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The Blend is Wheaton College’s only co-ed acappella group. We sing an assortment of music from Billy Joel, Third-Eye Blind and Incubus to classic holiday carols. Our main goal is to provide an avenue for men and women to sing acappella together, share our love of music and provide entertainment for the campus and local community. Our main events include, but are not limited to, a Fall and Spring Jam open to the public, performances for the incoming freshman during orientation, and performing at Relay for Life. We also perform regularly at other colleges on the east coast.

The purpose of club soccer is to provide people with an opportunity to play competitive soccer without the commitment of the school team. It is open to both guys are girls who share a passion for soccer and enjoy playing it in their spare time. The club soccer team’s primary activity has been practices during the week and entering into public leagues to play games. Last year the practices were far more frequent than this year, where limited time in the gym has inhibited the team’s ability to practice. Despite frequent negotiations with representatives the club was unable to make serious progress regarding getting adequate gym time to practice regularly like we did last year. This has been a major setback in the club soccer team this year, but is something that can be worked on and hopefully be improved in the short and long term goals of the club. As mentioned above, the team enters itself into public leagues and plays games during the week. Traditionally we take about 10-12 people, adequate for 2 lines worth in the game. This has been a tremendous amount of fun and something the club very much enjoys doing, and something that should definitively be continued in the future.

The purpose of the Club Softball team is to provide an alternate environment for playing softball that is less strenuous than the Varsity team but more serious than intramural softball. To play on a varsity team is a large commitment, with club softball you get to play the game you enjoy, but with a much smaller commitment. The Club started in the fall of 2006 and as of right now the team only practices and has games during the spring semester. We try to practice at least twice a week, starting out in Clark and then moving to the practice field. Practices are not mandatory, but we encourage everyone to come because they are a lot of fun. Currently the Club doesn’t have a coach and in our first season the whole team ran the practices. We want to encourage players of all abilities to come play, to have fun and to bond together as a team. Home games are going to be played on the Mansfield Recreation field, right down the road from Wheaton.

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The Wheaton College Equestrian Team is affiliated with the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (hereafter IHSA). The IHSA was founded on the principle that any college student should be able to participate in horse shows regardless of financial status or riding level. Emphasis is on learning, sportsmanship, and fun. Competition plays a role but the students’ enthusiasm and team spirit are the major factors. The objective of IHSA competition is to offer an opportunity to show to riders in their first years of riding and to those with show experience.
The Wheaton Equestrian team participates in roughly 6 horse shows in the Fall and 3 in the Spring. Our largest event is the horse-show we co-host for the region with Stonehill University. In the Spring riders also compete in finals at the regional, zone and national level. We practice once a week at a farm in Smithfield, Rhode Island.

Contact:
hislop_molly@wheatonma.edu

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The Wheaton College Club Field Hockey Team consists of a group of individuals of all different skill levels who come together as a team. The team practices in both the fall and spring seasons and travels to play games against a number of local schools throughout the fall season and also hosts a few home games. In the spring, the team travels to Maryland to participate in a tournament where other club field hockey teams gather from all around the country. This team organizes events, such as spaghetti suppers and fundraisers to form relationships among members of the team and help develop a strong sense of team unity. This club aims to establish an environment where everyone feels included and most importantly wants to have fun. Everyone works together to improve their skills and to make this a club that people are proud to say they are a part of.

The Gentlemen Callers (the GC’s) were founded as the College’s only all-male a Capella group in 1988. For 20 years, we have performed a wide variety of music in a myriad of venues. Our repertoire is a blend of popular songs, jocular ditties, and traditional pieces.
The group now has an enrollment of 14 members. All male students are invited to audition for the group. The selection process is competitive and thorough. Group enrollment fluctuates based on the available talent. In terms of the group’s voice-part composition, we have a policy to select quality voices, be they tenors, baritones, or basses.
Over the course of an academic year, the GCs perform in two jams, appear as musical guests at nearby colleges, record a CD, engage in for-profit performances, and perform in charity events.
To learn our repertoire and achieve a self-imposed high standard of quality, the GC’s rehearse for about eight hours every week. These rehearsals are lead by our two Pitchpipes, the musical directors of the group. These officers serve as the rehearsal leaders and music arrangers. A Social Coordinator organizes group bonding and outings. Our Business Manager acts as the club treasurer. And our President provides broad leadership to the group.
The GCs are a club committed to camaraderie through music, quality performances, and the promotion of musicianship. We are grateful to the SGA funding that allows the group to thrive on campus.

