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Admin
 
Syracuse University Intramurals
Nadine Essel
315-443-4386
Fax: 315-443-3244
Recreation Services
241 Archbold Gym
Syracuse University, New York 13244-1140
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Syracuse University Intramurals Leagues
Monday, August 18
Registration Information
Welcome to the SUIntraumural Web Site for 2008-09! The outdoor sports will be starting very soon! (first deadlines are August 28!). Check out each sport's page for more information (softball, tennis, outdoor soccer and flag football). The indoor sports will begin in early October. Check back soon for more information about them. All the information you need to participate in intramurals sports at SU is here - if you take the time to read it!! Do not just check calendars and schedules. Read the homepages of each sport for more information. Scroll down and read this entire page. Further down are instructions for registering, information about getting on a team if you do not have one, and how the forfeit fee works, among other things.
Registration Deadlines and Wait Listing - For team sports, all teams whose registration email is received by 11:59 pm on the date of the deadline will have a spot in a league reserved for them (and will be placed on the schedule if their forfeit fee is paid and someone attends the managers' meeting). In many sports, all teams whose registration is received after that time will be placed on a wait list. Managers of these wait-listed teams still need to attend the mandatory managers' meeting for that sport. If, when we are setting up the leagues, there is enough space to add teams from the list without diminishing the quality of the play experience for those teams that did make the deadline (ie, if we do not have to make smaller leagues to fit the games into available space), we will add them in the order they were received.
For more information on each sport, click on the sport(s) you are intersted in from the list at the top of this page. After you have selected your sport(s), read below for registration directions, or how to get on a team if you do not have one!
Intramural sports at SU are COMPETITIONS between individuals or teams that are organized among those who register for each sport by the deadline. They are not unorganized drop-in activities (participants may do that through "open rec" by showing their ID card at the appropriate facility when it is open. Call the Rec Hotline at 443-GYMS (4967) for an updated list of facility hours). They also are not instructional in nature, though participants learn a lot about a given sport and hone their skills through participation. Instruction in many sports and activities is available through the Fitness and Leisure Program (non-credit) and the Department of Exercise Science (credit classes).
Ability levels vary greatly, so to have the most fun, it is best to choose the proper league for your or your team's ability level. Options are University "A" and "B", Women's and Co-Rec. In the Co-Rec division, ALL TEAMS MUST maintain a 50-50 gender split on the playing field at all times. In addition, in Flag Football and Basketball only there is a "C" league in the University Division. Participation in this league is also the ONLY legal way to play for more than one team in a sport. It's OK to play on one team in EITHER University "A" or "B" (or "C" when applicable) or Women's AND on a Co-Rec team.
Frequently asked question: "How do I know whether to enter my team in 'A', 'B' or 'C'?" Our question for you in return is: "How did you select your teammates?" Are they your friends, floormates, roommates, housemates, people in your same academic department or campus organization? Or did you exclude the people you know so you could pick up that person three floors down you don't even know because s/he looked like a good athlete? The answer to the first question is "B", the second one is "A". MOST teams belong in "B", but more sign up for "A" anyway (then lose most of their games and wonder why!). It's up to you. We only change teams that we think are "sandbagging", or signing up for B when they really are a strong team and belong in "A". And the "C" league? Well, that's for the teams that REALLY just want to have a good time!
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS: To register for any activity, click on "handouts" to the left and download the appropriate form (individual entry from for sports like tennis and racquetball, team entry form for all team sports, or the roster add form if you have already entered your team and wish to update the information previously submitted). Complete all requested information on the appropriate form, then send it as an attachment with the name of the sport in the subject line to suintramurals@hotmail.com .
After you have registered, come to 241 Archobld to pay the $20 ($3 for singles and doubles activities) forfeit fee.
For league team sports, attend the MANDATORY managers' meeting listed on the sport web page (Location is Archbold Gym, and time is 7:30 pm unless otherwise listed). If the manager is unable to attend, send another representative from the team. All team members are welcome to attend. This is strongly recommended for sports like flag football where many of the rules change from "normal" football that players may have experienced in the past.
SUIntramural Recreational Leagues - open to all current Syracuse University and SUNY ESF students, faculty and staff members. Spouses and dependents are not eligible to participate.
A note on deadlines: They ARE deadlines. All teams who have sent in their registration form via email will be accommodated in the sport, regardless of numbers. However, any team whose registration comes in AFTER a posted deadline runs the risk of being turned away. Only when the addition of those late teams does not reduce the quality of the experience for those who registerd in time will late teams be allowed to enter. With the rapid growth in intramurals over the past couple of years, resources are stretched to the max in most sports, both in terms of space for the games and funding for the staff to conduct them. GET YOUR TEAM REGISTERED ON TIME, or you may very likely miss out on a great opportunity!
E-Mail to the SUIntramurals@hotmail account: While that account accepts e-mail around the clock, 7 days a week, holidays or not, and it is perfectly fine to send e-mails to that account to ask questions as well as register for sports and up-date rosters, the account is not monitored 24/7. We TRY to check it mid-morning and mid-afternoon Monday-Friday. Even that is not guaranteed, depending on what else is going on. Last-minute or odd-time e-mails expecting immediate responses (ie. an email with a time stamp just a few minutes before a game requesting a reschedule), especially in the evening or over a weekend will result in disappointment on the part of the initial sender. Many times the question being asked already has an answer elsewhere on the site ("We forgot where our game is", for example), or was dissiminated at the Managers' Meeting for that sport, or both. Those questions you still cannot answer through that information will be answered when the account is checked, but possibly not as quickly as you may have hoped if you wait until the last minute to ask.
Please include sport, team name, and any pertinent information in all emails to the suintramurals@hotmail.com account. With well over 100 teams participating in 7 or 8 sports at any one time, and 7 different staff members monitoring that account, we need some basic information to work with so that we may serve you better.
Please note, we ONLY accept team registrations for team sports (softball, soccer, etc.). Individuals who do not have teams should scroll down to the bottom of this page for suggestions on how to find a team. PLEASE DO NOT SEND IN "Individual Entry Form" for a team sport entry. All that does is get your name posed with those individuals looking for a team (which we are more than happy to do, but you are still not on a team. Again, see below.).
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