2006 Olympia Artesians Co-Ed Traveling Team
This report was written by Andrew, who ran the team single-handedly in 2006. Thanks Andrew.
Thanks to Austin for the fine photography.
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2006 Olympia Artesians Co-Ed Traveling TeamThis report was written by Andrew, who ran the team single-handedly in 2006. Thanks Andrew. Thanks to Austin for the fine photography. |
Last weekend your fearless Olympia Artesians represented Oly Ulimate at the granddady of tournaments up in Redmond. 80 teams from across the nation battled it out through the heat, sweat, wet cuts, and the occasional hangover.
On day one, lead by captains Ian and Beth, Olympia went 3 and 1 – our best showing at Potlatch. After dropping the first game, Olympia battled through three very close games, winning all three. Pivotal inspiration on game four came from Travis's speech that went something like "ok lets play our hearts out one point then sub out" or maybe it was "lets play hard one point so we’ll win and we can take off our cleats and sit under the giant shade tent" (I’m not sure which, I wasn’t on the line).
Their attempt at a "no hammers mark" (it didn't work)
However the historian's rewrite it, we got the point and won the game. Highlights include the six women scoring machine. Pam, the seventh women, would lament her new role as handler -- not as many scoring chances when you’re the dump, eh? I know how you feel.... Other highlights were Ron's multiple D's, Lisa's defense that we creatively dubbed "Lisa's Defense", and Austin's biochemical description of a "wet cut." Everyone ask him to describe it to you.
Pam, Ron, Dave, Andrew, Jim, Toby
Lisa, Jessee, Jen, Molly, Hannah, Tony
Mike, Beth, Ian, Travis
Austin
On day two, Oly found itself in 16th seed of the “D” pool – much better than our “H” pool from last year! Unfortunately, it meant our competition was much better. Olympia rose to the challenge, barely losing a heartbreaker 15-13 to the number one seed. That game was some of Oly’s finest playing I have seen in a long time. More D’s by Ron, tiptoe catches by Jessee, and inspiration yelling and craziness by yours truly wasn’t quite enough to create the upset, but it was a great showing nonetheless.
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