Monday, April 5, 2010

Spring 2010

It's been a while since our last update, but we wanted to give you a heads up that this weekend, the 10th and the 11th, both the mens and women's teams will be playing in the UPA College Series. For the men, Sectionals will be hosted here at F&M while the women while play nearby in Harrisburg.

The weekend after, the 17th and 18th, we will all be competing at Layout Pigout, hosted by Haverford.


Scott

Monday, October 26, 2009

Gettysburg Coed Tourney 9/26-27


Captain Ben Scharadin '10 calls line.

Steve Rosso '11 scores.

Team plyos.


Stacey Sosenko '09 scores.


Ben Scharadin '10 makes a catch.


This past weekend the Men’s and Women’s ultimate teams combined forces to once again play in Gettysurg’s Coed tournament. With a large freshmen class half of each team came out on Saturday and the other half on Sunday.
On Saturday the first game was against Penn College and was a convenient first game because their team was just starting up to. Working on cycling all players in eventually the team went on a 3 point stand to win on universe point 13-12. The next game against York College was basically the same story. The game was kept close and the team once again made a 3 point run to win the game on universe point. The next few games were harder because Gettysburg Alum and Gettysburg had strong teams taking advantage of our attempt to rotate new players in. Overall Saturday we went 2-2, which is a better record than past years at this tournament. The main goal of initiating the new players to game speed, learning how to throw a zone, and running a ho’ stack were all accomplished with success.
On Sunday our first game was against IUP. Wanting to try out our zone with the players we had on Sunday we threw it early. It proved to be effective and proved to be one of the main reasons for our victory over IUP 13-5. Our next game was a hard fought battle against Shippensburg. We tried to run the zone again, but they had better handlers and were able to work it through a little better. Then we played SUNY Fredonia and won. We were clearly better conditioned and it proved to be an opportunity to work our rookies in. The final game was against VCU, which ended in a loss, however the freshmen as well as some vets learned from playing against a better team.
- Ben Scharadin '10

photos courtesy of Diana Fiore '10

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Women's Roster/ Results

http://www3.upa.org/scores/scores.cgi?div=34&page=3&team=3290

Code Blue at Rutgers 10/03-04

What a professional, organized group of athletes!

Code Blue at their finest.

Senior Captain Jen "Tender" Everhart '11 turns into The Incredible Hulk in order to make a pass to Junior Captain Elena Lopez '12.

Seriously, look at her arm.

Kelly McGeehan '12 leaps and scores.

Sarah Patterson '13 celebrating in silver at her first tournament.

Code Blue attended their first women’s tournament of the season over the weekend of October 3 and 4, 2009 at Rutgers University. Despite having a smaller group of players due to Family Weekend back at F&M, the team excelled.
On Saturday, ten veteran players attended the tournament, ready to bring back the amazing team chemistry that we all remembered from last year. The girls started the weekend off with a 13-7 victory over Villanova, followed by another win over Columbia University (15-2).
Our third game against Cornell A did not end with the big W, but Code Blue took pride in being the only team in our pool to put up any points against Cornell. Faced with a team of such a high caliber, with at least twice as many subs, Code Blue showed great perseverance and really showed spirit of the game by keeping smiles on their faces, having fun playing some Ultimate and learning from the experienced players from Cornell.
The team made the joint decision to forfeit the 5th game of the day against Princeton in favor of going home to get some much needed rest and come back the next day ready to compete in the third place bracket.
Sunday brought 12 girls to Rutgers, including a new player (Sarah Patterson) who was also celebrating her 19th birthday with a stunning pair of silver leggings (costume may have been forced on her). With only two games to play on Sunday, Code Blue was ready to leave it all on the field. Despite a (6-15) loss to Delaware Y, the girls rallied and ended the tournament with a win against Johns Hopkins (9-1).
Code Blue finished the tournament in 7th place, successfully holding rank. This was a major accomplishment for the team, as we graduated several team leaders last spring.
The weekend was a huge success and only made Code Blue all the more excited for future tournaments when we can be joined by even more of our teammates.

Photos courtesy of Scott D. Salmon and Kelly McGeehan. Team photo arranged by Mrs. Yosevitz (Lisa's mom).

Sunday, September 27, 2009

The best thing since chocolate milk?

F&M guys and gals,

We are planning on ordering some sick jerseys for the team this fall. Scott Salmon worked hard conceiving this design:


The image wraps around the side and onto the back of the jersey. If you're interested in ordering one, send an email to SammyK14@mac.com

Peace, Love, Disc

Friday, September 25, 2009

Guess something else that falls a month from yesterday...

Other than the International Day of Climate Action, silly! In one month, F&M Ultimate will field its first women's alumni (alumnae?) team. This is history, people.

It seems fitting that the tenth anniversary of HIAAP would coincide with the fortieth anniversary of coeducation at F&M, which coincides with the first time Code Blue has had enough graduates to put up a line. We're getting crazy with commemoration here. But ten years of rockin' Ultimate and forty years of women? We aren't commemorating the emergence of a totally awesome sport, nor are we marking equal opportunity education. We're celebrating the first really good parties in Lancaster.

So when Sam says we're excited to field two alumni teams this year at our home tournament, what he means is that we're excited to field three alumni teams this year — a team of older alums, a team of younger alums, and a team of women alums. So ladies, get excited, get in shape, get emailing. Let me know ASAP (jmitche1@fandm.edu) if you are interested in joining the Code Blue Alumna Team at the home tourney in a few weeks!

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Guess what falls a month from today?

If you guessed national blueberry popsicle day, unfortunately you're a month off...

But if you guessed the 10th anniversary of F&M's home Ultimate Frisbee tournament, you're correct!!! As stated in the season schedule (below) our annual fall tournament is falling on October 24-25, which also happens to be alumni weekend! We students are hoping for a HUGE turnout so we can field (and school) two alumni teams!

If you're interested in participating in what will undoubtedly be the greatest HIAAP yet, sign up on this spreadsheet (I think you'll need a google account to actually see the spreadsheet, but that only takes a minute). Most importantly, be sure to spread the word! This weekend will be as amazing as you guys make it. We'll be sure to have activities planned for Saturday evening (more on that front later). Keep checking the website for updates on the tournament and Deep and Code Blue's season updates!

Skates