In This Issue:

Baseball

Cycling

Equestrian

Women’s Lacrosse

Women’s Rugby

Women’s Volleyball

Executive Corner

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For more information on any of the club teams, visit the website:

clubsports.appstate.edu email us at: clubsports@appstate.edu

or call us at the Student Recreation Center (828)262-2100

Director of UREC: Joe Carter carterjr@appstate.edu

Director of Club Sports: Erin Sanders sandersec1@appstate.edu

Coordinators for Competitive Sports: Chris Carr carrcp@appstate.edu

Heather Marshall marshallha@appstate.edu

Executive Officers: Chad Deaver deaverce1@appstate.edu

Olivia Chason chasonom@appstate.edu

Patrick Sekel sekelp@appstate.edu

February 19th Edition of Club Sports Illustrated Edited by Hallie Langley and Kristen Poole, UREC Publicity Programmers and App State Students

Cover taken by Savannah Dougher Table of Contents submitted by Sarah Klassett

Takes Two Against Carolina

At William & Mary College

Our Winning Horses

Charleston Play Day

Can’t Back Down,Won’t Back Down

Bump, Set, Spike

Executive Corner

BASEBALL

Takes Two Against Carolina

The Men’s Club Baseball team played a Mid-Atlantic South conference series against UNC Chapel Hill on February 27 and 28. It is App State’s first conference games of the 2016 regular season.

The Mountaineers saw excellent pitching over the weekend. Johnny Rollins started the first matchup, going five innings and allowing just four hits, no walks and no runs. Clark Jones and Mike Aiello also put out effective innings in relief, combining for 4.1 innings pitched, one save, three hits two runs allowed.

App State also had solid offensive production, combining for 25 hits in 97 at-bats, a team average of .258. The Mountaineers knocked in 12 of 18 runs scored, walking 15 times and posting an on-base percentage of .364. They also effectively capitalized on Carolina’s mistakes, scoring six runs from defensive errors.

Where App really shined however was on defense. As a team, the Mountaineers had 69 putouts in 94 total chances,

a fielding percentage of .936. Seven players went error-free on the series, and several run and game-saving plays were made, especially in the outfield. Starting center fielder Jesse Illich and starting left fielder Mike Koller particularly had good outings, making quite a few excellent catches, including multiple diving outs and one home run saving catch.

After all was said and done, App State won two of the three games played, 4-2 and 10-9, losing one 8-4. The third matchup, which App State won 10-9, saw a miraculous comeback victory in extra innings where the Mountaineers were down 9-3 at the worst point and stormed back in the final innings on clutch hitting and solid defense. The Mountaineers could see votes for the nations Top 20 after taking a series against a vote-receiving Carolina team. The series victory also means currently holding first place in the Mid-Atlantic South conference over 2nd place UNCW and third place UNC Chapel Hill.

App State saw a miraculous comeback

victory in extra innings!ARTICLE BY:

BROOKS MAYNARD

SECRETARY

Photo by: Patrick Sekel

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CYCLING

At William & Mary CollegeThis weekend the Appalachian State University Cycling Team raced in Williamsburg, Virginia for the Tidewater Classic hosted by William & Mary College. This race was packed full of competitors in our conference, the ACCC and other colleges that generally compete more up north. To begin our day the Men’s C Race took off at around 10:00 am. Our Men’s C squad consisted of three hard working freshman riders David Burstein, Matt Jones, and Garrett Clark. Although having fresh legs Saturday morning, David and Matt ended up with a crash, and mechanical problems. Garrett finished 7th with a strong uphill sprint for the finish. The next races were the Men’s B and Women’s A race. The Men’s B race saw a duo go up the road on the first lap, and while the other represented teams seemed unwilling to do any work or help pull back the break, our B team, consisting of Matt Sloyer, William Johnson, and Jacob Richard, worked hard to keep the pace high with a reluctant peloton. Eventually Matt Sloyer made an impressive attack sending a handful of riders up the road. This move left the peloton in shambles. Riders trying to bridge up to the Sloyer group attempted to make up the gap to no avail. William waited for the right moment to make his move, and through setting a blistering solo pace bridged up to the Sloyer group. This group ended up being the major race for

conference points in the B category. Coming into the final straight Matt made extremely strong pull to launch William into third in the field sprint and fifth overall with Matt coming in a few places behind. Maryann was our lone wolf female for the race weekend. The Women’s A field is a field loaded with very strong athletes, and even some pro racers. Although there were a lot of aggressive attacks in the main group, Maryann held onto an impressive tenth place and helping our team significantly in points for the weekend. Our last race of the day was Men’s A with another stacked field with some incredible talent. Justin Evans and Zebulon Ramsbotham were our duo for the race and they were a strong one. Working together with a Liberty and Yale rider they managed to pull back the breakaway leaving a full peloton for a sprint finish. Justin threw down an absurd uphill sprint to take second to an extremely strong Liberty rider with Zeb taking 7th.

