midseason from a group of women who had been practicing with the men’s club at the beginning of the year. This group continued to train with the men throughout the year. They did have one scrimmage match against the University of Kentucky. The current plan is for the women to begin practicing and scheduling game separately from the men’s group starting in the fall of 2015.

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Men’s Soccer Club

The Men’s Soccer Club was active in the fall semester, with practices being held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the outdoor field of the Student Recreation Center. The club had limited activity in the spring semester. At this point, the future of the group is in doubt. We will attempt to provide the necessary support to ensure that the Men’s Soccer Club strengthens its position in the coming year.

Women’s Softball Club

Women’s Softball was a brand new club this year, starting to organize and practice early in the fall semester. Coaches were secured and the club was able to schedule practice at Lyndon Recreation and game times at the fields at EP Tom Sawyer Park, with conditioning in the SRC. The girls were able to schedule games against Kentucky, Dayton, Miami of Ohio, Cincinnati, Xavier, and Eastern Kentucky. While their efforts did not yield many victories on the field, we are proud that the club was able to organize and compete to the level they did with a great attitude. We look forward to what could happen with some recruiting and infusion of new talent with the Women’s Softball Club.

Table Tennis Club

The Table Tennis Club is in its second year on the Federation roster, with an expressed purpose of providing recreational and instructional opportunities. Practices were held weekly on Wednesday and Friday in the Cardinal Corner Game Room, with 10-12 people regularly attending. The club became a member of the NCTTA and was able to participate in two tournaments this year. They travelled to the Bernard Hock Open tournament in New Albany as well as hosted a small campus tournament in November in the Student Activity Center Gym, with a portion of proceeds donated to Kosair Charities. This was a good sophomore outing for the Table Tennis Club and we are optimistic that the future will bring success for the club.

Tabletop Gaming Club

The Tabletop Gaming Club was a new club in the Fall of 2014, the formation of which was a direct result of the construction of the Student Recreation Center. A group of gamers living in Louisville Hall wanted to use the SRC classroom space as a place to meet and play games. The suggestion was made to become a sports club, and the group took off with that idea and ran with it. Meetings were held on Friday afternoons and often the sessions ran well into the evening, and it was not unusual to see two or three different games being played simultaneously. The club was able to secure donations of games from several major game publishers, as well as host a demonstration by a representative from Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG). At the end of the year, club founder Julia Grady was given the Sports Club Mendy Award for her outstanding work with the group. A group such as this underscores our

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mission to provide recreational opportunities to all of our community, and we are proud of the role they play in our program.

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. Practices as always were held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings in the SRC. Each year, the group has a rigid structure of testing and promotion, and executes this plan with consistency and diligence. Demonstrations were again held in September and January, with promotional testing successfully administered in August, December, and April. Every year they conduct a Holiday Food Drive, where this year they again supported Angel Tree by providing holiday meals to 10 families. The club hosted a women’s self-defense seminar in September and March. The club was also featured in the Intramural Department promotional video, with Chris O’Malley impressively breaking a board with a kick. 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.

Tennis Club

The Tennis Club was again active in the fall and spring semester, with practices being held on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at the Bass/Rudd Tennis Center. The group was able to make a trip to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville to participate in a collegiate tournament with 39 other teams, where they finished first in their division. They club was more organized this year, which was a considerable improvement over the previous season. We are optimistic that the coming year will see further success from our Tennis Club.

Ultimate Frisbee Club

The 2014-2015 school year was a consistent one for the Ultimate Frisbee Club. Once again, the group fully utilized the SRC Great Lawn and conducted its practices regularly on Tuesday and Thursday evenings under the lights. Weekly practices were well-attended, and it was obvious that it was easier for the club to attract participants with their visible practice space. When competing, the club participated in the Co-Rec division of the events. The team traveled to tournaments in Hanover, Miami of Ohio, and Cincinnati, with two 5th place finishes and a tournament victory at Hanover to show for it. With new individuals leading and new leadership structure in place, we are optimistic that the future will be a bright one for the Ultimate Frisbee Club.

Power Tumbling Club and Wrestling Club

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The Power Tumbling and Wresting Clubs were closed this year due to inactivity. It is unknown at this time if these groups will be able to restart in the future.

