So... after our quasi-disastrous foray into intramural sports with our linguist softball team last semester, we decided to try our hand at something we're actually competent at: ultimate frisbee. A rotating group of us has been playing ultimate one day a week for the past few years. It started my third year, I think, so I guess that means I've been playing frisbee once a week for about 2.5 years now! We were all pretty... not that great when we first started, but those of us who have kept at it have actually gotten pretty decent over time. We usually play 3-on-3 (or 4-on-4 if we're lucky) for about 2 hours on Sunday afternoons. One of the guys who started playing with us last year was on an actual ultimate team back in college, so he's actually legitimately really good, and he's been helping us and teaching us stuff for the past year, too.
So Actual Frisbee Player decided to cajole us into fielding an intramural ultimate team. I was pretty reticent, because softball was a little disheartening at times, and I wasn't too excited to get my butt kicked for an hour a week again, this time at something I feel somewhat competent at and would rather be able to keep having fun with (and not suddenly feel completely incompetent at). But... we went for it. AND OH MY GOD WE JUST TOTALLY WIPED THE FLOOR WITH THE OTHER TEAM WE PLAYED TONIGHT. We actually felt really bad about it, because our team was having a blast, and they were obviously having quite a bit less fun than us, and we positively trounced them (13-0!). I know that not all of our games are going to be like that, because we saw the two teams that played after us, and one of them in particular looked pretty darn good. But we are definitely good enough to be competitive, and that makes me feel so good! Here's a sport I was definitely not that stellar at to begin with, and now I'm good enough to play on a winning intramural team! I'm good enough to launch a disc down the field and have somebody catch it to score! Good enough to stick on the person I'm guarding and swat the disc away from them a few times! Good enough to make a break for it and catch a few points!
I'm so proud of us! Go Huckin' Wugs!!
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| All 7 of us on the line (I'm second from the right, in the shorts). |
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| Alex and Jevon getting ready to jump for the disc. |
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| Pile up! Dominated by the dude in the weird tank top. |
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| Jevon throwing the disc and me (in the pink shoes) running off in some direction. |
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