BC fall sports come back for more – The Renegade Rip

BC kicked off the start of fall semester sports on Aug. 20 with captains and coaches of each fall sport at the Rio Bravo Country Club. Teams that made an appearance at BC’s media day were women’s and men’s soccer, women’s volleyball, cross country, golf, and men’s wrestling and football. Unlike any other BC media day, this year featured both BC’s new women’s water polo team and new interim athletic director, Ayanna Tweedy.

Head coach of the women’s water polo team is communications professor Bryan Hirayama. Hirayama has had this project in the works with the athletics department for quite some time and has now finally been able to put it into action.

“We’ve been working on this, myself and athletic director Reggie Bolten for about, I don’t know, eight years or so trying to bring water polo and this October he told me it was a go and to just start trying to make things happen,” Hirayama stated.

Although water polo has just begun, there will only be three home games at BC, with the first home game on Sept. 17 against L.A. Valley.

BC’s media day also welcomed new interim athletic director, Tweedy, who was previously at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where she was Director of Athletics. Participating in sports at a young age allowed her to discover opportunities that would later lead her to an interest in furthering her career in sports and athleticism.

Tweedy is now most looking forward to starting the year with goals of gaining more funding and involvement for BC’s sports programs, as well as more growth opportunities for coaches and teams.

“There’s definitely some programming that we can bring to our student athletes, enhancing the student athlete development piece where we can bring in different people from different career paths, having opportunities where coaches can be part of different professional growth, those are some things I want to explore a little bit better,” Tweedy said.