School Sports

Intramural activities may extend beyond the walls of the institution. Such "extramural" activities can include everything from sports clubs which compete with other clubs off campus to play days that integrate students from different schools into competition/participation units.

The National Intramural Recreational Sports Association, a professional organization based in Corvallis, Oregon, provides a network of more than 4,000 highly trained professionals, students and Associate Members in the recreational sports field throughout the United States, Canada and other countries. (See National Intramural Recreational Sports Association {Link without Title} ) In most of the world outside North America, sports scholarships and college sports on the North American model do not exist so the distinction between college and intramural sports has no relevance and is not made.

REFERENCES

C. Jensen & S. Overman. ''Administration and Management of Physical Education and Athletic Programs.'' 4th edition. Waveland Press, 2003
(Chapter 14, "Intramural Recreation").

D. Wade & S. Mayhew ''Everything I know about Intramurals, I learned from Gary Cahen" (1st edition, Iota Press, 2005.)

EXTERNAL LINKS

The Blue Chips Intramural Sports Teams at the University of Alabama

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