The ETSU intramural staff is giving everyone on campus a weekend of sports and activities that could potentially be the largest event of the intramural program this school year.
The inaugural “Spring Fling” scheduled for April 22-24 will offer an entire weekend of athletics for all students willing to participate.
The three sports offered softball, volleyball and ultimate frisbee will hold league games and then a tournament to close out the weekend.
All events are scheduled to run simultaneously on the intramural fields around the CPA all day, each day of the event.
This may seem like a daunting task to coordinate, but event coordinator Bart McFadden is optimistic. “I think we’re going to be fine, I feel like everything will run very smoothly all weekend,” he said. “We’re involving our entire staff and we’re all working together to make this happen. I do not feel overwhelmed by any of this, I have a very capable staff backing me up.”
Fliers have been posted around campus in an effort to advertise the event to the students. Once interest is sparked, the next step is to pick up a roster sheet in the CPA to enter a team in any of the events.
The divisions of the sports will be determined by participation estimates. “We want to accommodate what the participants want, to the best of our abilities,” McFadden said. “If we have enough teams registered to have a men’s, women’s and co-ed league in each sport, then we will do our best to have all of those leagues and tournaments for the participants.”
Two of the three sports are familiar to the regular intramural participants. Ultimate Frisbee is making its reappearance at ETSU for the Spring Fling.
“Frisbee is going to be an experiment for us as a staff,” McFadden said. “I know that there are people who want to have frisbee as a sport offered in the intramural program.
“I have put some of the best staff on the committee to organize and plan the Frisbee league and I trust them to develop a very effective format for it.”
Pete Buhls, co-chair of the Frisbee committee, said that he is confident that the frisbee “experiment” will be a success.
“We’ve all been working together for several weeks squaring up the details of the frisbee league,” Buhls said. “By the time the Spring Fling is here, hopefully we will have prepared well enough and covered all the bases so that the only thing I’ll have to do is stand back and hold the clipboard.”
None of the staff sees the Spring Fling as a task as much as they do a fun event.
Steven Reagan on the softball committee expressed the mood of the staff.
“We’re all excited about the weekend,” Reagan said. “I don’t think anyone is dreading spending a weekend outside in the spring, especially when we get to do all of this fun stuff.”
“We feel like the students deserve something fun like this,” McFadden added. “It’s going to be something that everyone can enjoy and hopefully it can be one of things that you remember about being in college for a long time.”
Rosters are available on the second floor of the CPA and are due back completed by Friday, April 15. There are separate rosters for softball, volleyball and ultimate frisbee. The captain’s meetings will be Wednesday, April 20 beginning at 7 p.m.

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