Intramural sports
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The term intramural is most commonly associated with sports teams organized within a school. The term means inside the walls, indicating that matches are conducted with members of the same school (as opposed to varsity teams who compete with other schools). Other usages include the more informal intramurals, or simply recreational sports.
Because the teams are usually informal, the matches are often light-hearted competition, though the sport culture may vary from institution to institution. The games and recreational activities are organized within the walls of a school, building upon the skills learned in physical education classes. Activities are conducted less formally and separately from varsity athletics. Often these programs are administered by students themselves under the supervision of a faculty sponsor. Intramural sports are found from the elementary school level through college level. College programs often constitute an autonomous administrative unit on campus with their own facilities and staff.
Intramural activities may sometimes extend beyond the walls of the institution. Such "extramural" activities can include everything from sports clubs which compete with other clubs off campus to play days that integrate students from different schools into competition/participation units.
The National Intramural Recreational Sports Association, a professional organization based in Corvallis, Oregon, provides a network of more than 4,000 highly trained professionals, students and Associate Members in the recreational sports field throughout the United States, Canada and other countries. (See National Intramural Recreational Sports Association [link]) In most of the world outside North America, sports scholarships and college sports on the North American model do not exist so the distinction between college and intramural sports has no relevance and is not made.
Popular sports
Popular intramural sports include, in no particular order[[Citing sources citation needed]]:
References
C. Jensen & S. Overman. Administration and Management of Physical Education and Athletic Programs. 4th edition. Waveland Press, 2003 (Chapter 14, "Intramural Recreation").D. Wade & S. Mayhew ''Everything I know about Intramurals, I learned from Gary Cahen (1st edition, Iota Press, 2005.)
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