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Students from the Ball State University theatre programs will continue performing the musical "A Little Night Music" this week at University Theatre. The musical debuted last Friday, but the show still has two more 7:30 p.m. shows: Nov. 15 and 16. [ngg src="galleries" ids="34" display="basic_slideshow" pauseonhover="0" arrows="1"]
The Ball State Quidditch Team is away this weekend competing in the 2019 U.S. Quidditch Great Lakes Collegiate Regional Championship. In 2017, BSU secured first place and this year the team is looking to reach that height once again. Max Jolly, a senior architecture major, and head coach of the quidditch team at BSU, said he’s confident in this year’s team. “I’m personally feeling really good about how the team is going into regionals. We’ve improved a ton over this season, and we’ve had a lot of really positive feedback from the quidditch community… This weekend we’re going to be bringing a full roster (21 athletes) and I think everyone is really going in with the right mindset,” Jolly said. Jolly used this week’s practices to prepare for regionals. For the Oct. 29 practice, the team scrimmaged for the entirety of practice to get as much playing time as possible. Then, for the Oct. 31 practice, the team had a game film night to study up on their competition. “It’s going to be difficult; teams always bring their a-game to regionals. It’s the most important tournament of this semester. Everybody is gunning to get a bid for nationals and trying to get that first-place spot at regionals, that’s the excitement of it,” Jolly said. Favian Cervantes, a senior architecture major, and a chaser for the quidditch team at BSU, recently joined the team and hasn’t ever played quidditch before. Cervantes is both excited and a bit nervous to travel to regionals. “Honestly, I think it’s (regionals) going to be times 10 of what I’ve had in my mind at least. We’ll see this weekend, but I’m expecting to see a lot of people hyped for regionals and trying to reach that next level,” Cervantes said. 14 teams are scheduled to compete at the Great Lakes regional championship according to U.S. Quidditch. Ball State Cardinals BearTrain Quidditch Bowling Green State University Carnegie Mellon Quidditch Club Cleveland State University Vikings Grand Valley Grindylows Indiana State University Quidditch Indiana University Quidditch Club Miami University (OH) Quidditch Michigan Quidditch Team Michigan State Quidditch Ohio University Quidditch Club Quidditch Club of Pittsburgh WVU Summit Elizabeth Pruim, a sophomore religious studies major, and a 2019 season chaser for the Indianapolis Intensity, a major league quidditch team, said she’s proud of how far the BSU team has made it before regionals. “I’ve seen a lot of improvement in us over the past couple of months. A lot of our team is new this year, about 70 percent of us. For the most part, we understand all of the basics and then even past that,” Pruim said. The Ball State Quidditch Team did compete in regionals last year and Pruim believes the team this year has a good shot at placing in the top three. “It’s been our dream this entire semester to finish top in regionals and just show that Ball State is back to what we were used to be,” Pruim said. The 2019 USQ Great Lakes Collegiate Regional Championship takes place this weekend at the Voice of America Park in West Chester Township, Ohio. Teams arrived on Friday and games start Saturday with the final games to be held Sunday.
Students and faculty competed in the annual Ball State University Bed Race. Bed racing has been a homecoming traditional since 1980 at Ball State. During the event, teams of five race wheeled beds, with one person riding and the other four pushing the bed as fast as they can in a 100-yard dash. Photos by: Kyle Crawford and Kellyn Harrison [ngg src="galleries" ids="30" display="basic_imagebrowser" display_view="default-view.php" template="default"]
The Ball State Quidditch Team hosted the fifth Ball Brothers Brawl Quidditch tournament at Morrow’s Meadow on Oct. 12 in Yorktown, IN. 10 teams from across the Midwest traveled to compete in the tournament. The Ball State Quidditch Team made it to the final bracket of the tournament winning their semi-finals match against Michigan State University. The team then went on to the final match against Miami University of Ohio, yet they just barely lost to a snitch catch. Ball State ended the tournament with a 4-2 record. [ngg src="galleries" ids="28" display="basic_imagebrowser" display_view="default-view.php" template="default"]
