Athlete Videos

Daily life of student athlete.

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Life after athletic ventures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls92TmnwQ84

School is almost over

School is almost over which means a break from all of the homework and tests and from all of the constant practices and meetings. The start of summer, which means having to works constantly. It makes me wonder, will the busyness, whether it is with school, sports, or work, ever end?

Variety of Sports at Elmhurst

Fun Fact! Elmhurst College is on Wikipedia!

It's not really much, but it's there. Elmhurst College

So, the reason I found this out was because of a post about the lack of a swim team on campus. Thanks to ECCB-Christina for mentioning it. I heard that Goebel Hall used to be our gym and that it had a swimming pool. I've been in Goebel Hall a few times while I was here, and I'm not sure where that would have been at. I wonder why we opted to skip the swimming pool when we opened up Faganel Hall. Over J-term we had a free pass to the YMCA because Faganel Hall was closed. We received access to the swimming pool. I'm curious as to why we don't get that access anyway. I'm not sure that we ever had a swim team, and I cannot find that information on the internet. But, I don't see why that shouldn't be available. Maybe the college could work something out with the YMCA. I would think that there are plenty of people who don't want to run, but would rather swim instead. It's a good way to build endurance and keep in shape and helps vary the old excercise routine for some people.

This led me to wonder about how many other sports are being avoided on our campus and how many people wish they were here so that they could still play.

Sports that we have:

M&W Tennis
M Wrestling
M&W Track & Field
M&W Cross Country
W Softball
M Baseball
M Football
M&W Basketball
M&W Soccer
W Cheerleading
W Golf
W Bowling
W Volleyball

Out of this list I realize that, we don't have Men's Bowling, only women's. How do we feel about that? I wonder how many guys would like a piece of the bowling pie. I know a lot of my friends back home were in a bowling league, and they were male.

What other sports don't we have here?

Hard Work.

Athletics and schooling are really difficult.

Being an athlete, with all of the mental frustration, is hard. Not to mention the three hour practices and the four to five hour games. Then, you have three hours of class a day, at least. It gets rough. Plus any studying or extra practice you want to put in. College athletics are really not what I thought they would be. I've been going since the week after I got to Elmhurst, and I haven't stopped.

Kudos to all the student-athletes is all I have to say. It takes a special kind of special to keep it together.

Spring Camps

The Elmhurst College football and volleyball teams are just finishing their spring seasons. Coming in as a freshmen a lot of people did not think that the spring seasons would be as tough as it was. It was my off season so I thought we were going to lift and run. We had morning practices, and practices on sundays. We had film sessions and also lifting and running. I am not complaining though because the hard work in the off season will pay off come fall.

EC Softball Team

The EC Softball team is now 4-6 in conference play after having a 7 game win streak. It was broken on Sunday, but the team is still in contention for making it to the conference tournament. Next few games are at home if anyone would like to come and show support.

Sports at the EC

We are so excited to have a blog! Elmhurst College Athletes Rule!!:)