By Steven Melendez/Staff Writer Not everyone gets to grow up to become a collegiate athlete, but university students still enjoy being active and participating in competitions. Intramural Sports allows students to join a team and participate in organized sports within the university. FIU offers their students this luxury at both the Biscayne Bay campus […]
Jasmine Casimir // Assistant Sports Director Despite suffering from hearing loss caused by an ear infection in his childhood, Joshua Metellus has been encouraged to play intramural football at FIU. Intramural and club sports accept all students to participate, with accommodations for their disability. Collegiate sports differ because of the recruitment process to be a […]
Nicole Montero/ Staff Writer After working on the business side of intramural and recreational sports for almost two decades, REC*IT President David Oestreicher has come up with a free app that completely modernizes the intramural sports world and brings it to every college kid’s smart phone. REC*IT, launched on Aug. 26 of this year […]
By: Veronika Quispe/Staff Writer Junior Hannah Balmaseda explored challenging events that, eventually, ended up being part of her everyday life. Balmaseda ook on the challenge of playing sports when she was in her junior year of high school and its followed her ever since. Balmaseda started with soccer and track in Felix Varela High School […]
By Giselle Cancio/Contributing Writer The recreation center is moving towards a paperless operation including wireless scorekeeping for intramural sports. As of Spring 2013, IPads have been become an integral part of an employee’s work day. With the wireless internet available, the supervisors are able to complete accident reports and work requests for broken machines on […]
By Giselle Cancio/Contributing Writer Intramural sports are a hot commodity around the FIU community and registration has been steadily increasing by 10 percent each year. “In just less than a decade, our registration has doubled in size, from 40 to 80 teams and I feel that is one of our biggest accomplishments,” Matt O’Conner, the […]
