Fall Camp Wrap-Up

With fall camp coming to an end, we all wanted to get in some last-minute team bonding before the upper classmen moved out of the dorms. On Monday following practice and a quick supper at Shenanigans, the team went to Murleys. There, Murley had apples and caramel waiting for us. After a couple showings of the movie 212 degrees, he talked to us about a major area we as a team want to focus this year, making each others day. An idea that came from the book Fish, make your day includes engaging in meaningful conversation with one another, as well as any other kind act that is unneccesary. We believe it will bring us closer together and allow us to be the best team we can be! Following the movie and discussion, we headed outside to a small bonfire Murley started for us and made giant smores. It was a wonderful night.

Tuesday came and all the upperclassmen moved out of the dorms. The freshmen and sophomores moved into the rooms they will be living in for the remainder of the year. It was nice for most of us to get back to air conditioning!

Wednesday marked the last day of the fall camp team bonding exercises. These exercises were aimed at "being present". The first activity entailed getting the entire team across the basketball court, using only scooters, jump rope, hula hoops, and hockey sticks. Sound easy? It wasn't. No one was allowed to touch the floor. In the middle of the floor there was an "island" where each of us were safe to stand on. We were all divided into two teams so needless to say, the game got a little competitive. It started out with both sides only trying to get their own people across the floor. It ended, however, with pushing, shoving, and some biting (Kaili) to get the other team off the island and into the "lava" so they would have to start all over. It was a close game and luckily no one got hurt. The last team bonding activity was Catch Phrase. Here one teammate describes a word to the other teammate and she tries to guess what it is. We had some good laughs.

The start of school means the end of the preseason. We are excited to scrimmage Moorhead tomorrow and to go to Omaha this weekend! Go Wolves!

Team Bonding

Practices have been going pretty good and the coaches decided we needed a little time off. This past weekend the team had little break to rest our bodies from all the work we have been doing. Friday night most of girls went to check out the brown county fair where we ate some good healthy food and enjoyed some carnival rides. Drake and Sami became best friends with a carnie. Saturday we all enjoyed breakfast at Kessler’s. After breakfast we were assigned teams and told to go find two outfits for Sunday, one had to be what not to wear and the other elegant. Sunday, the coaches had something planned for team bonding, all we knew was that we needed to find a blow up bed which meant that we were sleeping somewhere other than the dorms. After practice on Sunday we all ate at the Barnet Center for dinner and were given fifteen minutes to go dress in the brightest cloths and head back to the BC. The workers and costumers at Twist Cone were pleased to see all of us of course. We had two people judge who had the brightest team, one was a random customer and the other was George, the man who housed Paula and Fessi for the summer. Both of course picked the best team which consisted of Kayla, Steph, Paula, Megan, Katy, Claire, Sami and I. The next couple of things to do consisted of finding the oldest person you could who had graduated from Northern, a bike race were Ella and Paula had to be the last person across the finish line (Paula won, blowing up a balloon till it popped without using your hands (Katie Bloom won), eating a apple with no hands (Ella eating the entire apple won). After that we had an egg relay, a candy find in a bowl of flower which was very hard when creating doe in your mouth. Running up 4 flights of stairs finding a boy on the football team who weighs the lightest was very tiring but both teams got the job done and everyone on our team probably weighs more than both boys. There was also a karaoke contest were the teams competed against each other on who knew the lyrics better. The next thing on the list to do was the fashion show were each teams pick to wear an elegant outfit and what not to wear strutted down the volleyball court while being judge by the coaches. The most elegant was Jordan Shafter and a tie between Ella Campbell and me for what not to wear. We had a dance off to choose a winner but they still couldn’t choose one so we split the stop as top what not to wear. My team which consisted of Megan, Sami, Claire, Paula, Steph, Katy, Kayla, and I won the whole contest and the losers had to be baptized in the northern swimming pool. We all ended up in the pool, even ligia, Kelsey and coach Schriver ended up getting in. The night was spent on a pole vaulting pit in the Barnet Center gym floor. It was a great bonding experience and the team really enjoyed it.

by Britlyn Sturlaugon

FALL CAMP :)

Fall Camp officially started this past Sunday, August 15th, with everyone joining together at Jerde Hall for moving into the dorms. All players move into the dorms during Fall Camp so that everyone can REALLY get to know each other (sometimes whether they like it or not). So the Ysteboes, Morschings, Gilbraiths, Sturlaugsons, Oelkes, Blooms, Kopfmanns, Campbells, Drakes, Petersons, Nygaards, Adens, and George Dell enjoyed another great home cooked meal from Coach Schriver. After we were good and full, then we worked together to move all 16 of us girls in! Mary Campbell took lots of pictures of all the good work we were getting done.
The next day we began our two-a-days which have been really competitive. All of us are experiencing some soreness but at least we get in some extra team bonding in the ice bath. Dorm life as a senior is a little interesting but im glad we have the team we do because its fun! We are spoiled this year because instead of eating food at the dining center we get to dine at Shenanigans Woooooooooooooooo!
So far camp has been a blast getting to know all the new players, especially my roommate Paula :)