Volleyball Championship

If it’s not because of the game, Chrysler Arena would still only be a name for me. I had only recently found out that the sports building next to the last stop of the Southbound Commuter houses a multipurpose court, which is the home for both our basketball and volleyball team (though I might have subconsciously knew this all the while).

I watched the game which Michigan played Miami. Just like other sports, we had our band playing at the side of the court, with the cheerleading group cheering in front of them. Surprisingly, Miami had its own band stationed at the opposite too, and they even had an eagle like mascot. Although I had absolutely no idea how good we were, we played pretty well that day, beating Miami in 3 straight sets. I supposed that we should be not bad at all, judging from the performance. In my very very humble opinion, this match was much more enjoyable than the football match (first of all, we won, and plus, we could sit :D)


Volleyball Championship


Cheerleading team


Our girls in action...

The Michigan Experience

Big House!!!

My Michigan experience would not be complete without having cheered alongside with a 100000-strong crowd in the Big House. Hence, although I’m not a very avid fan of football (still think that soccer beats it), I attended the Michigan-Oregon game, the 2nd game of our season.

The crowd was huge, and the people swarm into the stadium in all directions, particularly from the South State Street. The frats of course could not possibly give up this chance to be rowdy; shouts and cheers came incessantly from the frat houses along the street. Most of the students wore yellow, one of the official colors of our school.

That day we got in quite late, hence the stadium was already quite full. It was simply amazing to see one tenth of a million people all packed in the bowl. That’s about 90% of the population of Ann Arbor, if I’m not mistaken. Though we cheered and cheered, Michigan lost that day, and it was an ugly loss. We got trashed 39-7, and that was after what deemed to be the biggest upset in the history of college football, in which we lost to Appalachian State home a week earlier. As a side-note, Michigan did pretty well after that (not good enough though), and managed to get into the Capital Bowl for the post-season.


Walking to the stadium


Michigan Band playing


Final score. Embarassing...