Sports for 2016-17 Emerson College Intramurals

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3v3 mini league  Intramural Staff (basketball Registration closes 9/14) Christine McComb  Dodgeball tournament Phone: 617-824-3231  Broomball tournament E-mail: [email protected]

 Flag football tournament Johnny Dunbar Phone: 617-824-3233  Corn hole tournament Email: [email protected] Winter  Futsal tournament  tournament Spring  Outdoor soccer tournament  Ultimate Frisbee tournament @EC_intramurals  Dodgeball mini league  Futsal mini league  Badminton tournament How will intramurals work now Emerson College Intramurals

What is an Open Sport? The Emerson College intramural program is An Open Sport, this means each athlete will be able intended to build community through recreational to play based upon his/her gender identity. sports. This is why the intramural program has There will be no requirements for a team roster to consist of any particular demographic. made the choice to remove any barriers that may hold back members of the Emerson College Serious vs Fun community from participating in the intramural Leagues and tournaments are categorized by competition levels. You pick how you want to play, program . Intramural sports and recreation are and we will pair you with teams of similar playing intended to bring people together, encourage styles. teamwork, build leadership skills and promote a

What we have changed healthy lifestyle through experiential learning. We Serious Sports= you have played the sport before and you want extremely competitive games. hope this new pilot program will increase participation and bring these benefits to our Play as yourself Fun Sports= you want a more relaxed atmosphere, Emerson Intramurals is launching a pilot community here at Emerson. program, making all intramurals gender or you maybe new to the sport . inclusive. Every league and tournament will be an Open Sport. Participants will be able to play IMleagues and gender neutral sports? based upon his/her gender identity. IMleagues.com is a web based software used to administrate and give students online accessibility to Play how you want the intramural program. We recognize that this Intramural sports will be categorized by playing software has limitations, and we are currently style and playing experience. We will now have working with IMleagues to update their format to two sub divisions the Serious Division and the meet Emerson's needs. For now the program will Fun Division. You choose how you want to play. ask users, “what gender they will play as”, this is an irrelevant question, due to the fact that Emerson More variety intramurals has made a conscious decision to make We have added badminton and corn hole as our program gender inclusive. We will not use the new sports. information derived from this question for anything involving your participation in the intramural Mini leagues program. We hope to remove the question from the Mini leagues are 2 week leagues that will play 3 registration process all together , in the near future. days per week. You may play as many as 3 games a day. Less of a commitment than the traditional 4 to 6 week leagues but still more playing opportunities than the single day tournaments