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Appalachian’s ultimate Frisbee team grows, bonds as club sport |
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Tuesday, 03 October 2006 |
by DREW STEWART
Intern Sports Reporter
For the average college student, ultimate Frisbee is about spending time with friends and having fun. All it takes to start a game is a Frisbee, an open area and a willing group of players.
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Appalachian State University ultimate Frisbee club team president and captain Devin C. Donnelly sails the disc across the field to a teammate in a run-on drill during the team’s practice Tuesday evening.
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However, the Appalachian State University ultimate Frisbee club teams takes the sport more seriously.
Ultimate Frisbee has been a club sport at Appalachian for nearly eight
years. Last year, the men’s team membership doubled to 35 players.
“Every year it grows,” junior co-captain Kevin W. Peters said. “It has
been a sport for 40 years, but we just keep getting more and more
people interested because it is a really fun sport to play.”
Most of the team members played ultimate Frisbee in high school for fun
and became more serious about the sport in the atmosphere of
tournaments and practice.
“We practice at the State Farm Fields and we go to tournaments at other
schools,” Devin C. Donnelly, sophomore club president and captain,
said.
The team practices every week Monday through Thursday for about two
hours, he said. For practice, the men’s and women’s teams split into
co-ed teams and play against each other.
The team carpools to tournaments, which helps turn the team into a brotherhood, Peters said.
“It is a lot of riding four and five hours each way just hanging out,”
senior Matthew A. Yates said. “It takes a lot of dedication.”
Ultimate Frisbee, or simply ultimate as most players call it, is a non-contact sport.
Seven people start on each of the two teams.
“One team throws the disc to the other team to start play,” Donnelly
said. “Then from there, you work the disc up [the field] by throwing
it to another player, who has to stop moving when they catch it.”
The team must pass the disc to a player in the end zone to score a goal.
“I occasionally play deep, which is kind of like the wide receiver of
Frisbee,” Peters said. “They usually go down the field the most and
normally end up catching the disc in the end zone.”
The team plays in its next tournament Oct. 21-22 at North Carolina State University’s Wolfpack Invitational.
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