ARTICLE BY:

JACOB RICHARD

VICE PRESIDENTAll Photos by: Greg Sloyer

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EQUESTRIAN

Our Winning HorsesThis past weekend the equestrian team had a very exciting showing experience. The western team competed in their last regular season show on Saturday and regionals was held on Sunday. Both days of competition were held at St. Andrews in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Not only did our riders compete but our horses were able to accompany the team as well! Our shows do not require riders to ride their own horses, instead we visit schools and randomly ride the horses that school provides. Since we have one of the smaller teams it is not common for us to be the host of these shows. However, we were able to help St. Andrew’s out by providing three of our horses for the show. This is very exciting for our entire team and was the first time the western team was able to provide horses.

For the show the team brought along three wonderful horses registered with the American Paint Horse Association named

Bailey, Zip, and Jackson. It was Bailey’s first show and she competed in beginner walk, jog division. Bailey behaved perfectly and even won her class! The other two horses, Zip and Jackson, both competed in the intermediate and open divisions where they also placed very well. Zip and Jackson have a lot of show mileage and were the perfect horses to accompany Bailey to her first show.

This was a special show for the equestrian team because we were able to show off three of our horses. The team is very proud of the horses and thankful for our western coach, Crosby Reed, who was able to provide us with these horses. Our western riders worked very hard to keep our horses happy and healthy while they also competed. The western team had a wonderful end to the year and now we are looking forward to hunt seat regionals and the final shows for our dressage team!

ARTICLE BY:

CATIE DURBIN & SOPHIA TWAROG

SOCIAL CHAIR & CLUB SPORTS REPRESENTATIVE

All Photos by: Savannah Mathis

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Charleston Play Day

It was quite the weekend down in South Carolina for the women’s lacrosse team. College of Charleston was able to host a tournament for the first time ever, so it was a new and exciting experience in the authentic city of Charleston.

Out of the two games we played, we won and lost one. We started off facing Coastal Carolina who is a strong team in our conference, and although we started strong and stayed relatively close to them throughout the game, we could not pull out a victory. Next, we played against UNC Wilmington. At this point, everyone was exhausted, but we played strong until the end, pulling the win out of their reach with some strong goals at the end of the second half. For only having three or four substitutes on the sidelines, our team did extremely well. With having some games under our belt, we are more aware of what our team needs to work on so we can improve for our Mountaineer Meltdown home tournament coming up March 19-20th (everyone should come out for it!). Although lacrosse is the best thing at a tournament, sight-seeing is also wonderful. Charleston has so much history and charm to it that we spent Sunday morning and afternoon

walking around as a team to areas like the Battery, Rainbow Row, different shops, and much more. We even got reservations to a restaurant called the Boone Bar which is even located on King St. It was almost too much of a coincidence to have not been named after our precious college town. Overall, the weekend was a fantastic one, full of good memories. I know the sore muscles will certainly be here as a friendly reminder of it for a long while!

ARTICLE BY:

EMMA EVANS

CLUB SPORTS REPRESENTATIVE

All Photos by: Emma Evans

“The weekend was a fantastic one, full of good memories.”

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This weekend, AHO traveled down to Charlotte to play their first string city team. To put this into perspective, we are a collegiate team and we played a team which has players that are close to being in the Olympics. With that being established, I would also like to the point out the fact that we won! (…. Okay, that’s a lie, but thank you if you believed that). Although Charlotte’s team could have easily pulverized us into a rugby pulp, they were the most considerate team we have played. They allowed us to not only have a good time playing, but also work on some crucial techniques we could improve.

Through blood, sweat, and tears, we consistently sprinted back and forth across the pitch during our game. We got some good tackles in and worked hard to drive Charlotte in the scrum (with which they helped us out) and that made us more than proud of our team than any previous game. This game not only helped us learn each other on the field better, but also brought us closer as a team overall. Looking back, there was nothing but support for each other and positive, uplifting words to everyone. Also reflecting on our game, and with the help of game tape, we have seen our mistakes on the field. Our defense had a lot of holes in it and that allowed Charlotte to slip right through or juke us out in order to score a try. However, our team did not get discouraged and with every try they made we had that much more determination to stop them the next time. We even worked hard on offense and, sometimes, got a lot of yardage. Our starting inside center, Sadie Lagle, never lets us down in finding holes in defense and, thanks to her, we made our way down the field. Other notable players include Colleen Schmitt, our tight-head prop, who performed a beautiful interception that blew everyone’s mind. Last, but not least, our MVP of the game was our eight man, Mary Melissa “M&M” Hoover. She performed a significantly large percent of

our tackles and helped us greatly in stopping Charlotte’s offensive line from breaking away. Although we do have spotlights on many player, all of AHO put their best on the field and we are deserving of great recognition, so pat yourselves on the back, ladies.

