IM bowling

In working with the campus ministry, USF recognizes me as "courtesy" staff and gives me many of the same benefits as other faculty. One of those fringe benefits is that I'm allowed to play intramural sports. I usually only play a few, but one of the ones I've played each year is bowling. Call me what you want, but I love it. Reminds me of being in college when every Monday night a bunch of the guys from the baseball team would go to a local bowling alley, draw names out of a hat for teams and bowl three games. The bottom half of the teams in total pins would pay for the top half. A lot of good times.

The last two years, I bowled with Travis, Andy (who both work with USF athletics) and Tyler (a student from the ministry). Last year, we had a slim lead going into the fifth and final week when we had a complete meltdown and finished second. This year was a different story. In second place and down by 186 pins starting the night, we were bowling heads up against the team in first, VSA (Vietnamese Student Association). We made up 153 of that over the first two games. Then we absolutely lit it up the last game with a team 766, averaging out to over 191 per person. Needless to say, we dominated all three games and took home the crown.

And for the record, our team name was Cobra Kai, the bad-boy dojo from Karate Kid. Nothing like paying homage to one of the greatest movies of all-time with our comeback victory. In the immortal words of Sensei John Kreese, "Defeat is not an option in this dojo, is it?!" No Sensei!