XVII. Special Events / Programs

Faculty/Staff/Alumni Golf Scramble

The Intramural and Recreational Sports Department sponsored the 23rd Annual Faculty/Staff Golf Scramble, which was held on Friday, June 13th at Quail Chase Golf Club. This event brought together 112 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, an excellent pre round lunch from Sodexo Dining Services, a dry-fit golf shirt and a chance to win team prizes, individual skill competition prizes, and a $224 skins game. The weather was outstanding again which always plays a vital role in the tremendous success of the event. Currently, the Intramural Sports Staff are coordinating the 24th Annual Golf Scramble to be held at Quail Chase Golf Club on Friday, June 12, 2015. 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 sixteen years we have provided the recreation space in the SAC and SRC for post-graduation celebrations. The parent association from Male High School coordinated the evening activities and providing 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 the Male High School Project Graduation in the New SRC Recreational Center. The SRC provided an excellent venue for the evening lock-in events. The lock-in brought over 270 graduates to campus. Their parent 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 Male High School on June 5, 2015 in the SRC Recreational Center.

NCA/UCA Cheerleading and Dance Camps

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The Intramural and Recreational Sports Department, for the last 22 years, has hosted Cheerleading and Dance camps for National Cheerleading and Dance Association (NCA/NDA). These camps are well attended and the organizers are extremely pleased with how they are accommodated at the University’s “New” SRC Recreational Center. The SRC not only provides first class facilities and services but the location is ideal for access to campus housing and dining services. This past year we hosted four Camps (UDA Dance Camp, NCA/NDA Dance & Cheer Camp, NCA Speed Cheer Camp and a NCA/NDA College Camp for Cheer, Dance and Mascots). The NCA/NDA camps brought over a 1300 campers to campus. Currently, the department is negotiating an agreement with both NCA Cheer & Dance and the University Athletic Department for four summer camps to be held in the SRC Recreational Center starting July 16 through August 2, 2015.

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. These events have evolved over the years. With the opening of the Student Recreation Center we used the evening as a way of attracting international students to the new center, and exposing them to the various new amenities available to them. The addition of the MAC Court proved an attractive new option for the evening, with soccer being popular worldwide. We again worked with the International Center, who helped us market the event directly to the various international clubs, which was well received. Once again our Badminton Club provided a strong international presence, as it is the most diverse of all of our sports clubs. These evenings were appreciated by the participants and are good outreach efforts for our department towards our International student population. In the future we will engage the different international student groups directly leading up to these events, with the intention of gathering information about what sort of activities our International Night should include.

Canoe Regatta

The Canoe Regatta is a very unique event but one that is undergoing some changes. We had 166 people signed up for the event this year and 142 actually participate. This is much lower than our biggest years when we might have 22- or more participants. It does continue to be the only event on our schedule that features higher female participation than male. This was our 5th year of having lunch in the Red Barn with our sponsor, Qdoba Mexican Grill. Even though it is great food and free for participants, we are seeing a decline in participation of this part of the event as well. The key is to send the UGA staff out to McNeely Lake early, before lunch ends, to secure the areas we need. We have had rescue personnel from the Louisville Police and Fire Departments the past 10 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. The event is still popular and a great addition to our calendar as it may be the only

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one of its kind in the nation, but the declining participation is at least attention-grabbing from our end.

Track Meet

The Track Meet this year was great. We had over 180 participants and a great evening of weather for the meet. The participation was up over 25 people from last year. The Track Meet is a signature event for us as it is something else that we put on that very few other IM departments around the nation attempt. To have ours held at a venue that has served as host to events such as the KHSAA State Championships, Big East and NCAA Division I Regional Championships is a testimony to the overall strength of our structured intramural program.

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 coach has been very beneficial as well. Ron Mann was very helpful and supportive of us for many years. He has retired now but Dale Cowper, the current coach, was an assistant to Ron and has continued that level of support for us.

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XVIII. Activity Evaluations

Ultimate Frisbee

This year was a record breaking year for Ultimate Frisbee. We saw an increase of 110 participants, 670 total, and an increase of 8 teams, 53 total, both records for the sport. This year we ran a tournament for the fraternity, women’s closed, and campus divisions, while keeping the league for Men’s Open and Co-rec, divisions. This year’s Champions were Slipped Discs, Degenerative Disc Disease, IMS, Sigma Chi, and Sigma Kappa.

Kickball

This year we changed the women’s kickball league to a one-day tournament, as we had in the past for the men. The women’s tournament saw 83 participants on 9 teams compete. The entire event was held on a Friday this year with Delta Zeta taking home the championship.

The fraternity kickball tournament had 135 participants on 12 teams, up from 118 participants and 11 teams last year. We held the entire tournament on a Sunday afternoon, with Pi Kappa Alpha winning the championship.

We also held a campus kickball tournament for the first time this year. We had 86 participants on 7 teams compete. We ran the tournament at the same time as the women’s on a Friday afternoon, with the Dimwits winning the championship.

