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The Austin Scoober
June 2009
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I've found the new Facebook, the new Match.com, the new MySpace... it's called ultimate. It's inexpensive to join, a great social network for meeting new people and even allows for the occasional cross-dressing in an inviting atmosphere. Somehow ultimate seems to cultivate strong, genuine friendships. And it becomes bubble wrap you can't stop popping.
How is it that we stick together? I think it's because we are the same sort of entity. We tend to be cheap, slightly (or very) nerdy, prone to procrastination, cheap beer drinkers and we like to chase plastic like dogs...
More from Tina Woodings, UPLA President
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Upcoming Events:
Live Logic Texas Shootout
June 6-7
Riverside Summer Clasic
June 6-7
Competitive Summer League begins
June 9
UT RecSports Youth Camp
June 15-19
Summer Soltice
June 27-28
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20 Years of Riverside
by Brian Nilson
"Let's play Frisbee" has been the call for two decades of lunch time Riverside Ultimate. The Riverside lunch game began in the spring of 1989. A group of guys who worked together at Lichliter Jameson Engineering (and assorted friends and associates) began playing Ultimate every Tuesday and Thursday at noon. The lunch time diversion soon became an obsession. Co-workers knew not to plan anything that would interfere with our "Frisbee days" and if they did they were appropriately chastised! Our office was near Auditorium Shores on Riverside Drive and that was our field.
Sean Douglass had played in high school and provided us with the basics of the game. The play was "rough" to say the least. Hucks ruled the day, stall counts were an unknown and defense was... well... lacking. It was great fun.
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LiveLogic Texas Shootout 2009
by UPLA Board
On June 5-7, Austin club teams Doublewide and Showdown will host the Texas Shootout 2009 tournament sponsored by LiveLogic. The tournament is a competitive club tournament with a prize purse attracting teams from across the country. The action starts on Friday evening with three showcase games at House Park stadium.
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TUFF @ Nationals
by Bjorn Schey
For the 7th time in the last 8 years, the UT Men's Ultimate team TUFF, qualified for the UPA College Championships. With the Championships expanded to 20 teams, the tournament would take on a new 4 day format. Here's how it shook it for our hometown boys.
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Spring League 2009: Wrap-Up
by Lindsay Lowe Worthington
So this is our good-bye call,
A Seussical time was had by all.
Showdown and UPLA would like to thank everyone who participated in Spring League this year! We held our final tournament on May 17, after a day of rain that caused us to reschedule the league party. The second-seeded team, "Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Deep?," came away with the tourney win, while those of legal age partook of a celebratory brew on the sidelines.
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Summer League for the Rest of Us
by Gary Breaux
On Tuesday, June 9th, 2009, a whole new era of Ultimate begins in Austin in the form of Competitive Summer League. This league is unlike any that have come before it in that it is exclusively designed for the most highly skilled Ultimate players from among Austin's faithful.
And what about the rest of the Ultimate-playing population... those not anointed by God with super-human athletic prowess? Rest easy, my flog-fingered friend... the regular Summer League you have come to count on will be back in July for another go-round.
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UT Recsports Ultimate Camp
by UPLA Board
Don't hesitate! The UT Ultimate Camp kicks off another summer session in just a few weeks!
The camp will take place June 15-19 at the UT Intramural Fields (Whitaker Fields), at 51st Street and Guadalupe. It's a day-camp format, running 8:30am-12:00pm. Girls and boys, ages 8-17 are all welcome!
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Middle School Tournament Wrap-Up
by Colleen Conrad
On Saturday, May 23rd, almost 100 middle school ultimate players from five different Austin teams gathered at the Murchison fields for a tournament. O. Henry, St. Francis, Murchison, Lamar and Kealing played in a round-robin format, with at least four games a piece. Slightly overcast skies threatened rain, but provided some much-needed shelter from the hot sun. Parents provided shade tents, coolers filled with ice water, and enthusiastic sideline support!
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To Bluer Skies
by Paul Hanna
Hey Austin, just what you needed…another car on the road, right? …with yet another newly relocated soul from the north behind the wheel. The name is Paul. I come from Ann Arbor, Michigan the veritable Ultimate HQ between Chicago and the east coast. The scene there was impressive – home to the stellar University of Michigan squads MagnUM and Flywheel, and club teams Big Ass Truck, Hybrid and Nemo.
I can honestly say that some of the best players I have ever seen came from Ann Arbor and for me that was a huge step up from where I got my Ultimate start. Prior to Ann Arbor I went to school in Mount Pleasant, Michigan where the Ultimate community pretty much consisted of me, my roommate, four friends, eight girls in a dorm room (they actually played in the dorm room), and my neighbor’s dog. Fun, but not a great environment for growing one’s game.
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Help Wanted Ads
by UPLA Board
Help Wanted: Feeling useless? Look below for ways UPLA and Austin ultimate can add meaning to your life.
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