The afternoon sun beats down on the South Quad, where six black rings – three at each end of a coned-off area – stand vertically on the top of white PVC pipes, all at varying heights. Students run ...

Because they are part of a club and not a school-sanctioned athletic team or recreational sport, quidditch players get last dibs on field sign-ups, Dever said.</p> <p>"At large schools, particularly ...

Given its unconventional and recent origins in the fictional book series Harry Potter, quidditch doesn't always get the same respect as more traditional college sports. However, as one of the only ...

Brandon Spence stood on Hume Field at the University of Florida a Saturday morning with a PVC pipe between his legs. And he wasn’t the only one. Spence, a 20-year-old UF junior, was giving orders to ...

MIAMI — Quidditch is part soccer, part basketball, part dodge ball, and all fantasy — or at least it used to be. The hybrid game was invented by author J.K. Rowling and, until recently, only played by ...

The Creighton University quidditch team has qualified for the national tournament and is asking for the public's help funding their trip.The team hopes to raise $5,000 and, as of Sunday night, had ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — For three years straight, the University of Texas at Austin quidditch team was at the top of the sport, winning the U.S. Quidditch Cup from 2013-2015 and helping transform the sport ...

The fast-paced fantasy sport played by wizards and witches in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" universe has stepped out of fantasy and cemented itself as a trophy-winning competitive game at the ...

Laurel Perweiler is a fifth-year computer science major and an active quidditch player for the RIT quidditch club. Quidditch originated from the fictional game depicted in the Harry Potter series ...

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When Lindsay Kohan was tackled, she didn't initially go down. But, mid-tackle, she tripped over her stick and fell backward on her head. It took the University of Maryland student several days before ...