Busy Day

Saturday: Two rugby games and a judo tournament. Friday afternoon WWU's Judo Club (Club meaning club sport, an official sport of WWU, on the same level as rugby) got together to put together the Washington State Judo Championship being held in the Wade King Student Recreation Center. We had to take down a small wall that protects the bleachers from the court and move the practice mats onto the floor. Because we didn't own enough mats another judo dojo a few miles away brought up some of their mats. The men's rugby team came and sped the process up by helping us move mats into their proper places and quickly bringing mats in from cars outside. We were working on set up from about 4-8PM.

Then bright and early Saturday morning I arrive at 8:30 to offer a little last minute support before weigh ins start and before I had to be out on the field for rugby warm up.

9:30AM- Head out to the turf field to set up for the rugby game and begin warm up.

11 AM- Kickoff against UW. I didn't play in this game, but it was a good one to watch, we won with a score of approximately 30-7

12:30PM- run off to get some lunch to scarf before heading back to the rec center to see how the tournament is going. I arrive in time to see the tournament change from the kids to adults. A few minutes before I had to leave, my friend has a match that he wins in the first ten seconds!

2PM- warm up for the game against Oregon State

3PM- Kickoff. It quickly becomes clear that we are not going to win. OSU is a Division I team, and thus tends to have better sports teams. While we have tied them twice this season our hearts just weren't in it on Saturday and we lost by a considerable amount.

4:30 PM- End of the regular game play and my part is done. We're playing a third half but I'm not in it so I go back to the Rec Center. I arrive shortly after that tournament ends to discover that one friend won his division, and the one I saw win in a few seconds got third! State Champions!!! I also arrived at the perfect time to help clean up. And that's what I was doing until 8PM.

After cleaning, the three of us students that stuck around through the whole clean up (and didn't have significant others to make dinner for us: D-) went out to Denny's where we ate ourselves sick (or just about).

Sunday was a big day of nothing. Nice and chill. I hope to be participating in the next nearby Judo tournament. I've was given crap all Saturday for not participating in this one. I'll be up for promotion soon too! From white belt to green belt. :) Though as my senseis like to say: Unless you're a black belt, you're a white belt.