The Ball State Quidditch Team has been hard at work practicing for their upcoming 2019 season. The team is made up of a variety of students with various studies of focus, athletic experience, and love for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Yet, they’ve all come together with a shared interest in playing competitive real-life quidditch. The History of Real-Life Quidditch Quidditch as a real-life sport was first played in 2005, inspired by its fictional origin in the Harry Potter series. The sport has found growing popularity at colleges and in communities around the world. US Quidditch (USQ), the national governing body for the sport of quidditch, reported in its 2017-18 Annual Report that there are 104 collegiate and 40 community registered teams in the U.S. How It's Played Quidditch is best described as a fast-paced, co-ed, contact sport played by teams of seven. Every player is required to have a broomstick between their legs throughout the entirety of a match. A lot of the sport has been recreated from its fictional origin, but some parts have needed to be adapted. Teams score on two sets of three hoops at either end of the field by throwing the quaffle, a ball, through any of the three hoops. Another ball, called the bludger, is used to temporarily knock out defending players to open up opportunities to score with the quaffle. Finally, teams can both score and end the match by catching a neutral player, called the snitch, who will do anything to avoid capture. From the Team Tyler Taylor, a junior psychology and criminal justice major, and president of the quidditch team at BSU said he hadn’t heard about real-life quidditch until he started college. “The first time I heard about real-life quidditch was at the freshman activity fair. I saw the quidditch team booth and I was a Harry Potter fan growing up, so I thought I would check it out. I’ve been here ever since,” Taylor said. Taylor was with the quidditch team when they qualified for nationals in the past years and sees that as the main goal for this season, but also as a challenge. Congratulations to @BSUQuidditch for winning the collegiate division of the 2017 Great Lakes Regional Championship! #GLRC2017 https://t.co/bbYl9IS9nD — US Quidditch (@usquidditch) October 29, 2017 “Our previous years we went to nationals and that was a big eye-opener. During the fall, we pretty much just play teams around the Great Lakes region. But when we went to nationals, there were teams from all around the nation that were really competitive and aggressive teams,” Taylor said. Nicholas Kaufman, a senior physics major, has been playing quidditch for five years. He has had experience in each of the four quidditch positions, seeker, chaser, beater, and the keeper. “I would probably consider quidditch one of the most athletic games I’ve ever played, and I’ve been playing sports ever since I could walk,” Kaufman said. Kaufman is confident in the team’s history of having a “really strong beating game.” However, he said the “team’s chasing game has been on and off” mainly due to the challenges with coaching the sport. Liam Zach, a sophomore psychology major, is the beater and seeker coach for the quidditch team at BSU. Zach has used his experience with football, wrestling, and track to help with coaching the quidditch team. “First, I’ve always made my quidditch coaching easy to relate to other sports. So, if they’ve ever played a sport before, soccer really helps. There’s a lot of similar stuff between soccer and quidditch. Honestly, anything can relate to quidditch if you put it in the right terms,” Zach said. As a coach, Zach has worked with several types of players. Some knew about the fictional version of quidditch and others had never heard of the sport before joining. “It (the quidditch scene) has everything few and far between. I’ve met people who have never read the books or seen the movies. I’ve also met people who were absolutely obsessed with them…It’s kind of crazy to see the versatility of everybody,” Zach said. The Ball State Quidditch Team will compete in its first fall season event this Saturday in Athens, Ohio for the Athens Quidditch Quarrel. The following weekend on Oct. 12, Ball State University will host the 5th Ball Brothers Brawl. Photo Gallery [ngg src="galleries" ids="27" display="basic_imagebrowser" display_view="default-view.php" template="default"]
Students from the Ball State University theatre programs will debut "Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet" at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in University Theatre. The production will run a total of seven 7:30 p.m. shows: Sept. 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28. In addition, on Sept. 22, there is a 2:30 p.m. matinee show. [ngg src="galleries" ids="26" exclusions="167,169,170,174,175,189,275,278,281" display="basic_imagebrowser" display_view="default-view.php" template="default"]Editor's Note (Oct. 2, 2019): Janae Robinson and Ogunde Snelling are identified as sophomore acting majors. To read the written story and hear from the cast themselves check out The Daily News article by Grace McCormick.
by Kyle Crawford Students from the Ball State University theatre programs run through a rehearsal of their upcoming show, "The Wolves," Sept. 4 at Strother Studio Theatre. [ngg src="galleries" ids="25" display="basic_thumbnail" thumbnail_crop="0"]Editor's Note (Oct. 2, 2019): Emma Grow is identified as a freshman acting major. "The Wolves" is a 2016 play written by Sarah DeLappe. Jennifer Blackmer, a theatre professor at Ball State University, is directing the production at Strother Studio Theatre. The opening show of “The Wolves” will start at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 6 in Strother Studio Theatre. The show will continue to run through next week with more 7:30 p.m. showtimes Sept. 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. In addition, on Sept. 8 there is a 2:30 p.m. matinee show.