12
Aug
Lotus – Day 1
Carla Difillipo of Lotus was kind enough to send in the following update on their first day at CUC 2010.
Lotus started the tournament with a game against Qub. The game started exchanging points until we scored a few breaks in a row. Veteran Mal Lundgren was looking for her first game back from ACL surgery and she quickly got back into her groove with big D’s and big hucks. Ottawa cutter Viv Bartlett was showing great speed in the mid field and Sarah Kidd owned the endzone.
Continue Reading →
12
Aug
CUJO: Day 1 – Arrival
A few minutes after I arrived at the dorms today I ran into Rob McLeod (of ultimaterob.com) who is where coaching the Calgary juniors team: CUJO. We chatted face to face for the first time and afterwards Rob indicated he’d send me a blog post. Much like a lack of Women’s coverage (which we’re working on, I swear!) we have a lack of Juniors coverage. Hopefully the contributions of the Juniors writers for CUC will help you in recognizing how important and vital Juniors development in and outside of CUC is. Now, the post:
CUJO, the Calgary Juniors team, is made up of mostly grade 10′s, a few grade 12′s and a few grade 9′s. It’s good that most of our team still has 2 years left; it’s tough because coming to Canadian Nationals means that the top juniors teams will be grade 11′s and 12′s so we are at a disadvantage. However, since it’s the first Nationals for 19 of our 20 kids, they aren’t really thinking about that. They’re thinking more about how excited they are to put on their cleats, put on their CUJO jerseys and start playing ultimate.
12
Aug
Overdrive Blog Part 1: Shake & Bake
As part of our CUC coverage we asked captains, coaches, and players to send us updates and their thoughts so we could share them with our readers. We start with a blog post from a group of Toronto Juniors that play on Overdrive:
Overdrive was started with a dream, a vision if you will. This vision belonged to the one and only G-Master Wang (Gary). This dream is the fuel to our fire, the glory to our hole; it is what wakes us up in the morning, and puts us to sleep at night. This dream is to win.
12
Aug
CUC 2010 – Wednesday
While technically not a day of play today was a day of travel, meeting, and truly a wonderful beginning.
I started my journey yesterday and ended up in Ottawa. I continued the journey to Sherbrooke today and arrived early enough to avoid the long lineup for my room. Unlike Southern Ontario this part of the world (South-Eastern Quebec) has mountains that remind me of my drives through West Virginia and the Appalachians.
10
Aug
CUC 2010 Mixed Preview
The 2010 Canadian Ultimate Championships, emanating (I do not think this word means what I think it means) from Sherbrooke, Québec, will be a very Eastern Canada-centric Nationals this year, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the mixed division, where only 1 team (Swarm) represents Canada West of Ontario.
ONYX and Rip, coming off very impressive results at the World Ultimate Club Championships are the prohibitive favourites entering CUC, but after that, the field is wide open.
10
Aug
CUC 2010 Women’s Preview
Pool A
This Lotus (Toronto) is not the same as Lotus Canada that placed 7th at WUCC, although they do have 11 members of the Lotus Canada squad. Due to WUCC, this group of Lotus players has not played together as a team this year, but have all played with one another in the past.
Anne Mercier and Kate Jardine lead the offence, along with Captain Kristin Laurin. Hadiya Rodrique, now healthy after missing most of the gold medal game in 2009 with a sprained ankle, and Sarah Kidd anchor the defence.
Adding Anne from Stella and having a healthy Hadiya will be huge boosts for Lotus this year, and should overcome whatever lack of cohesion the team may have, in relation to their opponents.
Follow Us
BULA Blog
Upcoming Coverage
- Paganello 2011 — Apr 5, 2012 6:00pm - Apr 9, 2012 6:00pm
- Paganello 2011 — Apr 5, 2012 6:00pm - Apr 9, 2012 6:00pm
Buy this book!
12
Aug
Moondoggies – Day 1
As I ask other teams to submit daily reports I figure I should do one for our team as well.
Moondoggies are a team captained by some of the younger players on GOAT (Mike Jones for this tournament) and they’re considered an experiment by outsiders. Many of the players get to head to tournaments that GOAT wouldn’t go to and thus show their skills while developing through more playing time.
Continue Reading →