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About being wrong: sort of a Glory Days recap

2011-10-28T19:47:00.007-05:00

... but mostly me talking about baseball.

Sports probably have a basis, somehow, in chaos theory. They're unpredictable. That's why people follow them, bet on them, and watch them in bars.

On the first day of the statistics class I'm taking this semester, the professor was differentiating between probabilities that we can mathematically determine, and probabilities that are merely educated guesses. As an example, she used baseball.

"Usually, I use the Cards for this example, but it looks like they're out of it this season. The probability that the Phillies win the world series…"

Before Glory Days (in that same statistics class,) Danielle and I were discussing the coming tournament. People, strategies, who's going, and what has happened in previous years. Last year's Glory Days was awful. Games were decided by the flip. You had up-hail and down-hail points. By stacking our upwind line, and failing a thousand times before we succeeded, we had the only upwind break of the day to win the finals. (Then the weather cleared up and looked positively sunny in the obligatory picture.) I suggested that we didn't have the depth this year to do the same thing, if we even made winning this fall season tournament a goal.

Meanwhile, the stats professor publicly apologized to all the "die-hard Cardinals fans" who never gave up on the season. They had just won the National League title and would be playing the world series against Texas. (St Louis vs. Texas. This sounds oddly familiar.) They crushed Texas as we watched in the hotel on Saturday night, and last night staged a fantastic comeback to tie the series at 3s. (One of the cool similarities between ultimate and baseball is that it's (almost) never too late to make a comeback. There's no "impossible" until there's three outs. Or Texas scores 15 points. Or whatever.)

The Cardinals are down two, at bat in the bottom of the first.

So Glory Days…

We win our pool on Saturday (5 games), beating Ball State, a split Northwestern (by shutting down their handles), Miami Ohio, Central Michigan (with lots of good plays from rookies), and Truman (who also have strong Cardinals loyalty). Apologies for not remembering more. 5 games is a lot.

Sunday, we started playing at 1, which is absurdly late for a morning person like me. Our first game was against Purdue, who beat the other half of Northwestern in the quarters. I remember playing Purdue at last year's Whitesmoke, and they were significantly better this time around. We had a strong start, having named our starting line "Dumbledore's Army," and took half handily, before playing a close second half. We eventually won that game, but it was kinda sloppy.

The finals were against Indiana. They were fairly good, but only had a few key players. (Pink socks and number 99 were often strategically allocated on defensive points.) I would guess they had 11-13 players, while we had 18. That makes a difference when you have a 5 game Saturday. And, here's the being-wrong part, we won because we had depth. Apparently I'm no good at making objective predictions. ("If I'm on the starting line, we must be in a pretty sorry state.") So I will refrain from making any more predictions, especially self-denegrating ones.

We're the two-year running champions of Glory Days.

And the Cardinals won the world series.

Harry Potter and the Nationals Highlight Video

2011-08-02T16:04:00.007-05:00

WUWU - Nationals 2011 from Mars Fish Productions on Vimeo.
Now watch it again, and check out those mountains.

Dear WUWU,

In the future, get a less excitable cameraman. Or a tripod. I ruined most of the shots of us skying people by shaking the camera with a little sympathetic hop. Sorry.

Love,
Sharkbait

WUWU loves us some Harry Potter. So much so that we went to see the premier of Deathly Hallows part 1 at midnight. On a school night. In costume.

A Collection of Covenants

2011-02-10T12:51:00.014-06:00

Covenant

An agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or

not to do something specified.

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For the beginning of the spring semester, WUWU came together and wrote a document to define their aspirations to be reached with their season. This is the "Two WU's" 2011 Covenant. It was a document created to unify what the team wanted to pursue in all aspects of the competitive season. Something as tangible as this document made me want to see just how WUWU was going to display their visible reminder of the goals to be reached...thus, the Covenant Competition. "How are you going to see your goals every day?" Because of my artistic background I felt qualified to offer my comments below and also, the winners are revealed...

Sam: Cheery...the wall color that is. You have a very nice display of quality photos and what better way to define team unity than with photos of the team! Bonus points for a larger "Two Wu's" addition.
Naomi: Ah....birds. Everything is better with a bird on it. Coming from someone who literally has a bird tattooed on her body, you get bonus points. You get bonus points after I figure out what the symbolism of birds has to do with ultimate.

