The Omnibus

Issue date: 5/4/07 Section: In the Spotlight

Media Credit: Keegan Evans Junior Cory Rutledge competes in the obstacle course, one of many competitions during the outdoor challenge. The outdoor challenge was held Tuesday, May 1. Due to the rain, the paintball target competition and fire-building contest were canceled.

Campus Apartments hosted Southwest Baptist University's annual outdoor challenge Tuesday, May 1.
The outdoor challenge was rained out last week, and most of its activities were rained out this week. But, despite the inclimate weather, the event carried on.
This year, the challenge was supposed to include a tent-pitching contest, a fire-building contest, an obstacle course and a paintball target practice. Due to the rain, the paintball and fire building contests were canceled.
The tent-pitching competition was held first. It was a single elimination tournament that tested a team's ability to go from bag to fully-functioning tent.
The winners were junior John Moore and sophomore Steve Miller. Each won a tent and the title of fastest tent pitchers at SBU. The team set up the tent in 3 minutes and 12 seconds.
The obstacle course was designed to challenge physical strength, agility and the ability to plow through the army crawl obstacle.
The "runner" had a backpack with a sandbag in it, and they had to walk across a wet two-rope bridge toting the weighted bag. After crossing the bridge, students went through a low-crawl section that was handily destroyed by the last challenger. They ran across the field to another tree to do pull ups. Then they climbed a tree, did push ups in the gazebo and returned to the starting line.
The prize for the fire-building competition was a Coleman stove. This was raffled due to rain. The rest of the prizes were awarded to the winner of a rock-paper-scissors competition, Jessyka Rodgers. She was won a six-person tent.
The rain proved to be the biggest challenge, but the general idea has many students awaiting next year's competition.
"I will definitely do this next year, if they have it," said Moore.

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