2008 Woodie Awards
UD Sports Cribs: rugby
by Casey Tilton
Issue date: 10/19/07 Section: Sports
The tall red-brick house sits inconspicuously among the other houses on East Park Place. On the outside, it looks like any other house on a college campus but thanks to its residents, it is far from ordinary on the inside.
Rugby teammates, seniors Kurt Schmidt and Ryan Morris, along with housemates Chris Reardon and Seth Hillstrom, have set up a college student's dream living room. Couches line three walls and face the fourth stark white wall, which is used as a screen for the projector that the players mounted on the back wall.
The 5-by-7 foot television projection, which is complimented by a sound system, is most often set to ESPN and HBO, Schmidt and Morris said. The roommates often spend time playing "Madden" and "Halo 3" on the big screen.
"At first we didn't know if we were going to have a TV-it's been pretty nice," Schmidt said.
To finish off the room, a life-sized Patrick Swayze poster greets friends when they walk into the house.
Though the four housemates have different class schedules, they find time to eat meals together, including breakfast on Saturday's before rugby matches. Morris said he often rummages through the kitchen cabinets to find breakfast foods he did not even know were in the house.
"Wow. We have all kinds of cereal," he said with a smile.
Morris, nicknamed "Peho" by the rugby team, sleeps in his own room on the second floor of the house. His cabinet is filled with more than 100 CDs from a variety of genres including music from Herbie Hancock and The Black Lips. He said a clash of music exists in the house because everyone likes different types.
"Peho listens to 'bongo music,' Chris listens to rap and I listen to Guns N' Roses and Motley Crue," Schmidt said.
The third floor, aptly named "The Attic" in a drawing on the wall by former residents, consists of one large room where Schmidt sleeps. The low, slanted ceiling and tilted chimney running through the middle of the room gives the space a unique look.
Be the first to comment on this story