Anyone wanting to sling shot large water balloons at the Student Recreation Center director will be able to Saturday at the Volleyball Beach Bash.

Nathan Barnhart, a graduate assistant at the Rec Center, said this will be just one of the many activities put together for the event, which will be held at the Campus Lake beach from 10 a.m to 6 p.m.

I just talked Bill McMinn (the director) into the idea today (Wednesday), Barnhart said. We were planning on having a moving target floating out on the lake, but then we decided to ask Bill to take the target’s place. He’s being a pretty good sport about it.

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Everyone will be able to take a pot shot at him.

As well as the water balloon toss, there will be a 2-on-2 and 4-on-4 sand volleyball competition (open division) with double elimination and a sand castle building contest.

We haven’t had an outdoor volleyball tournament before because of lack of interest, Barnhart said. We’re trying to get people to come out just for the fun of it.

Paul Williams, who is also a graduate assistant at the Rec Center, said student turnout will depend on the weather.

If the weather holds up, we could get quite a few teams out there and people coming by to see what is going on at the beach, watching the water balloon toss, he said. This time, we’ve decided to moved the tournaments to the beach to create a more recreational type atmosphere.

This will be a good opportunity for summer semester students to use the beach and have fun in the sand, but we’re trying to get everyone involved, Williams said. It is primarily

see VOLLEYBALL, page 11

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