The Austin Scoober
May 2010

Big Ultimate Weekend!
Support, Play, and Participate!
Texas Shoot-Out: On May 14th the nation's top men's and women's teams will be landing on Texas soil. Texas Shootout, usually a club season warm-up tournament, has transitioned into the premier pre-World Club Championship event.
Club Centex Continues Its Long Tradition: One of the oldest and most storied Ultimate tournament traditions is Centex. Every spring for approximately the past 40 years, the Centex Tournament has been the one annual must-attend tournament for Ultimate players throughout and beyond Texas.
Texas Shoot-Out Showcase Game: With Austin ISD's support, Showdown and Doublewide will host a FREE showcase game this Friday at House Park. This has become an annual event, which showcases the best of middle and high school ultimate followed by an elite club game.

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Player Profile: Jay Banner
by Paul Hanna
Periodically, we at the Scoober like to bring into the limelight some of the faces we recognize, and tell you a little more about them. This month, the lucky Austin Ulti-mite is Dr. Jay Banner. Although the name sounds a bit like a Marvel comic alter-ego, he's actually just a regular guy with super-human ability to play Ultimate for multiple decades. I chatted recently with Jay via e-mail.

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2010 UPA-Sanctioned Texas High School State Tournament Wrap-Up
by Bill Marriott
Right now, the weather in Austin is giving us a prelude to summer – sunny skies and highs in the 90s. That wasn't the case about a month ago when the 2010 UPA-Sanctioned Texas High School State Tournament was played at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock. We were in the midst of rainy weather almost daily and the forecast was no better for the weekend of April 17th – 18th. All that notwithstanding, the decision was made that the tournament would be played … so we kept our fingers crossed that all teams slated to compete would arrive and that the weather would cooperate.

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Austin Pick UP
Hey! You there! You bored? Looking for a good way to stay in shape? Looking for a way to meet people? Have you tried pick up? (No, not picking up people in a bar – although that is a way to meet people.) Pick up ultimate. Do you know where games are going on in Austin? Did you know you can find a list here, http://upla.austinultimate.org/pickup, on UPLA's web site? It even has a convenient map, so all you newly arriveds and out of towners don't have an excuse.

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Viva Mexico! (In Q & A Form)
by Gary Breaux
Time for a preview of the upcoming trip (28 - 31 of May) to San Luis Potosi. Mexico. I'll do it in the form of a Q & A based on some of the questions I've already received.

Q: Is it safe to be traveling in Mexico right now?
Q: What kind of a bus will we be on?
Q: What about drinking the water?
Q: What's the weather going to be like?

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