Team North Side WINS the Intramural Open!What an OUTSTANDING OPEN! It was a magical 3 weeks with so many firsts and bests by all of our amazing athletes. For our Intramural in-gym Open we divided the entire gym into two giant teams based on where everyone tends to workout. The North Side (the original side of the gym) or the South Side (the side we expanded into.) Each team was split evenly with 25 people and the Coaches were dispersed evenly across each team. Team South Side started so strong earning 60 pre-season points to North Side's 46. In year's past the pre-season point spread is usually too big to overcome. NOT THIS YEAR! Team North Side came out strong in week 1 and beat South Side by 10 points. The Spirit of the Open award for Week 1 was split between Aliesha and Rainy who attended their VERY FIRST CrossFit class that Friday. They were both on Team South Side. Team North Side narrowed their lead to only 4 points going into week 2. In week 2 Team South Side took a painful beating by Team North Side! Team North Side earned 104 points for 23.2 while South side earned only 84. The Spirit of the Open points were awarded to Cat Angell who did the entire Open AT HOME and was judged remotely by her sister Laurel. Cat was on Team South Side. However, North Side's slaughter of team South Side created HUGE momentum going into week 3. In week 3 Team North Side creamed South Side by 23 points. They had a big gathering of athletes at our Friday Night Lights Finale and that big turn-out helped. Throughout the entire 2023 Open Team North Side had only 1 teammate who didn't participate whereas Team South Side had 5 people who didn't earn any points. Remember, you earn 2 points for your team just by showing up on Friday! Those are important points that make a big difference to your team. The Spirit of the Open points were awarded to Chris in the 6am class. He did the Open workout just hours it was announced on Thursday. He was judged by me (Coach Leslie) and I COMPLETELY messed up his progress and stopped him at 6 mins when he should have kept going. His reply to my mistake, "Oh well, there's always next year." Now that IS the spirit of the Open! Here's how each person contributed to their teams. I hope you all had as much fun as I did! We will REPEAT ALL of the 2023 Open workouts this August. I call it the REOPEN. That's our chance at redemption:)
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