The Sport Clubs Program is organized and administered by University Recreation. It is designed to provide UW-Eau Claire students opportunities to participate in activities in which they may be interested. The focus of the Sport Clubs Program blends the aspect of learning new skills, practicing with fellow participants, and competing with other clubs.

A Sport Club is a recognized University student organization that has been formed by individuals motivated by a common interest and desire to participate in a favorite activity. The Club exists to promote and develop interest in that activity. Its members learn new skills, refine existing skills, engage in competition, and enjoy the recreational and social fellowship of each activity.

1. How can I get info on a specific sport club?
   See the Contacts section below to email any sport club for more info or stop by the University Recreation Office and ask for Andy Jepsen, the Sport Clubs Coordinator. A Sport Clubs brochure is available which provides details on each respective club. You may also add your name and telephone number to the "contact sheet" on the Sport Clubs bulletin board in the Hilltop Center and someone from the club will contact you.
2. Can anyone become a member of a sport club?
   All officially enrolled UW-Eau Claire students are eligible to join and maintain membership in any sport club. Graduate student participation in leagues or national tournaments will be determined by league or conference guidelines for each respective club. University faculty/staff may participate in club activities as non-voting and non-office holding associate members.
3. Is there a fee for participation?
   Some clubs require payment of dues but some do not. Each club determines their own dues.
4. How do I go about creating a sport club?
   
   1. You will need to go through the Student Senate process of being recognized as a UW-Eau Claire organization and provide a copy of your "official recognition" letter to the Sport Clubs Coordinator.
   2. Provide a list of your club members, officers, club advisor, and coach (if applicable) to the Sport Clubs Coordinator.
   3. Provide a copy of your club's constitution to the Sport Clubs Coordinator.
   4. Complete an application to become a sport club and return it to the Sport Clubs Coordinator.
   5. Create a campus checking account through the UW-Eau Claire Business Office.
   6. You must appear before the Sport Clubs Advisory Council to apply for membership. Based on your presentation, they will make a recommendation on your club's acceptance to the Sport Club program.
5. When does the Sport Clubs Advisory Council Meet?
   They meet at 4:00 pm in the Hilltop Lounge on the first Wednesday of each month during the academic year.

Alpine Ski Team Baseball Bowling Cheerleaders & Stuntmen Dance Team Figure Skating

Hobnailers Outdoor Adventure Hwa Rang Do-Tae Soo Do Men's Lacrosse Men's Rugby Men's Soccer Men's Ultimate Frisbee

Men's Volleyball Two To Tango Water Ski Team Women's Lacrosse Women's Rugby Women's Ultimate Frisbee

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Alpine Ski Team

The UW-Eau Claire Alpine Ski Team provides members an opportunity to compete at the collegiate level in Alpine ski racing. It consists of both men's and women's teams in which everyone races. The team competes as a member of the USCSA, the United States Collegiate Ski Association. No racing experience is necessary to compete. Racing is the best way to improve your skiing, and provides an excellent opportunity to get out and ski.


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Baseball

The UW-Eau Claire Baseball Club offers individuals the opportunity to participate on a competitive baseball team, while fostering the values that keep all on the team content. Our goal is to play baseball and make the University proud.

See the Baseball club site for details.


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Bowling

The Bowling Club offers a variety of activities and benefits for bowlers of all skill levels. A major part of the Bowling Club is competitive bowling at the college level. We compete in a conference and a variety of tournaments, against some of the top teams in the country. The Bowling Club also has an on-campus league that is sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress. The club is a fun way to meet great people, improve your skills, or learn the sport of bowling.

See the Bowling club site for details.


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Cheerleaders & Stuntmen

The UW-Eau Claire Cheer & Stunt Team is a dedicated group of men and women with enthusiasm and school spirit. The group consists of two squads: The Sideline squad and the Competition squad. Both squads show their dedication, enthusiasm, and school spirit as they stunt, tumble, cheer, and dance. The Sideline squad cheers the Blugold football and basketball teams onto victory, while the Competition squad strides for victory on the blue mat against other college teams. Our main goal as the UW-Eau Claire Cheer & Stunt Team is to bring everyone's talent, hard work, and perseverance together to gain new skills and knowledge of cheerleading at the collegiate level. Tryouts are within the first couple weeks of September each fall, so keep an eye out for flyers around campus. We would love to have you join our team!