Suggestions:Play all 3 tournaments on a Sunday afternoonUse a line-up card next year

Canoe Regatta

We could not have asked for better weather for this year’s event. We had one capsized boat this year, but with the help of the Rescue Squad on site everyone was safely returned to shore. All in all 166 people entered the boats and as is traditionally the case more females

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participated in this event than males. Sigma Chi won the Fraternity division and Pi Beta Phi won the Women’s Closed division.

Flag Football

The weather actually seemed to cooperate a little more than normal this year and the Flag Football season was very successful. We saw 83 teams with a little over 1,200 participants competing in 6 different divisions. With a sport as fast-paced as flag-football, injuries are bound to occur and this year was no different. We had several cuts and bruises along with some concussions and knee dislocations. We only had one returning official from last year’s staff, but all of the new officials were very energetic and improved throughout the year. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the champion of this year’s Fraternity division and Delta Zeta won the Women’s Closed Divisions. Championships were also won by The Purple Turtles, The Crows, Pulp Friction, and Da Truth.

Track Meet

The Track Meet went off without any problems this year. We had 182 participants, up from 156 last year come out to take part in a variety of Track and Field events. Chi Omega won the women’s division while Beta Theta Pi won the men’s overall title.

Suggestions:Talk to the UofL Track team to see if any of their members can help run the events

Tennis Singles

We ended up with some really nice weather for the tournament this year. The 68 participants that signed up for the event were all happy that we had nice weather and the event went very smoothly. Daniel Miller from Beta Theta Pi (Fraternity), Kaitlin Ulbert from Delta Zeta (Women’s Closed), and Marco Sebastiani from PIKE (Campus).

Suggestions:Stagger start times: run Fraternity and Men’s Open first, Campus and Women’s Closed 2 hours later

Sand Volleyball

We took the suggestion from last year and ran each division on one day only. This allowed for teams to devote one day to the tournament instead of two or three and allowed for the tournaments to run a lot smoother. We saw our numbers increase for the tournament again this year. The number of teams went from 49 to 52 with 351 participants on those teams.

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When it was all said and done Pi Kappa Alpha, Zeta Tau Alpha, El Chupacabras, Notorious D.I.G. (Men’s), and Notorious D.I.G. (Corec) walked away as Champions.

Tug-O-War

We had to deal with some rainy weather this year for the Tug-O-War tournament. The weather resulted in a few teams not showing up, but those that did enjoyed the tournament this year. Only point’s division teams participated in this event again this year and we saw an increase in participants, 177 up from 149, and teams, 20 up from17. In the end, Sigma Alpha Epsilon won the Fraternity title, while Delta Zeta took home the women’s title.

Indoor Soccer

After running a tournament last year, we turned Indoor Soccer into a regular league sport. Due to this change we saw our number of teams go from 35 to 56 and our total number of participants go from 385 to 722. This year Pi Kappa Alpha, Chi Omega, ISO, International, and Pike Broz and Chi O’s won their respective divisions.

Suggestions:Need to look at the officials clinic and revamp it

Volleyball

This year we saw another increase in both teams and participants, moving from 63 to 70 total teams and 718 to 751 participants playing in the Volleyball league. Volleyball is usually one of the hardest sports to find officials for, but that was not the case this year. Beta Theta Pi won the Fraternity division, Pi Beta Phi won the Women’s Closed division, Notorious D.I.G. won the Co-Rec division, IMS won the Campus division, and Notorious D.I.G. won the Men’s Open Division.

Sports Trivia

Sports Trivia is always one of the more enjoyable events on the schedule each year. We had 11 teams with 44 participants compete. After taking a test, the teams were seeded and then paired against each other until we had a winner. We were unable to find an updated game again this year, so we created our own questions for the elimination round. This year’s Fraternity winner was Beta Theta Pi, while the Men’s Open winner was Certified Champs.

Suggestions:Continue to look for an update game

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Turkey Trot

The 61st Annual Turkey Trot took place on a day that featured a lot of sunshine. We used the same course as last year, which is different than the old course, due to the construction that was taking place along 3rd street. This year we had 96 participants, up by 12 from the previous year. The women’s division was won by Hannah Juttner of Chi Omega and Andy Rains of Beta Theta Pi finished first in the Fraternity division. Chi Omega won overall in Women’s Closed, while Beta Theta Pi won for the third consecutive year in the Fraternity division. As is normally the case with this event, the campus police played a major role in the event running so smoothly.

Suggestions:Check the course before the race due to construction along 3rd street

Badminton Tournament

Due to the opening of the new SRC, Badminton was taken off of the schedule for a year. Badminton was added back onto the schedule this year and we saw a record number of participants. We had a total of 175 participants for the event which took about 3 hours to complete. In the end Austin Dunn from SAE, Dunn and Baldridge from SAE, Jakson Deyer from IMS, Deyer and Ramsay from IMS, Kayla Meisner from Chi Omega, and Frink and Connor from Delta Zeta won the championships.