Becky: I appreciate the artistic development of a train WuWu-ing alongside your covenant. Very nice personal touch that shows your inner artist.

Abby: Award for most punctual covenant display. Also the usage of technology to create your display for you is ingenious.

Cynthia: So graphic art. Ah! I'm a sucker for silhouette usage...bonus points.

Fookie: I like the down and dirty of this...scissors and glue were involved and I can feel that. No, I mean, I really feel that. Like, I'm in elementary school again...love it.

Deuce: Of course, when you apply something to your wall, you don't want to leave tape marks on your rental walls when you remove it. Bonus points for painters tape because I used it on my covenant too.

Julie: Classic. There really is nothing more Ultimate player than Frisbees on the wall. I can't give you bonus points on creativity but I tip my hat to you for making a solid choice in display...you can't go wrong there.

Sarah: Again, the quality photos. Very nice. Symmetry will always be pleasing so bonus points for design layout.

Theresa: I simply have an addiction to scrabble thus, bonus points for banana-grams. Your display, although self-proclaimed as "esoteric" wins more bonus points for being personal and individual and for taking the entirety of a bulletin board.

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Beep, bop, beep beep...bonus points tabulated for the participants and here are the standings:

Theresa wins for an individual and creative display mixing text as well as visual clues to remind her of the feelings of WUWU love. Cynthia is second for a very well designed display...one which a person could envision creating hundreds of multiples and plastering the campus with...covenant displays campus-wide anyone?

I give an honorable mention to Kami who did not submit a covenant (although wrote it) but did proclaim she "...had this fantastic idea to stitch the covenant onto my boyfriend's chest so that I would a.) see it often (when he shows off that oh so chiseled body) and b.) maybe even lay my head upon it at night (get a kind of osmosis-effect going on). Then I came to the sad realization that there was a slight flaw in my plan: I don't have a boyfriend."

In my book, anyone that took the time to make a display wins. You are also awesome for having passed the photos my way. Never underestimate the power of visual cues that keep your goals in mind. Goals should be revisited each and every day. Good luck to you in getting to achieve them come the series....Two Wu's!!!!

First Practice 2011

2011-01-21T11:51:00.002-06:00

Washington ladies of the disc met this Thursday night to celebrate the start of the season using a method unique to weather of this midwestern city.....sledding on Art Hill!

Rounding up more warm pieces of clothing then any one person should wear, the ladies ran a 6-7 lady relay where everyone ran 4 sets of a 100meter downhill sled down/sprint up. I did the sled-sprint once after it was over and I'll say...it was tough! It was a fun, brief but not so easy way to kick-start our Spring season. The girls stayed warm, cheered each other on and impressed me with their unique tactics and drive to bail the sled and then turn hard to start the sprint up.

I had fun and hopefully they all did too....now back to the gym workouts! See all of you Sunday!

First Fall Practice!

2010-09-03T14:52:00.003-05:00

The first fall practice of the year is officially scheduled for Tuesday, Sept 14th from 6-8 pm on the IM fields (behind Dardick/Nemerov). Still don't have our official practice times yet, but they'll likely be something like 6:30-8:30 pm Tues/Thurs and Sundays 11am-1pm. Everyone is welcome to come play and no experience is necessary!

Also...our Fall Tournament Schedule:

-Whitesmoke (South Bend, IN), Oct 2-3

-Glory Days (Lowell, IN), Oct 23-24

-Harvest Moon (Fayetteville, AR), Nov 6-7

-MLC (Columbia, MO), Nov 13-14

Check out the Schedule page for more details.

Regionals

2010-05-04T09:40:00.000-05:00

2nd in the south region and going to Nationals!

Sectionals 2010

2010-04-11T22:46:00.003-05:00

Someday I'll fly, someday I'll soar. Someday I'll be something much more.

Just so you know, doing a tournament write up in children's storybook format is much more difficult than it seems. "Suddenly, WUWU heard the squeaky air-horn blow. They were in soft cap! This meant that they took the current highest score, added two, and then continued playing to that number of points..." It just doesn't work.

