Hockey at BSU: What does knowing about the past tell us about the present?

10/13/2020

PLEASE NOTE, THE NEW POLICY FOR READER'S NOTES: For the rest of the semester, you will be responsible for reading, listening, watching whatever the assigned material is on your own time outside of class (this will take you anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour). You should take notes in your in-class writing google.doc to help you remember what you read/watch/listen to.

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Then, in-class, you will write and post to the discussion board. I am making this work due in-class to improve your collective chances at learning how to write about what you are asked to read in a class--I want the focus to be on the learning and not on wether or not you do the assignment. I hope you will see this as the opportunity it is and take advantage of it.

And, keep in mind, the cookie deal is still on the table, even with the new policy.

FOR IN-CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2020: Dr. Andy Holman continues as a Professor of History at BSU. For many years, he also served as coach to the BSU hockey team--which is a club sport at BSU. Make note of how Holman uses the history of the sport (the archival information), stories about the current (current at the time) team, and his own perspective on both to write his essay. This is essentially what you are being asked to do for your archival ethnography of BSU.

For today's post, please write about 1) the archival material that Dr. Holman uses 2) the stories he tells about the current team experience and 3) what he learns from both about what it means to be a student/athlete at BSU. Finally, how does reading Dr Holman's experience help you to think about what to write about in your own paper?

8 Comments

Wicahpi Chaddlesone-Yankton

10/14/2020 09:10:36 am

This Bridgewater State University Article is talking about the Ice Hockey club and the Bridgewater State University Coach. I learned that joining a club sport tends to have it's up and down due to some taking place in odd places and are mostly run poorly. The article talks about Club sports being the baby siblings to the sports teams and students that are on different athletic students. Dr.Holam tends to use different Ice Hockey stats and history about ice hockey games. Such as march madness and different Ice Hockey tournaments. He also talks about the different NCAA rules committee and the rules being change over time also he had interviewed the alumni about the Hockey team and how it was like during their time at Bridgewater State University. The coach is named Andrew Holman and he has been a part of the Bridgewater state ice hockey club and it taught him new skills about teaching and leading students. Also, he claims that playing and joining an Ice Hockey club will teach the students who join to earn new skills. Dr.Holman said at the beginning of the article that during a January 2004 game, he learned that the likeness of the team was in the uniforms for the team and how having a uniform made the team feel good and great. He learns that teaching and learning happen in different types of fields at Bridgewater State University and different levels of sports organization for Athletes. He learns that students slowly build their skills that include courage, poise, and trust in their teammates. I feel that Dr.Holmans experience does help me with my paper because he was breaking down his article into parts that are much easier to see and understand as a whole and he used different info.

Alexis Maldonado

10/14/2020 09:44:06 am

This article is talking about a Bridgewater state university coach and his experiences as a coach for hockey as well as the history of club hockey and where it began. He explains that club sports are looked as less then varsity sports. He states that club sports are ignored and because of that they have to deal and make do with less. Club hockey started as a motive tied to student interest. The students played and represented Bridgewater in a rewarding way. They wanted to play for Bridgewater instead of going off campus because they took pride in their school. The hockey alumni are the biggest supporters of the hockey club. The coach explains that he learns a lot from the experiences and has learned more than preparing for a lecture or things of that sort. He explains that the students face adversity when they play away games because they are not actually a varsity team, but the students handle it with class because they realize they are not only representing themselves but the school and the club. He learns that even though club and varsity sports are looked at different you can still learn the same values no matter what.

Emily Bachman

10/14/2020 10:53:40 am

The archival material that Dr. Holman used was talking about the school teams’ alumni from BSU’s team from when it was a varsity sport from 1970-1980. In this article from the Bridgewater Review, it talks about how the presence of the “friends of BSC hockey” informs the current team members that they are basically walking down a “well-worn path”, which basically means that they are not forgotten. The stories that he tells about the current team was the stuff that they had to face like getting called names like trailer trash. He also talks about the point of wearing the jersey, that they were representing the school as the hockey team. They were trying to show that they have good sportsmanship. Basically, what they were doing was they weren’t going to answer back to the bad behavior of the other people who were calling them names. Not only does he talk about the current team’s experience, but he also talks about how he learned more about how to be a teacher as a coach than actually teaching. Reading Dr. Holman’s experience helped me realize that I don’t have to just use the archives that we have used in class but I can also use other things about the school like learning more about the history and using other archives like the creed and the mission statement to write my essay. It may even be beneficial to talk to other students about the topics I am writing about in my essay like maybe some older students that have been going to the school longer than me.

