National Collegiate Dodgeball Association

Natchitoches: NSU def UNT 7-0 Continue reading “NSU def UNT 7-0”

CHICAGO-Ray Meyer: Last Monday we started an experiment at DePaul Dodgeball. We’re recording the breaking in of new PG8.5 dodgeballs, the new Preferred Dodgeball of the NCDA. Check out the previous article for details on the experiment.

Night 01, Monday, 04-Nov-2013:

Balls inflated at dodgeball and introduced into play. They have not been broken in by any particular method, they are straight out of the shipping plastic. Their feel is the standard slipperiness of the final outer coating from the manufacturer. Many complaints and whining about not being able to hold a grip due to this slipperiness, of those that use the grip as their primary method of throwing.  Continue reading “Breaking Bad: Week 1”

DePaul Dodgeball recently received a shipment of Champion PG8.5’s, a generous 72 dodgeballs in multicolor. The team applied for funding from its Student Activity Funding Board, and was granted an allocation for the purchase of any dodgeball club’s most vital equipment.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll conduct a observational experiment into the breaking in of these new PG8.5s, the new preferred dodgeball of the NCDA. I don’t pretend that this is properly scientific, as those necessary rigors involve more patience than the DePaul Dodgeball Society can muster at dodgeball nights.
Continue reading “Breaking Bad with Dodgeballs”

On October 20^th three new teams entered the NCDA.  Previously you saw St. Ambrose highlighted in an article.  The Siena Heights University Saints are the next team to be highlighted.  Siena Heights is a small school located in Adrian, Michigan and has an enrollment of about 2,500 students.

They opened their NCDA competition playing in the GVSU Invite along with Central Michigan, Bowling Green, Davenport University, and Grand Valley. This was a very quick start for Siena Heights as they had their first practice on October 7^th.  They were able to get a 10-player roster for the tournament; they would play 4 total games on the day.

Continue reading “Welcome to the NCDA: Siena Heights”

This past weekend means we have already played through a quarter of the 2013-14 season. There have already been 45 games played already, including St. Ambrose, Siena Heights, and Davenport’s inducting matches! There have been tournaments played in five different states, at eight different locations. There have been early season surprises, and some teams that are playing exactly how most people expected them to. The only thing that is absolutely certain though, is that we have a long way to go until April. Continue reading “Hitting the Quarter Mark of the Season”