A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
If you’re interested in taking Lunchtime Yoga, Early Bird Fitness, or Lunch Bunch: Low Impact Total Body, then register by this weekend!
Visit the Campus Rec website Fitness Class webpage to learn more about each faculty/staff class and to get registered. Don’t forget to click the blue button when signing in, and use your UMW credentials. Call Brittanie Naff at ext. 1187 or an email at bhaas@umw.edu if you need assistance or have questions.
UMW Campus Recreation 5K Fun Run for the Mark Fletcher Fund
Please consider signing up for our 5K Fun Run and inviting colleagues, friends and relatives in the Fredericksburg community.
The Campus Recreation 5K Fun Run for the Mark Fletcher Fund, to be held Sunday, April 13 with a race time of 8:30 a.m., is a benefit event whose proceeds will go to the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Foundation fund in honor of Mark Fletcher. Mark worked at University of Virginia Recreational Sports until he passed away in 2009 at the age of 57. Due to his involvement with NIRSA and excellence in recreational sports programming at UVA, the NIRSA Honor Award Committee has posthumously selected Mark Fletcher as the recipient of the 2014 NIRSA Honor Award.
Please join us in contributing to one of Mark Fletcher’s passions: funding the NIRSA foundation and its research agenda and professional development opportunities in the field of college recreational sports and fitness programming.
Registration and payment due by Friday, April 4 to be guaranteed a race shirt. Registration and payment are due by Tuesday, April 8.
Register online at https://orgsync.com/59405/forms/102583
The race begins and ends at the Battleground Athletic Complex.
Questions? Contact Dan Gardner at dgardner@umw.edu or 540-654-1126
540-654-1126.
The University of Mary Washington women’s club soccer team competed in the 2013 NIRSA National Championships in Phoenix, Arizona. UMW was the only NCAA Division III program in the entire championship bracket.
The women’s club soccer team will compete in the NIRSA national championships this week.
The tournament was canceled on Saturday, Nov. 23 due to unsafe playing conditions.
The team left for Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 20 and had its first match on Thursday, Nov. 21 against Vanderbilt University. The open division, in which UMW is competing, includes Division II and Division I schools like Cornell University, the University of Colorado and the University of Virginia. The UMW team played Colorado on Friday, Nov. 22.
This marks the first time that one of UMW’s club soccer programs has competed in a national championship.
“We are very excited to compete on the national stage and are proud to represent UMW,” said Mark Mermelstein, director of campus recreation.
NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation, formerly known as the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association, was founded in 1950 to support collegiate recreation across the country. More than 2,000 athletes from 96 teams will play at the NIRSA national soccer championships this year.
To view results of the tournament, visit http://www.nirsa.org/wcm/Play/Soccer/wcm/_Play/Soccer/Soccer_.aspx?hkey=fe730752-ae48-4e3e-94b8-6fd131d7c221.
Robert E. Liebau, associate director of campus recreation, gave the presentation “To the Core—Embracing Personal Leadership Values” to the student session of the annual Virginia Athletic Trainers’ Association meeting in Richmond in January. Ian Rogol, UMW head athletic trainer, said Liebau’s talk was “extremely well received. Bob’s interaction with these students was amazing and all were extremely challenged to think about a topic many athletic training programs do not cover.”
