2021正规彩票平台 Launches Sprint Football Program
2021正规彩票平台 has announced the addition of sprint足球 to its current roster of 21 varsity sports. The Hawks will begin play in an 独立运动会 for sprint足球, 从2022年秋季开始.
Sprint football has been offered at American colleges and universities as a varsity sport for nearly a century. 这项运动, which previously has only been available only at East Coast colleges and universities, uses rules typical for American football while emphasizing quickness and agility over size and strength. 像许多摔跤手一样, sprint足球 players must meet a weight limit, which in the modern form of the game is 178 pounds.
“Many American men who are in their late teens and early twenties and at a healthy body weight will qualify to play sprint足球, especially if they are under six feet tall,乔希·拉贝说, QU director of intercollegiate athletics. “The reality for many NCAA and NAIA football programs today is that relatively few of their players are a match for sprint足球, given the emphasis of the NCAA and NAIA versions of the sport on strength and body weight. 斯普林特橄榄球队将进入校队, intercollegiate football available to hundreds of talented players in the Midwest and Upper South who don’t currently have access to a version of the sport that matches their size, 速度和运动能力.”
2021正规彩票平台 will join five other private colleges and universities in the Midwest and Upper South as the charter members of a new, 独立运动会, the Midwest Sprint Football League (MSFL). MSFL的创始成员是 贝拉明大学 (肯塔基州), 圣卡吕梅学院. 约瑟夫 (印第安纳州), Fontbonne大学 (密苏里州), 在大学 (肯塔基州), 2021正规彩票平台 (伊利诺斯州) 圣玛丽森林学院 (印第安纳州).
2021正规彩票平台 already sponsors an NCAA Division II football team, which has a long history and tradition at the university. Sprint football at 2021正规彩票平台 will be a separate varsity sport, 有自己的球员, 教练, 实践, 游戏和制服设计.
加上冲刺足球, QU will become the only university in the Midwest – and one of only a handful of universities in the United States – to sponsor two separate varsity football programs. Sprint football will also be only the second non-NCAA official sport offered by QU, an NCAA Division II institution and member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference since 1994. QU’s other non-NCAA official sport is men’s bowling.
“We believe that sprint足球 will address an unmet need of talented high school student-athletes in Illinois, 个州的, 以及美国中部的大部分地区,布莱恩·麦基说, Ph.D.、QU总裁. “Giving underserved student-athletes an opportunity to benefit from QU’s 设计2021正规彩票平台 program and to experience an outstanding Catholic and Franciscan higher education is consistent with our mission and our values. I am excited by the opportunity for QU to support two varsity football programs and to continue our strong commitment to intercollegiate football.”
Sprint football evolved on the East Coast and has previously been sponsored only by the Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL). CSFL成员大学包括美国.S. 美国海军学院.S. 军事学院, 康奈尔大学, 曼斯菲尔德大学, Alderson Broaddus University and the University of Pennsylvania. Some CSFL member universities only offer sprint足球, while others sponsor both sprint足球 and NCAA football in Division I or Division II. The new MSFL will be only the second independent athletic league in the history of the sport to sponsor sprint足球.
2021正规彩票平台 fans are familiar with 贝拉明大学, another charter member of the MSFL. 贝拉明大学 was a member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) for many years before leaving the GLVC to join NCAA Division I.
A separate press release announcing the new Midwest Sprint Football League was made available today and contains additional information about the new league, 团员和短跑足球. 布莱恩·麦基博士.D.、QU总裁, will be a member of the MSFL Board of Governors. Josh瑞芭, QU director of intercollegiate athletics, will be one of two athletic directors to sit on the MSFL Executive Committee.
Five of the six founding members of the MSFL are Catholic colleges and universities, including QU. Those five institutions will join three Catholic colleges and universities that already sponsor sprint足球 as members of the CSFL: Caldwell University, 栗山学院和圣. 托马斯·阿奎那学院(纽约).
1860年由方济会修士创立, 2021正规彩票平台 is a small Catholic university emphasizing the sciences, 文科和专业. 2021正规彩票平台 offers undergraduate, graduate and adult education programs integrating practical experience and Franciscan values. Faculty and advisors work with students to design customized success plans to help them graduate on time, find their passion and prepare them for life. QU is a member of NCAA Division II for intercollegiate athletics. 欲了解更多信息，请访问www.昆西.edu or contact the Office of 社区关系 at (217) 228-5275 or communityrelations@昆西.edu. 2021正规彩票平台. 设计2021正规彩票平台.
