As a team we spent four days fighting through two-a-day practices. Morning practices were easy warm-ups, lifting and then half an hour of throwing. The afternoons were basic drills and skills, and then topped off with some sweet scrimmages. Monday scrimmage the O-line rolled, Tuesday the D-line trucked, Wednesday we broke into a three on three tournament, and Thursday a three on three tournament with special throws required to score reminded us that Ultimate is fun.
Wednesday Pools for Natties came out. We learned we were the 17th seed, which fits since we finished 17th twice now. We are in a pool with number 1 overall Pitt, Colorado College, Iowa and Tufts. The Iowa game will be a rematch of a pool play game in Madison that was pretty tightly contested, and the Tufts game is a rematch of a placement game in Columbus that was a big heartbreaker to a lot of the older guys in the program.
After going home for two days the team regrouped in Champaign for the trek to Boulder Colorado. We stopped in Kansas City Sunday night to sleep at the Hirshman's and Krieger's. The rascals over at the Krieger's thought it would be hysterical to saran wrap Adam Wrights van... I also thought it was hysterical. Monday morning we bounced out of Kansas City and 11hours later showed up in Boulder Colorado!!!!!
There are mountains here, being a bunch of boys from Illinois we feel quite out of place.
3 days till first round.
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