{"id":639,"date":"2019-03-09T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/03\/09\/201939quinnipiac-and-club-sports-are-affiliated-again\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:35:10","slug":"201939quinnipiac-and-club-sports-are-affiliated-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/03\/09\/201939quinnipiac-and-club-sports-are-affiliated-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinnipiac and club sports are affiliated again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">by Ross Lager<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:750.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:67.06666564941406%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image1.png\" alt=\"Photo by Shayla Colon\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image1.png\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image1.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"750x503\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Photo by Shayla Colon\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5c83f76beb393173c6db110f\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p>Photo by Shayla Colon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Club sports are officially affiliated with Quinnipiac University after many years of students pressing for this change &#8212; and they are thrilled about the decision. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Sophomore Kaye Paddyfote, a member and coordinator for the women\u2019s club lacrosse team, the Hamden Heroes, could not contain her excitement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI was in the Student Government Association (SGA) suite and I yelled really loud and jumped up and down,\u201d she said. \u201cI was so happy knowing that our school has heard us beg and plead for something and they finally approved of it.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Club sports initially lost affiliation with QU after the school was sued for violating Title IX. The case started in 2009 when the women\u2019s volleyball team felt they were treated unfairly. The 2013 consent decree mentions the violations QU committed, including not providing equal opportunities and financial support to female athletes and teams. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Quinnipiac was forced to comply with the consent decree that said women\u2019s athletic teams will receive the same attention and support the men\u2019s teams receive. QU had to maintain the women\u2019s sports fields and they could not eliminate the volleyball team or any other division one team. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Part D of the terms section in the consent decree reads, \u201cIf Quinnipiac sponsors or otherwise provides support to club sports teams during the term of this Consent Decree, it must allocate those opportunities on a gender equitable basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Following this, Quinnipiac sponsored no club sports in 2013-14. Since then, it has been an uphill battle for students to reacquire affiliation between QU and club sports. <\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Students were tasked with figuring out the logistics on their own to continue playing. The students funded the teams, they found places to practice and provided transportation themselves, all while trying to be an organized team to compete in games. Paddyfote mentioned these constant issues.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cSome of the struggles with being unaffiliated was having nowhere to practice and relying on a few girls who had cars to take us to games,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">President Judy Olian made the announcement on Tuesday, March 5, via twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Judy Olian is sending our students off on spring break with some great news \u2014 about key investments and initiatives we are embarking on in the coming months. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/61YjZJ9tkD\">pic.twitter.com\/61YjZJ9tkD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Quinnipiac University (@QuinnipiacU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuinnipiacU\/status\/1103045650927755265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Many students, along with the SGA, have spent time and effort to bring back club sports. SGA vice president Luke Ahearn mentioned that this journey started in 2015 and really gained momentum in 2017 from the efforts of Brandon Vattima, who wrote the proposal for the return of club sports to QU. <\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI followed up on his (Vattima\u2019s) efforts and we were feeling very positive coming into this year,\u201d he said. \u201cPresident Olian is very much in support of this and so we were all excited for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ahearn noted that this process just started, so many of the details are still unknown. The applications for the teams have not been sent out yet. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ahearn thinks the number of teams will be determined by how many women\u2019s club teams apply because it must be equal. He explained that it is an important decision for which teams will become affiliated. <\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cBy the end of March, every team should know if they are on campus or not,\u201d he said. \u201cIt&#8217;s not that we don\u2019t want every team to be on campus, its that we have to abide by Title IX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is major progress for club sports, especially for the Brave Hockey Club, New Blue Rugby and Sleeping Giants lacrosse team. The hockey club started in 2013, New Blue in 2005 and the lacrosse team in 2009 they have been playing for many years and are ready to play and practice on campus. <\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Paddyfote is hopeful that QU will provide the correct support and attention that club sports teams deserve.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI think they should pay for buses for away games, and provide us with space on campus to practice and actually hold home games,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ahearn spoke to the Quinnipiac Athletics Department briefly about the plan moving forward and he believes that it will provide \u201csome financial support\u201d and the players will have annual dues to pay. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">According to Ahearn, administrators are meeting next week to further discuss how to handle this process before the applications go out for club teams to fill out. <\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Associate Athletic Director of Intramurals, Mike Medina, confirmed that more information will soon be available for everyone. <\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cAll information pertaining to the new Club Sports Initiative will be distributed to the campus community in the coming weeks via social media platforms, including the application process,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Paddyfote can\u2019t wait to start playing on a club team that is affiliated with the university.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI&#8217;m looking forward to having matching uniforms with my team and an actual coach or a student-coach because we don&#8217;t have one and I think that would polish our team,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ahearn thinks that five or six club teams will be affiliated by next fall. Since he is also a member of New Blue Rugby, he has high hopes that the team will be playing their games on the QU pitch. <\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cNext fall, we\u2019d like to see New Blue Rugby play the inaugural club sport game, I would like to see that be the path we take,\u201d he said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">After Quinnipiac University\u2019s Title IX lawsuit and complying to a consent decree, the university will once again be affiliated with club sports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[323,241],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-club-sports","tag-quinnipiac-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}