Getting Involved

Team Sports
If you are used to playing the traditional team sports, then try an Intramural Sports league. Campus Rec sets up leagues for men's, women's, and co-rec (men & women) teams of all different skill levels in a variety of sports.

Forming a Team
The easiest way to get involved in team sports is to form a team on your own: You and a couple of friends, or perhaps the suite or floor of your residence hall or the neighbors in your apartment complex. Student organizations such as fraternities and sororities, as well as other campus groups often put together teams. Ask at your organization at its next group meeting. To find out how many players you will need for a complete team, browse through the sport's rules.

How to Register
Once you have got a squad together, you will need to register. The key here is to REGISTER EARLY! So, when you do register? Well, each sport has its own registration period. To find out when that is for each sport, check our Intramural Sports Schedule for each semester. You will register for most sports online. If online registration is not available, then simply stop by 101 Student Recreation Center, in the building across the street from Student stores, to register. We advise attempting to register on the FIRST DAY of the registration period. Just one person for your team will need to sign-up.

Download our Online registration instructions.

Download instructions for how to register/cancel a team.

Registration Options
Team sport registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.  In general, leagues are set-up so that each team plays once each week at the same time and on the same day for four straight weeks with a three-week playoff tournament following the regular season.  We'll offer different leagues on different days and at different times.  For example, our competitive men's league times may be Sundays at 9, Sundays at 10, Mondays at 8, Tuesdays at 9, and Thursdays at 10.  You'd then select one of these times for your team.  Teams can only register for one time period in a sport.  Have an idea of when your team will be available to play when you come in to register so that you can be flexible in case the time you had wanted is already full when you arrive.  Like getting a good class time, our popular days and times fill VERY QUICKLY, so the earlier your team registers, the better.  Registration starts at 9 am on the first day of the entry period.

Mandatory Captains Meetings
Once you've registered a team, you or a teammate MUST attend the mandatory captains meeting for the sport.  Someone must be designated the team captain.  The date, time, and place of the captains meeting is listed on the sports information sheet and displayed during registration at the Intramural Sports web site.  Even if you're an expert in the sport, you or a teammate still MUST make the meeting.  If you're not at the meeting, we'll your team may be dropped from the league.  It's mandatory, so make it there.  The captains meeting typically takes about 45 minutes and covers the sport's rules, eligibility requirements for your players, and other IM policies and procedures.

Regular Season Schedules & Team Rosters
Regular season schedules for the majority of teams are available online the day following the captains meeting.  Simply print it out and you'll have who you play throughout the season.  On the night of your game your team members should arrive at least 15 minutes early to sign-in at the game site.  An UNC One-Card is required for all participants.  You can add players online at any time before the daily roster deadline of 3pm.  Players can only play on ONE team at a time and once a player has joined a team he/she can NOT switch to another team.  Play each game and behave yourself (we have team sportsmanship requirements) and you'll advance to the playoffs.  There is another meeting for team captains to select their playoff position.  More about the playoff structure, sportsmanship, and other sport requirements will be discussed at the captains meeting prior to the season.  More specific information is also available online in the Intramural Handbook.
 

Individual/Dual Sports
If sports for one or for you and a partner are what you're looking for, then try an one of our individual or dual sports tournaments.  Singles and doubles tournaments are available in numerous racquet sports, and sport skills challenges.

How to Register & Getting Your Schedule
Registering for individual and dual sports takes place online and in our office.  When a fee is involved, registration in the Intramural Sports Office is required.  Otherwise, you'll be able to enter your registration information on our web site to sign-up.  The Sports Calendar will indicate when online registration is available for a particular sport.  Typically, when online registration is available you will be required to register that way; no registrations will be taken in our office in that case.  Therefore, check the Sports Calendar for online registration information.  After you've registered online, you'll receive an email with details about the event including when to look for schedules and what you might be required to bring (a can of balls, for example).  Game schedules and Tournament brackets are posted online following the registration period, so be sure to check back to see when your first match will be.  Simply arrive at the match site, sign-in with your UNC One-Card, and play.  All tournaments are single-elimination.

Informed Consent Statement 

Your participation in Campus Recreation activities could result in physical injury, which could be serious or fatal! UNC-CH assumes no responsibility for injuries received during intramural sports activities. Students, faculty, staff, spouses and/or domestic partners are reminded that Intramural participation is completely voluntary and involves inherent risk associated with the activities offered. It is strongly recommended that all participants have a physical examination and secure adequate medical insurance prior to participation.

Eligibility

Intramural Sports reserves the right to investigate the eligibility of participants. These investigations may result in forfeiture, probation, and/ or suspension of teams or participants. Participants are still encouraged to submit a protest involving ineligible participants.

No student, faculty, or staff member may play on more than one team per sport. A participant who violates this rule will be ineligible to participate in a minimum of their original team’s next scheduled game; the second team the violator played for will forfeit all games in which the violator participated. Exceptions: All Co-Recreation activities will provide the opportunity for participation on a second team.

All participants must be on a team’s official roster, located in the Intramural Sports Office, in order to participate. Failure to be on an official roster may result in that team forfeiting the game.

Participants must show a valid UNC One-Card to participate in any Intramural Sports. Any late arriving participants must show their UNC One-Card to the supervisor, scorekeeper, or official before entering the contest.

Any player using a name other than their given name will be barred from Intramural Sports participation during the related season and that team will be penalized with forfeits for all games in which the violator participated. Intramural Sports reserves the right to bar any organization or team that willfully uses an ineligible player.

Players may not change teams once they have signed in on the game score sheet or played any portion of a contest. The first team that a player participates for is his/her legal team.

A Ringer is defined as an otherwise eligible participant with certain playing restrictions as a result of having benefited from advanced training and coaching opportunities in the same or related Intramural sport. All ringers must compete in the competitive league.

Ringers

Ringers can be defined as:

A.  Current or Former Sport Club Members.

B.  Former members of a Varsity or Junior Varsity team.

C.  Former professional players