Dodging and Fundraising

Concordia Dodgeball League Holds Tournament For Galapagos Project

SportsJulian McKenzie — Published January 27, 2015 | Updated January 27, 2015 at 8:06pm

“My [teammates] think I’m hyper,” said Wassim Taleb, who participated in the Concordia Dodgeball League Winter Semester Tournament this past weekend at Le Gym. “I’m excited for this game. But I don’t know the rules. I don’t know how to play.”

“The first game I was playing, [I was already] out. I didn’t even catch the ball, I was out,”

Such is life when one enters the dodgeball arena. Concordia’s students in the school’s dodgeball league are ruthless, even if they’re playing for charity.

“It’s a game that reminds us all of a fun time in our lives,” said Concordia Dodgeball League president Rayann Chebat. “Except now you do it with a bunch of college kids, which makes it that more competitive.”

Eighty students were on hand for this year’s Winter Semester Tournament this past Saturday, which raised money for the Concordia Galapagos Project. Members of the project were present, selling water bottles for their trip to the Galapagos planned for later this year.

“We’re going there to volunteer to do conservation work on the nature reserves down there,” said Dylan Shaw of the Concordia Galapagos Project.

Connecting the Galapagos Project and the Dodgeball Tournament turned out to be easier than expected for Shaw and his group.

“One of our girls in the group is in the Dodgeball Tournament, so that’s how [we got involved],” added Shaw.

Members of the Galapagos Project were unaware that they would be receiving a portion of the funds after the tournament. CDL president Rayann Chebat said the league would donate a portion of their funds to the project, on top of their water bottle sales.

Last year’s Winter Semester Tournament was also played for a charitable cause. Sixty-four players had participated to raise money for UNICEF and Engineers Without Borders.

Video by Evgenia Choros