Spirit Points earned at Husky Challenge

Hands were covered in egg yolks and dizziness led to falls Wednesday as students competed for Husky Spirit Points at the Husky Homecoming Challenge outside Atwood Memorial Center.

Student groups could earn spirit points by attending athletic events and participating in other Homecoming events.

Teams with the most spirit points at the end of the week are eligible for prizes such as T-shirts, a private movie showing and a pizza party.

Michael Harwerth, along with other volunteers, was asked by Campus Recreation to come up with an activity student groups could perform to get spirit points.

The results were an obstacle course that groups of six or less could do as a relay and an egg toss competition.

“It’s been a blast so far watching people go through the obstacle course,” Harwerth said.

Parts of the obstacle course included throwing footballs through a hoop, bean bag toss, running through hurdles and throwing flying discs.

Janna Idzerda from the SCSU Concert Choir Group said she had a difficult time completing her part of the course after spinning around with her head on the end of a baseball bat.

“I knew that I should have been going the other direction but my feet were not paying attention to what my head was telling them,” Idzerda said. “People don’t usually think of people in choir as the most athletic people but we gave it a try.”

The egg toss competition was a task that could be completed by two members of a group. After each successful catch one member took another step backward.

Within one hour of the challenge, the egg toss record distance was 60 feet.

Guy and another group member came five feet from meeting the record before the egg broke in his hands.

Guy said he had hoped the egg would break on him rather than the other group member.

“You never get a chance to do this stuff all the time,” Guy said.

Ali Vranicar, a elementary education student also had a raw egg crack in her hands before reaching the 60-foot mark.

Vranicar and another group member, first-year student Laura Drays represented the Fourth Floor Holes Hall Girl’s Team by completing the egg toss and obstacle course together.

Drays said that she thought that the obstacle course and egg toss were her favorite ways of earning spirit points.

“This gets you more involved,” Drays said.

While Harwerth said that he was pleased with the turnout for the event, Drays said that she thought the event should have been planned for later in the day when more people would be done with class.

The Campus Recreation music van and zamboni were parked outside Atwood to draw the attention of more team members.

More groups showed up for the obstacle course later in the afternoon.

Different group members could come throughout the afternoon to earn more points for the team.