Intramural, extramural sports opportunities for students

Humber third-year bio technology student Rashawn Smauling says he loves the opportunity to play intramural basketball.

“The intramurals are a great way for people to get more involved in activities happening here at school rather than just sit around and do nothing during breaks," he said.

Smauling said he believes that Humber is a great place for the students at school to get more involved.

Students can play intramural, extramural, and drop-in sports at Humber College North campus from Sept. 9 to Sept. 27. Intramural activities are open to Humber and University of Guelph-Humber students, staff and faculty. There are also special events at Lakeshore campus.

James DePoe, athletics facility manager, said there are a wide variety of intramural and drop-in sports available for students.

"Monday to Friday during the day, we’ve got all kinds of things happening," he said.

DePoe said there are also adaptive activities and learn-to-play activities organized by Campus Recreation Coordinator Jennifer O’Reilly.

Ishan Molstrada, a second-year mechatronic engineering student, said all of these sports available, including basketball, floor hockey and pickle ball, for students is a great thing.

"It gives people a chance to move around and stay active rather than being in class for three to five hours," he said.

DePoe said several extramural sports play in tournaments against other colleges and universities, including men's and women's ice hockey and men's cricket.

“I think there's a huge push for cricket programming and I know at the Ontario college level, there's a number of schools that you know, it’s the discussions at the table about adding it to varsity sports," he said. "But for now it sits in the recreation league and we do have an extramural team which is great."

Humber's extramural cricket team last year won the Team of the Year award among other individual accolades.

Tryouts for the extramural women's and men's hockey teams are being held on Sept. 23, Sept. 30 and Oct. 7 at Westwood Arena near North campus.

"The program is not only successful but also run by students," DePoe said. "Our student-athletes and sport-interested students have volunteered themselves to give other students interested in joining and getting involved in sports the chance to really have a fun and exciting first or fourth year here at Humber."

“What we pride ourselves on here in athletics, we hire a lot of students, so we do provide a lot of student jobs as well, so we hire a number of current students to also run and execute these programs, so it really helps with reciprocating you know, back into the ecosystem of Humber," he said.