Clubs: Athletics/Recreation

Badminton

President: Bradley Wooler, bdw212@lehigh.edu
Advisor:

Baseball

Club baseball is set up for people who want to play competitive baseball without the time committments of varsity. We play both during the fall and spring and practice one-two times a week.

President: Brian Sloan,bds311@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Sean Leary, spl3@lehigh.edu

Basketball(Men)

President: Bryan Hernadez, brh211@lehigh.edu
Advisor: David Myers, dhm2@lehigh.edu

Basketball(Women)

Women's club basketball is intended for women with previous basketball experience who want to continue playing competitively in college.  We practice twice a week and travel to other colleges for weekend tournaments in the fall and early spring. 

President: Rosanne Leith, rml410@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Richard Titus, rjt4@lehigh.edu

Cheerleading

Co-President: Kate Farrell, krf210@lehigh.edu
Co-President: Nicole Clamente, nlc210@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Mary Kay Baker, mkb1@lehigh.edu

Cricket Club

To provide an environment in which Lehigh University students with a great interest in cricket can get together to enjoy this wonderful British sport.

President: Saurav Chandak, sac310@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Philip A Blythe, pab0@lehigh.edu

Cycling

The Cycling Club's purpose is to promote the sport of cycling on campus, by organizing rides for all levels of cyclists, and participating in the NCAA and ECCC mountain and road racing events. The Cycling Club is inclusive, with low dues and many benefits, such as discounts at Action Wheels, access to multiple team sponsorships, and use of a team storage area with complete tool setup. The Cycling Club raises funds in order to subsidize our race team, and provide equipment for its members. The club maintains a mountain bike trail system on Lehigh's South Mountain, and promotes its use to Lehigh students. The Cycling Club holds a full weekend of mountain bike racing on Lehigh's South Mountain each Fall.

Co-President: Peter Bridi,pgb210@lehigh.edu
Co-President: Samantha Narins,sjn208@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Clay Naito, cjn3@lehigh.edu

Dance Team

The Lehigh Dance Team is compiled of talented dancers that strive to provide quality entertainment at a vast number of student and athletic events as well as dance competitions. While their backgrounds and training differ, all members have an extreme passion for dance and devote much of their time to the team. Performances include the freshman pep rally, Parent's Weekend football game, Le-Laf-a-Palooza/Bonfire, home men and women's basketball games, Fashion-4-A-Cure, Relay for Life, International Bazaar, Spectacular Spectacular, and many other events. The team is headed by its captain and co-captains. This dance family currently has 14 full-time members and 3 alternates. Look for auditions within the first week of classes each fall semester!

President: Katie Bartkovitz,keb310@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Deborah Henritzy, dah3@lehigh.edu

Equestrian

The Equestrian Club is a group of Lehigh students who are interested in horses and horseback riding. It consists of members at many different stages of riding ability, beginners to advance. Members have the opportunity to represent Lehigh at intercollegiate horse shows, but are not required to participate in those shows. The club plans field trips to places like National horse shows and fundraisers such as trail rides. Equestrian Club members train with Marisa Kalmar at Cornerstone Farm.

President: Ashley Forbes, amf211@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Stacey Kimmel-Smith, sek2@lehigh.edu

Fencing

The Lehigh University Fencing Club is the only current fencing club at the school. We are a co-ed club sport that is for the experienced, as well as the inexperienced fencer. If you are interested in fencing, or are looking for a unique fitness opportunity we are the club to join. We compete in a number of tournaments a year and fence all three weapons: foil, epee, and sabre.

President: Christina Repicky, cer210@lehigh.edu
Advisor: William Haller, wrh5@lehigh.edu

Field Hockey (Women's)

President: Brittany Febert, blf307@lehigh.edu
Advisor:

Frisbee (Men's Ultimate)

Ultimate is a non-contact sport that requires agility, speed and quick thinking. Ultimate is a combination of soccer, football, and basketball in a fast paced game played with a frisbee. Lehigh Ultimate is a competitive, inter-collegiate activity that involves practice, tournaments, and camraderie. We play on Maginnes Lawn from 4-6 pm weekdays; stop by and check us out. All skill levels welcome, we will gladly help and teach this amazing sport to all interested.

