The student-athletes were broken up into five different groups in the morning, where members of the team had to lead each other through a maze while blindfolded, work together to transport a 180 lb. casualty dummy over 400-yards, move through a rope web without touching it, a memory challenge and suspending themselves together as a group in a still position for over a minute.
"The most tiring was using a tire, a pole and a wooden plank to move a 180-pound casualty person across a 200-yard field and back," said senior linebacker Josh Kirkland. "We had to make everything work in harmony, so it was hard to do. It was all the little details and communicating at the same time so we needed a lot of team work.
"The biggest thing is when you begin to get fatigued you start to lose your mental game. That was the biggest variable into this. They wanted us to get tired so that you lose your memory or communication, so that's what we were working on."
The challenges were designed to test the student-athletes' abilities to work in conjunction with one another to communicate and complete tasks under pressure, something SGT Dylan McElhinny thinks the team can use going forward.
"It's an absolutely great opportunity to get our organizations together to do a joint training exercise," Sgt. McElhinny said. "Both of us are very team oriented. We both use team work and leadership to get our jobs done and it's just absolutely great for us to get to share our knowledge with them and hang out with the Syracuse football team."
Following the leadership exercises, members of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team led the Orange on a march back for lunch where they once again dined with members of the 10th Mountain Division.
The Orange will take the field for practice this afternoon.
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