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Spring 2009


Leagues

Basketball:
Registration for the 5v5 Basketball League will be February 11-15. The league be played on Sunday nights and will kick off on February 17.

Note: Feel free to show up and play, even if you haven’t registered.

Ultimate Frisbee:
An Ultimate Frisbee League will be forming during the spring. All games will be played on Panther Field. Registration dates and the day of the week it will be played will be announced at a later date.

Sand Volleyball:
A Sand Volleyball league will be formed during the spring. All games will be played on the outdoor volleyball court. Registration dates and the day of the week it will be played will be announced at a later date.


One Time Events

  • Table Tennis, Foosball, and Billiards will be played in the Underground on Monday nights from 7-9. The event will be rotated every week starting with Table Tennis. Prizes will be given to the champion for each week.
  • 3v3 Basketball will be played in the spring. The event date is TBA.
  • Sand Volleyball will be played in the spring. The event date is TBA.
  • 4 Man Golf Scramble will be played in the spring. The event date is TBA.
  • Futsal will be played in the spring. The event date is TBA.
  • 5K Run/Walk will be held in the spring. The event date is TBA


Intramural Director

WILLY MERRICK, HEAD COACHCoach Merrick

Willy Merrick enters his first season at Ohio Dominican University as the head men's soccer coach and Director of Intramurals. Merrick spent the previous three seasons as the top assistant to former head coach Eric Nichols and will inherit a team he is familiar with and helped to build in the past three seasons. Merrick becomes the eighth head coach in Panther history.

The Panthers went 19-3-0 in 2007 and made their first trip to the national tournament in school history. With a number of years of coaching experience, Merrick brings a wealth of knowledge and leadership to the Panthers helm this season.

Prior to joining the Panther staff, Merrick spent five years as the head varsity soccer coach at Thomas Worthington High School. During that time, he led the team to the 2001 State Championship, 2002 State runner-up, the Regional runner-up two consecutive years and earned a sixth place spot on the National Top 25 Boys High School Soccer poll. In 2000, Merrick was named the Ohio Capital Conference Coach of the Year. In addition to Thomas Worthington, Merrick held coaching positions for the Westerville North High School soccer team and the Eagles Soccer Club of Upper Arlington.

Merrick spent seven years playing professional soccer with the Buffalo Blizzards, the Columbus XOGGZ of the United States Independent Soccer League (USISL), the Cincinnati Silverbacks, the Lexington Bandits (USISL) and the Indiana Blast (USISL).

He began playing collegiate soccer with the University of Rio Grande before transferring to Marshall University where he was a three year letterwinner in soccer and football. In 1992, he was a member of the Division I-AA National Championship football team at Marshall.

Merrick and his wife, Joyce, reside in Dublin with his three step-children, Austin, Andrick and Ashley.



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