Ballin'

This picture is my intramural basketball team from my First Year at Coe. I was looking for it today because our season ended last week, and I remembered how much fun I had my freshman year. My team consisted of a couple offensive linemen, four guys that had never played competitive basketball, and me. At the time I was trying to gain weight for the upcoming football season, and weighed in as the point guard at about 230 pounds. We were a pretty rag tag group, but we probably had the more fun than anyone else on the court.

The IM team is just one example of ways I bonded and got to know people my first year. I was on the football team, which is where I met most of my friends. A lot of my friends also came from the first-year only floor that I lived on in Greene Hall, or my First Year Seminar Class.

The intermurals offered by Coe are a great time. I lost to my economics professor in doubles tennis my sophomore year. My freshman year I made it to the quarterfinals in singles racquetball. When I tore my ACL before my sophomore year I was forced to sit out the basketball season, which was almost harder for me than missing my football season. The event I'm looking forward to most this year is water polo! The events change year to year, sometimes there is indoor soccer or wrestling or rock climbing. Whatever the students want, if there are enough interested it happens! Athletics have always been an important part of my life and this has been a great way to continue that passion!

And by the way, we came in second place in the “recreational” division: the B league of IM basketball. I have since moved up onto the A league with a new team, but I’ve never had as much fun as I did with the “Harlem Street Ballers” my first year.