team profiles 08

PART 1/CC: open | women's  ||  PART 2/RI: open | women's | coed

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Amherst College Men's Ultimate Frisbee Team The Army Of Darkness Presents: our blurb.  We strive, above all, to be huge ballers.  But our balling-ness is multi-dimensional.  We have a mascot (Cock C. Cock, the Cock)- you can meet him at the tournament.  We are not afraid to lay out.  We have cheers that are fun, yet meaningful.  We enjoy playing Ultimate- no, we LOVE playing Ultimate, and love playing other teams that feel the same way.  Sure, you can go out to a tournament and be hyper-focused and serious about winning- or, you can go out, have a good time, AND win. We prefer the latter.  In any case- we'll see you on the field.

 

Founded only 5 years ago by the Godfather Earl, the Brothamen have become established as a force in the Metro-Boston section.  What we lack in strategy, we more than make up for with athleticism and all-out heart.  The last few years have been just the beginning of Bentley Ultimate Society's legacy.  After winning some games in sectionals and having a shot at our first regionals appearance last year, this year we've prepared our best team yet by far.   Not only will we win some frisbee games, but UConn will tell you about our flip cup tournament abilities.   We're confident in our game against anyone you put us up against.  Remember the Icehouse cheer, everyone, because playing us is not an experience you're soon to forget.

 

The Spoonheads B-team hails from Boston College and is the training ground for the future stars of BC Ultimate. The B-team plans to use the very successful fall campaign to launch an even better spring semester. We are guided by some key veteran leadership in juniors Chris “Farski” Kalafarski and Brendan “B-Dan” McGinty and several sophomores such as Lucas Baldridge, Chris “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, Michael “Lando” Laio, and Anthony “Sabertooth” Clericuzio and fueled by promising rookies like Brian “Brolio” Beaulieu, Tim “Dinglenuts” Dingman, and John “Sully” Sullivan. Complex plays such as ZJ and Clusterbomb add flair to hardnosed defense and efficient offense. With sectionals just on the horizon, the Spoonheads B-team is gearing up for a spring stampede to regionals.

 

The Stoned Clown is Bowdoin's one and only multifaceted clown-shaped ultimate playing entity.  Hailing from Brunswick, Maine, the Clown performed well in Div. 1 Club Sectionals, missing a bid to Regionals by one point on point differential.  After a frigid Maine winter-where the Clown's drinking team performed admirably-we made a pilgrimage down to High Tide.  Though struggling through early morning play, we managed to make the A-2 finals, where we lost to a far-too-sober Western Illinois squad.  This year's team has a nice balance of speed, height, and handles, with hopes of bettering last year's 13th-place finish in College Regionals.  All are welcome to check us out at www.stonedclown.com.

 

Brandeis University - Waltham, MA 

Brandeis-B, more commonly known as MegaTron, is bangin hot.  Every one of them.  Be careful, for if you stare into their eyes for too long, you'll instantly melt at their stunning good looks.  After hosting the first ever B-Deis B-Fest B-Team extravaganza, they're out for blood.  And your girlfriend.

 

The Dazzlin' Asses is an up and coming team which is looking forward to having a blast at Lemony.  We have always done decently, but now we are looking to move up in the world and shake things up.  We have a good mix of older and younger players, and are getting pumped for a strong spring season.

 

The Dartmouth Discomfort Trolley is the premier ill-ease inflicting mode of transportation in the country beside Southwestern Airlines. Born emerging fully fourmed out of Cronus' head, in Ginnungugap from rib of Adam and holding plastic flying discs the likes of which had never seeen before in any of the 9 worlds, we took the newly formed world of ultimate by storm (and by that I mean our hucks made rains fall from the heavens). We fly to battle wearing black and white on wings carried by winds provied by Aeolis the wind god (father of alum tom "dot com" wang 07). We went undefeated in the fall's Lemony Fresh, won the chumpionship at Beasterns and we shattered seed and broke expectations at college Southerns. We are psychotic.

 

You wanted a blurb you say?  Here it is.  The Flying Jesuits have had a solid year considering the mix of new/old/sober? players on the team. Win/Loss numbers don't matter.  The team is coming to Lemony to have a good time and send off the seniors who were freshman when we won Lemony Fall in '04.  Other teams should bring the discs ... we'll bring the ruckus.

 

We are an extremely competitive Ultimate team from Longmeadow, Massachusetts and this will be our 5th year with an ultimate program. This year we are looking to be one of the top teams in the nation after our 24th in the nation finish last season and graduating only 3 seniors. We had 3 of our players try out for the boys junior worlds team, and we just recently got accepted to play at High School Easterns this year. We are playing in two college tournaments early this spring and then our high school season starts.

