Andrew Commander

Sunday November 8th: The Best of Boulder Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

The scene was set at New Vista across from the CU campus, and right under the glorious flatirons of Boulder.

Our first game was New Vista, the tournament hosts. We battled back and forth until a hard cap made it 11-9 Monarch.

The second game was played against one of our bitter rivals Fairview. Losing the team’s best player to graduation, Fairview is in the re-building stages. We took care of Fairview 13-6? Not sure exact score on that game. Our 3rd game was Boulder, who, for the past two Frisbee seasons has bitch slapped us 13-0, 13-1. Similar to Fairview they lost their best players to graduation. This year we took it to em and won 13-1.

The championship was set, Monarch vs. New Vista. This game was intense at first, but the fatigue showed in New Vista’s star athletes. Monarch kept making play after play; deep throws, up-wind points, and we all played tight defense.

I had a layout catch that swung the momentum to Monarch for the win. Best of Boulder Champions 2009 with a score of 13-4. Great job Monarch Coyotes Frisbee! As Chris Bubernak would say….”and boom goes the dynamite”

Champions 2009

Ultimate Frisbee addiction is only cured by playing the ultimate sport, Frisbee.

Last weekend my frisbee team and I competed in a tournament at Broomfield Highschool. Broomfield Highschools 1st annual tourny was called the “Ultimate Nightmare”

Our team played 6 games of pool play and ended up with a record of 5-1. The only team that we lost to was Denver North. We played them in the championship game and won 13-5.

We dominated the whole game, with cross-gender points worth 2. This point system made for a quicker game. Each game had its own twist for certain points. A T-Rex point was played where your elbows couldn’t leave your sides. A whole point had to be played using only overhand throws. This made the tournament a little different than just 7 games of ultimate frisbee in a row.

This was a fun way to get out and play a ton of frisbee during the off-season.

I gotta focus back on Cross Country now though, with one meet left in the season. I ran a PR in yesterday’s regional race where my school took 2nd place. 17:12 and a 5th place on my team!

Ski season is almost here!