Greg Walsh (grad March 09)

Chiro Games Approaching

I am going to write about the Chiro Games as well as the wacky world of adult co-ed sports for this blog.

The Chiro Games are going to be at Jansen Beach in Florida again this year. I am not sure who is running them but I think Dr. Orndorff will be the teacher overseeing everything again. I personally am trying to find another person interested in playing tennis, as we already have two players but need three in order to compete at the games.

In the span of a few short years, I went from being an all-state high school soccer player to being a backup player on my co-ed soccer team. I started playing co-ed soccer last year with other Sherman College students when we went out to win zero games during our season. This season I decided to play with a team located in Greenville, SC. We have played about seven games and won none of them.

The co-ed soccer team is unlike any organized sports team I have ever played for. While most teams revolve around better players playing more minutes, co-ed teams usually revolve around the strongest personalities getting the major minutes. Halftime usually involves ten people trying to tell everyone what adjustments we should be making with nobody really listening, just waiting for their turn to talk. After most games where we lose by double digits (11-0, 12-1) everyone seems to try to create ways in which we can also score 12 goals. Trying to limit the onslaught of points with improved defense never seems to be a viable option. 

Usually the games involve really strange stuff happening. Most teams will probably score on themselves a few times during the season. The referees will openly tell you they gave the other team possession of an out of bounds ball because they were "due for a call.

If it sounds like co-ed soccer is frustrating, it is because it usually is. It does provide a great way to meet people outside of school though. It is also important to have some kind of scheduled exercise planned for your week to keep you in shape during your busy weeks at Sherman.

NANANANANANANANA BATMAN!

I went to see the Dark Knight at the IMAX in Charlotte and it was fantastic. You are practically lying on your back to watch the movie so it was really relaxing as well as scary. I literally thought I was going to fall into the screen when they were showing us fly over the skyscrapers of Gotham city. I think that everyone in the country has seen the movie by now, but if you haven't I would recommend trying to watch it at the IMAX.

We'd all like to congratulate Phong Nguyen on his #43 intern ranking. Not only has Phong become one of the best chiropractors that the school has to offer, but he is also the school's #1 Vietnamese style chef. I have tried his Pho several times and have always found it to be outstanding, even though I still cannot pronounce it.

Sherman College is going to have an assembly tomorrow featuring some guy that just graduated from herE, so it might be interesting to see how his first couple of years in practice went. Does he still wear his baby blue Sherman intern jacket? Only time and tomorrow's assembly will tell....

Fun Day

Coming off two straight Fun Day Championships, I expected today to be a day of intense competition and fun (but mostly intense competition). We started the day with a free barbecue banquet in the cafeteria and went to play the games at 2:00. We soon found out that the rules for this year's Fun Day were going to be different. Teams would be awarded points for the place they come in during each event. Usually the winner of Fun Day was simply the team that won the most events. So technically, a team could win two of the four events and still lose Fun Day if they really tanked the last two events.
Confused yet? To make matters more complicated, this year we had events happening at the same time, which meant you would have to play volleyball, play a game of basketball then run over to the volleyball court again to play the next round.
So we started off with basketball in which we had an extremely good team. We won our first game pretty easily but we were shipped off to the volleyball court before we played our second game. Our volleyball team featured the two best volleyball players in school, Scott and Chris Jetti. We beat three teams in a row pretty easily to get us to the championship game. However it started to rain pretty heavily so we were told we had to run the obstacle course before it got taken down. So we ran the obstacle course but soon realized it was almost impossible to complete it because the big wall at the end that you have to climb was soaking wet rubber, providing you no friction at all. The rain was so bad that they cancelled the bouncy boxing event before it even started. Our obstacle course time was terrible but we didn't care much because we knew we'd win basketball and volleyball.

(Here is a picture of the course. You can see the big rope wall at the end that I did not enjoy.)

So after the obstacle course we got ready to play volleyball but the Fun Day officials told us that we would not be doing any more events because of the steady lightning and rain. We could not believe it. We asked if we could finish basketball and the answer was the same. Basically we were told that we could not finish the two events that we were dominating and that whatever teams were not knocked out yet would divy up the points. We were told the winner of Fun Day was basically going to be the team with the best obstacle course time.

(Referee Tim Donaghy was spotted with some of the Fun Day officials during the events.)

So our team does not get the 100 dollar prize nor the satisfaction of 3-peating like Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls. We were left standing in the rain, ready to finish off our competition in volleyball and basketball. Unfortunately the rain sent everyone home and left us wet and disappointed.
Congratulations to the winners of Fun Day, which included my roommate Kevin Day.

Notable Notes from The Last Week

      Sherman College has been very eventful these last few weeks. Everyone is excited about tomorrow's fun day, a celebration of food and games that takes place around the campus. John Guarnieri and I are hoping to win our third consecutive fun day with the help of Scott and Chris Jetti.

      I have been waiting to watch the new Batman movie, but the IMAX in Charlotte has been sold out every day. I could watch it on the regular movie screen but I know I will kick myself for it later by missing out on the IMAX experience. The worst part is that everyone has been telling me how good it is.

      I recently went to Minnesota for my good friend Scott St. Pierre's wedding. The whole weekend was a lot of fun and I got to see my high school buddies for the first time in a while. St. Paul proved to be a great place to visit and I hope my friend and his new wife have a long and happy marraige.

      I would like to congratulate Nick Fabian on improving his intern ranking to #32. Nick is currently in his 12th quarter and has been working hard to master the diversified and Pierce techniques. He has been getting a little confused on his activator protocol, a system that Sherman College has been teaching as an elective, which has kept him out of the top 25. He has also been establishing his golf game to make himself a more well-rounded doctor.