So, I feel like I’ve kind of grown up playing it.” “My grandparents and most of my family on my dad’s side live in Pennsylvania, and so whenever we went to visit we would play cornhole as a family. “It’s actually something my family has played for a really long time,” Delong said. Outside the pool, cornhole offers a set of two wooden boards where teams of two take turns tossing bean bags into the hole of the board.įor Kalena Delong SC ’ 25, cornhole runs deeper than links within campus, representing a more profound connection to familial roots. “I think it was the first experience of my college career that made me feel like a part of my community, because I felt valued and recognized by seniors as a little baby freshman,” Clark said. As a captain, she hopes to maintain this tight-knit community. The role not only requires administrative duties, like registering the team and working with CMS coordinators, but also entails informal responsibilities, like carrying on the team tradition of leading chants and jamming to music on the way to games.Ĭlark said the sport was crucial to making her feel connected to her campus. I never thought I was a jock until I went to Mudd.”Ĭonsidering her athletic status, Clark is now the team captain in her senior year. Her athletic prowess in the pool isn’t surprising considering her previous athletic achievements, which ranges from being a gymnast to playing actual water polo. Within her first few games, Clark instantly became one of the team’s top scorers. Each player sits on top of an innertube and adheres to normal water polo rules, passing the ball back and forth to make goals. There’s no aggression, and you’re not treading water to save your life.”Ĭomparative to soccer, inner tube water polo features five to six players to a side, including a goalie, according to Clark. “Inner tube water polo is like water polo, but without all the bad parts. “It just looked like so much fun,” Clark said. After receiving emails about the sport, she thought about giving it a try. In her freshman year, Kyra Clark HM ’ 22 spent a lot of time with upperclassmen residence hall mates who always talked about inner tube water polo. We want to offer things that people who maybe would be less inclined to play, would be comfortable coming out and having a good time.” “If it was up to us, we would have something for everyone.
“I just think that rec programming as a whole, not just intramural sports, but all across the board are about reaching people on campus,” Ryan said. He said these unusual sports offer a chance for more people to get involved with CMS athletics.
Unlike varsity teams with recruited athlete rosters, these unique leagues draw students who have diverse athletic histories.Īssistant director of recreation Matt Ryan oversees intramurals and is responsible for creating schedules, training student referees and providing necessary equipment. Operating under Claremont-Mudd-Scripps athletics in the fall, both intramural sports feature walk-on participants from the three colleges. Harvey Mudd College’s cornhole and Scripps College’s inner tube water polo leagues probably aren’t the first things that come to mind when thinking of athletics at the 5Cs - but these eclectic intramurals and others like them are roping in students who might not otherwise feel at home on the field or in the pool. Unique intramural sports such as innertube waterpolo allow 5C non student-athletes to engage in athletic opportunities.
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