 

It’s an exciting time for UMF Ultimate. We ended last season with a new look at our potential, and this season has been all about achieving it. Our rookies have created a dominating presence for themselves on the field doing everything from lay out D’s to never giving up on the disc—even if it means coughing up blood afterwards. Our vets continue to learn, evolve and teach each other, and with the end of their college ultimate career in sight, they are determined to leave no regrets behind.

 

This year, UMF rolls to the beat of Farmington Sweat Shop (green & silver), and wants to show you how hard we work in dark and dingy conditions. If the wind is strong—our blades will cut it, if the rain is heavy—our D’s will stop it, and if the sun is shining, the Whammer will be out in full force. Make sure you swing by our sideline to catch a game over the weekend. All we ask is that you wait until the end to ask for autographs.

 

Northeastern-B is small team comprised of new, young ultimate talent.  Our raw passion for the game is evident through our aggressive style of play.  We are very eager to compete and are prepared to upset teams with our unparalleled intensity.  With the success of Northeastern-A, we feel like we have a great opportunity to increase our team's notoriety and build a strong program that will achieve excellence, year in and year out.

 

PC Ultimate has been a team for about 6 years and starting this year we were officially recognized as a club on campus.  The delay in club status was a result of general team laziness, but we eventually submitted everything and became official.  Last year our team took home second place in Lemony part 2 in Nov 06 and received the "Least likely to get laid" award which for most of our team members has come true...thanks? ...Anyway we are a very laid back group who just look to have a good time at tournaments and if we win sweet. Although we DO NOT take frisbee as serious as most of the other teams, we do still manage to be competitive in most of our games.  This year we lost some key seniors but have upcoming juniors who are poised to take over their spots.  Get your popcorn ready.

 

Stonehill A is a very young and athletic team. Although made up of primarily underclassmen with little experience, we have managed to be very successful. We finished 1st in colleges at the fall Bridgewater tournament, clinching our first victory in our school's history. We entered the High Tide tournament this year for the first time and had a very reasonable showing. We are learning quickly and it is showing, our national ranking is higher than it has ever been. I believe we have become a formidable competitor in the metro Boston area and expect to improve upon our 9th place finish this year. We ended up winning our pool at Lemony Fall the first day however sustained a broken ankle, a sprained ankle and a broken toe from 3 of our top players rendering us a bit short of players for day two. We hope to remain healthy and pick up where we left off last fall.
 

Stonehill B is also our coed team but competes in open tournaments. Our B team, yet inexperienced, is led by a couple of experienced players and is our farm program. We have a couple of talented female handlers that have greatly improved since the beginning of the year and also have quite a bit of speed from our poppers. Our goal for this year is to train and give everyone on the B team the opportunity to work on positions and technique that they might not be able to practice on a more competitive team. Our ranking is currently very low so there is lots of room for improvement in both seedings and personal achievements.

 

The Tufts Elephant Men have been near the top of the rankings year after year.  Clearly the Ultimate Gods favor the first Nationals host.  This year the E-Men have been graced with very few graduating
players, leaving the team at it's strongest in many years.  This leaves a strong population for the B and C teams to fill their roster with and enables them to compete against many A teams in the section.

 

The B-men have written a number of B-Men records this year:
* First acceptance to Trouble in vegas, with a ragtag crew.
* First competitively subbed and hand-picked B-Men team.
* First acceptance to Georgia Southerns, going 8-1 in Div 2

 

The B-men are holding on to their high hopes of making a mark on Sectionals and fighting for a Regionals bid.  Lemony Spring will be a measuring stick from which the B-Men will gauge what improvements need to be made to see this dream come to fruition.

 

The Tufts Elephant Men have been near the top of the rankings year after year.  Clearly the Ultimate Gods favor the first Nationals host.  This year the E-Men have been graced with very few graduating players, leaving the team at it's strongest in many years.  This leaves a strong population for the B and C teams to fill their roster with and enables them to compete against many A teams in the section.

 

This is the first year that Tufts has had a season-long C team, and they have no shortage of success.  Don't mistake them for a group of left-overs, because the athleticism on this team is in no short supply.  The C team attended Georgia Southerns and put up a respectable 3-3 record.  Trouble in Vegas also featured some of the members of the C-Men.

 

The true success of the C-Men comes from their numbers.  There are millions of them, and after getting pumped up, they come at you like a hot wave of passion that they just can't pull out of.  Keep your head up, because you don't want to get caught unaware by the C-Men.