We went into sectionals seeded first, and our first game of the day was against SLU. Though they lost many of their big players from last year, this was still a huge one for us. In typical WUWU fashion, we get somewhat lost, go on a wild goose chase to our fields, and still end up one of the first teams to start warmup. (As much as we moaned and complained when Chung started hour-long warmups last spring, it's really helped us.)

So the fields: Buder park is legit a floodplane of some tributary of the Mississippi river. The grass was cut nice and level, but underneath, the ground was a sprained ankle waiting to happen. Also, instead of upwind-downwind, there were uphill downhill points.

The SLU game. We did a pretty good job of coming into this game with energy, but it dropped off for a while in the middle. We were down by 2 at half. SLU was playing in a way that it's easiest to describe as "like SLU." Very aware downfield, running through everything both on O and D, and calling stuff. (Note: We generally don't call stuff as much as we should.) Points in this game went very quickly, and we encountered for the first time the "win by two" thing. Cap did come on, so we won by two, at 12-10. (We turned it back on for the end of this game. Whoo us!)

Next we played Oklahoma State. If anyone remembers anything from this game, feel free to jump in here.

Third game, after half an hour more than we usually have between games, (as in, half an hour) we played John Brown University. The biggest challenge in this game was to play to our potential, and not to freak out when we "should" be winning points but weren't. But actually, we freaked out. This is where Halfmann's presence and maturity on the field would have helped us. We fought for this game (I think this is when DIP D was first brought up) but lost pretty decisively at 11-8. Reality check time.

(Incase some non Wash U person is reading this, Halfbeast is out of eligibility because she went to a clinic her freshman year. (It did not help that she found out/told us all this on April Fools day. I was waiting for a "just kidding guys! I'm so psyched for the series" email the next day, but there wasn't one.))

We had a super long by after this game. We watched the guys team play, and ate, drank, sunscreened, and changed socks. (I'm officially a multiple socks per day convert.) Phillip ~~turned into~~ was replaced by Julia (their kid is sick, so they took turns), and we went into the last game with a new perspective and some new ideas.

Oklahoma. We were short handles for this game, and the wind was picking up for the first time that day, (still pretty low on the portapottie danger scale, though). We played a lot of this game with two legit handles and two pseudo-handles (plus three cutters, duh.) The thing is, everyone on the team can throw, so we really didn't have a huge problem. And it is good to not kill yourselves, you hear that handles? Won this one 11-5.

End of day one. We contemplated a sleepover at Halfmann's because she lives about 7 minutes from the fields, but chose our own beds instead. Yay home-ish tournament.

There was a little bit of worrying, as the pool had some three-way nonsense going on. We beat SLU, SLU beat JBU, and JBU beat us, but we came second in point diff by 1, so squeaked into the championship bracket.

Day two.

Our first game this morning was against Arkansas, who from third seed in the pool, beat everyone the day before. (There was some Kansas, Truman, Missouri State three-way nonsense in that pool. Kansas took the second spot.) I, for one, really didn't know what to expect coming into this game. From the beginning, it was tight, and we were kinda on and off for a while. Philip was apparently awake enough to figure things out. We played D with a little more fire all around, and by the end of the second half, were in control. 15-9 us.

SLU rematch for first place. This is the same, and 100% different from last year. Sectionals last year was miserable. We beat the Bettys in semis, then every team that still had a game left squeezed into one bathroom to be out of the wind. "Whatever you do, don't change out of your uniforms." Even though they're soaking, and you're freezing, and there's so much water in the bathroom now that you're afraid it might start raining indoors, too. SLU decided to change, so when things started up again, they pretty much threw the game just so that they could leave.

Anyways, this game was intense throughout. We started on O, but SLU broke for the first score. We traded points until we broke to make it 3-2 us. SLU was playing an H stack, feeding it up the middle to in-cuts, dump-swinging, then hucking it from both sides of the field. And they were coming down with stuff when it mattered. We were sorta just scooting down the field in an everyone-can-throw sort of way. (Everyone else calls this "calmly working it down the field.") We squeezed a lot of things cutter to cutter in the force-side corner of the endzone, though. Simultaneously, a couple of our handles were delivering the occasional superawesome deep throw. Anyways, half was 8-6 them, same as Saturday morning.

