Sigma Nu and Campus Recreation hosted their second Battleship event in Willett pool on Friday, March 21 at 4 p.m.
The event raised a total of $386 for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and over 85 people were involved in the battleship event. With 16 teams, it was a huge jump from last year’s six teams, which was the first year Battleship was ever hosted at Longwood University.
The event has a total of 11 heats. Each team automatically has the opportunity to play two games at the event and the final round involved four teams to play for the overall win, which went to the Club Soccer team.
Pool battleship consists of four teams competing with real canoes in Willett pool. Each team’s goal is to sink the other teams by using water buckets, soakers and shields to throw water into the other team’s boats. Each team can also have up to two team members poolside, to help sink the boat with soakers and buckets.
The brothers of Sigma Nu spent time tabling in Dorrill Dining Hall for two weeks prior to the event as well as contacting clubs and organizations and handing out flyers to recruit teams to get involved. It cost 20 dollars per team and each team was allowed to have four to six participants.
Junior Joseph Siverd said, “Honestly, I was surprised about how many teams signed up for the event. I was so excited to see all of the names on the list.”
The teams who participated varied from club sports to organizations, as well as fraternities and sororities. The logistics of the event were also very well planned and organized. After the sign up deadline on Thursday, March 20, the hosts of the event organized a bracket to facilitate the 16 teams. Sophomore Adam Fletcher said, “I thought that it was very fun and [a] great way to get to know people from other organizations and clubs.
It was a nice workout, too!” The main event was run by Sigma Nu's Community Service and Philanthropy Chairman Kosta Telegadas and the Assistant Director of Campus Recreation Marissa Musumeci. But behind the scenes, each member of Sigma Nu and employees of campus recreation put individual effort into the event in order to make it a success. The Outdoor Club also helped by donating canoes for the event.
Telegadas said, “It took the cooperation of our whole brotherhood of Sigma Nu, campus rec and every organization that participated. I couldn't have done it without everyone's full cooperation and promotion. We are beyond ecstatic to have such an awesome community to work with here at Longwood University.”
According to Sigma Nu, their relationship with Campus Recreation is very strong. Through participating in different campus recreation events and intramural sports, and after being inspired by other universities, they felt comfortable approaching them to partner up to sponsor the Battleship event for a good cause.
Siverd said, “We saw it was done at other schools, and it looked really fun so we thought it would be something that other people on campus would look forward to. We also thought it would be a fun way to raise money.”
Donations were also accepted at the event, which helped involve the participants and spectators more. The brothers of Sigma Nu and Campus Recreation are looking forward to putting on this event again next year.
