Since arriving at Iowa State in 1999, Joel Meehan has been steadily adding to his wardrobe.

Meehan, senior in industrial engineering, has won 15 intramural championship T-shirts in his time as a student. However, the Faribault, Minn., native said he doesn’t care about winning shirts.

“To be honest, when I’m 40 years old, if I have any of these shirts I’m going to be painting with them,” Meehan said.

Meehan has won intramural championship T-shirts in six different sports, three of which he has won in both men’s and co-rec leagues.

The middle of three brothers who have attended Iowa State, Meehan said his older brother, Tim, was responsible for introducing him to intramural sports.

“I kind of rode [my older brother’s] coattails for the first couple of years,” Meehan said. “When my younger brother [Dan, junior in mechanical engineering] came the next year, I was able to do the same thing for him.”

Playing on the same teams as his brothers has been fun for Meehan. He said he and his brothers share the same strengths and weaknesses, so they are able to anticipate what the other is going to do during a game.

Meehan, who wrestled and played baseball and football in high school, attributed his success to being a part of a team.

“Just helping everyone on the team see a goal and work toward it [has been a key to my success],” Meehan said.

Meehan said he has different teammates on almost every team he plays on. He said he won a shirt in flag football last year while living on the seventh floor of Maple Hall, and won another this year while living on the first floor.

Flag football is one of the sports Meehan enjoys the most, he said, because he plays with different people on his dorm floor each year.

“I’ve lived in different residence halls and floors all my years at Iowa State,” Meehan said. “For me, [playing flag football] is a great way to get to know the guys, because by the end of the season, we’re all friends.”

For Meehan, the camaraderie and memories are what make him play intramural sports.

“It will be fun when [the guys I played with and I] get together in ten years and we can be like, ‘Oh, remember that real cool game we had that we pulled out in the last second?'” Meehan said. “Those are the things I play for, not for winning a shirt.”