CRS RecFest to conclude Welcome Week activities

One of the year’s final Welcome Week events will offer students a chance to learn about and join about 40 sports, ranging from ice hockey to hapkido.

RecFest, a Friday afternoon event put on by Campus Recreational Sports, will give students a chance to see and hear from members of the club and intramural sport community.

RecFest gives new and current students the opportunity to check out all club and intramural sports offered by Campus Recreational Sports.  

Hallie Jaeger, Special Events Program Assistant for Campus Recreational Sports, said she is excited to showcase everything her office has to offer.  

“The greatest benefit to RecFest is that we have every one of our programs at the event,” she said. “We are more than just working out at the SRSC. Representatives from aquatics, intramural sports, club sports, group exercise and mind and body will all be on hand.”

Students who are interested in any club or intramural sport can talk with current players or coaches and ask questions on how the sports are run.

“Each club team will have their own table,” Jaeger said. “We will also be promoting our new online sign-up for intramural sports.”

The event will include a climbing wall, human bowling and free massages. McAlister’s will also be providing free food.

Sophomore Joe Muessig said it was the free giveaways that drew him in last year.

“I was able to get information on all the intramural sports before I actually had to get a team together and pay for it,” he said. “If you’re interested in sports or just like watching other people do them, they will have some for you at RecFest.”

RecFest gives students of all abilities the chance to find a way to stay active in college. 

“I was able to see the different sports that were offered and decide which one I would have the most fun in,” sophomore Brooke Van Paris, who attended RecFest last year, said. “I then chose to play intramural volleyball.”