Student sign-ups for intramural sports totaled 8,184 during the three seasons of the 2007–08 academic year, according to the recently issued BC Factbook. There were 678 teams in play, in 34 events. Men outnumbered women 6 to 1 overall, with the most popular sport being men’s winter basketball (1,144 players). More highlights:

FALL
Women’s Basketball Tournament: 14 teams; 154 women
Flag Football: 70 teams; 1,025 men, 25 women;
1,050 total paraticipants
Doubles Tennis Tournament: 20 teams; 16 men, 24 women;
40 total participants

WINTER
Men’s Indoor Soccer: 53 teams; 636 men
Women’s Indoor Soccer: 23 teams; 276 women
Advanced Ice Hockey: 8 teams; 130 men, 6 women;
136 total participants

SPRING
Dodgeball: 14 teams; 125 men, 43 women; 168 total participants
Coed Softball Tournament: 8 teams; 64 men, 64 women;
128 total participants
Coed Wiffleball Tournament: 8 teams, 32 men, 32 women;
64 total participants

Squash attracted 10 players in the fall, and women’s spring singles tennis drew a field of nine. Golf (108) and badminton (26) had their adherents, as did coed volleyball, with a combined fall and spring sign-up of 820 students.

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