By Tyler Brandli-Hale
Staff Writer

When does the Cornerstone University volleyball team play, anyway?

Now, without taking the time to look up the schedule online, Head Coach Ryan Campbell and his team are attempting to increase campus awareness of when the games are.

This year, on game days, the CU volleyball players can be seen wearing bright green T-shirts. On the front, the shirts say “CU Volleyball” while on the back they read “Game Night 7 p.m.”

The coach and his players wanted to bring more attention to this year’s team in order to encourage fans to come out and increase support on game days.

“Coach Campbell really wants to promote our team. He has come up with some good ideas that will help us do that,” freshman player Marissa Bliss said.

Campbell is the one who came up with the idea to wear the shirts on game days. He felt that the team should help promote their games. He wanted something that would easily draw attention to his players on game days so that other students on campus would be aware that the volleyball team would be playing that evening.

“The green shirts are for standing out and promoting our game days,” Campbell said.

The idea for the bright green color was thought of by Marci Blacquiere, a senior for the Golden Eagles volleyball team.

Blacquiere thought that the bright green color would be good for the T-shirts because the color would more easily draw attention to what the T-shirts say.

In addition to the green T-shirts, Campbell thought of theme nights for the team’s home games this year.

Each home game will have a different theme, in which the fans that come to the game are encouraged to wear a certain color or type of clothing to help support the team and have some fun.

These theme nights are supposed to create a fun and energetic time for the fans attending the game.

The nights will vary from Hawaiian night to camouflage night.

Campbell thought the theme nights would be a good way to encourage students and other fans to attend the games, as well as serve as a good way to get the fans at the game to become actively involved.

“The theme nights are just to create a fun atmosphere,” Campbell said.

There are flyers placed around various places on campus so that students are able to check when the home games are taking place and also to tell what the theme for the upcoming games will be.

Also, the team has been giving away different things on these theme nights, such as free Hawaiian leis to the first 144 fans that came to the game on Sept. 29, or a pair of sunglasses for the first 36 fans that came out to support the team on Homecoming for 80’s night on Oct. 7.

Campbell hopes that these theme nights along with the green T-shirts will help to promote the volleyball team and draw more people to more of the team’s games this year.