Pride, spirit and a tradition of excellence are at the core of athletics at Lake Forest College. They’re a big part of campus life: more than 60 percent of students here participate in varsity, intramural or club sports, and home games are filled with fans from campus and the surrounding community.” For a Division 3 school, we love our sports. There’s just nothing quite like forester athletics.
1. Introducing yourself by name and sport
With more than 60 percent of students being athletes here at the college, we all know it’s pretty common to introduce yourself by not only name but the sport in which you play as well.
2. Each sports team has their own table in the caf
It might seem a little caddy, however, we just can’t seem to get enough of spending time with our teammate and often times gravitate towards one another in the caf.
3. You attend every sporting event
With such a large pool of student-athletes on campus, sports teams tend to support other teams by attending their home competitions.
4. And hard core chirp all the other teams
Apologies to all the other teams who compete in the Midwest conference but we love our foresters.
5. Your not offended when die league might be taken more seriously than your varsity sport
Let’s be honest we take our die very seriously.
6. However, we all know the struggle of being dry during season
Rather it’s 24 hours, 48 hours, or an entire season depending on sport, we all know the struggle.
7. When football wins a game and campus burns to the ground
Our football team may not have the best record, however, when we do win, our boys sure do know how to celebrate.
8. If you don’t know someone chances are there a NARP
With over half of our school being involved in athletics, it’s easy to assume that everyone’s an athlete.
9. We’re a D3 school with D1 handball team
How did this happen?
10. Which is the whiniest team on campus yet no one cares
With 50 collegiate national championships, one would think it would be the talk of the school however, it’s just another part of forester athletics.
11. Everyone knows G-bo. The man, the myth, the legend
Our athletic trainer is better than yours.
12. You know the struggle of morning workouts in offseason
Nothing like an early morning run…until it consists of endless sprints, burpees, and lifting.
13. And then the struggle of going straight to class sweaty
8AM class no worries you’ll be out of here by 7:50 just complete these sprints real quick before you sprint off to class.
14. Our stats realistically mean nothing yet we’re constantly checking them
Goforesters.com is most likely in our top searches.
15. Every athlete knows that traveling to Iowa sucks
Rather it’s Grinnell, or Cornell, nothing about that trip screams fun, not even the “world’s largest truck stop”.
16. Last practice is the best practice
It’s the practice we all look forward to. It’s a time to be idiots and reflect and celebrate all that we’ve accomplished over the season without beloved teammates.
