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10 September 21, 2007 Sports www.smumn.edu/cardinal Ultimate Frisbee club forming BY JESSICA PAULSEN Cardinal Staff “A men’s Ultimate Frisbee club is being formed on campus,” said Eric Duffy, junior. Duffy is one of three SMU students who started the club. They wanted to form the club because they feel Ultimate Frisbee is an open, honest and fun game and it also gives students another way to get involved on campus. The club is not official because the student senate has yet to vote on the issue. Duffy said he has been in contact with members of the Student Senate Executive Board. The members think that the senate will most likely approve the request. Many students feel Ultimate Frisbee is fun because it is a competitive, taxing sport, explained Duffy. It emphasizes sportsmanship because there are no referees and players are expected to be honest. Ultimate Frisbee pushes “this thing they call spirit of the game...every team’s going to be open and honest,” said Duffy. Most of the players in the club are freshmen, many of whom played on high school Ultimate Frisbee teams and have some experience. All members are expected to make practice three times a week. “I respect and understand that they have other things going on, and school comes first,” Duffy said. He’s also had to work practices Cardinal faithful show their true colors BY ERIC LEAR Sports Editor around the times intramural teams play because they both use Saint Joe’s field. They have heard many positive reactions from people about the club. Many were excited to play, but others are just happy to attend. Many consider Ultimate Frisbee is considered to be a good spectator sport because it is easy to follow the game and learn the rules. People like Ultimate Frisbee because it is fun “watching people work the disc around, pass even when guarded, and make unbelievable catches,” said Duffy, and it is about “all the players that have been coming out. They’ve been amazing and they’re really committed” to the game. Their first scrimmage is Sept. 23 against Winona State University. Every morning I do what most people do. I hit the snooze button on my alarm about five times, shower, brush my teeth, eat breakfast, and put a shirt on. A few weeks ago I did just that, and the shirt I put on happened to be a purple shirt that said “Winona State.” I didn’t think anything of it, but many of my classmates did. I had over 10 comments in regards to my shirt on campus that morning and one via text message before noon. I consider myself very involved in the Saint Mary’s University community, and most of my involvement has something to do with the world of sports. One former SMU student even referred to me as “Mr. Cardinal” due to my involvement on campus and near endless, yet unsuccessful, efforts to have him stay in Cardinal Country. I sometimes wear shirts of other colleges and no one said much, except for the occasional Duke fan I run into. However, chances are that when you see me, I am sporting some sort of SMU apparel. I may just have more SMU shirts than the campus bookstore. As a matter of fact, since I strolled onto campus a shade over three years ago, I have accumulated enough SMU shirts and sweatshirts to wear a different SMU top everyday for over two months. Shocking and somewhat pathetic, yes I know. I was initially frustrated by the constant grief given to me that day. I argued that WSU is not our rival, but just another school in this college town. Historically, it has been rare for us to give the Division II school across the street much athletic competition. One SMU senior put it very well by saying that SMU only competes with WSU for “real estate.” Please don’t get me wrong, I would absolutely love for us to beat the pants off the “purple people-eaters,” on Nov. 17, for obvious personal affiliations. Nothing would please me more then to put a blemish on their record and put that sour taste back in their mouths from when their record-setting winning streak came to an end in the National Championship last season. The more grief I got, the happier I actually became. You would be hard pressed to find someone who wants to see SMU succeed at sports more than “Mr. Cardinal” himself, and here I am wearing a shirt of our cross-town foes? I now see what upset those who confronted me, and I like it. I have criticized SMU students in the past for lacking pride in being a Cardinal and I was quite pleased to see such a response. Some of you might know that I do some TV work at HBC Channel 25 broadcasting WSU basketball games, which is how I got the infamous purple shirt in the first place. I often wear my SMU gear when I broadcast at WSU and I love the grief I get for rocking the SMU red on the purple side of town. It is a matter of pride, and you guys have proven me wrong and showed me that you have a great deal of pride in being Cardinals. So if you see someone on campus, as one SMU coach put it, “wearing the wrong shade of red,” go ahead and give them a hard time and instill your Cardinal pride in them. Let’s take it to the Warriors this year and make them our competitors no matter what sport it may be, and let’s paint this town the right shade of red. SMU scoreboard Men’s Soccer (2-4-0) September 3 UM-Morris 2 SMU 0 September 8 SMU 3 Northland 0 September 11 Carthage 2 SMU 1 September 15 St. Olaf 3 SMU 0 September 18 SMU UW-Whitewater Women’s Soccer (5-1-0) September 2 SMU 9 Martin Luther 1 September 5 SMU 3 Bethany Luth 0 September 8 SMU 10 Northland 0 September 13 SMU 1 St. Catherine’s 0 September 15 St. Olaf 2 SMU 1 Women’s Volleyball (8-4) September 7 SMU 3 Luther 1 SMU 3 North Park 1 September 8 SMU 3 Wartburg 1 September 18 SMU 3 Macalester 1 Men’s Cross Country 9/1 SMU Invitational 5th out of 6 9/14 Notre Dame Invite 14th out of 22 Women’s Cross Country 9/1 SMU Invitational 6th out of 7 9/14 Notre Dame Invite 24th out of 26 Men’s Golf 8/31 SMU: 308 Macalester: 333 9/10 Augsburg Invite 14th out of 17 9/16 St. John’s Invite 11th out of 20 Women’s Golf 9/15 Luther Invite 9th out of 14 For more information about all SMU athletics, go to the new website at: www.saintmaryssports.com
