Of the nine clubs that competed over the past weekend, three were victorious.
    
The men’s rugby club defeated Vanderbilt 61-3, the bowling club won the No-Tap tournament at Virginia Tech, as well as taking the awards for Best Doubles Team and Best Single Bowler, and the water polo club defeated Kentucky in Lexington.
    
One club that also competed was the ski and snowboard club. The club competes in the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association Southeastern Region race series, facing teams from colleges across the region.
    
“Last year I went to Beech one weekend, and I realized while I was there that I wanted to get our ski club into that kind of environment,” Haley Merritt, club president and a junior in finance, said. “It’s basically a lot of people coming together to hang out and do something that we love, both on and off the mountain. I think that is the coolest thing about skiing. I’m sad that it will be over after this weekend, because I won’t get to see many of these people until next year.”
    
The ski and snowboard club will travel to Bayse, Va. this weekend for the final installment of this year’s USCSA race series. The club is open to competitive as well as recreational members with any level of experience.
    
“If you ski or snowboard, you should join,” Merritt said. “These trips are open to everyone, not just the competitors. You don’t even have to go to every trip. We would love to get you involved. It is as involved as you want it to be, and we are open to everyone.”
    
Another club that will compete this weekend is the gymnastics club. The club is only a few years old, but has already had great success at both the regional and national levels. This weekend the club will travel to James Madison University to compete in the Duke Dog Classic.
    
“The Duke Dog Classic is an annual competition held by James Madison University every February,” Kasey Jackson, club president and a senior in nutrition, said. “This weekend will be our second year attending. The Duke Dog Classic is a good warm-up meet for our spring competition season because it is very casual, but it is also well-attended by some of the more competitive teams, so it gives us a good idea of how we stack up against the competition.”
    
Though gymnastics is popular at many colleges nationwide and is even an NCAA sanctioned sport, gymnastics sometimes goes unnoticed at UT, something the club is working towards changing.
    
“As one of the founders, I wanted to continue gymnastics and expose others to how fun and fulfilling it can be,” Tim Michaels, president of the men’s club and senior in math, said. “Gymnastics is very different from most popular sports. For one, it is primarily individual. It’s you versus the equipment. You get one chance to hit your routine, and to succeed you can’t specialize, you must be good at every event.”
    
The gymnastics club placed in the top 10 in each of their last two bids for the national title.
    
Clubs that will compete this weekend include the men’s rugby club playing the University of Florida at Gainesville. The equestrian club will compete in the MTSU Hunt Seat Invitational in Murfreesboro. The ice hockey club will play Georgia Tech and Mississippi State in Franklin, Tenn. The roller hockey club will play in the Chattanooga League series. The sailing club will race in the SAISA Open in St. Petersburg, Fla. The swim club will travel to the Charlottesville for a tournament at the University of Virginia. The women’s volleyball club will play in the Virginia Tech tournament in Blacksburg.
   
 The men’s lacrosse club will host Tennessee Wesleyan and Sewanee on Saturday in a round robin tournament. Game times are UT vs. Tennessee Wesleyan at 10 a.m., Tennessee Wesleyan vs. Sewanee at 12:30 p.m., and UT vs. Sewanee at 3:30 p.m. All three games will be played on the RecSports fields and are open to spectators free of charge.