10 E: l : E :E a sports@technew5iit_com TechNews | Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 Scarlet Hawks Women's Soccer kicks off with live sports broadcasts from WIIT Reno Waswil TECHNEWS WRITER Scarlet Hawks soccer has officially started, and now, you can hear some of the games this season announced on WIIT 88.9 FM Chicago. Tuesday, September 1, marked the women’s soccer tearn’s first season game against the Benedictine Eagles, and IIT student and WIIT Sports Announcer Uriel Duran, with . the help of Paula Gonzalez, started their remOte broadcast to the station from Smart Field at 7:00 pm, as well as used the commentary from that broadcast to pair with the Illinois Tech Athletics Department’s Boxcast video stream of that game, which can be found on their website. Illinois Tech’s extremely helpful new Sports Information Director Luke Stanczyk has been working with WIIT all summer to ensure HTahn Reno Waswil TECHNEWS WRITER The IIT Athletics Department announced in late July that, in addition to their current variety of men’s varsity sports that they offer to students, a men’s volleyball team will be added to the list for the upcoming winter/spring volleyball season. As of last year, though volleyball was an option for male students to join, participation was only limited to that of a club sport. Joe Hakes, Athletics Director of the university, explained that the difference with a varsity sport is its adherence to a specific system of rules and regulations mandated by a centralized body, and in this case, that body would be the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Much more commitment is required and expected from the players in a varsity sport as opposed to a club sport as season practices are, as Hakes puts it, “basically every day that we don’t play.’ ’ Another important difference between club and varsity sports from the school’s perspective is that in the varsity case, OQQOIOOOQGOQCOO ' lllnnwus UPDATE “COCOOOOflfifififlflflOOOO.GGOOOQGOOOOOOOOOOfleOOOOODOOOOGQ000680 FRESH” Become w Teews (Mite/v QWWW the success of these games, and was present in the Stuart Field press stand for the length of the game monitoring the audio and video quality while WIIT Events Director Reno Waswil was present in the station monitoring the stream. During this match, BenU attempted 27 with eight in the last 20 minutes of the first half alone, while Illinois Tech only attempted seven all game. Of the 27 shots attempted by Benedictine, 15 of them were on goal, 14 of which were saved by the Hawks’ impressive goalie Roxanne Myers, and one of which scored to bring the final score of the game to 1-0 Eagles. That game-winning shot by Benedictine was made with 12 minutes left in the second half by Taylor Pokorny, who kicked six of the 27 attempted shots, from 20 yards out. Pokorny only attempted one less shot than the leader of the game Zoie Holloway, who shot seven. Of the seven shots by the Hawks, only three were on goal, one made by Adrianna Maron, one by Jessica Park, and one by Alyssa DeLuca. Anida Petchanpheng remained the leader from the Hawks’ side though, attempting three of those seven shots, most of which took place in the first half. BenU held the ball pretty consistently throughout the second half of the game, only allowing the Hawks to attempt two shots during that period. Despite this loss, the Hawks went on to win their next game on Friday, September 4 against Trine 1-0, the winning shot being made by Sarah Maciorowski in the second half. Then, on Labor Day Monday, WIIT was lucky enough to, with the help of commentators Tony Patlan and Steven Rojas, announce and broadcast the Hawks’ third home game in a row against the Adrian University Bulldogs, which they lost 1-0 with a goal scoring shot in the 29th minute by Mackenzie Wilcox. By the time of the release of this paper on Tuesday, September 15, the women’s soccer team has played Muskingum Fighting Muskies on Friday, September 11, and the Cole College Kohawks on Sunday, September 13, for two more home games as. part of the Scarlet Hawk Classic weekend. The scores, schedules, rosters, brief recaps, and video along with WIIT’s audio recordings of these and all the Scarlet Hawks’ games can also be found at the athletics departments website Let this reporter conclude by looking forward to another great year of Scarlet Hawks sports, WIIT broadcasts, and TechNews recaps! ounces new Varsity Men's Volleyball Team there is an expectation that the coaches of the sports will recruit students to join the teams, which leads into the question of what factors led to the addition of this sport to the varsity lineup in the first place? Volleyball is a Division 111 sport within the NCAA, the division IIT has been transitioning into for the past two or so years according to current IIT women’s volleyball team student-athlete Elizabeth Waltman. According to the association’s website, this division is primarily for student-athletes for whom academics remain the primary focus of their collegiate experience, and therefore, the conflict with their academics is minimized. There is also the important distinction that students-athletes are not allowed to receive athletic scholarships in Division III programs, which was a different case under the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the association in which IIT was previously. According to Hakes, the new team will “Widen [IIT’s] sports profile to get our profile more solidly into Division III and into a conference.” The Athletic Department made the Men's Soccer vs. Wisconsin Lutheran 7 pm. Women's Soccer @ North Park 7 pm. Saturday, September 19 Cross Country @ Wheaton College 10 a.m. N Wednesday, September 16 decision to establish a volleyball team believing that the interest in the sport and the opportunity it offers the school for recruitment purposes is large enough justify it. I asked Hakes what it was about this particular sport that compelled the department to graduate it from club to varsity status instead of 'other sports on campus with club status. He says that in furthering their goal of becoming more competitive in the division, men’s volleyball is a relatively new addition, allowing the department to get ahead on recruitment and ensure that they hold a dominant position in the program. Though not all current club sports would further the department in this goal, he did remark that tennis is also a Division 111 sport that they may consider creating a varsity team for in the future. In our dialogue, I asked whether he thought that general interest for the sport was on the rise and he confirmed that it was, particularly at schools in the Midwest. In fact, the National Championship last year (which was made up of a combination of Division I and Division 11 schools) saw two Midwestern Women's Volleyball @ Knox 11 a.m. Men‘s Soccer vs. Coe College 11 a.m. Women's Volleyball Homecoming Tri-Match 12 pm. Women's Soccer vs. Maranatha Baptist 1 pm. editor@technewsiit.com 0.0.000000080890000639000800000.608089i006909390fi00900.00 schools, Loyola and Lewis, face off against each other, with Loyola emerging triumphant in the end. “This,” said Hakes, “will give us a chance to play some good young programs as we develop ours.” I also spoke with Head Coach Katie Zulandt about the September 2 open tryouts and the upcoming schedule of practices and games. A total of 23 people tried out for the team, 15 of which were chosen to be kept for the team. According to Zulandt, “Some were players who played on the club last year, but many were brand new.” As this new team prepares for their first game scheduled for January 15 against Lakeland College, pre—season practice will start in November and go up to a week before finals weelc The first in-season practice will begin on January 3, giving them a total of 12 days to practice before that critical season opener, which I hope everyone reading will find time to attend or listen in live on WIIT 88.9FM. Women's Volleyball @ Augustana 2 pm. Sunday, September 20 Men's Soccer vs. Blackburn 1 pm. Wednesday, September 23 Women's Soccer vs. Alverno 7 pm. oaeeoeeeeeeeeeo