Busy season for campus recreation

It's the busy season for campus recreation. Currently, there are three sports leagues going on with many mini-tournaments coming up. www.fau.edu/campusrec has details on sign up.

The five-on-five indoor soccer league was changed to a five-on-five outdoor modified soccer league this season. The renovation of The Burrow forced the changed. With this modifieid soccer league, more goals are being scored because there is no goalie. The soccer season is currently in round two of the playoffs.

The sand volleyball league has less participants than expected. Four fraternities and four mixed men's and women's teams are in their second week of regular season play and will begin the playoffs next week. The teams play on the sand volleyball court at the housing BBQ pits. This draws more attention to the program and to the activities they host.

Finally, the softball league just started and is by far the most looked forwarded to league of the school year. Even those students that aren't athletically inclined can go out on the diamond and screw around. There are about 10 teams signed up for intramural softball.

Mini-tournaments coming up include a seven-on-seven, one day, flag football tournament, a dodge ball tournament is scheduled for Thursday and an ultimate frisbee tournament is coming up in a week.

Other events on campus this week is a freshman graduation program sponsored by The Board. This is something that has never happened. It is aimed to help retain freshman and encourage them to finish the semester strong.

Coyote Jack's will host the Jewish Student Union's date auction on Tuesday night. Yours truly will be auctioned off. I don't expect any high bidders for a date with me - it's just mini-golf and Moe's.

Baseball and softball both have home games this week as well. Check www.fausports.com for information on game time and schedules.

On a personal note: this is the last blog I will be writing as a student at FAU. Hopefully I will continue to contribute as an alum. In my opinion, this would give an interesting perspective of how the university looks to recent alum who don't live in the area anymore.

Thanks for the memories FAU.