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Regional
tourney to be held at TCU
The
Recreation Center is gearing up to host a regional intramural
basketball tournament this weekend.
By
Erin Clark
Get
ready to hoop it up this weekend.
The Recreation Center will host its first American Collegiate
Intramural Championship.
The regional five-on-five basketball tournament will include
four men’s teams and two women’s teams from
TCU. The teams are MBA, White Chocolate, Ape Team, Pipelayers.org,
Pi Beta Phi and the Wrecking Crew.
“All of the TCU teams are strong and have a definite
chance of winning,” said Cristie Mitchell, assistant
director of intramural sports.
Teams from five states will be represented at the tournament.
Nine women’s teams and 19 men’s teams will be
competing for a spot in the ACIC National Championship
Tournament in Orlando, Fla. in April.
Buddy Billingsley, a member of this year’s TCU intramural
championship team, MBA, said he is looking forward to
playing teams from different schools.
“I’m most interested in the other school’s
talent and how we match up,” he said.
Mitchell said she expects some of the other schools’
teams to also be intramural basketball champions.
But the players aren’t the only ones competing this
weekend.
The top four officials chosen from this weekend’s
tournament will get the opportunity to officiate in the
national championship tournament, as well as receive free
passes to Walt Disney World, airfare and hotel accomodations.
The top officials are chosen by a committee made of up
eight professional staff members, Mitchell said. The committee
critiques all the officials and ranks the top six, but
only the top four officials win bids to Orlando.
Other prizes will be given away this weekend as well.
Prizes include a Microsoft Xbox, Nike basketballs, giant
candy bars, deodorant and razors. The tournament is sponsored
by Nike, Nestle Crunch, Xbox, Soft and Dri, Right Guard
and Bic.
The awards presentation will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in
the Special Events Gym of the Recreation Center.
Steve Kintigh, director of campus recreation, said he
is excited about another kind of award.
The Recreation Center recently won a national award for
Outstanding Facility Design, Function, and Aesthetics,
Kintigh said. Seven awards are given out nationally by
the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association.
Kintigh said he sees the tournament as a positive experience
for TCU.
“It’s a great opportunity to showcase our facility
to other colleges and universities,” he said. “Maybe
it will help (TCU) students realize the quality of our
facility.”
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