www.smumn.edu/cardinal Sports September 21, 2007 11 It’s the most wonderful time of the year BY CANDICE NORRELL AND ERIC LEAR Sports Editors CN: *sigh* It’s that time of year again. Leaves are turning gorgeous colors, it’s starting to get chilly, the days are getting shorter, and baseball wise, it’s the hunt for October! Eric, please tell all our readers how you feel this time compared to years past. EL: What a strange feeling it is for me to be happy this time of year while watching my beloved Chicago Cubs play. And when I say strange, I don’t mean catching-a-glimpse-of-yourroommate-as-they-are-leaving-theshower strange. I mean a Father- Fabian-class-getting-out-early strange. For those of you that don’t follow, it is a feeling that I really could get used to, seeing as though my “northsiders” have been in the playoffs just three times since I was introduced to this world. CN: Well, my Twinkies have only appeared in the playoffs six times in my own lifetime; however, two of By ABBY ZIMMER Copy Editor Saint Mary’s University athletics website has been recently redesigned thanks to Sports Information Director Donny Nadeau and Vice President of Communication and Marketing Bob Conover. “I think the new site is so much better than the old site, and I’ve heard a lot of compliments,” said Nadeau. “I think this is because it’s very eye-catching, neat, clean, informative and it’s all right there. If anyone needs anything that has to do with Saint Mary’s athletics, it’s there.” The website, redesigned by Internet Consulting Services (ICS), the same company the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference uses for their website, has many new features. Among these features include a calendar feature to show games occurring each day, banners with sports-specific flash photographs, and Athletes of the Week. It also includes Live Stats, which updates as the game is taking place. photo by Lindsay Dickson Senior sports editors Candice Norrell and Eric Lear proudly sport their favorite teams’ colors. those times they were World Series champs! (Whoop whoop!) EL: ONLY six times? Are you kidding me? I would be happier than you in the Home Run Porch, chomping on a Dome Dog while watching Joe Nathan in the bottom of the ninth if my Cubbies had such success come playoff time. CN: Yummm, Dome Dogs. Well, I mean, ONLY six times compared to those “Damn Yankees,” who’ve been there 12 consecutive years. It gets old. They need to take turns and let others play. EL: Forget the Yankees. They will be lucky if they win the wild card this year. Right now all I can think about are my Cubbies. I get a warm, tingling sensation even thinking about them winning the pennant; the same tingling sensation that every Minnesota girl gets when Joe Mauer crouches into his catching position behind home plate. CN: How dare you put images like those in my head, Eric Lear. I’m an engaged girl! Moving on, I’m quite disappointed in the Twins right now. However, even though they’re over 10 games back, I still have much hope because a true baseball fan never gives up on their team. NEVER. EL: No one knows that more than me, Candice. It has been downright painful in the past watching my Cubs struggle, yet I still have a hard time falling asleep if I don’t know if the Cubs won or lost. Some people may call that a crazed obsession, but I see it as a healthy dose of hope. CN: Hope. That’s about all we can have, you know? Crazed obsession is okay, too, so don’t worry. At least that’s what I say. And I only say it because I’m a die-hard Twins fan and will be until the day I die. But I want you to know, all of you, that I hope and pray the Cubs make it this year. They definitely deserve it. EL: I can truly say that I wish the Twins could be there, too, for two reasons: to see my friends who are Twins fans happy and so that the Cubs could play them in the World Series. SMU athletics website redesign allows for more interaction “I think the new sports website for Saint Mary’s is a great improvement over the old one,” said sophomore swimmer Tom Walsh. “It’s a lot easier to navigate and it’s much more technologically advanced.” Athletic Director Nikki Fennern, also impressed by the new website, said, “I love the colors. I love the actions. There’s always something changing on our website; you’re always seeing new pictures popping up. Also, I love that every story has a picture with it because, although you can read about a team, pictures make it more real.” Yet Fennern’s favorite part of the new website has more to do with Nadeau: the fact that everything is updated instantly. “Once a game is over, I’ll go into the schedule and I’ll update the score and (with ICS’s system) it is automatically updated in every other place that needs to be updated,” said Nadeau. “Now I don’t have to take four steps; I only have to take one.” During the redesign this summer, Nadeau transferred 4,520 archived news stories from the old website to ensure that they were in the same format as the rest of the website. “We could have had a link to the old site and said that for any archived stories, go to the old site,” said Nadeau. “But I didn’t want to do that because my feeling was that if we were going to have a new site, I wanted the new site to be the [only] site.” Currently, statistics for any SMU sport from the time that sport began are available on the website, and schedules with game results dating just as far back will soon be available. “The website shows that they care more about their athletics department than before,” said Walsh. “And if your website is well done, it puts out the image that the sports teams are good.” “As we like to say in athletics, the website is the front porch of the school. If you catch their eye, prospective students are probably going to look around,” said Nadeau. “If they keep coming back [to the website], there’s going to be a reason and if we can keep them there, maybe we can bring them to school here.”
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