Laura Schnitzer

10/14/2020 01:49:49 pm

In the article Teaching and Learning in Cold Places Ice at Bridgewater State College by Andrew C. Holman we learn about his own experiences in the game of hockey. He uses archives to explain why he learned more as a hockey coach. The archives Dr. Holman used “Bowl week”, “March Madness” and the “Frozen Four''. These archives are past history events that the author uses to explain why Dr. Holman learned more as a coach than a hockey player. Dr. Holman talks about how his students on either the club hockey team or the Bridgewater State University Hockey Team Division 3 are team players. It does not make a difference on which team these individuals are on; they all have the same goal and it is that they are determined to succeed. The author states that this is applicable to now as well. He put the spotlight on the importance of what being on a team involves. Sports are an integral part of Dr. Holman's life and this showed throughout the article. I believe that this is what the author Dr. Holman learned from him being a hockey coach. This article we read can also tie into how we can write our 1500 word essay on Archival Ethnography of Bridgewater State University. I am going to touch upon what I am involved in on campus along with the history of Bridgewater State University. As well as current history that has hindered the way many students including myself at Bridgewater State University are learning.

Allyson Spencer

10/14/2020 01:58:20 pm

This article is about one of Bridgewater State University’s professors and his experiences as the club hockey teams’ coach. Dr. Andy Holman uses a couple different archival materials throughout his article. He uses the 2004 game and also talks about the history of the game as a whole. He talks about the different traditions like “Bowl week,” “March Madness,” and “Frozen Four.” Dr. Holman also talks to some of the hockey team alumni. In the article Dr. Andy Holman talks about his own coaching experiences. He talks about how when his team has their jerseys on, they are representing Bridgewater State University. Even when the team was called names like “Trailer Trash” and “Safety School” they stayed respectful, did not fight back and showed good sportsmanship. Andy Holman has learned more about being a teacher by coaching than he has by doing lectures or grading. He also talks about how club athletes learn a lot about the world. This could help write my own paper because it provides something about BSU that isn’t in the archives. This article talks about Bridgewater State University’s history which could provide another way that the school has changed over the years.

kaia souza

10/14/2020 02:10:56 pm

This article is talking about the Bridgewater state university's ice hockey club and their coach Dr. Andy Holman, we also learn all about the past of the sport being played inside and outside of Bridgewater. Dr. Holman tells us about his experience as being a coach of the team and shares a few stories. One story that he shares is how he learned the importance of jerseys. During the 2004 game he learned that when the team has jersey it makes them feel more as a team and make them feel good, it unites them and they are able to represent the school. Being a coach was also able to help him as a teacher in the classroom by learning skills with this he was not the only one that was able to gain skills he also claimed that playing with the team gives them skills that they can use as students. Reading Dr. Holman's article is going to help me in my essay because I am going to be talking a little bit about the different aspects of being apart of Bridgewater State and a big part of that is sports and I think his article will be very helpful because he was not only a coach but a teacher and he was able to learn and grow with the students.

tk okla

10/16/2020 05:22:30 am

In the essay by Dr. Andy Holeman, he uses many different archives which discuss the history of the sport. Some archives he uses is when he talks about the history of Hockey itself played outside of Bridgewater State University but called Bridgewater State College at the time.Hockey came to Bridgewater because of the amount of interest the students had, which is normal for many schools. In 1998 a student named Greg Rich brought 25 students together and formed a hockey group. They then went on to book games and practices but didn’t get a coach for the team so that the school could recognize them. He also talks about the 2004 Big Game where the students played against a local team at the Bridgewater Ice Arena. He also includes details about the hockey game at Bridgewater before it was stopped and restarted. The meaning of of what it is to put the jersey on and represent a school with young men rising to the occasion.

Essiah Marcial

10/16/2020 07:58:45 am

This article is about one of Bridgewater State University’s professors and his experiences as the club hockey teams’ coach. He uses archives to explain why he learned more as a hockey coach. The archives Dr. Holman used “Bowl week”, “March Madness” and the “Frozen Four''. These archives are past history events that the author uses to explain why Dr. Holman learned more as a coach than a hockey player. He states that club sports are ignored and because of that they have to deal and make do with less. Club hockey started as a motive tied to student interest. The students played and represented Bridgewater in a rewarding way. They wanted to play for Bridgewater instead of going off campus because they took pride in their school. The hockey alumni are the biggest supporters of the hockey club. The coach explains that he learns a lot from the experiences and has learned more than preparing for a lecture or things of that sort. He explains that the students face adversity when they play away games because they are not actually a varsity team, but the students handle it with class because they realize they are not only representing themselves but the school and the club. He learns that even though club and varsity sports are looked at different you can still learn the same values no matter what.

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