Robin and I arrived in Boulder, and the next day I went to pick up Megan from the Denver airport. Together, the three of went to enjoy the UPA College National Championship! In this first photo, one of the vendors had set up a dress-up photo booth. I rocked the tie for the rest of the day while watching several games.Erin Mordecai, Robin and my former teammate from the UGA Hodawgs, moved out to Santa Barbara for grad school in theoretical ecology and joined their team--the Burning Skirts. Last year, the Skirts were in finals vs. Stanford and, as I mentioned previously, Megan's team, Superfly, managed to capture the National title. This year the Skirts battled on again. They qualified for Nationals, unlike Stanford (sorry, Megan, I had to add this) and by the end of the second day of play, they found themselves on top yet again. For this tournament there are 3 days of play. 1 day of pool play, 1 day of quarters and semis, and a third day just for finals. So Erin anxiously awaited her 3rd day of play at the Nationals.
This is Robin and I with Erin, but I was trying to hide the Burning Skirts logo so she could pretend to be a Hodawg again for a second.
Some of the fans for the men's teams are REALLY obnoxious and die-hard. Think UGA football fans or Red Sox baseball fans, the Ultimate equivalent is the fan contingent for the Wisconsin Hodags. Unfortunately for us, the UGA Hodawgs, people constantly seem to get the names confused.
However, Hodag is pronounced phonetically and if you want to sound like the fans, you have to add in the mid-western "daahg." We managed to sit in the midst of them for the men's final, a game between Wisconsin and Florida. The Wisconsin victory meant that we were in joyous company.This exchange of expression between Megan and I happens quite a bit. Robin managed to catch it on film/card (I mean, it was a digital camera). Love it.
All in all, Nationals was highly enjoyable. Unfortunately, the Burning Skirts were defeated by UBC, the University of British Columbia. In case you don't know, that's in CANADA. Since when did the NATIONAL Championship include Canadians? The Skirts are technically the best college women's team in the Nation, good work, Buddy!
3 comments:
what the heck, how is robin always looking so adorable. geeze louise.
by the way, your post about nationals was way more informative the than the rec disc forum. straightforward to all the important stuff like ex-hodawgs and obnoxious fans.
silent e!!! weren't we on our odyssey to nationals last year when we coined that name? where has the year gone??? let's just day i'm happy you left another sig. other in the dust :)
i was thinking of including a brief recap of the debauchery of last year's "The Nationals" experience, but i decided that, in the end, it was simply too debaucherous (clearly this is a word). i'm glad, however, that i was able to enjoy a second-annual experience with silent e. it was truly a pleasure.
get 'em up throw 'em up. i watched the video i took from last years the nationls. ahh good times. i miss you peoples.
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