UTC Outdoors and intramurals offer activities
Jeremy King
Issue date: 2/19/09 Section: Culture
Campus recreation offers students a fun and exciting way to enjoy the great outdoors, explore their inner selves and make friends through the intramural program and UTC Outdoors.
"UTC Outdoors was started in the 1970s as a student organization," Miles Ledford, coordinator of outdoor programming, said.
According to Ledford, the university took over the organization in 1999 and changed its name from the High Adventure Club to UTC Outdoors.
The club offers activities like mountain biking, caving, kayaking, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, surfing and skydiving.
Most are free to students with a $20 reservation deposit, and transportation is provided for the first ten people to sign up, Ledford added.
"Along with the many trips and outings this organization offers, UTC Outdoors also offers free roll practice for potential kayakers every other Tuesday night in the pool,"
Ledford said.
Chris Stryker, a junior from Cincinnati, Oh., said the organization is fantastic. Stryker, a self-proclaimed "outdoor guy," said he helps with trips and other duties in the campus recreation office.
UTC Outdoors also offers students equipment rental with a $20 equipment deposit. The deposit includes mountain bikes, tents, kayaks, sleeping bags and canoes, Stryker said.
"Another major part of UTC Outdoors, intramurals, offers students the opportunity to join or start an intramural sport," Terrence Williams, a junior from Memphis, said.
Intramural sports offered this semester include basketball, volleyball, soccer, pool, badminton, golf, ping-pong and wrestling, according to Williams.
"I have been working with UTC Outdoors for about two years," Williams said. "Intramurals allow students to engage in recreational activities and there are many sports available.
"Students interested in being involved in intramurals must be a valid UTC student or faculty member," Williams said.
Ledford said students interested in playing an intramural sport should get a team together, fill out the paper work, receive funds and start playing.
"If you're bored on campus, then you're doing something wrong," Ledford said. "Check out the [UTC Outdoors] Web site weekly
and nightly."
The next event sponsored by UTC Outdoors is a ski and snowboard trip to North Carolina, according to Bridgett Griffey, a Cleveland, Tenn., sophomore who works in the campus recreation office.
The trip will take place Feb. 21, and students interested in going on the trip must sign up by Friday, Griffey said.
According to Griffey, the trip will cost $55 for students who do not need to rent any equipment, $75 for students who need to rent skiing equipment and $85 for students who need to rent snowboarding equipment.
For more information about upcoming events, visit the Campus Recreation office located in Maclellan Gym or visit www.utc.edu/campusrecreation.
"UTC Outdoors was started in the 1970s as a student organization," Miles Ledford, coordinator of outdoor programming, said.
According to Ledford, the university took over the organization in 1999 and changed its name from the High Adventure Club to UTC Outdoors.
The club offers activities like mountain biking, caving, kayaking, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, surfing and skydiving.
Most are free to students with a $20 reservation deposit, and transportation is provided for the first ten people to sign up, Ledford added.
"Along with the many trips and outings this organization offers, UTC Outdoors also offers free roll practice for potential kayakers every other Tuesday night in the pool,"
Ledford said.
Chris Stryker, a junior from Cincinnati, Oh., said the organization is fantastic. Stryker, a self-proclaimed "outdoor guy," said he helps with trips and other duties in the campus recreation office.
UTC Outdoors also offers students equipment rental with a $20 equipment deposit. The deposit includes mountain bikes, tents, kayaks, sleeping bags and canoes, Stryker said.
"Another major part of UTC Outdoors, intramurals, offers students the opportunity to join or start an intramural sport," Terrence Williams, a junior from Memphis, said.
Intramural sports offered this semester include basketball, volleyball, soccer, pool, badminton, golf, ping-pong and wrestling, according to Williams.
"I have been working with UTC Outdoors for about two years," Williams said. "Intramurals allow students to engage in recreational activities and there are many sports available.
"Students interested in being involved in intramurals must be a valid UTC student or faculty member," Williams said.
Ledford said students interested in playing an intramural sport should get a team together, fill out the paper work, receive funds and start playing.
"If you're bored on campus, then you're doing something wrong," Ledford said. "Check out the [UTC Outdoors] Web site weekly
and nightly."
The next event sponsored by UTC Outdoors is a ski and snowboard trip to North Carolina, according to Bridgett Griffey, a Cleveland, Tenn., sophomore who works in the campus recreation office.
The trip will take place Feb. 21, and students interested in going on the trip must sign up by Friday, Griffey said.
According to Griffey, the trip will cost $55 for students who do not need to rent any equipment, $75 for students who need to rent skiing equipment and $85 for students who need to rent snowboarding equipment.
For more information about upcoming events, visit the Campus Recreation office located in Maclellan Gym or visit www.utc.edu/campusrecreation.
