The
new intramural season
By Johnathon
Schubert
Magis staff writer
A new intramural season is starting, and this year, homeroom
pride along with an eternal place in Strake Jesuit history
is on the line. The newly created Father Leininger Jesuit
Excellence Award trophy will be inscribed each year with the
senior homeroom that wins the Intramural Sweepstakes.
As you’ve probably already noticed, frisbee teams now
play for the honor of their homerooms. The homerooms will
clash in each of the growing field of intramural sports with
one major tournament each quarter.
Ultimate Frisbee is obviously first, followed by the new comer
dodgeball (played by the rules in the movie), and old favorites
basketball and wiffleball start up in the second semester.
Overlapping seasons of Ping-Pong and Mario kart are also in
the works, so even those homerooms that don’t like to
move around a lot can have a fair chance.
Coach Clemons, who says he was tired of the varsity basketball
players winning the tournament every year, runs the new intramural
system. But the real reason for the change was to promote
school spirit and camaraderie through a healthy atmosphere
of competition.
Now, instead of watching an intramural game, every student
has a ‘home team’ to root for, win or lose. Also,
by dividing the teams by homeroom, everyone has a roughly
equal pool from which to select players, so no team can have
an all-varsity line-up, which promises many more close games.
The scoring system is pretty simple. All games will be tournament
style, with points awarded according to final placement. At
the end of the year, each homeroom’s points in all events
are added up, and the final scores are compared to determine
the sweepstakes champion.
For the team events (frisbee, dodgeball, basketball, and wiffleball),
first place gets 20 points, second gets 18, third 16, etc.
For the individual competitions (Mariokart and ping-pong),
it’s 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, etc.
Rankings will be posted throughout the year for your competitive
enjoyment. All games start ten minutes after the start of
lunch, and end with the PH bell. That’s all you need
to know to enjoy the upcoming new intramural season.
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