Appalachian State University - Rhododendron Yearbook (Boone, NC)

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Varsity Gyiti was the place to be on cool autumn evenings playing intramural volleyball. Most nights, courts were packed for hours with setters, servers, spikers, and blockers. Sports 299

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Everyday Athletes More people play intramurals at Ap- palachian State than there are townspeople in Cullowhee, almost as many as there are people enrolled at Notre Dame, and plenty to fulfill the program ' s motto: enjoyment. Seventy percent of ASU ' s enrollment is said to enjoy the fruits of intramural labor each year. Sports range from horseshoes to handball, from volleyball to soccer, from swimming to track. Women, men and co- recreational teams are formed for competi- tion between dorms, independent teams, and individuals. Each year the program becomes in- creasingly popular, and sports are updated and added to fill the need. Intramural direc- tor Dr. Jim Avant does an incredulous job to keep the program above respectability. Team handball was a popular, fast-paced fall activity Ellen Diinmock walks the hall upfield to show that women can pliiy soccer too. She ' s not even Nigeria)i. and betiten oalu 298 Sports

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Basketball is always the most pop- ular intramural sport. Played indoors in Varsity Gym, the competition is both the most fierce here as well as the least. Teams form to vie for a cham- pionship or to vie for some afternoon entertainment. Either was pleasing. 300 Sports