In the second half, we broke twice to tie it at 8s. Game keeps going. Cap comes on at 10-10. Game to 12 again. SLU breaks to score. 11-10 them. The next point seemed so long. (and I wasn't playing.) Every time there was a turn, things got more intense. Fookie drops a swing, and literally 10 seconds later, runs through for a D. Hillary had the most elegant two-fingered sky ever (pinky out and everything) and tied it up at 11s.

So we call a timeout. I'm pretty sure this is legit under soft cap. Just to point out to everyone that it's universe point, in case, you know, someone wasn't paying attention. This point wasn't nearly as long as the previous. Our poach-this-way defense that we started using in the second half generated a layout D for Abby. Abby hucked it to Danielle, who read the disk right to score. For a WUWU win.

I got back to the dorm and grabbed a new bar of soap to take a shower. The paper wrapper said "The ultimate point of life is joy." We proved a few things today. We can come from behind and win universe points. We can take our time on the endzone line... sometimes. Also, we have so much more depth this year. We were short a bunch of cutters this weekend, and everyone stepped it up. Watch out, Austin. We're looking to repeat at Regionals, too.

Pres Day 2010

2010-02-20T20:31:00.005-06:00

When you find yourself in the thick of it, help yourself to a bit of what is all around you.
( ^^ Song lyrics. Gold star up for grabs!)

While a few inches of snow accumulated in St Louis and east coasters dug themselves out of several feet, I was flying with Tilt to San Diego, (southern California, for the geography challenged) for three days of frisbee. Outdoors.

It went sorta like this:

My group left for the airport around 2pm, and on the flight, Southwest asked if anyone needed some last minute Valentines Day cards. We jumped all over that and got a free card for Jizz, who had to stay behind at the last minute. Continuing with WUWU's bad luck with flying, they lost Naomi's toiletry bag, including her one-day contacts. After getting slightly lost, we made it to dinner with the crowd that had gotten in that morning. There was much oohing and aahing at the palm trees, flowers, mountains (don't yell at me. It's so flat where I live), and ambient temperature. The next morning, we got up to discover that we could see the ocean from our host's back porch. (Tidal from UCSD! Thanks again for being awesome.)

It was difficult to choose frisbee over hiking and beaches but after several u-turns, we did make it to the fields. Day 1, we started off against Colorado. Cool, we thought, another team that probably hasn't had much outdoor practice time this semester. As usual, we took our time warming up in the morning, and lost this one. Whoops. Our next game was against Washington, number 2 at nationals last year. I think the attitude going into this game was closest to what Julia and Philip had for the entire tournament. It's ok to lose, just try weird things and make sure you learn a shit ton.

Lose: Check. Weird things: Check. Shit ton o' learnin': Check. Also, Callahan: Check. (Mad props to Deuce. That was pretty awesome.)

Our third game was against Sonoma State, the California team that won the qualifiers the week before. This was probably the low point of the weekend. We lost intensity and focus when we fell behind. (Imagine a balloon with a really small hole in it.) We're capable of playing well, and we're capable of coming back from behind, but our brains lost this game for us well before Sonoma State scored their 13th point. Our last game was against USC. Coming off of the previous loss, we didn't play as well as we were capable of. Day one, 0-4. Wah waaaah.

We had a bye the last round, so we showered and headed off to watch the sunset on the cliffs. Amazing. After dinner, a group went out to wander downtown, met a girl riding in a giant cupcake, and talked to two guys on the street who thought the world was going to end in 2012.

Day two, we were in a smaller pool with Carlton and Arizona. We lost both of those games, and landed in the 13th place bracket, meaning that we had a chance at making seed. The first bracket game was that afternoon, but we lost Lauren Krone, Cynthia, and Danielle, who wanted to make it to their Monday classes. We were left with fewer than 14 fully functional WUWUs.

The last game that day was against UC San Diego, the host team. We were warming up after a bye, and instead of the "small army" we ran around with last spring, we were tiny. Where's our team? Is this really everyone? Yep. Just like that. But that's about the time we finally pulled it together and started doing well.

We went on a run for the beginning of the second half, but Psycho started coming back with a run of their own. They couldn't make up the difference before hard cap came on, and though they won the last point, we won the game. Note: Not having to dig ourselves out of a hole is awesome. We need to do this more often.

