Rowan Campus Rec

ZumbaThon October commences the annual, month long Breast Cancer awareness campaign. Rowan Campus Recreation has partnered up with The Christina S. Walsh Foundation, a local charity that helps to provide financial aid and comfort to both breast cancer patients and their families. This foundation was established in 2004 in honor and memory of Christina Walsh, who lost her fight with breast cancer at just the young age of 32. Dealing with the illness herself for a course of 2 1/2 years, Christina vowed to help families and patients struggling with financial difficulty. Unfortunately, her vision wouldn’t be carried out in her lifetime. But through her ambition to create and grow an organization from just a beginning balance of $400, it would potentially financially aid many families struggling through the complexities of breast cancer. The Christina S. Walsh Foundation aims to help families in the US. While many other organizations and companies raise money that goes towards breast can...

Sport Club Highlight: Quidditch Born out of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of books and movies, Quidditch is a magical sport full of flying broom sticks and floating hoops; but in recent years it has taken on a whole new life on college campuses. Since 2005, Quidditch has been adapted from the books and movies into a real life sport, quickly becoming popular on college campuses and it just keeps growing. Today there are hundreds of college Quidditch clubs, a major college Quidditch championship every year, and now there is even a professional league. But how is Quidditch played in the real world? Quidditch is played on an oval shaped section of a standard football field that is set up similar to a game of capture the flag with two teams zones and a neutral zone in the center. There are three hoops on each end with the center one standing taller then the other two. These serve as goals for each team. Field Diagram There are three different “bal...