3 on 3 Basketball

The 3v3 Basketball tournament was another event that we saw record participation numbers in this year. We had saw 297 participants up from 208 last year and a total of 62 teams compete in the tournament this year. Delta Zeta won the Women’s Closed division, Pi Kappa Alpha won the Fraternity division, IMS won the Campus division, and Move That won the Men’s Open division.

Swim Meet

The swim meet continued to be a unique event for the students as it is one of the very few events of its kind in the nation. The event was again hosted in the Ralph Wright Natatorium and with the help of the Natatorium staff the event ran extremely efficiently. This year we had 103 participants take to the pool. The team champions this year were: Pi Kappa Alpha (Fraternity), and Delta Zeta (Women’s Closed).

Bowling Doubles

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This year we held the event at Executive Strike N Spare on Phillips Lane again. Our participation numbers increased from 176 participants last year to 276 this year. We were able to get everyone signed in and assigned to their lane in a relative short period of time. Pi Kappa Alpha won as a team in the Fraternity division, Kappa Delta won in the Women’s Closed division, IMS won the Campus division, and the team of Fugate/Porter won the Corec division. Individually, the high scores went to Jacobs/White of Pi Kappa Alpha, Fugate/Adams of Kappa Delta, and Ramsay/Brown of IMS

Billiards

This year we saw our participation in the tournament skyrocket all the way up to 178 people compared to 72 last year. As always the event was broken down into 3 divisions: Fraternity, Women’s Closed and Campus. The winners were: Josh Latzko of Beta Theta Pi (Frat Singles), Chhabra/Smith of Phi Kappa Tau (Frat Doubles), Becca Wuestefeld of Delta Zeta (Women’s Closed Singles), Bramlage/Bramlage of Delta Zeta (Women’s Closed Doubles), Gregory Kubicki (Campus Singles), and Kubicki/Smith (Campus Doubles).

Basketball

This year’s Basketball league saw 112 teams sign up, breaking the record that was set last year of 108. We also saw an increase of 50 participants from last year bringing our total this year to just over 1,150. While some of the teams came out just wanting to have a good time, many of the games were extremely competitive and often times, played down to the wire to determine a winner. This year we tied the Graduate Basketball league into the Basketball league to try and make the scheduling of those games easier. It worked well this year and we will continue to do it this way in the future. In the end, the teams who rose to the challenge to take home the Championships were: Fraternity – Lambda Chi Alpha, Women’s Closed – Kappa Delta, Campus – ULSOM 2015, Grad School- Gitchy Gitchy Ya Ya, Men’s Open A – Lob City, Men’s Open B –The Clowns, Co-Rec – Back That Pass Up, and Women’s Open – Lady Dandies.

Suggestions:Towels need to be brought up to games to wipe sweat off floorsContinue/Revise jersey check-out system

Table Tennis

Our participation numbers went up from 128 to 195 this year in the table tennis tournament. This event was played over three total days and it took about three hours each day to complete it. This year’s Champions were: Fraternity Singles- Patrick Duggan of Kappa Sigma, Fraternity Doubles – Burton/Duggan of Kappa Sigma, Women’s Closed Singles- Sammy Manning of Phi Sigma Rho, Women’s Closed Doubles- Bramlage/Bramlage of Delta

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Zeta, Campus Singles- Najam Mughal of IMS, Campus Doubles- Long/Prabhu of Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Men’s Open Singles- Charles Cui.

Racquetball

Racquetball was taken off of the Intramural schedule for a year, so that we could get moved into the SRC. We brought the tournament back this year and instead of running on a weekend, we moved it to weeknights. We saw 35 organizations sign up teams with 187 total participants for this year’s tournament. We ran the event over three nights with each night lasting about three hours each. This year’s winners in singles were David Ford from Sigma Pi (Fraternity), Kayla Meisner from Chi Omega (Women’s Closed), Steven Russ from IMS (Campus), and Joe Nash (Men’s Open). The winners in doubles were Sego/Ford from Sigma Pi (Fraternity), Adams/Fugate from Kappa Delta (Women’s Closed), Proffitt/McClish from IMS (Campus), and Nash/Hume (Men’s Open).