Instead of showering right away, we went to the beach. Deuce and Naomi went right into the water, followed by me, and eventually, the rest of the team. The Pacific Ocean is really cold. It was like icing your entire body, but way more fun than having bags of actual ice taped to you. (This is probably why Monday didn't feel any worse than Sunday.) We got out, watched the sun set (Valentines Day with WUWU), then sped off to the showers, because everyone was freezing.

Day 3, we had just two games. The first was against UC Davis, who out-numbered us significantly. (Again, this is a new thing for my rookie class.) The game was 7-6 going into half, and ended on a universe point. We were finally in the right place to get things done when we needed to. This is our point. Done. We won this game, and it was pretty great.

Our last game of the tournament was a rematch against Arizona for 13th place. We wanted this game, and it was close. We fell behind in the first half, but were not down by an impossible margin. We cheered to flip cup for the second half; WUWUs have a pretty good record coming from behind in drinking games. There was some good non-drinking talk too. This is the last half of the last game that we're playing. At Pres Day. In California. If you're not putting it all out there, you should probably get on that now. We played well the second half. Really well. Hard cap went on at 10-9: if we won the next two, we won the game. Arizona won that point, with a really nice trash-picking layout in the endzone. 11-9 Arizona doesn't really convey how close the game actually was. We ended strong, and I think everyone knew it.

On the way to the car, I stopped to talk to a dad and two girls who were biking by and watching confusedly. This is ultimate frisbee. This is a tournament, not IM games. I'm here from St Louis, and these teams you're watching, they're some of the best college teams in the country... They actually seemed quite impressed. (Because UCSB and Oregon were looking spectacular.) It would make me happy if those girls ended up playing ultimate in high school or college.

Anyways, after stopping at In-N-Out (which I wasn't particularly impressed by. Blasphemy, right? Edit: Yes, Theresa thinks this is blasphemy! I'm convinced we converted several WUWU's this weekend!) we headed towards the airport in a hurry, 'cause we were running late. With some pretty sweet teamwork, we managed to return the cars, print all the boarding passes, get all the bags checked and get everyone on the plane with a few minutes to spare. Go us. This might have been the most significant accomplishment of the weekend.

Anyways, I'm giving out awards now. Without consulting anyone. If you ever decide to do a tournament write up, you get to do your own awards.

Best Sideline Talking: Elise
Most Highlight-Reel Worthy: Deuce
Good Life Choice: Naomi and Hannah
Creeper: Theresa
5 Years Old: Fookie
Made It To California?!: the owl hat

I'm not qualified to evaluate where the team is now... but if you see Tilt with a full roster and some outdoor practice time, watch out! Next stop, Throwdown! (Ok, next stop Francis Field. Tomorrow. Noon. Be there.)

- Sharkbait (with some picture adding from Theresa)

Midwest Throwdown 2010 and Fall 2009

2009-12-24T20:02:00.020-06:00

We're still accepting bids for Throwdown, March 6-7, 2010! If you want to submit a bid, just send an email to throwdown.td@gmail.com. Check out the website for more information about how to submit a bid, who's attending, etc.

The thing that makes Throwdown unique this year is the Roundup Division: 8 of the best women's club players from around the country are going to be brought in to coach the teams in the Roundup Division for the weekend. Teams will play 4-6 games over the course of the weekend, but will also have scheduled bye rounds where their guest coaches will be able to go over drills and skills with them, review strategy, and generally give them tools that they can take back to practice. There will also be a "regular" Division I and II for those teams who want a competitive tournament experience. Unfortunately the Roundup Division is already full, but there's still space in Division I and II. Submit a bid today! Midwest Throwdown 2010 is shaping up to be the most competitive it's ever been.

Also, follow the action tournament weekend on Twitter! Michelle is sure to be tweeting updates every few minutes...

Now on to our fall season...Theresa said she'd write something up for this blog since we kind of suck at posting, but so far she's been a bum. And since I'm no less lazy than her...here's WUWU's fall season in pictures.

painting the underpass

sadly, this is one of two pictures I have from Hucktoberfest

first one of the season.
awkward, as always.the newest member of the team!free Chipotle for the winners of WarmupJizzabella Habbert, looking as pale as ever.

Fall '09 Practice Times!

2009-09-04T00:15:00.004-05:00

Tues, Thurs: 6-8 pm

Sun: 12-2 pm

Meet us at the Concordia fields. Bring a light and dark shirt, water, and cleats.

