Wednesday night, volleyball; Friday night, soccer; Saturday, football; and sometimes Sunday afternoon, soccer. This is currently the weekly schedule for three sophomores who decided their freshman year to attend every Sooner sporting event they could.

Sophomores Kevin Burns, Luke McConnell and Trey Ingram met their freshman year, and discovered they all had a similar passion for Sooner sports. Since then, they have tried to attend as many on-campus sporting events together as possible.

“When we met, we discovered that we each had a crazy passion for sports, and it’s great because I’ve always been beyond anyone’s comprehension with my love for sports,” said McConnell, journalism sophomore. “But to have guys with close to the same passion level for sports is great and makes for great conversation topics.”

The three have found that going together encourages them to attend events they may not regularly attend.

McConnell said he would probably still go to the main sports he enjoys without his friends coming along, but said he probably would not go to soccer, tennis nor gymnastics alone.

Ingram, geography sophomore, said he probably wouldn’t go by himself to these events.

“Kevin and Luke kind of push me and the other guys to go to all of these games,” Ingram said.

Burns said he was home-schooled so he never attended any sporting events in high school and instead watched them on television.

“I just grew up watching sports,” Burns said. “I’ve been going to most sporting events since my freshman year.”

Burns, meteorology sophomore, said he’s going to take advantage of these games that offer free admission to students with their student ID, with the exception of basketball and football, for which he purchased season tickets.

McConnell said he attended eight sporting events in the span of 10 days last winter.

“Basically, I’m just a sports nut and enjoy all sports,” McConnell said. “My life is just centered around sports.”