Programs - Sport Clubs - About
Sport clubs represent UMaine by competing against
teams and clubs from other universities and colleges. National
governing bodies for each club provide competition guidelines
and league structure.
Sport clubs are student led and student
administered. Each has a budget that is run through Campus
Recreation, which in part funds nearly all clubs. Clubs are
eligible for funding through Campus Recreation after they have
been active for at least one year and have a membership minimum
of ten members.
The University of Maine, Campus Recreation
Sports Club program gives the student an opportunity to take
part in the leadership, responsibility and decision-making
process of their respective club activities.
The success of any Sports Club depends on the
professionalism and leadership shown by the club officers,
advisors and coaches. It is created for students, by students
and is under the supervision of Campus Recreation. Individual
clubs establish their own membership requirements, dues and club
activities. Club members nominate student officers who run the
day-to-day operations, which include: scheduling practices;
activities and games; contracting referees; arranging
transportation; and budgeting.
Although Campus Recreation buttresses sports
clubs with facilities, equipment, and administrative support in
addition to limited funding, sport clubs spend much of their
efforts raising the bulk of their funding on their own through
membership dues and fundraising efforts (tournaments, sales, etc.).
Currently, there are more than
twenty sport clubs at UMaine.
Jeffrey Tweedie Sport Clubs
Leadership Award
This is an annual award presented by UMaine
Campus Recreation in honor of Jeffrey Tweedie, a member of the
UMaine Men's Rugby Club who displayed great courage, leadership,
and strength of character after being seriously injured while
participating on the UMaine Men's Rugby Club in 1994.
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