No experience necessary! And bring your friends!

Also, there's a scrimmage with Contra this Saturday at noon. Come play!

Natties Highlight Video!

2009-08-26T00:21:00.001-05:00

[Edit: Now in HD!]

WashU Tilt College Nationals 2009 HD from Samantha Huo on Vimeo.

We want YOU!

2009-08-07T10:42:00.006-05:00

Interested in playing Ultimate at WashU for the '09-'10 season? Tilt welcomes players of all levels, and absolutely no experience is necessary. First practice is Tuesday, September 8th from 6-8 pm at the IM fields. We don't have any official practice times past that, but check back soon for more details. They should be on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting somewhere between 5:30 and 7 pm, and Sundays 12-2 pm.

We'll be tabling at both WUTube and the activities fair, so come find us. Also, there should be pickup and throwing on the swamp starting the week of New Student Orientation, so come join us!

Contact the captains (Sam and Emily) at wuwucaptains@gmail.com for more information or to get added to our e-mail list.

Natties Roster '09

2009-05-20T22:11:00.005-05:00

Here as promised is the roster blog post:

The Noobs
Trying to prove themselves to the masses and just
Happy to be out of basketball or duct tape
Enthusiasms abound for these kids.

Naomi leading the pack with her height
Only to be backed by Kami and Lauren in speed
Off on the sidelines is Lee and the plyos loving Sharkbait
Bread, butts, and disc for Jizz
Seriously, the future of WUWU has arrived.

Julie Habbert aka Jizz #6
1) Possibly the whitest person ever, and is likely to take off her clothes when frustrated.
2) Will catch anything in her mouth.
3) Most enthusiastic restaurant goer.
4) Following in her sister's footsteps: Ultimate runs in her blood.
5) Her skills on the field are matched by her skills at note-taking. Especially for other WUWUs when they are stuck in the airport post-Centex. Or Student Health after casually falling UP the stairs.
6) Ties Carolyn for best WUWU parents

Kami Groom aka Angel #7
1) 2009 South Region FOTY--and that's after playing only one tournament.
2) Should probably ditch club basketball.
3) Eats fast food 3 times a day and only drinks milk.
4) Faster and more athletic than you. And that's her whole family.

Naomi Campbell aka Shamu #16
1) Shares the same name as the supermodel but is neither black nor angry. She does sling mud well though.
2) Farthest WUWU from the ground.
3) Prefers to be called "NEE-omi". In a lovely British accent of course.

Lee Wallack aka Diglett #22
1) The REAL Asian on the team.
2) Most dedicated.
3) Most likely to start an Ultimate league with children in her neighborhood.
4) Broken? Lee can sympathize.
5) Thirsty? Hungry? Lee can help a WUWU out.

Sharkbait aka Leslie DeCristofaro #31
1) Back up, her name's Leslie? Since when?
2) Only WUWU to ever slip and face plant on the highway
3) ...and use an anti-gravity booster in Connect 4.
4) Most likely to be on a field trip instead of at practice.
5) Most likely to find you on campus to throw.
6) Skips regardless of whether it's time for plyos.
7) Sports nylon pants for easy sliding.

Lauren Krone aka [any disease you can think of] #71
1) Fav nicknames: "Syph" and "HPV"
2) Fastest WUWU, and will break the judge's arm in a footrace.
3) Freakiest dance moves 2009
4) Recently learned how to change directions and has been burning you on the field ever since.
5) Will take your entire team in flip cup.
6) No qualms about getting toilet paper out of a tipped over Porta-Pottie.

Sophomore Shitshow
So its always been a shitshow
Originally a midget, athlete, singer, and girl who loved stuff joined
Phenomenally four recruits arrived for year two
Honestly, the class just got weirder
On and off the field

Matzah at tournaments

Or midnight study sessions the night before.
Recklessly driving or avoiding highways because of worried mothers
Eventual leaders of WUWU? We think yes.

Ellen Miller aka Bones #11
1) Can sing and camp better than you.
2) Looks like a soccer player, regardless of what sport she is actually playing.
3) Currently the head of more clubs than you've probably ever been in

Becky Strubberg aka Butters #13
1) Deathly afraid of butterflies.
2) Competing with Carolyn for Speed-iest WUWU. Off the field that is.
3) Great communicator. Especially with those of the opposite sex.
4) Noob.

