Introduction

Two of the most popular extracurricular activities at Trinity University are Greek life and intramural sports; 24% of the student body is involved with Greek life, and 65% are involved with either intramural or club sports. Both intramural sports and Greek life provide a variety of benefits for students and many of these benefits overlap. Intramural sports played a large role in campus life in the 1980s. The 80s was a time characterized by innovation, socioeconomic change, and the Cold War, so it comes as no surprise that students were seeking to participate in extracurricular activites to align themselves with some of the things that were happening in the world at the time. Research supports student participation in extracurriculars, as Astin’s Theory of Student Involvement states that “the greater the students involvement in college, the greater will be the amount of student learning and personal development” (Sturts & Ross, 2013).