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The purpose of the Men’s Rugby club is for club members to train and compete in division three rugby. Founded in 1998 by a small group of Wheaton students, the club has grown and flourished since then. In the fall season, we narrowly lost the New England D-III championship match, and thus a berth in the national tournament, but we are looking ahead to an exciting spring season. We play a full season in the fall, complete with playoffs. We play a shorter season in the spring that culminates in the “Beast of the East” tournament, and the “Alumni Game”, a recent tradition. There are over 25 students who practice five days a week in all sorts of conditions, with, or without a coach, all to further a sport we love. We play several home games a season, advertise them heavily, and it is not uncommon for us to have 50 plus spectators.

The purpose of the Outdoors Club is to provide comprehensive outdoors activities to the Wheaton Community. We strive to lead at the minimum of a trip a month, with a wide variety of different activities offered. All of our trips are open to the Wheaton Community and are publicized through our listserv, which has several hundred members. This year, the Outdoors Club has gone backpacking in New Hampshire, bouldering in Massachusetts, winter hiking in Vermont, and arranged multiple climbing trips to an indoor gym near Wheaton. In addition to these trips, we have a full docket for the spring. Furthermore, we offer clinics on how to use gear safely and efficiently, and every year offer a CPR or Wilderness First Aid certification course at little cost to the Wheaton Community.

The Outdoors Club strives to be inclusive in all of our activities, and we reimburse students for gas and food for any trip taken, as long as the trip was open to any student, and was advertised appropriately.

Relay For Life this past year has undergone some significant changes. We have taken on the American Cancer Society’s cancer education model for colleges by referring to our club as Colleges Against Cancer, which then includes planning such events as Breast Cancer Awareness Week, The Great American Smokeout, Daffodil Days and of course, Relay For Life. This spring semester we have kicked into full gear in planning this year’s Relay For Life to be taking place Friday April 4—Saturday April 5. We have changed venues so that the entire Relay will be taking place in Haas Athletic Center and in doing this we hope to increase our participation, as well as, encourage those who volunteer to stay the entire duration of the event. We are also in the beginning processes of coordinating our Daffodil Days sales, which is the American Cancer Society’s second largest fundraiser.

The Wheaton College Sailing Club is an organization devoted to teaching sailing skills and employing those skills in a competitive setting. The Sailing Club is open to all members of the Wheaton Community, regardless of ability. We meet for practice three times per week at Lake Massapoag in Sharon, MA. We also compete in NEISA (New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association) sponsored regattas, which occur regularly on weekends during both fall and spring semesters. We currently own six operational Technical Dinghies and are permitted use of Sharon Recreational Department’s twelve Club 420s. Our goals for this semester and beyond are to increase student participation, as well as attending competitive events and performing well at regattas during the semester.

The Wheaton Ski and Board Club is dedicated to making it easier for Wheaton’s skiers and riders to access the mountains. Given Norton, Massachusetts’ location, the accessibility of skiing for Wheaton College students is difficult and expensive. We overcome this problem by planning trips, executing trips, and, in some cases, providing cost subsidies. Wheaton has a large population of snow sports enthusiasts who, for various reasons, cannot get to the mountains. Our club provides transportation, lodging, and food, so that Wheaton students can more easily enjoy the outdoors. Additionally, the Ski and Board Club, by running overnight trips, provides an excellent, cleaner alternative to campus weekend life.

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TRYBE is a multicultural dance group with an emphasis on hip-hop. Our goal is to enlighten the Wheaton community through multicultural and hip-hop dancing. By doing so we hope to expose the Wheaton campus to aspects of potentially unfamiliar cultures through performance, and specifically dance. We hold auditions at the beginning of each school year. We are often asked to perform at cultural events, talent shows, and fundraisers both at Wheaton and elsewhere. However, our main event is the annual TRYBE Gala. This gala is a three-night full stage production where we get to display all the hard work we’ve been doing in Weber theatre in the Watson Fine Arts Building. We often ask other dance groups on campus to perform in our gala to further promote our goal of culturally enriching the Wheaton community.

Contact:
muller_emily@wheatonma.edu
suzaki_sayaka@wheatonma.edu

It has been a building semester for Wheaton Ultimate, coming under new leadership and with the addition of a core group of experienced freshman players. The club has had an exciting semester, retaining more active members than ever before. We have held well-attended practices three times a week and competed in five tournaments, including “Brisk Winds” URI, two Wheaton Lemony Fresh Tournaments, “Red November” Hampshire College, Bridgewater State, and “Get Ho Ho Ho” on Cape Cod. With increased membership, interest and dedication to the sport of Ultimate, we attended more tournaments per semester than we have in the past four years. Ultimate Frisbee has gone through a major transition semester and has high hopes for the future. Our goals for spring are to attend four tournaments and to host a small tournament at Wheaton. We aim to retain our current members and to continue to build a stronger, more competitive team of experienced players for the future.