See the Cheer & Stunt Team club site for details.


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Dance Team

The UW-Eau Claire Blugold Dancers make up an organization designed to perform at sporting events, particularly basketball games. We perform a variety of styles of dance, such as pom, funk, and studio. During the course of the year we participate in a special school event: Homecoming. We also will have opportunities to compete against other college dance teams and we hold an annual high school dance team competition and clinic here at UW-Eau Claire. Try-outs are normally held in the fall (first few weeks of school), so look out for flyers which will display dates and times. The team members are hardworking, dedicated, and talented individuals who LOVE to dance!

See the Dance Team club site for details.


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Figure Skating

The purpose of this club is to encourage the participation and enjoyment of figure skating among students, faculty, and staff at UW-Eau Claire through events such as competitions, exhibitions, daily practice, and various social events. This club is also recognized by the USFSA as an official registered figure skating club with eligible status.


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Hobnailers Outdoor Adventure

Hobnailers is a fun-loving adventure club run by outdoor enthusiasts. The club's regular activities include rock climbing, rappelling, camping, backpacking, skiing, and skydiving. Anything goes with Hobnailers. All members are encouraged to help organize and run trips. If you love trying new things, being adventurous and a bit crazy, Hobnailers is for you. Watch the Hobnailers board in the main hallway of Davies Center and at the Hilltop Recreation Center for meeting times and trip schedules.

See the Hobnailers club site for details.


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Hwa Rang Do/Tae Soo Do

This club offers a truly unique experience in martial arts. Members experience many benefits including: flexibility, strength, endurance, confidence, friendship, and stress management. For members with no previous experience in martial arts, Tae Soo Do provides a rewarding program which gives a strong foundation of knowledge. For those with experience, Hwa Rang Do offers an intense study of this 1800 year old Korean art. Participants will receive weekly instruction in preparation for events such as belt exams and tournaments. We welcome all students, faculty, and staff to maximize their potential with us.

See the Hwa Rang Do/Tae Soo Do club site for details.


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Men's LaCrosse

Men's Lacrosse is a fast paced sport that involves hand-eye coordination, agility, speed, strength, and most of all, teamwork. The game has been around for centuries and the Eau Claire team is proud to be part of the progression and growth of this great game. The main season is in the spring but tournaments are also held in the fall and winter when possible. Anyone interested is welcome to come and continue their experience with the game or start a new one in this great and growing sport.

See the Men's Lacrosse club site for details.


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Men's Rugby

Our mission as the UW-Eau Claire Men's Rugby Club is to promote the sport of rugby at UW-Eau Claire and to field a team competitive at the collegiate level of USA Rugby through recruiting and regularly scheduled practicing. We strive to be the best team in the state and to continually compete on the national level. Our goal is to include in the club every male UW-Eau Claire student that is interested. Every member of the club is important and everyone will get a chance to compete week in and week out. The club will seek to continually improve by teaching the fundamentals and the correct way to play rugby. Teamwork is the ultimate goal, and everyone who joins the UW-Eau Claire Rugby Football Club will not only be part of a team, but part of a family.

See the Men's Rugby club site for more information.


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Men's Soccer

The men's soccer team is a highly competitive organization dedicated to enhancing the skill and level of the sport. The club is a member of the Midwest Alliance Soccer Conference (MASC), affiliated with Region 3 of the National Intramural and Recreation Sports Association (NIRSA). Within the MASC, the club is part of the Great Lakes Division, a 7-team league including UW-La Crosse, UW-Stout, UW-Steven's Point, UW-Oshkosh, Michigan Tech, and Northern Michigan universities. The club plays a 12 game conference schedule with a regional tournament bid being awarded to the winner of the division at the end of the season. Non-conference games against club teams from Minnesota and the surrounding region are also included throughout the season as well as a few games against college varsity teams. Tryouts are held the week before school starts and dates can usually be found on the website and around campus. We are always looking for new talent so come out and participate!


