Griz Softball

[grizd]

Would rather see Hockey personally...

 

[Umista]

Womens hocky? Or ladies hockey?
My spell check? Lost it years ago.
If we do go this way we might end up with some very tough girls to hang with and of course add many more students to our dismal Engstrom decline...Girls need to have sports and become involved. Sports is the life blood of any school and when you add more female involvement many more young kids will want to come to our U. Young men will want to be here simply because of all the girls. Meanwhile back at the ranch...

 

[EverettGriz]

Wrestling programs took a beating with Title IV.

Hockey would be fantastic, but likely would eventually require a rink be built.

 

[grizd]

Missoula has a pretty decent rink. Seats around 2500 or so. There is a pretty big hockey presence in the youth now in Montana from what I can tell. Both boys and girls.

 

[The_Real_Chief]

Its to bad we didn't add a gymnastics team instead of a softball team.

 

[grizcountry420]

Missoula has a pretty decent rink. Seats around 2500 or so. There is a pretty big hockey presence in the youth now in Montana from what I can tell. Both boys and girls.

Missoula's Adult Hockey league is one of the biggest leagues in the Nation..

 

[EverettGriz]

Missoula has a pretty decent rink. Seats around 2500 or so. There is a pretty big hockey presence in the youth now in Montana from what I can tell. Both boys and girls.

Missoula's Adult Hockey league is one of the biggest leagues in the Nation..

So would it be difficult for UM teams to get ice time?

And TRC, just curious, why would you have preferred gymnastics to softball?

 

[grizd]

Missoula has a pretty decent rink. Seats around 2500 or so. There is a pretty big hockey presence in the youth now in Montana from what I can tell. Both boys and girls.

Missoula's Adult Hockey league is one of the biggest leagues in the Nation..

So would it be difficult for UM teams to get ice time?

And TRC, just curious, why would you have preferred gymnastics to softball?

Probably, but there's an outdoor rink as well. Don't think it's likely but would be great!

 

[EverettGriz]

Agreed! I'd LOVE hockey. But I think it will be either lacrosse (which UM has had some great club success with) or gymnastics, simply because facility costs would be low.

 

[grizcountry420]

Missoula has a pretty decent rink. Seats around 2500 or so. There is a pretty big hockey presence in the youth now in Montana from what I can tell. Both boys and girls.

Missoula's Adult Hockey league is one of the biggest leagues in the Nation..

So would it be difficult for UM teams to get ice time?

And TRC, just curious, why would you have preferred gymnastics to softball?

Probably, but there's an outdoor rink as well. Don't think it's likely but would be great!

Rec games start 6:15pm and the last game doesnt start until 11:30pm

 

[UMGriz75]

Agreed! I'd LOVE hockey. But I think it will be either lacrosse (which UM has had some great club success with) or gymnastics, simply because facility costs would be low.

Interestingly, on the terra cotta reliefs that decorate Schreiber gym (1922), LaCrosse bats are included as traditional American collegiate sports.

Wrestling, swimming and gymnastics are all considered foundation individual sports at the collegiate level. UM was always very successful in all three sports. Softball is not nearly so "traditional" since, like basketball, its origins postdate the founding of key influential American universities where the patterns for offered sports were first set. UM even had a "Crew" club until a few years ago when the loss of Milltown Reservoir made practice untenable.

UM had a wonderful ice rink, that was constructed alongside the Field House, when the "new" swimming pool was also built. In that building, the east half was the swimming pool, where it now is, and the west half was a covered ice skating rink with ice equipment that could keep an ice surface nearly 5 months of the year.

That ice rink is now the "Art Annex" and the old 1922 Swimming Pool still exists intact, a priceless museum quality example of Romanesque swimming pools of that era, and as the annex to Schreiber Gym, now covered with a false floor and used, poorly, for adjunct drama classes and storage of junk.

 

[grizd]

Agreed! I'd LOVE hockey. But I think it will be either lacrosse (which UM has had some great club success with) or gymnastics, simply because facility costs would be low.

Interestingly, on the terra cotta reliefs that decorate Schreiber gym (1922), LaCrosse bats are included as traditional American collegiate sports.

Wrestling, swimming and gymnastics are all considered foundation individual sports at the collegiate level. Softball is not nearly so "traditional" since, like basketball, its origins postdate the founding of key influential American universities where the patterns for offered sports were first set. UM even had a "Crew" club until a few years ago when the loss of Milltown Reservoir made practice untenable.

UM had a wonderful ice rink, that was constructed alongside the Field House, when the "new" swimming pool was also built. In that building, the east half was the swimming pool, where it now is, and the west half was a covered ice skating rink with ice equipment that could keep an ice surface nearly 5 months of the year.

That ice rink is now the "Art Annex" and the old Swimming Pool still exists intact, as the annex to Schreiber Gym, now covered with a false floor and used, poorly, for adjunct drama classes and storage of junk.

Good historical information. I always thought the 75 was the year you graduated. Now I think it was your age when you signed up. Let's see, signed up in 2011, now 2016. I am guessing if you signed up today your name would be UMGriz80. :lol:

 

[grizcountry420]

:lol: :lol:

 

[UMGriz75]

Good historical information. I always thought the 75 was the year you graduated. Now I think it was your age when you signed up. Let's see, signed up in 2011, now 2016. I am guessing if you signed up today your name would be UMGriz80. :lol:

LOL. It feels like it. I took my first classes on campus in the summer of 1963. I entered Graduate Skool in 1975.

 

[dupuyer griz]

At state wrestling they established a committee of high school coaches willing to help MSU start wrestling back up. Apparently, they are looking to add women's soccer and that would be how they could get it back in. Hopefully the opportunity for UM wrestling will come back as well. Also, women's wrestling is gaining ground in many areas around the country and is a great opportunity for the college to think about.

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

At state wrestling they established a committee of high school coaches willing to help MSU start wrestling back up. Apparently, they are looking to add women's soccer and that would be how they could get it back in. Hopefully the opportunity for UM wrestling will come back as well. Also, women's wrestling is gaining ground in many areas around the country and is a great opportunity for the college to think about.

Great...another sport for us to beat their asses in.

 

[Mavman]

If MSU does not have womens soccer or softball , what sports do they offer females for title nine compliance?

 

[dupuyer griz]

If MSU does not have womens soccer or softball , what sports do they offer females for title nine compliance?

Heifer grazing

 

[KoolMoeDee]

If MSU does not have womens soccer or softball , what sports do they offer females for title nine compliance?

Skiing.

Male to female ratio is also important when talking about Title IX or FBS.

 

[EverettGriz]

If MSU does not have womens soccer or softball , what sports do they offer females for title nine compliance?

Skiing.

Male to female ratio is also important when talking about Title IX or FBS.

Yes, but you offer men's skiing as well, no?

And yes, the campus M to F ratio does matter. But I would think that MSU would be getting very close to needing to add a women's only sport to stay compliant.