<p>I was wondering, how competitive are the intramural sports at most colleges? Do you have to try out for them? For example I play basketball with some friends a few times a week and would like to play intramurally but am not on my high school team.</p>
<p>Depending on the college, there are probably different levels of intramural sports- suited to the newcomers, the off-and-on players and the just-less-than team material (or maybe team material that doesn't have time for a real team).</p>
<p>Intramurals are usually not competitive at all. Usually "open to anyone". Club sports usually have tryouts which are generally more competitive.</p>
<p>Intramural leagues are usually not too competative, but if they are, just find a group of friends and play basketball (or any other sport) in your spare time with them. There will always be hours during the week in which a gymnasium is open for anyone to use it. Even at my school, where we only have one gymnasium, these hours are easy to find.</p>
<p>Intramurals, however, are a good way to meet people who share a common bond (your sport).</p>
<p>Essentially intramurals are like finding a group of friends and playing a sport, except that you don't have to go out and find an opponent. Here most intramural matches end up between fraternities or sororities - though there are independent teams as well.</p>
<p>It will vary a lot, and it will depend on the campus. If you go to a larger campus, there will be enough teams to put warrant putting them into divisions, but probably not at some small schools except for the popular sports like softball and basketball.</p>
<p>At my big state school alma mater, there were divisions A - D with A being the most competitive and D being just for fun. These divisions were within larger groupings of Co-ed, Open, Fraternity and Sorority sections. So I often times played Fraternity B broomball or Fraternity A outdoor soccer.</p>
<p>But again it will vary on the size of your school and the popularity of intramurals.</p>
<p>and how will u know which level you belong to?
can u play at one level first, and if u feel its too easy, move up?
cause the leagues have teams, so i'm not sure its so easy to ditch teams and find new ones</p>
<p>I went to where I was comfortable. I played soccer in HS so A made sense. </p>
<p>Who wouldn't want to dominate for a while. Obviously not sandbag, but you know...be good.</p>
<p>The biggest thing between the divisions wasn't actually skill level, but how serious you were going to take it, how hard you were going to try. Some of the A level fraternity divisions were just absolutely cutthroat and very intense.</p>