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Men's Ultimate Frisbee

Eau Zone Ultimate is a competitive outlet for athletes looking to find a new sport. We are open to any skill level of the game to come join the team. Ultimate is about having fun in an active atmosphere, and we strive to live up to the spirit of the game.

See the Ultimate Frisbee club site for more information.


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Men's Volleyball

The Volleyball Club is open to all men who have the skills necessary to compete in NIVC Competition. Teams are formed in the Fall and competition begins in the Spring Semester, concluding with the NIRSA Volleyball Sport Club Championships. The goal of this club is to provide a competitive atmosphere in which team members can improve individual skills as well as teamwork. New members are always encouraged to join.

See the Men's Volleyball club site for details.


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Two To Tango

Are you Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers waiting to be discovered? If you're not, don't worry! Be sure to join us at Two To Tango meetings on Sunday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the McPhee Dance Studio. Two To Tango is UW-Eau Claire's social dance club, open to all students and staff regardless of experience. With instruction provided by local dance instructors, club members are able to learn both the basics and more complex steps of many dance styles. While learning Swing, Waltz, and Latin rhythms, club members inevitably begin to feel more comfortable on a variety of dance occasions. If you plan on attending anything form a family wedding to UW-Eau Claire's Viennese Ball, make Two To Tango a part of your weekend.

See the Two To Tango club site for details.


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Water Ski Team

See the Water Ski Team site for details.


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Women's Lacrosse

Lacrosse is described by members of the UW-Eau Claire Women's Lacrosse team as "the most enjoyable sport they have every played." Maybe this is because it is competitive yet informal, fun yet serious, and, most of all, aggressive but not too painful. The team practices start with the spring semester and games usually start soon after spring break. As members of the Women's Collegiate Lacrosse League (WCLL), we get the opporunity to travel all over the Midwest and even to other countries to play. The sport itself is easy to aquire and even easier to improve at with practice. For anyone who is interested in playing on an amazing team, lacrosse is the sport for you.


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Women's Rugby

The UW-Eau Claire Women's Rugby Club gives women on campus a chance to compete in the exciting and unique sport of rugby. The rugby laws (rules) we play by are the same as those followed throughout the world by every rugby club, men and women. The game of rugby is a physical, fast moving, demanding, and most of all, a FUN sport. Rugby is a Fall and Spring sport. This year we are looking forward to the return of many of our veterans and the addition of rookies that are willing to give this sport a try. (It's okay, nobody knows anything about rugby until their first season.) Once you're hooked, you'll never turn back! So come and give rugby a try!

See the Women's Rugby club site for more details.


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Women's Ultimate Frisbee

The UWEC Women's Ultimate Frisbee Team is for any students and faculty who want to spend time being physically active, having fun, and meeting new people through playing Ultimate Frisbee. We practice two to three times a week year-round and attend four or five tournaments a semester, including one home tournament in the fall. We go by the name of "SOL," which means "sun" in Spanish, complementing the Eau Claire Men's atmosphere theme (EauZone), and means "Seven on the Line" in English, maintaining an Ultimate theme. Playing Ultimate with SOL is a great way to continue playing the sport you love or try an amazing new sport that you may have never heard of. Come check out a practice... new people are always welcome to join us! For more information, contact Nicole Heiman at heimannl@uwec.edu.

See the Ultimate Frisbee club site for more information.

