Ultimate Frisbee
When not buried in my research, I spend much of my time playing ultimate frisbee. I discovered the sport as an undergraduate at Carleton, where I played varsity soccer for two years before converting to ultimate and joining Carleton Syzygy. In my first two years of graduate school, I finished up my college eligibility with Michigan Flywheel. At the club level, I’ve most recently played for Rival, a nationally competitive team from Michigan and Ohio competing in the women’s division.
Here’s some highlight videos of my college division teams (from a few years back), if you want a taste of ultimate.
Flywheel 2019 at Queen City Tune Up (Charlotte, NC).
Syzygy 2017 at College National Championships (Cincinnati, OH).
“Hockey is just a silly little game. We devote year after year after year to it without ever really hoping to get anything in return. We burn and bleed and cry, fully aware that the most the sport can give us, in the very best scenario, is incomprehensibly meager and worthless: just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That’s all.
But what the hell else is life made of?”
Rival at the 2021 National Club Championships in San Diego, CA.
Rival after winning the 2021 Elite-Select Challenge! We got… not quite a giant check, but a larger-than-usual one?