The game was 50 minutes of learning tips and tricks to make AHO the best they could be. Charlotte’s team had amazing communication amongst themselves and with us. In the middle of the game all we heard were directions or advice from them, which we appreciated very much. With heads held high (yes, even after a loss), AHO walked off that game pitch stronger than ever. This game, which we were fortunate enough to be invited to play, was a crucial stepping-stone in the growth this teams needs. Now meditating on this new knowledge, AHO has been working hard to make ourselves more than 100% and to make a comeback at the end of our matrix season.

AHO is very thankful for the kindness Charlotte extended to us on the pitch and even after the game. Although it is always upsetting to get a loss, AHO is back into full gear at practices. Since we have all this insightful and professional advice in our hearts and minds, there is no doubt that AHO will thrive for the rest of the season. With each practice that passes we are taking the next step to becoming our best, and there’s nothing that can stop us.

If you’re interested in joining our wonderful family, don’t be afraid to reach out to any of us! You can find our emails on http://ahowomensrugby.wix.com on Appsync, or on clubsports.appstate.edu. You can also follow us on Twitter @AHOWomensRugby and follow our new Instagram account @AHO_wrugby. We would all love to add you to our team!

WOMEN’S RUGBY

Can’t Back Down, Won’t Back Down

ARTICLE BY:

RACHAL AROKIASAMY

CLUB SPORTS REPRESENTATIVE

“Once AHO, always AHO. Oderint dum metuant”

Photo by: Colleen Dougher

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Bump. Set. Spike. The Women’s Club Volleyball team is on a roll. With two tournaments per team already completed with all teams making it to playoffs, the spring season seems exciting. In the coming season, the club has a lot in store. With two more tournaments, and the national tournament ahead, the club is anticipating a good rest of the season. The club will be hosting one league tournament on March 19th at the SRC. This tournament should be pretty big and it is also an important one because it will involve the teams in the league. The last tournament for the teams will be on April 2 and it will also be a home tournament. This will be a good way to raise funds and also awareness of Women’s Club Volleyball. As the season continues to roll, the club excepts nothing but good intentions.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Bump, Set, Spike

ARTICLE BY:

AYRON E WALKER

SECRETARY

All Photos by: Mike Collins

“The club is anticipating a good rest of the season.”

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Executive Corner Article by: Olivia Chason

The Executive Officers have been hard at work on their projects for this semester. Chad has been figuring out what the breakout sessions will be for the Symposium; he wants to have a session on the ins and outs of the Club Sports program, updating team constitutions, questions and answer session with the new Executives, a session on how to run a competitive team, and a session on leadership. Patrick has been working hard to put together the Club Sports Budget Proposal. He has been comparing and analyzing information that the Executives have collected from our peer institutions across the country. Patrick is hoping to have the first draft the Proposal finished the week after Spring Break. Olivia has been putting together details for the Club Sports End of the Year Banquet. Currently, she is reaching out to potential guest speakers and she has also been putting together a guest list and figuring out details for catering. Hallie, the publicity programmer, and Olivia put together an invitation that will be sent out to the guests shortly. Also, the program’s End of the Year awards have been opened up on AppSync, they will close at midnight on March 18th and the Council will vote on them on March 23rd.

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Submissions are due to AppSync by March 18th!

Three submissions per team!

The submissions will be voted on at Club Sports Council, UREC Council, and then on Social Media!

The team with the winning picture will get one budget point, have the picture framed and hung on the second floor of the SRC, and will be

used for primary advertising for Club Sports!

The Annual Club Sports Photo Comp is Back!

It is time for Executive Officer Nominations!

Nominations are due to the Club Sports by March 23rd!

The Club Sports Executive Officer will represent the 800+ student athletes and 21+ teams, while working with other Executive Officers to maintain the positive progression of the entire Club Sports Program.

This includes leading Club Sports Council, managing teams and representing the Club Sports Program to the campus, community

and other institutions. The Club Sports Executive Officer influences the program through continuing and establishing a legacy to foster a

sustainable future.

Must be a current member of the Club Sports program and/or 2 semesters of recognized leadership experience within the Club Sports

program.

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