Bryan College Triangle

Justin M. Jones
Triangle Reporter

Sixteen people showed up to tryout for the new Frisbee club November 11, and freshman Wesley Sanders is taking the initiative to organize the new campus sport.

“I had always been a part of school athletic teams, and I loved playing sports in school. I played several different sports while in high school, and it was strange to me to come to Bryan and start my school year and not be part of a team,” Sanders said. “I have always loved to play Ultimate, and I found it so strange that Bryan did not have a team, especially since Ultimate is becoming so popular.

“I also knew there were so many good Ultimate players, and I thought, ‘Why in the world don’t we have a team….’ So I started asking around and found out that older students at Bryan have attempted to start a team before, but it never worked out.”

According to Sanders, who has been thoroughly researching the college rules of Ultimate, the games previously played at Bryan have been more relaxed and have not followed the official college guidelines of Ultimate.

“So many people do not understand the rules of the game for the real sport of Ultimate,” Sanders said. “This year we will be spending a lot of time learning the game of Ultimate. I have later goals, but my mind is focused on this year. This year will be a big learning year.”

In tryouts Sanders tested the men on throwing, catching, jumping, speed and the ability to read a disc.

“When you have people that can throw and catch real well it comes down to speed and jumping,” Sanders said. “Speed and jumping are very important in the athletic side of Ultimate.”

Some students found it odd to try out for a college Ultimate team, but Sanders said that tryouts are common.

“It was weird [to have to try out for a Frisbee club] considering most of the guys I knew on the team were pretty consistent players, and we already know the rules of Frisbee, or so we thought,” Sophomore Corey Heartlidge said. “So it was kind of weird, but then again this is going to be so serious as an actual club team. I thought it was cool to have actual tryouts, being a little more official.”

Sanders seems to be pretty confident in the team so far.

“I fully believe that our team can do great against other teams,” Sanders said. “It’ll just take some time for us to learn the real game of Ultimate. But we got it!”

Heartlidge believes after the team learns the official rules the team will be very successful.

“If we’re not familiar with [the new rules], we’re really going to suffer playing other teams who are more structured as far as [organization], and so we’re definitely going to have to get acquainted with the rules,” Heartlidge said. “But I think talent-wise we’ve got a shot. So, I’m really excited about it.”

Two of the major teams Bryan will be competing against are Lee University and Covenant College (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

Tryout results were released earlier today revealing a 20 member team with Sanders as the president and Tim Shetter as the Faculty Sponsor.

The club team “will not be doing too much for the rest of the semester” except practicing, according to the email announcement released this afternoon.

Senior defender and team captain Harry Sherwood chases the ball in Lee University match on Sept. 13. After tearing his hamstring in the Oct. 5 game against Union College, Sherwood has become the 7th devastating loss to the soccer team / Triangle photo by Maddie K. Doucet

Jesse Murray
Senior Reporter

Starting this year without eight seniors from last year’s high-achieving team and with many new faces, including first year Assistant Coach Jose Robles, Bryan’s men’s soccer suffered the additional challenge of losing six players early in the season to injury and suspensions. The bad luck continued for the Lions during the 2-2 draw with Union College (Barbourville, K.y.) last week on Oct. 5 when senior defender and team captain Harry Sherwood tore his hamstring near the end of the first half.

According to Sherwood, the injury happened as Union’s attack entered Bryan’s defensive third. Sherwood was in full sprint when he fell to the ground without being touched. Read full story »

Last year, then senior Thomas Katz, junior Luke Lillard, and sophomore Jonathan Warner took a 10-day trek across New England in search of adventure and the meaning of hospitality. With the proposed changes to Fall Break, future such trips would be next to impossible during that time./Triangle photo by Jesse Murray

Clari Stewart
Triangle Reporter

With fall break just days away, rumors are spreading about instituting a proposed two-day fall break for next year. Students and faculty alike are reacting strongly to the proposal. The proposed changes affect not only fall break, but accelerated schedules, the start of the school year, the policy of withdrawing from a class and the scheduling of finals.

Vice President of Academics Dr. Bradford Sample proposed the changes to the faculty at their September meeting after the changes were approved by the Executive Cabinet. If the change is made, Bryan would join many surrounding schools including Lee University, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Carson Newman, Chattanooga State and Covenant College that all have breaks that are less than a week long.

The issue of changing fall break has already caused many passionate discussions on campus. Both faculty and students are split in their opinion of the proposed change.

“I couldn’t go home,” said junior Peter Boyajian from New Jersey, “half my break would be spent driving.”

Sophomore Wesley Garnett said, “It wouldn’t be worth the gas for a six and a half hour drive.”

Scott Jones, associate professor of Christian ministry, thought the school should consider the local community, and the local school systems’ break schedules, as well as Bryan students when making such changes. Read full story »

Senior players Harry Sherwood and Sebastian Fischer advance towards a Lee University player in chase of the ball / Triangle photo by Maddie K. Doucet

Justin M. Jones
Triangle Reporter

The men’s varsity soccer team played the Lee University Flames Tuesday, losing 3–0.

However, even though the team lost the match, they held out through the first half, keeping the score 0-0. Read full story »

In a screenshot from King's film "This is the Face", senior actor Derek Batt looks out over a local bridge./Courtesy of junior T.K. King

by Billy Findley
Online Editor

For months it has seemed like the Broad Street Film Festival would be virtually nonexistent this year. The time to raise funds and awareness for the event, plus plan the showings at the Majestic Theater in Chattanooga along with the ostentatious awards ceremony, just seemed too daunting for Bryan College to do alone. However, after a meeting and a series of email exchanges between Chris Clark, assistant professor of communications studies, and Chris Willis, professor of media technology at Chattanooga State Technical Community College (Tenn.), the showings will go on, but there will not be an awards ceremony this year.

“Really it was UTC (University of Tenn.) and Chattanooga State that said, ‘this needs to go on,” Clark said.

While sitting in a meeting at Chattanooga State in February with faculty and some student filmmakers from Chattanooga State, Clark said the collective interest in putting on a festival became apparent.

“Students were at the meeting and they said, ‘man it was awesome last year. We went to the showings, we went to the awards night – we were blown away,’” Clark said. Read full story »