Spring Soccer

This year was one of, if not the most difficult year for Spring Soccer. Between only having one playable field and raining wiping out the first three weeks entirely, we had to play shortened games all year and give teams less games, in order to finish the playoff before school ended for the year. We had 65 teams with 851 participants this season. This year the Championship shirts went to: Sigma Alpha Epsilon (Fraternity), Chi Omega (Women’s Closed), Pi Kappa Alpha B (Campus), Wright Bros (Men’s A), and Pike Broz and Chi O’s (Co-Rec).

Floor Hockey

This was out second year of offering floor hockey to all students and not just females. We saw 30 teams with a total of 342 participants sign up this year and compete for a championship. This year’s winners were Sigma Phi Epsilon (Fraternity), Kappa Delta (Women’s Closed), Hartford Whalers (Campus), and P.S. (Men’s Open).

Wallyball

This year we decided to bring wallyball back to the intramural schedule. The event was on the schedule at one time, but had been off of the schedule for several years. We saw 53 teams with 252 participants sign up for the one day tournament. We ran each division on its own night, so we held the tournament on three different nights in all. The winners of this year’s event were Lambda Chi Alpha in the Fraternity division, Chi Omega 1 in the Women’s Closed Division, IMS 1 in the Campus division, and BTB in the Corec division.

Suggestions:

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Stagger start times so that every team does not show up at the same time

Court Dodgeball

This year we kept the same format (tournament-style) for Court Dodgeball. We had 25 teams and 191 participants in all divisions. We updated the rules a little before the tournament began in an effort to make it run smoother. This year’s winners were Pi Kappa Alpha (Fraternity), Chi Omega (Women’s Closed), and Sigma Alpha Epsilon (Campus).

Suggestions:Need 3-4 workers to manage all courts and sign in participants

Team Handball

For the second straight year we played Team Handball in the MAC Court. Since it was only our second year of playing in the MAC Court, we were still trying to figure out the best rules to use for play. We made several adjustments before the year started and these changes seemed to pay off as everyone enjoyed playing this season. This year’s league winners were Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Delta, SigEp Purple, and Strepococcus Oralis.

Suggestions:Continue to update and tweak rules

Tennis Doubles

This year’s tennis doubles tournament saw us double the amount of participants from last year, 85 up from 42. This was mainly because we held the tournament one week later than the year before, so the weather was nicer. Miller/Schultz from Beta Theta Pi won the Fraternity division, Wurth/Grobelny from Delta Zeta won the Women’s Closed division, and Forns/Sebastiani from Pi Kappa Alpha won the Campus division.

Golf Tournament

We held the golf tournament at Cherokee Golf Course again this year on a Friday afternoon. This event is still only for points for the fraternities so our numbers remain a little low every year. This year we had 35 gofers show up and compete in the tournament. We had a beautiful day weather-wise which really helped with our turnout. Ryan Barnes from Phi Kappa Tau won for the lowest individual score and Barnes/Chhabra from Phi Kappa Tau had the lowest combined team score.

Disc Golf

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This was the third year of the Disc Golf tournament being held at Iroquois Park’s Disc Golf Course. This year we saw 10 teams sign up with a total of 28 participants. We held the event just a few hours after the golf tournament which may have affected our numbers a little. We also made a rule change this year that allowed players to use more than one disc, which everyone seemed to be very pleased about. This year’s winners were: Sterling Baker from Lambda Chi Alpha won the Fraternity division, while Ryan Ramsay from IMS won the Campus division.

Putt-Putt

We held putt-putt later in the day like we did last year and we had another successful event. We saw an increase from 61 participants to 70 this year. The event ran very smoothly lasting a little over an hour. Sign in was split up between three people, which made the process go smoothly. This year’s organization winners were Pi Kappa Alpha in the Fraternity division, Delta Zeta in the Women’s Closed Division, and IMS in the Campus division. The low round of the day went to Ben Streepey of SAE (Fraternity), Talia Horn of ZTA (Women’s Closed), and Tad Porter of IMS (Campus).

Bowling Singles

For this year’s bowling singles tournament we saw 70 people sign-up and bowl. The event was held at Executive Strike N Spare on Phillips Lane. This year’s event went by really quickly, only lasting about an hour and a half thanks to the staff being able to sign participants in quickly and coordinating with bowling staff efficiently. The organization winners were Pi Kappa Alpha in the Fraternity division, Delta Zeta in the Women’s Closed division, and IMS in the Campus division. High games went to Hunter Showalter of SAE (Fraternity), Carleigh Adams of Kappa Delta (Women’s Closed), and Chad Harrod of IMS (Campus).

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XIX. Facility Usage Statistics

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XX. List of Facility User Groups

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XXI. Intramural Sports Statistics

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XXII. All Campus Points Totals

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XXIII. Intramural Champions

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XXIV. 2015-16 Intramural Schedule

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