Category: Sports

More than half a century has passed since Del Mar College last had an intercollegiate athletics program in 1965, but there are still some in this city who would like to keep the competitiveness alive. Omar Salinas II, a locally raised sports enthusiast, aims to do that by building a baseball team with players from around Corpus Christi. Salinas has been playing sports since he was just a kid, mainly baseball. Baseball became Salinas’ passion in life as he saw the sport for its teambuilding skills. “This sport does bring unity. It promotes team activity and responsibility, patience, human wellness,…

There is an ongoing intramural volleyball league at Del Mar College. The games take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Kinesiology building in the gym. The games are at 3 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon, with each game being decided by who wins two sets out of three. The first two sets are played to 25, and if the teams split the first two sets they play a winner-take-all third set that goes up to 15. The league will be ending on the Tuesday after Spring Break, March 22. Gabriel Myers/Foghorn Aaron Combs and Irene Trevino play spikeball…

Kristy Urbick, the director of intramural sports, hosted Giant Jenga on Feb. 17 at the Kinesiology building in the gym. Photos by Colby Farr/Foghorn Sara Torres (from left), Kristy Urbick and Belinda Hernandez pick up the pieces after a failed attempt to stack the blocks. Six people attended to see how tall they could build the tower of blocks before it fell. It was an afternoon of high tension as participants held their breath in anticipation for whatever would happen next. Every time the blocks fell, a loud crash followed, rattling the table. At the end of the day, the participants found…