Men's and women's Ultimate storm nationals

While most Middlebury students were embarking on their summer adventures or planning Memorial Day BBQs last May, the men’s and women’s Ultimate Frisbee teams journeyed to Madison, Wisc. to play in the collegiate championships May 28-31. Both teams performed well, with the women finishing 19th and the happy-go-lucky but athletic Pranksters breaking their 13th-seed ranking to finish 11th. The men performed in dominating fashion, beating the second-place finisher from last year’s tournament, Colorado, and tying conference favorites, the Wisconsin Hodag. What makes the tie especially sweet was the vastly different training regimes undertaken by the two competitors.
“Preparing for the tournament, [The Hodag] had two-a-days and went dry for a month, while we crammed into a van and went on a taco bell tour of America all the way to Madison,” said co-captain Jake Herman ’11.
Herman ’11 attributed their success to the strength of the underclassmen, especially the intimidating Mad-Eye Casey Knudsen ’12.