DATE	EVENT/OPPONENT	TIMES	LOCATION	FIELD(S)	SPORT
4/9-4/13	NIRSA National	-	Dallas, TX	-	M. Volleyball
4/10/2008	UW-RF	7:30 PM	Eau Claire	BF#1	W. Lacrosse
4/11/2008	Marquette	7:00 PM	Eau Claire	Carson Park	Baseball
4/12/2008	Marquette-DH	10:00 AM	Eau Claire	Carson Park	Baseball
4/12/2008	Ironwoman Tournament	8:00 AM - 7:00 PM	Eau Claire	BF#3&4	W. Rugby
4/12/2008	North Dakota State	12:00 PM	Collegeville, MN	-	M. Lacrosse
4/12/2008	St. Thomas/Bethel	12:00 PM/1:30 PM	UWRF	-	W. Lacrosse
4/13/2008	St. Olaf/Hamline	10:30 AM/1:30 PM	UWRF	-	W. Lacrosse
4/13/2008	St. Thomas	12:00 PM	Collegeville, MN	-	M. Lacrosse
4/18-4/19	Northwestern		Chicago, IL	-	Baseball
4/18-4/20	EC Ice Show Guest Skaters	7 PM/7 PM/2 PM	Eau Claire	Hobbs	Figure Skating
4/18/2008	St. Johns	7:30 PM	Eau Claire	Carson Park	M. Lacrosse
4/19/2008	Tournament	10:00 AM - 4:00 PM	UWM	-	M. Rugby
4/19/2008	Whitewater Tournament	10:00 AM - 6:00 PM	Whitewater	-	W. Rugby
4/19/2008	Carleton	3:00 PM	St. Paul, MN	-	M. Lacrosse
4/20/2008	Bethel	1:00 PM	St. Paul, MN	-	M. Lacrosse
4/25/2008	UW-Milwaukee	7:00 PM	Eau Claire	Carson Park	Baseball
4/25/2008	Madison-Luck O' Draw	8:00 AM - 7:00 PM	Madison, WI	-	W. Rugby
4/25-4/27	Woodbury Guest Skaters	-	Woodbury, MN	-	Figure Skating
4/25-4/27	UMLL Playoffs	-	Blaine, MN	-	M. Lacrosse
4/26/2008	UW-Milwaukee-DH	10:00 AM	Eau Claire	Carson Park	Baseball
4/26/2008	Tournament	10:00 AM - 4:00 PM	St. Cloud, MN	-	M. Rugby
4/26/2008	Midwest Tournament	TBA	Madison, WI	-	HRD/TSD
5/2-5/4	Green Bay Guest Skaters	-	Green Bay	-	Figure Skating
5/3/2008	Border Battle	8:00 AM - 7:00 PM	Eau Claire	BF #3&4	M. Rugby
5/10/2008	Alumni Game	12:00 PM	Eau Claire	BF#3	M. Rugby
5/13-5/17	Nationals	-	Fort Worth, TX	-	M. Lacrosse

Download the Sport Club Handbook (Microsoft Word) Appendices Note: All files are in Microsoft Word format unless specified. A-1: Application and Sponsorship Guidelines A-2: Sport Club Application A-3: Sample Constitution Guide for Sport Clubs A-4: Policy and Guidelines Certification A-5: Agreement and Release Form A-6: Officer Roster A-7: Organization Officer Roster A-8: Student Organization Complex Space Application A-9: Parents/Guardians Consent and Release Form A-10: Anti-Hazing Policy A-11: Inventory Form B-1: Mid-Semester Report B-2: Annual Report B-3: Community Service Completion Form B-4: Incoming Officer Worksheet B-5: Outgoing Officer Worksheet C-1: Facility Use Request C-2: Reservations and Scheduling Information C-3: Field Supervisor's Phone Numbers C-4: Field Supervisor Position Description C-5: Field Supervisor's Daily Report C-6: Accident/Injury Report C-7: Bollinger Field Map C-8: Carson Park Football Stadium Policies and Procedures D-1: Travel Itinerary/Reimbursement Form E-1: Budget Information Sheet E-2: Budget Request & Major Event Revenues and Expenses E-3: Major Event Form F-1: Prospective/Participant Interest Form F-2: Donation Receipt for Community Donors F-4: Petition Form-Credibility Issues F-5: Audio/Video Editing Station