 

 

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We're still a pretty new team, extremely young.  We have no seniors, very few juniors and the rest of the team is complied of freshman and sophomores.  We play hard but we love to have fun. We enjoy dancing for no reason on the sideline, it keeps us happy. Salt 'n Peppa just came back from High Tide where our record definitely does not show how much we have improved.  We're learning to flow as a team, which makes our games more fun and competitive.  It's still a growing year for us, but we can still take on and surprise many teams.

 

The Colby College women's team, called the Dazzlin' Asses, is looking forward to playing our first games on real grass after living in the frozen tundra of Maine all winter.  This fall and winter we played coed with the Dazzlin' Asses mens team, so we're used to a fast paced game with lots of layouts.  We're a young team, looking to gain experience before college sectionals, but when the Asses get fired up we can huck and bid like nobody's business.  Listen for our traditional Smurf cheer to find us on the field.

 

The Boston College women's club team, called Flix, is a quickly developing program coming off of a big 2nd place finish at Huck-a-Hunk this fall and strong performances at High Tide and Roll Call. In our ballin' all-black jerseys, our very young team is quickly rising in the ranks and getting ready to join the race for a bid to the New England Regionals. With a zone D that can't be broken, and hucks that break all day, BC Women's Ultimate is looking to win some games and look damn good doing it!

 

Boston College - Boston, MA

Brand new this spring, BC-B, the Backhandz,x is made up of almost entirely freshman. Even though they've got the "B" in their title, don't be fooled, these girls have been playing with A as one team for the entire year. These girls have got their throws and cuts down, and are getting better every day as they get sucked into the ultimate culture we all know and love.

 

The prettier side of Bowdoin Ultimate, Chaos Theory has been growing exponentially over the past few seasons. . While throwing a forehand is still pretty scary for some of us, the spirit of the game comes naturally. Spring season is rough in Maine, where the fields rarely unfreeze until long after Spring Break, so we've taken advantage of High Tide tournament in Savannah to sharpen our skills in the sun.  We're a fast team with tight defense and we're excited for some fun, competitive Lemony frisbee.  Yeah, I dump.

 

When Super Heroes in Training walks onto a field, there are several things that are bound to happen.  Sure, two or three of the players are likely to trip over themselves and fall on their faces, but something else happens too. We are a group of women who work together doing something we love.  This team will take advantage of any weakness our competitor dares to have.  We come to play. We come to win. And at the end of the day no one needs to tell us; we already know that we’re the S.H.I.T.

 

 

The Tufts B-team, the B-wo (for elephant women, E-wo, b team), is only a few years old, but we are getting more awesome every day. Each year, we have more players and our skills are blossoming. In the fall and winter, we play with the a-team, and together we stomped Purple Valley, Coffee Cup, and a tournament at U-Mass this past fall. With a growing number of players and now two coaches, we are an unstoppable force on the field. But don't be scared, because we exemplify Spirit of the Game, and we are fun to hang with off the field as well as on.  A little E-wo disc!

 

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Aunt Flow was a Frisbee team created in memory of one of its former UNH player's late aunts.  The name fit, as this rag-tag assortment of teammates gelled, creating a certain continuity while this team had possession of the disc.  Aunt Flow used to frequent the ultimate scene once a month.  Now due to age and other restraints Aunt Flow has become less regular, making only a fall and spring tournament each year.  You will notice Aunt Flow moving down the field in their usual colors of red and white with loud cheers and much heckling.  Aunt Flow took this tournament some years ago, so you best be wary of the great Aunt Flow.

 

BLU was originally conceptualized as Broken Leg Ultimate after some of the founding members broke their legs.  When the injuries started racking up though, we decided to change our name to just BLU in order to rid ourselves of the ominous karma that had previously surrounded our team.  Now we're an up and coming club team entering its second season as a competitive ultimate team.  Based out of southern Connecticut, we have a good balance of skilled younger players and wily older vets.  Solid all around, BLU is looking to have fun and be competitive.  Obvious though it may be, we feel the need to point out that our jerseys are YELLOW.

 

Enough Monkeys - Hanover, NH | mandarin

Enough Monkeys is a mixed club team from Hanover, NH with a 129-73 record since the team started in 2004.   After minutes of training and planning during the off-season, they're back this year to start the season by defending their Lemony Spring title.

 

Flowchart is a team from Boston built from a core of players who've played together over the last summer and some pickups.  The last time we played together outdoors was at Get Ho Ho Ho! where we were then known as Non-Waitress Alex and went to the semi-finals of D-3.

