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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Juniors Evan Levine and Phil Wise decided to lead.

The two roommates are the founders of the newest University of Dayton club team.

The club racquetball team is in its first full year of existence after Levine and Wise, club president and vice president, received confirmation from the office of student life on the last day of spring semester in 2010.

Levine, a communication management major, and Wise, an education major, had never been part of a club before, but were looking to doing something more meaningful.

"Last year we were just thinking about ways to get involved because we really wanted to get involved in a way that impacted the university or other students - not just joining another club," Levine said.

The idea to start a club racquetball team was at first an inside joke. After playing a game against each other, they thought it would be funny to start their own club, according to Levine.

The pair went to Kennedy Union, and found out their joke might become the next UD sensation. After a quick survey of some friends, the duo had its answer.

"We posed the question, 'What would you think of a possible racquetball club here on campus?,'" Wise said. "And everyone that we posed it to was like 'Oh yeah, that'd be awesome.'"

Levine and Wise quickly filled out the paperwork for starting a club, and with a little help from the club's faculty advisor J. Frazier Smith, Levine got the good news moments before his last final, he said.

Racquetball wasn't something the two played competitively, or at least, at a level higher, until last year. Levine played baseball and football in high school, while Wise was a three-sport athlete playing baseball, soccer and wrestling.

Levine and Wise aren't the best racquetball players on their own club team, but it doesn't take a Michael Jordan, or the racquetball equivalent, Cliff Swain, to start a craze. The club's founders said they are surprised by how excited people are about a new club racquetball team.

"We started the club, and now everyone is joining," Wise said.

The hardest part for this enterprising twosome isn't playing racquetball, but all their administrative tasks. Levine and Wise still have a long list of things to do before the team can go to its first tournament at the University of Akron on Friday, Oct. 1 through Sunday, Oct. 3.

"You know, [we have to] get a van, get certified to drive the van [and] find someone who is CPR-certified to be with us at the tournament - the stuff that makes the university happy and us safe," Levine said.

The team plans to travel to four other tournaments from Cincinnati to Davison, Mich. These tournaments are a chance to have fun playing racquetball against the 10 other teams in the Mid-East Racquetball Conference. But, the club's founders are focused on winning no matter how little time the team has been together.

"We want to go to tournaments, and we want to win," Levine said. "But at the same time, we're laid back guys. We're not going to make our team run and stuff. The only way to get better at racquetball is to keep playing racquetball."

This kind of attitude has made club racquetball very popular in such a short amount of time. A full club racquetball team consists of 16 players split between eight males and eight females. According to Levine and Wise, they'll have around 20 interested members when two-a-week practices start in the coming weeks.

The founders of UD's newest club sport said they want their legacy to reflect on the university they love that has been so accepting of their idea.

"We want to go to tournaments wanting to win, not go there to fool around and get our butts whipped," Levine said. "We want to make the University of Dayton known for playing racquetball."