Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Annual Cat Cup Challenge

The Center for Recreation and Sport saw a unique crowd of athletes last week during an intense game of Melonball. Students from Adelphi's six residence halls made their way to the gym to compete against one another.

Their common goal? To be reigned the next Cat Cup champions.

"Cat Cup is a residence hall competition to bring a sense of community to the residence halls and to also spur on competition," said Linda Gundrum, director of
Campus Recreation.

The year-long competition is funded by the
Resident Student Association (RSA) and programmed by Campus Recreation, and has been an Adelphi tradition since 1994. "We thought if [residents] competed against each other, they would have residence hall pride," said Gundrum.

Cat Cup is a series of events based upon resident hall participation and an accumulation of points, which are dependant upon the type of event being played. For example, in Melonball, residence halls are awarded points for the amount of wins they receive during a match. This year, New Hall came in first place.

Yet besides Melonball, Cat Cup sponsors seven other events, including kick-off (penny wars), scavenger hunt, shopping spree, dodgeball, student feud, cook-off and last blast.

The next scheduled event,
shopping spree, will take place on Friday, December 4 at 2:45 pm. "There are two teams per hall and they are each given a $40 gift certificate to Target," said Diane Lindenmayer, graduate assistant of special events and promotions for Campus Recreation.

Each residence hall is given a specific list of toy-based items, pre-determined by RSA, and they have 45 minutes to collect as many as they can without going over the spending limit. All toys will be donated to
Winthrop University Hospital.

At the end of the 2009 - 2010 academic year, the Cat Cup trophy will be awarded to the residence hall with the most overall points. Each year the trophy moves from one residence hall to the next, depending on the year's win. The trophy currently resides in New Hall, the 2008 - 2009 Cat Cup winners.

"[Cat Cup] brings a good school spirit to the whole campus. It introduces you to new people and then, of course, you have the whole teamwork aspect of it," said Lindenmayer. "It gets you active and it gets you around campus too."

For more information about participating in this year's Cat Cup challenge, contact your resident assistant (RA), resident hall director (RHD) or Campus Recreation at (516) 877-4242.

New Hall residents and RHD Robert Kiley pose with the infamous Cat Cup trophy at the end of the 2008 - 2009 academic year. Photo courtesy of Campus Recreation.

~Leslie Fazin

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