 

Our current guiding flow:

 

Unlike other club teams from New York City, Grey Till can form a bluegrass band out of its members.  Even though it has never played any other team in a card tournament, the Till is certain it would triumph over all competition, including open and women's, if Lemony's format was switched from ultimate to Euchre.  Maybe poker too. Generally speaking, members of the Grey Till like fine coffees and despise people who can't handle a little rain.  The team was founded on Central Park's Great Hill in the late summer of 2006.

 

Hucky McBlowandretch is the off-season incarnation of last summer's BUDA 5/2 powerhouse, Hucky McThrowandcatch.  With a strong 3rd place (tied) finish in last year's tournament, Hucky is taking to the non-summer tourneys to sharpen both its skills and its heckles in preparation for another rough and tumble season.  For this tournament we've hired some mercenaries to supplement our absentee-plagued roster.  We are a collection of (fairly) recent Boston area alumni, connected through an ambiguous network based on gmail and PBR.  Spirit level: high.  Talent: inate.  Practice: very little.  Colors: black like bile, green like snot.  Go Puke bags!

 

 

 

Combination of overweight overeducated cubicle dwellers, enthusiastic but inept track runners along with high schoolers and their coaches.  Degenerates one and all, preferring a Run & Gun offense followed up with lackluster to nonexistent defense.  The Kinetic Poet strategy will be to use bribes and foul play in place of skill and effort.

 

MUCloving is a group of people who started playing pick up around Middlebury, CT about a year ago.  We became a group with the immortal words of "are we a club or what."  We've done about 3 tournaments, some successful, some not so successful. 

 

The New England College Grim Reapers sport black uniforms with hoods and sickles, although the sickles usually stay on the sidelines.  Our summer recruiting went very well.  We gave out five full-scholorships to high school seniors from both South Korea and the tribal nation of Swaziland, as well as three partial scholarships to athletes from the United States.  Our fall season went very well.  We entered five tournaments, finishing first in all of them, losing only one game in total.  We are looking foward to the UPA tournament series as most of the nation's top analysts have us projected to win it all.
 
Just kidding.  This is only our second season of existence and our team is still developing.  We love to play, though, and have a ton of fun doing so.  And for the record, we wear red, not black, and we don't carry sickles.

 

"No Grass For You!" is a year-old team drawn from a pickup game that's been played in Central Park for more than 10 years.  Our home field is a rocky, grassless spit aptly - if not affectionately - called the 'Dustbowl', and is the inspiration for both our name and lust to travel to tournaments played on sweet, soft grass.  We are an eclectic group, ranging from recent college grads to grand masters, former college standouts to utter novices.  You may remember us from such tournaments as Pada Mosh, Funky Mountain, Wilkes Grade A, Get Ho Ho Ho!, Bill Norris, and Wildwood.  Our record is decent, for sufficiently generous definitions of decent, as we un-learn the bad habits that 10 years of pickup instills.  We play foremost with spirit, but we play to win.

 

The Sealand National Ultimate Team, or the Lords of Sealand, as we like to be called, hail from the great Principality of Sealand off the eastern coast of the United Kingdom.  We have a pretty good training program despite the fact that Sealand is smaller than a regulation field, and contains no grass.  But lets face it, if you had to climb down 70 meters the the water and swim a hundred yards for every dropped or overthrown disc, you would probably get pretty good at making sure your timing was on and that your thows were accurate in the strong North Atlantic wind.  This is Sealand's tournament debut, and our roster looks pretty skinny for this tournament, as it is time for the harvest back home.  We may not have bright fancy uniforms (yet) but we do have something no other Boston area team has, and that's Diplomatic Immunity. "E Mare Libertas."

 

Last year's Lemony Spring was our first tournament ever and we had so much fun that we decided to go back in time and do it again.  After ten months of failed research, we gave up and settled on coming to this year's Lemony Spring.

 

Unity College | Big Worm Ultimate | green & yellow

Our team is Big Worm Ultimate, from Unity College in Maine.  We don't do too well usually, we have won like 5 games in the past 3 years.  But we are a fun team and look forward to playing.

 

The combination of Lemony Fresh Open and Lemony (So) Fresh (and so Clean Clean) Women's makes for a strong overall team dynamic.  Offensive and defensive points will be noted by some nasty lay-outs and the high likelihood of hammers.  Where Lemony Fresh goes, a party will follow.  There is a high probability that Crank Dat will be playing in the background and one or more players on the field will be doing the Superman dance (even while handling).

 

 

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PART 1/CC: open | women's  ||  PART 2/RI: open | women's | coed

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Wentworth | Concrete Jungle | black

Wentworth Institute of Technology - Boston, MA

 

Wheaton Lemony Fresh | black & yellow / white with blue

Wheaton College - Norton, MA