Shayna Makaron aka Sh'Naynay #18
1) Pretty sure she's legally a midget.
2) A small white version of Aretha Franklin. This girl accepts nothing but R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
3) #1 boobs on WUWU
4) Favorite pastime: breaking tables

Sam Huo aka Latoya aka Coolio aka PUPPY aka Freshman Sam Huo #23
1) Team gimp
2) Captain 09-10
3) Recently stripped of IAD status
4) Seconds Michelle in thinking people are awkward. When, in reality, she is awkward.

Corinne Mitchell aka Petri #25
1) The Prodigal WUWU
2) Catches with two hands. All the time.
3) Talks your ear off.
4) Noob.

Sarah Ebstein aka Q #36
1) TMI, all the time.
2) Noob.
3) Def has the worst and mos inapprops abbrevs.
4) Awkward.
5) Is convinced her rendition of the "Recess" theme song is accurate

Theresa Chan aka Spocks #47
1) Swears by wearing argyle socks when playing, and will never wear striped ones ever again.
2) Omnivore
3) Caught in a tipping Porta-Pottie at Throwdown
4) Kicking-ass in Tetris on her Game Boy Pocket since 1998.
5) Tied with Titties for geekiest WUWU: collects comic books and refuses to take the plastic off of them to keep them in mint condition.
6) Volunteered to do a disc every time we score a point at Natties; time to BUCKLE UP.
7) Noob.

Junior Jamboree
Jammin' started in 2006 with a lonely two
Ultimate was new to these young young cross country veterans
Nobody could beat Kate's drinking skills: discs as a freshman
Interesting when Hannah's french tutors joined the ranks sophomore year
Outlandish that their initials were both EC (Emily Clare and Elise Christina)
Red Hat Society convinced them and a solid four was established

Just check out their sexy legs (3 out of 4 ain't bad)
As for Emily, she rocks the Mom Butt
Make sure to appreciate their organizational ability and
Bananaface's clever anagrams
On fire for senior year
Ready to condition
Eat more Lambert's and
Enjoy WUWU to the fullest!!!

Kate Wilson aka Deuce aka K2 #8
1) Showers...once a week? MAYBE.
2) Can drink a disc faster than Contra.
3) The original Freshman Connection .
4) Hardcore athlete

Emily Luck aka Fookie # 10

1) Fantastic mom butt

2) Owns a large collection of Gameboy games and will bring them to tournaments (think Pokemon Yellow)

3) Captain 09-10

4) Cutest WUWU

5) Whitest WUWU

6) Expletives fit for a queen
7) Enjoys physics conferences.

Elise Bixby aka Spike #14
1) Scariest, most manly, vicious WUWU you will ever meet.
2) Team mom
3) Will wash your post-tourney socks if you casually leave them on the field.
4) The youngest married WUWU. His name is Courtney .

Hannah Clements aka Banana Face #29
1) Naked phone conversations are a must with this one.
2) Lives in the libs but will never admit it.
3) Most normal WUWU--though if you've read this post up til here...it probably doesn't mean much.
4) Vying with her ballin roommate for the most use of "tits".
5) The original Freshman Connection.
6) Most likely to be caught biking full speed with Baller in search of tap. That, and calling people she hasn't talked to in 3 years.

Seniors
Setting the tone for the rest of WUWU:
Eclectic
NOT normal
Inappropriate
Oh the places they'll go
Really, right down the road at WashU Med
Still, for the rest, we expect nothing less than for them to join the ranks of WUWA!

Abby Stephens aka Nasty #1
1) The REAL IAD, and can pretty much do everything better than you. On the field and off.
2) South All-Region 2009
3) Slackjaw-er extraordinaire
4) Team Sage
5) Will sky the shit out of you (and wearing a skirt?! UGH!)
6) Captain 06-09
7) Bounciest and most obsessed

Paige Creo #2
1) Always has to go to a meeting.
2) Always takes it to the next level.
3) Takes showers even when her bathroom is infested with ants.
4) Girl goes big or goes home--settled for nothing less than Superbowl tickets and a trip to Nationals this year.