VUJ is the only Gospel/R&B group on the Wheaton College campus. We are rather dedicated to performing at various events and functions around campus and the community. VUJ would also like to look into recording this spring, which would make this our second recording year in a row. One of our members has been organizing a trip where we will be able to perform along side a well-known songwriter and get feedback for our group. With this in mind, we are still looking for ways to reach out more to the community, learn more music for the future, and still manage to have fun.

Events:
MIT Gospel Extravaganza on April 5th
Men of Color Conference on April 12th

The Wheatones, the oldest a cappella group on campus, is a group of talented women who work together as musicians. Together we arrange, prepare, and perform songs that are musically challenging and pleasing to both the group and the audience. We are very eclectic in style; some of the genres we sing from are pop, folk, jazz and ska. We perform regularly on campus at a variety of events, including our own major performance once per semester. We also bring our performances to the communities surrounding Wheaton—we love singing at local schools, libraries, and nursing homes. The Wheatones are part of a broader a cappella community as well; we often travel throughout Massachusetts and perform at other colleges and we also host groups from other schools here at Wheaton. The Wheatones record every year and release a new CD every two years with our original arrangements. We hold auditions once a semester and are always looking for new members!

The Wheaton Whims are an all female acappella group with the goals of (1) bringing women who love to sing together to do something that they enjoy, (2) providing the campus with two enjoyable ‘jams’, or shows, each year as well as numerous smaller shows for special on campus events and benefits, (3) to travel to other schools and sing with other groups and to invite other groups to sing at Wheaton, and (4) to produce a CD of our music to sell to our fans every two years. The budgeting that we receive yearly from SGA, compiled with the money that we receive from selling our CDs, is used to buy decorations for our jams, gas for our travels and food for groups who travel to us, and to pay for the recording, mixing, and production of our CDs. We also use a small amount of the money to celebrate each group member’s birthday and to buy treats to put on our table at the activities fair, because everyone knows that treats attract new members.

Contact:
hertler_megan@wheatonma.edu

The main goal of the Women’s Ice Hockey Club is to provide an opportunity for female students to play ice hockey while at school (since Wheaton does not have a hockey team), whether they have played previously or not does not matter. The team practices two nights a week, one coach-led and one student-led practice, and has several games against other colleges throughout the semester. Our games include playing teams such as Harvard, MIT, Smith, Mt. Holyoke and others. It also gives students the opportunity to be on a team with out the commitment of a varsity sport along with allowing students who have never played before to try something new.

Events:
We will be hosting a combined campus wide event with the Boston/Providence Connection, which will involve taking students to a Boston Bruins game on March 20th.

Contact:
depaiva_jessica@wheatonma.edu

The Wheaton Women’s Rugby club provides an opportunity for all Wheaton women students to learn about the sport of rugby. Rugby is an outdoor sport played with an oval ball by two teams of 15 players each. No prior knowledge of rugby is needed to join this club. We practice several times a week at Clark athletic field. We play games in the fall against other members of the women’s college division three conference of the New England Rugby Football Union. During the spring we participate in a tournament called the Beast of The East. The Beast of The East is the biggest rugby tournament in New England.

Yoga Club holds three classes per week by a certified Yoga instructor. Classes are held for an hour and a half each, and are open to as many students as fit safely in the space provided. The Yoga instructor guides students through various poses in combination with meditation in each class. The main goals of the club are to give students a healthy awareness of their bodies, strengthen their bodies, and relax students from the tensions of daily student life. Yoga club attempts to mentally and physically prepare students for the happenings of life. Yoga club throws one event, typically held at the end of each semester, where the Wheaton Community is offered the opportunity to receive a massage by a certified masseuse. Our event’s goal, similar to the club’s goal, is to relax students from tensions created by final exams and papers while giving back to the larger community.

The Wheaton College Competitive Gaming League is Wheaton College’s
official club for competitive gaming. Our goal and mission is to
provide a central location for where any member of the Wheaton
community can come and test and improve their skills in any game that
they desire. With a focus on video games, the Gaming League provides
several different games for anyone to play. Members may choose any
game they want whether they are a veteran or discovering the game for
the first time. Once a week, the Gaming League provides a two-hour
gaming session where anyone can participate. Gaming ability does not
reflect on a person’s standing in these sessions. In addition to these
sessions, we look to put on tournaments for the Wheaton community to
participate in. These tournaments would test the abilities that the
members have developed in the gaming sessions and award the winners.