{"id":849,"date":"2015-02-20T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=849"},"modified":"2015-02-20T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T00:10:09","slug":"seated-volleyball-is-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/seated-volleyball-is-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Seated volleyball is a Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adam McAdams dives backwards to save the ball during a seated volleyball game.
PHOTO BY ZACH GARDNER | Staff Photographer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
By KATRINA PENAFLOR Campus Life Editor<\/pre>\n
The Western Accessibility Awareness Month committee organized a seated volleyball game in the Health and Wellness Center Feb. 17.<\/p>\n
WAAM, which was previously known as Disability Awareness Month, took place in October last year. The committee decided to move the event to February to allow more time to plan events for students to attend.<\/p>\n
Rose Lethe, a junior applied mathematics major, is a WAAM committee member. She talked about wanting to organize, \u201cwhat we thought students would want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seated volleyball is \u201cpart of our lunch and learn series,\u201d said Charisse Loughery, Western\u2019s Student Conduct Coordinator and one of the event organizers. Another WAAM event is a weekly Instagram and Twitter challenge.<\/p>\n
The rules of the game were similar to traditional volleyball except the court was made smaller and feet were allowed to slide underneath the net without penalty. Participant\u2019s bodies also had to remain seated on the ground at all times.<\/p>\n
The game brought a lot of attention from WAAM committee members, students, and gym-goers that all rotated in and out of the game.<\/p>\n
Lethe said she had a lot of fun participating in seated volleyball and said it would be \u201cgreat to have this at Western.\u201d
\nAbby Luedman, a junior pre-ASL interpreting major enjoyed watching the game. She heard about it from one of her classes where she says her teacher has a box of activities for students: \u201cthis was one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another attendee, senior and pre-ASL interpreting major Mylisa McGill, enjoyed watching a game like this for the first time: \u201cI did not know what seated volleyball was,\u201d McGill said.<\/p>\n
WAAM events will be continuing throughout February and the beginning of March. Upcoming programs of WAAM include a lunch and learn series titled \u201cOMG! There\u2019s a Deaf\/Hard of Hearing Person in the Room,\u201d Monday, Feb. 23 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Willamette room, and WaWa, a Deaf rapper performing in ITC room 211 at 7 p.m., March 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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