I started this blog almost one year ago to document my journey for this past season as I tried out for the A team of my college. I went above and beyond what I could ever imagine. I made the team, became a starting handler, and made it to college nationals. Every tournament, my team has a tradition of choosing an MVP. I was chosen this past weekend.
It is incredible what hard work and determination can get you. I remember advice given to me by more experienced players and I try my best to utilize it. At our season after party, one of my coaches told me that I am “really good at frisbee” and that I am very coachable. It was one of the best compliments I have ever been given.
I still have so much to learn and I want to continue playing at the collegiate level until I am out of eligibility. College playing is such a limited window of time that I want to take advantage of it as long as possible.
I left my heart out on those Colorado fields.
And I would gladly do it again.
citrusmango asked: what team are you playing on? i'm playing at college nationals too :) good luck!
i play for Florida. what about you!?
Feeling like a kid on Christmas eve. Tomorrow morning is big. It’s the first game of college nationals. The last tournament I will play with this team, this specific group of players, and I’ve enjoyed every single second of it. All season, we’ve been underestimated and overlooked. We’ve been crushed, we’ve had tough losses, but we grew every day. This is to proving all the haters wrong.
Tomorrow I will be playing as hard as I can and to the best that I am capable of playing. I will leave every ounce out on those fields for me and for my team.
Beach World Ultimate Frisbee Highlights 2011
This is one of my all-time favorite videos. Beach Ultimate just looks so fun. I’m definitely considering trying out for the 2013 international Beach team. You just can’t watch this and say it doesn’t look like fun!
Nick Lance of Georgia Tech Callahan Nominee: breaks for days, insane D’s, gets up, and did I mention breaks for DAYS?
Definitely my favorite.
Alex Thorne of Pitt Callahan video: So many perfectly thrown hucks to space where the defenders don’t even stand a chance of getting a finger on it. Athletic plays are cool alright, but skill like that is ridiculous.
By Lou Burruss
I have been on five teams in my career: Carleton-B, CUT, Syzygy, Sockeye and Fugue, but a more honest count is 24 teams. Each season, each team is different. Certainly there are similarities year to year, but the character of the team is different every year. Teammates change, expectations change, who you play and where you play and how your team performs; all these things are different and so the identity of the team is never the same. All of this means that the team you are on right now, the team that is coming closer and closer to the end of its season, will exist only this once.
One of the great delights of ultimate is getting to know my team each year. You’d think that Sockeye 2005 would have been the same team as Sockeye 2004, but they stood on opposite sides of a gulf: one team had a ring and the other didn’t. You’d think that CUT 1994 and 1995 would be the same: 13 of 18 players returned, but those two teams couldn’t have been more different. Even when seasons are tough and the personality of a team not what you had hoped (yes, a few of those 24 years were unhappy ones) there is a satisfaction in coming to understand something.
I’m not going to give you Fugue 2012. The joys and frustrations, successes and failures, all the hard work and growth; these things are ours and you have yours. Your team is like someone you love that you only get to be with for a little while and then they’re gone. You won’t really know them until the very end of the season. Endings are so critical to what we do that the character of the team won’t necessarily reveal itself until the very, very end. So when you go out to practice this week, when you hit the fields at Regionals this weekend or the next, savor and cherish the moment: you won’t get it again.
