Street Soccer is an event where UR soccer players organize pickup games for children in Richmond the last Friday of every month.
A UR alumna, Julia Baer, who graduated in 2015, will be participating in the 2020 Quidditch World Cup.
Next year will be the first time that funding for sports clubs will be awarded based on a three-tiered system.
The University of Richmond club baseball team defeated VCU 17-2 and 11-5 in a doubleheader at Pitt Field on April 5.
Esports is gaining solid footing as an established community within the Richmond community, reflecting a national trend.
The Richmond Spidermonkeys defeated the country’s top-ranked Air Force Afterburn last weekend in Bermuda Run, North Carolina.
When crew held elections for its executive officer positions, a pair of first-year students were the only ones who ran for the top two roles.
The UR club swimming team hosted its first meet on campus against Virginia Commonwealth University in the Capital Cup on Nov. 17.
The University of Richmond archery club is working to keep attendance up and increase funds to keep the club alive.
Archery – yes, archery – baseball and track and field are all being added as new club sports.
There's a new, hotshot broom sport, and frankly, it's a lot more exciting to watch. Lifted straight from the pages of the popular Harry Potter series, Quidditch is now an official club sport at more than 300 universities and high schools in the U.S., according to the website of the International Quidditch Association, the sport's governing body.
Members of the Sport Club Council for the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness adopted a classification system last year to provide financial resources more equitably to clubs at various levels of competition, participation and financial need. The number of sport clubs at the university has increased from 15 to about 34 during the last four years, said Seth Thomas, assistant director for sports.
University support and camaraderie are important to the continued progress of the University of Richmond club rugby teams, said men's coach Carl Schmitt and women's coach Davis Theakston. Schmitt said he credited the consistent success of the men's rugby program to the fact that there were a lot of good student athletes at Richmond, and that they responded well to an established program.