Carolyn Auchter #4
1) Showers the morning of a tournament.
2) Your tutor for math, physics and chemistry. Oh, and your RA too.
3) Never fails to get you home at least an hour before everyone else.
4) Ties Jizz for best WUWU parents

Heidi Weeks #5
1) Always knows where the bathroom is.
2) Keeps a pee chart.
3) Will break your hands with her throws.
4) Bravest WUWU: has been bald.

Julia Baller aka Baller aka Baller Baller #21
1) Team Goddess. Don't bother lying. She's knows the truth. She always knows.
2) Proof that you can take the girl out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the girl.
3) Screams the obscenities WUWU needs to hear when we're down.
4) Vying with Banana for the most use of "tits".
5) Most likely to be caught biking full speed with a certain Banana in search of a tap.

Kate Stambaugh aka K-Titties or Titties #24

1) Captain 06-09

2) Will break and shred your cup any day. No doubt about it.

3) Tied with Theresa for Geekiest WUWU: Tools around small children on Halo in her free time.
4) Tattooed her leg with an entire page of flowers at Regionals.
5) Favorite pastime #1: flashing other WUWUs and certain Contras. Favorite pastime #2: Erosion.

6) South All-Region 2006 (and FOTY) and 2009

Kavita Joshi #50

1) Where to begin?
2) Weirdest WUWU, hands down.
3) Can make her hands sweat on command--and when I say sweat, I mean drip.
4) DOCTOR

Grad Students
Giants on the field
Real women in the world
Animals in bed we can only assume
Dynasty com

Laura Halfmann #3
1) Half beast.
2) Best looking in a WUWU jersey.
3) Fav facial expressions when playing ultimate.
4) Personal goal: become the next Tasha. Already given out one bloody nose.

Lauren Gramlich #15
1) Hillbilly 4 lyfe.

2) Most colorful undergear, even in 80 degree weather.
3) Knows where WUWU is at all times.

Megan Epperson #17
1) Is probably on the ground more often than she is standing.
2) Does sexy dance moves even when in her lab coat.

Jenny McKenzie #67
1) Most hardcore WUWU
2) WUWU with the prettiest (and only) wedding disc.

Coach

Chung Lee

1) Most feminine.
2) The whole package.
3) Best Centex dancer 2009
4) Needs to use his penis water bottle. No dicking around.
5) Always willing to talk about your period and lend you a tampon.
6) Sorry ladies, he's taken.

Written with WUWU love by Latoya, Spocks, Banana, Fookie, and Naynay!

Mad Props and Shout-Outs

2009-05-13T00:40:00.000-05:00

[Edit]: Natties schedules are up! WUWU is seeded 13th and faces two days of pool play against UCSB, UNC-W, Carleton and Illinois.

The team would like to say many thanks to the people who have made donations to WUWU recently. Thank you to the WUWAs, Contras, members of the St. Louis ultimate community, family, and friends who've donated over $1000 to our team since we've made Nationals. You guys are awesome and total ballers!

If you're still interested in buying a disc, jersey (in red too!), or sweatpants, just email wuwucaptains@gmail.com

Congrats to our captains, Kate "Titties" Stambaugh and Abby "Nasty" Stephens, for making the South All-Region 1st team! Congrats are also in order for Kami Groom, FOTY for the South region! I'm calling it now...Kami will score deep....a lot! Shocker of a prediction, right? Check it out here.

Upcoming: Roster is being written and will elicit laughs. Guaranteed!

Welcome

2009-05-12T00:32:00.010-05:00

So as promised I finally got around to starting the WUWU Tilt blog (Thanks Sam for bringing it up today and doing most of the blog layout work!). The layout is still a work in progress, but I thought I'd at least get in an intro post tonight to see how things look.

So it's the perfect time to start this blog because...

1. Every burgeoning ultimate dynasty needs a blog to document its history, and...

2. With 11 days left until Natties and school out, I (and all other WUWUs for that matter) should be pumped and compulsively thinking about ultimate.

The plan currently is to keep this as updated as possible with team news, pre/post tourney writeups, random musings about ultimate, etc. I know we have WUWUs interested in writing or tweaking the layout, so if you're interested just contact us.

And coming up in the next couple days (just in case you weren't already excited about this blog)..........an awesome intro of our roster!

Oh yeah, one last thing: We're going to fucking Nationals!!!