{"id":373414,"date":"2022-08-02T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=373414"},"modified":"2022-08-02T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:00:45","slug":"triton-athletics-releases-2022-tryout-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/triton-athletics-releases-2022-tryout-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Triton Athletics releases 2022 tryout schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_373400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373400\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/UOG-pixwb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/UOG-pixwb.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-373400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of Guam\u2019s Triton Athletics will conduct men\u2019s soccer tryouts on Aug. 15 and 16 from 4pm to 6pm at the soccer\/rugby field.(TRITRON ATHLETICS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of Guam has set their fall semester varsity sport tryout schedule for the Triton Athletics and Field House Department. UOG will start with basketball tryouts first and end their tryouts with women\u2019s indoor volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so happy that we could return to the athletic fields and courts in the spring of 2022 and now in the fall, we plan on expanding the program to seven sports and hopefully we can play 10 sports in a couple of years,\u201d said UOG Athletic director Doug Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>Triton Athletics has brought back the women\u2019s volleyball program, both the full six player indoor version and the two-player beach version as well. Triton Athletics hopes to play men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer, men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball, baseball, women\u2019s rugby, and women\u2019s volleyball in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer says that men\u2019s volleyball and men\u2019s rugby will be high on the list of new sports for 2023-24 academy year as well as a women\u2019s softball team too, plus cross country and maybe some other sports depending on the potential student interest in them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The following are the dates and times for fall tryouts:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indoor sports<\/strong><br \/>\n\u25a0 Women\u2019s basketball<br \/>\nAug. 15-16\tField<br \/>\nHouse\t7pm-9:30pm<br \/>\n\u25a0  Men\u2019s basketball<br \/>\nAug. 15-16\tField<br \/>\n House 7pm-9:30pm<br \/>\n\u25a0  Women\u2019s volleyball<br \/>\nSept. 6 Field House<br \/>\n 7pm-9:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outdoor sports<\/strong><br \/>\n\u25a0 Men\u2019s soccer<br \/>\nAug. 15-16 soccer\/rugby<br \/>\n field\t4pm 6pm<br \/>\n\u25a0  Women\u2019s soccer Aug.<br \/>\n16-17\tsoccer\/rugby<br \/>\n field 4pm 6pm<br \/>\n\u25a0 Women\u2019s rugby Aug.<br \/>\n 18-19\tsoccer\/rugby field<br \/>\n 4pm 6pm<br \/>\n\u25a0 Women\u2019s beach VB<br \/>\nAug. 18-19 Jimmy Dee<br \/>\nbeach courts\t4pm to<br \/>\n 6pm<br \/>\n\u25a0 Baseball\tAug. 25-26<br \/>\nGeorge Washington<br \/>\nHS 4pm 6pm<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully all our sports will be up and running and playing games by October and this will be the biggest year of UOG varsity sports since we re-started the program 2016,\u201d said Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s basketball program is scheduled to be the first team to play in the fall, with a Sept. 7 date set for their opening game, most other sports will start after the Labor Day weekend with hopefully all sports playing their fall seasons by the first weekend in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For questions and more information, contact Doug Palmer at palmerd@triton.uog.edu or call at (671)735-2862. <em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Guam has set their fall semester varsity sport tryout schedule for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":373398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}