LB sports: to go or not to go?

At A Glance
Who: LBCC students
What: reasons for not attending LB sporting events
Reasons: OSU, lack of knowing, no relation to athlete.
When: this year at LBCC
Change? will there be a change in fan attendance?


Why do students at Linn Benton not attend LBCC sports? It’s a question that I think most people would ask, along with many athletes. Last year I attended OSU full time, but this year thought I’d try the Degree Partnership Program. So in my first term taking class at LB I wonder one thing: Why doesn’t anyone attend LB sports? I know people may ask why I think no one goes, but get this, last year I was one of the maybe 5 people at attendance at a LB baseball game ( I was there in support if a friend on the opposing team). So I ask why? Erika Woosley, a sophomore student, sad this “I don’t go to LB sports because I can go to the OSU games. Why would I pass up being at a big college game? The whole atmosphere is intense!” Most students who are enrolled at LB can get tickets to OSU sporting events a measly 10 miles away. OSU is a Division-I school in probably one of the hardest divisions in college football, The Pac-10. LB doesn’t seem to compare one bit. Molly Zook, a junior at OSU stated, “I’m so used to going to OSU sports, I don’t think I would go to an LB sporting event, it just wouldn’t be the same”. Zook later went on to say, “I don’t have anything against LB sports and I wish them all good luck this season”. So is that it? Just because students at LB can go to OSU event doesn’t mean they can’t go to a LBCC athletic event. So what next? I began asking students what would make them go to a LB sporting event. “If I knew more of the people on the teams I feel like I would go in support of them”, Expressed Hailee Smith, a student dual enrolled. “Because come on who wouldn’t want to support their friends?” Woosley suggested “maybe if they advertised them more, I never hear of anything going on sports wise at LB”. So I say this. LB athletes, let yourself be known. Make friends, because then they will come support you, tell your classes when your next match or game is, do something to let people know about your team. And LB students, take a chance, go and support your fellow classmates even if it’s just for a few minutes. You never know you may start a trend and going to LBCC sporting events will become the “thing to do”.