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Club Sports Flourish at Columbia Nearly twice as many Columbia athletes compete in clubs as on the varsity level B y Jo n a t h a n Le m i r e ’01 Club sports participants are Columbia’s oft-overlooked athletes. They are rarely written up in Spectator, and their games are not broadcast on WKCR. They aren’t recognized by fellow students when they walk across campus, nor do large crowds usually throng to their games. But they are everywhere, and their groups are growing in size, stature and skill. More than 1,600 students participate in club sports at Columbia, nearly double the number who are on the 31 varsity squads. There are 38 club teams on campus — from archery to kayaking, from racquetball to table tennis — and each team is entirely student-run. Students raise the money for uniforms, they make hotel and travel arrangements for tournaments, they network with alumni and they balance up to 15 hours a week of practice with their academic responsibilities. “You do everything,” says Marie Johnson ’12 Barnard, president of the Sailing Club. “And you’re not just an athlete. You learn to communicate, to organize, to fundraise. You learn more skills than just what you need to succeed at your sport.” Club sports are not intramurals, which are loosely organized games among friends that sometimes are played on South Lawn. Rather, club teams are well-run squads with an informative website (columbia.edu/cu/clubsports) and significant budgets that train at Athletic Department facilities and compete against other colleges — often including varsity teams — up and down the East Coast and beyond. They are open to all Columbia undergraduate and graduate students; even a handful of faculty and staff participate, though the vast majority of athletes are enrolled at the College, Barnard and Engineering.
Kerry Morrison ’11 (seated), captain and president of the Columbia Sailing Club in 2009 and 2010, with Weston Friedman ’08 in one of the new boats that are the result of club members’ fundraising efforts.
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