The Ball State Quidditch Team is away this weekend competing in the 2019 U.S. Quidditch Great Lakes Collegiate Regional Championship. In 2017, BSU secured first place and this year the team is looking to reach that height once again. Max Jolly, a senior architecture major, and head coach of the quidditch team at BSU, said he’s confident in this year’s team. “I’m personally feeling really good about how the team is going into regionals. We’ve improved a ton over this season, and we’ve had a lot of really positive feedback from the quidditch community… This weekend we’re going to be bringing a full roster (21 athletes) and I think everyone is really going in with the right mindset,” Jolly said. Jolly used this week’s practices to prepare for regionals. For the Oct. 29 practice, the team scrimmaged for the entirety of practice to get as much playing time as possible. Then, for the Oct. 31 practice, the team had a game film night to study up on their competition. “It’s going to be difficult; teams always bring their a-game to regionals. It’s the most important tournament of this semester. Everybody is gunning to get a bid for nationals and trying to get that first-place spot at regionals, that’s the excitement of it,” Jolly said. Favian Cervantes, a senior architecture major, and a chaser for the quidditch team at BSU, recently joined the team and hasn’t ever played quidditch before. Cervantes is both excited and a bit nervous to travel to regionals. “Honestly, I think it’s (regionals) going to be times 10 of what I’ve had in my mind at least. We’ll see this weekend, but I’m expecting to see a lot of people hyped for regionals and trying to reach that next level,” Cervantes said. 14 teams are scheduled to compete at the Great Lakes regional championship according to U.S. Quidditch.
- Ball State Cardinals
- BearTrain Quidditch
- Bowling Green State University
- Carnegie Mellon Quidditch Club
- Cleveland State University Vikings
- Grand Valley Grindylows
- Indiana State University Quidditch
- Indiana University Quidditch Club
- Miami University (OH) Quidditch
- Michigan Quidditch Team
- Michigan State Quidditch
- Ohio University Quidditch Club
- Quidditch Club of Pittsburgh
- WVU Summit