President: Michael O'Brien , mao311@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Michael Bombard, mjb8@lehigh.edu

Golf

This club wishes to promote a general interest in golf for eveyrone, especially those who could not make the varisty team and/or for those who just wish to play the sport. This club also wishes to host a variety of charity fundraisers with several national golf associations.

President: Brendan Kimball, bjk311@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Tim Wilkinson, tsw205@lehigh.edu

Gymnastics

The Gymnastics Club is currently a recreational activity to anyone who has experience as well as anyone who is willing to learn. We attend Parkettes Gymnastics located in Allentown twice a week. We intend to become a more competitive club; however, not all members would be required to compete. Anyone is welcomed to come out and participate.

President: Heather Baker,hmb205@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Lisa Baker, lab0@lehigh.edu

Ice Hockey "A"

This club provides a high level of competition for those who wish to participate on a collegiate hockey level. We compete against the teams in the Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association. Our schedule consists of 20 to 25 games, half of which is played at our home rink, Steel Ice Center. Practices are held four times per week and players must provide their own equipment.

President: Marc Silverman, mds207@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Benjamin Wright, bgw1@lehigh.edu

Ice Hockey "B"

The purpose of the Ice Hockey "B" Team is to play competitive hockey against other colleges and universities in the Lehigh Valley. We play about 14 games a year and have 4-6 practices a semester.The main focus of the team is to have fun playing hockey. The "B" team was formed to allow those students who don't have time or the money for the "A" team a chance to still play.

President:Ryan Mliczek,rmm205@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Harvey Stenger, hgs0@lehigh.edu

Lacrosse (Men)

This club is designed for students who want to play serious lacrosse on a collegiate level. The team competes during spring against other club teams within a fifty-mile radius. Practice is scheduled during the week with competition held on weekends.

President: Ricky (Fred) Appel, fca210@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Chris Wakely

Lacrosse (Women)

Lehigh Women's Lacrosse was created for girls to have the availability to play lacrosse competitively but not with all the pressures that go along with the varsity level. Practices and games are scheduled sporadically through the week/weekend for both Fall and Spring. Whether you have played before or not, you are more than welcome to come and join! I guarantee you will not regret joining!

President: Sam Rutman, ssr211@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Dean Koski, dk0f@lehigh.edu

Outing

We are THE outdoors club of Lehigh University. Our activities include rock climbing, hiking, camping, backpacking, skiing, whitewater, and more. Nearly every weekend the club runs trips for its members. We send out emails to all our members with info about trips and anyone interested may come along. Often times no experience is necessary to join a trip. Just willingness to learn and try new and exciting things.

President: Matt Varrelman, mdv210@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Jack Paul, jwp1@lehigh.edu

Paintball

The Paintball Club is an organization that primarily participates in recreational play at local fields, including Skirmish USA, one of the highest ranked fields in the world, and Global Paintball. The Paintball Club also participates in local competitions for those who are interested.

President: Michael Souders, mds510@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Terry Delph, tjd1@lehigh.edu

Ping Pong

Providing a fun and exciting outlet for students who enjoy playing and introducing ping pong to those who are not as familiar with this sport. The main goal of the club is to make ping pong a recognized sport at Lehigh University in which anyone at any level can participate and possibly compete in the future with other schools.

President: Brian Rakanskas, bar211@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Travis Spencer, trs305@lehigh.edu

Roller Hockey

The Lehigh Roller Hockey Club competes in the Tier I division play of the Philadelphia Collegiate Roller Hockey League (PCRHL) against other regional universities.

President: Ilan Beitscher, imb212@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Derick Brown, dgb3@lehigh.edu

Rowing

President: Eric Harper, egh210@lehigh.edu
Advisor:

Rugby (Men)

The Lehigh Men's Rugby Club competes on the Division I Level in the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union. We field two teams, an A Team and a B Team, which both travel together. Men's Rugby is open to all undergraduates. No experience is necessary.

President: Gary Marcelynas, gem210@lehigh.edu
Advisor: David Myers, dhm2@lehigh.edu

Rugby (Women)

Founded in 1994, this club emphasizes fun and fitness as well as competitiveness. Everyone from beginners to veterans are welcome. There is a Fall and Spring season, each consisting of five or six games with A and B sides.

