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DISC-ussion

Sophomore Trevor Janis and junior Jack Mazur are friends and teammates on the men’s Ultimate Frisbee club. This is their conversational Disc-ussion.

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October 2009

No Wisconsequences Tournament/Set-up for Disc-ussion

10/21/09 2:06 AM

Loyola University’s Ultimate Frisbee team gets little recognition.  There is a general notion in the public that Ultimate is a hobby for hippies, a lazy man’s way to spend the day: a game. Darkwing — the men’s Ultimate team here at Loyola — knows there’s much more to the game than most people see. We went to a tournament in Wisconsin with over 50 other teams this weekend, and competition was fierce.  It may be hard to recognize Ultimate as a sport without experiencing it, but almost every college in the U.S. has a team, and the No Wisconsequences tournament hosted a good number of them on Oct. 16.  As a club team with no space at Loyola, we have to travel to our tournaments by rental van and stay crammed into hotel rooms by the dozen,...