Flag Football Goes Elite
Intramural flag football’s new league houses the best competition, readies for a national level
son of the intramural Elite Flag Football league from Oct. 17 to Nov. 11.
“The league is open to everyone, but we play by the A-league rules,” Director of Recreational Sports, Bert Rosenberger said. “If you play, you know you’re going to face good competition and we play how we would in state tournaments to prepare the teams to play at a state and national level.”
Zach Lockhart is a junior computer science major and a member of a team named the honey badgers, led by Captain Brandon Goodwin. The honey badgers placed seventh overall in the league.
Kendyl Wade | gcsunade.com- Assistant Director of Recreational Sports Andrew Bruton (left) gains yardage while sophomore exercise science major Austin Shadoan sprints after him on defense in the Elite Flag Football league.
“It is basically the first 16 teams that sign up for it with about 11 guys on each team and there are five or six games in the regular season and then there are the playoffs where there is one loss and you’re out,” Lockhart said. “To be in the playoffs you have to be one of the top eight teams.”Erin Rose, a junior special education major, was a supporter and fan of the honey badgers and says that they formed the league “to determine who the best teams were so they can play the other good teams.” Rose said she would definitely play if there was a girl’s flag football elite league.
After having such a success with the season and good feedback with this league, Rosenberger and the recreation department are definitely continuing the league next year and are even thinking about doing other sports in elite leagues.
“The idea is to offer the sport at two different times and basically let people play the sports they love more often,” Rosenberger said. “We even divided up the league and created a ‘not-so-elite’ bracket so that teams could play other teams on their same skill level.”
The main part of the elite bracket is over, and the Mega Men won the championship on Nov. 11 against the Unnecessary Buffness with a score of 20-0. The Mega Men were undefeated, winning all seven of their games.
Captain of the Mega Men and junior environmental science major, Tony King, feels that the elite flag football league allows players interested in intramural football to be able to play more.
“The elite league is a great opportunity for the people who love it to play flag football more,” King said. “It’s great because not all people like to play soccer and frisbee, which are offered after the regular flag football season.”
The co-ed league finished its season on Tuesday, with the team “#winning,” led by captain Erica Evans, attaining victory over Them Again, led by Rosenberger. The final score was 26-12.
“We knew it would be a tough game, but we knew that if we worked hard enough that we could pull out,” junior biology and captain Erica Evans said. “There are eight girls and eight guys on the team and we all play very well together, but our quarterback and coach, Keith Barger, is really good and really encouraging and Josh Black is our other really good coach/player.”
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on Nov 17 2011. Filed under Sports.
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