Tag: Elting Gym
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Student Athletes Host Special Olympics Basketball Tournament
By Anthony Mitthauer-Orza This article was first published in The New Paltz Oracle. Over 100 athletes with disabilities were greeted with a warm welcome at SUNY New Paltz, as they were all given the opportunity to be the stars of the basketball court. Athletes from New Paltz’s sports teams, coaches and families gathered in the…
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Dance Auditions Can be Somewhat of a Culture Shock: Campus Dance Group Holds First Spring Semester Auditions
At 9:50 p.m. on a Thursday, many SUNY New Paltz students are found shut up in their rooms studying, while others may be heading to Tower Hour in town. But in the Elting Gym dance studio, the Culture Shock Dance Team auditions were beginning, and tension, as well as hip hop rhythms, filled the room wall…
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Athletics for All
Whether they are slamming against the Elting Gym siding to gain control of hockey pucks or hurling Wiffle balls from a makeshift mound, about 1,200 to 1,500 students at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz participate in the Intramural Program every year. According to Intramural Program Director Joe Deck, the program…