President: Dianna Hank, dmh210@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Chris Mulvihill, cjm9@lehigh.edu

Running

Running Club is a place where everyone can come to meet and run with people who enjoy running.  Runners of all different abilities participate.  We also participate in local road running events, community service, and other club team races. Racing is optional and the club also includes runners who are just looking to stay in shape, meet others, and learn the routes around Lehigh.

President:Ian Moskowitz,ihm211@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Deborah Utesch, deu3@lehigh.edu

Ski Team

The Lehigh Ski Team is open to any interested skiers who would like to train and compete in slalom and giant slalom racing as part of the New Jersey conference of USCSA. Training occurs two days per week, with races at various mountains in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York on the weekends during the 6 week season.

President:Cory Tolkin, cnt210@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Wojchiech Misiolek, wzm2@lehigh.edu

Snowboarding

The Snowboarding Club is open to all interested skiers and snowboarders, including beginners wishing to learn. During the winter season, the club takes two recreational trips per week to local ski resorts within 2 hours of Lehigh’s campus. Near the end of the season, the club travels to one of the larger ski resorts up north for a full weekend of skiing and snowboarding.

President: Anthony Ventura, apv211@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Sharon Field, sc06@lehigh.edu

Soccer (Men)

The Soccer Club consists of roughly 30 members. The top 20 most committed each week are selected to play each weekend against other colleges' club soccer teams. We play other colleges that are within a 3 hour radius of Lehigh. We play about 12 games in the fall including playing in the Regional Tournament, and then we play about 6 games and occasionally enter a tournament in the Spring. During the winter, we practice indoors. Dues may be required depending on the funding from the school.

President:Chris Moyer,cjm610@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Dean Koski, dk0f@lehigh.edu

Soccer (Women)

The Women's Soccer Club consists of about 40 dedicated players who play competitive soccer at the intercollegiate level.

President: Meredith Talbot, met210@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Daniel Norelli, dvn2@lehigh.edu

Squash

President: Esteban Caro, esc212@lehigh.edu
Advisor:

Swimming

President: William Si, wis212@lehigh.edu
Advisor:

Tae Kwon Do

Tae Kwon Do Club practices two times per week and offers additional practice time to students who are interested in competition. Tae Kwon Do Club focuses on developing discipline, strength and flexibility and endurance. We teach self defense for individuals of all levels. We participate in local competitions as well as collegiate tournaments and we encourage all of our students to compete.

President: Steve Ackerman,sra210@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Herman Nied, hfn2@lehigh.edu

Tennis

The tennis club welcomes all levels. There are copmetitive matches, in which, only the top 16-20 players compete. Practices are run in such a way that beginners will excel and have fun as well as those who are more advanced.

President:Zach Biro, zjb211@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Sudhakar Neti, sn01@lehigh.edu

Volleyball (Men)

Men's Volleyball allows students who have played at their respective High Schools the opportunity to play competitive Volleyball against other Universities and Colleges in the area. Hours of practice and hard work, when the gym is available is spent by each member of the club. Lehigh has participated in the National Club Tournament the past few years and has represented the school well, placing 9^th among 48 teams that entered.

President: Alejandro Montoya, alma10@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Ann-Marie Anderson, ama6@lehigh.edu

Volleyball (Women)

President: Katie Johnston,kaj212@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Lisa Baker, lab0@lehigh.edu

Waterpolo

President: Elizabeth Defeo, ewd210@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Mary Jo McNulty, mjd4@lehigh.edu

Weightlifting

Co-President: Michael Arak, mia212@lehigh.edu
Co-President: Armando Berdiel, arb512@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Mary Jo McNulty, mjd4@lehigh.edu

Wrestling

Club wrestling is open to anyone from the beginning wrestler to those who were serious in High School. The club meets 2-3 time a week during the winter and compete against local Clubs and a few Div II schools. Our goal is to continue having fun and enjoying the sport of wrestling.

President: Keith Heidecorn, keh311@lehigh.edu
Advisor: Greg Strobel, gos2@lehigh.edu