Student Affairs' Summer Olympics

By Ralph Freso

Nine Student Affairs departments participated in the pickleball portion of the Summer Olympics at the Canyon Activity Center on Wednesday, May 27. The games span nine weeks, with a different sport or game played each week.

  • Mike Fox, representing Campus Recreation, returns a shot during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center as part of the Summer Olympics for Student Affairs departments.
  • Emma Hamilton, representing Student Engagement, returns a shot during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Student Engagement’s Anthony Vela hits a shot during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Community Standards' Hunter Powell hits a shot during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Gillian Neufeld, representing Spiritual Life, returns a shot during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Student Care’s Anderson Park tries to drop a shot on his opponents during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • The paddle of a Spiritual Life team member provides a little inspiration during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Spiritual Life teammates Gillian Neufeld (left) and Alexis Lopez celebrate a point during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Some people will do anything to get their photo taken during the Summer Olympics pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activities Center.
  • Welcome Programs' Garrett Abeyta hits an underhand shot during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Spiritual Life’s Alexis Lopez tries to save a point during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Players from opposing departments huddle together to pray before their match during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Taylor Alvarado of Student Care hits a return shot during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Student Care’s Anderson Park hits an overhead slam during the championship game of a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Community Standards' Hunter Powell returns a shot during a pickleball tournament at the Canyon Activity Center.
  • Community Standards' Matt Hopkins and Hunter Powell (center) congratulate opponents Anderson Park and Taylor Alvarado following the championship game of the Summer Olympics pickleball tournament.

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GCU Magazine

August 2026

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Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world — the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does — comes not from the Father but from the world. (1 John 2:15-16)

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