Kendra Fallon Tournament Recap

Other weekend, another tournament!
This past weekend all of Motion made the daunting trip down to San Diego. With 30 people in tote, Motion was ready to play together as one team for the first time this year.
On Day One Motion went 2-2 with losses to USC and UC Santa Barbara and wins against UCSD X and ASU. As funbassadors for 5 Ultimate we picked the most spirited player from each team to reach into our "swag bag" and pick some awesome 5 Ultimate gear. After our first full day of the tournament Motion all decided to get side cornrows to sport the next day.

Day Two Motion finished up their last pool play with a win against Long Beach putting us in 3rd place in our pool. We started our first bracket game against our long time rivals the San Diego State Gnomes and had a hard loss to them putting us in the 5th place bracket. The next game Motion played was against UCSD Y. With a victory and the most positive and spirited I have seen Motion we played a game of "Look Down, Look Up" with UCSD Y. The energy from this game carried over to our last and final game of the tournament against University of Arizona. The spirit and energy lead us to a close victory over U of A and a great end to a long weekend and a 5th place finish.
As funbassadors for 5 Ultimate and a group of women who overall love the game of Ultimate we all had an amazing weekend filled with the people we love, the sport we love to play and the opponents who love the sport just as much as we do!

This tournament was Motion's last pre-season tournament and we as a team look forward to our next two quarters and our next tournament which will be Santa Barbara Invite on January 24th and 25th.

2 for 1 Tourney Recap - SCRUW and SLO Hats

SCRUW Halloween Tournament October 25th & 26th, 2014 - Santa Clara, CA

For the first time, we split the team into two. It was a little rough playing with less than 14 on each team, but everyone got a lot of playing time and started building some great connections on and off the field. 

Team Nemo captained by Liz went 2-4 over the weekend and Team Dori captained by Swag went 5-1. 

Thanks to the McKown's for opening up your home to us!

4th Annual SLO Hats Tournament November 8th, 2014 - San Luis Obispo, CA

This tournament brings in a lot of people from out of town and is always a good time. Everyone registers and then is put onto one of eight teams. Who knows who could be on your team?! An AUDL San Jose Spider? A Local pick-up player? A U19 World Champion? A Club Nationals contender? Coach Fisch?

We encouraged everyone to have some fun and learn from all of this talent. Everyone is exposed to new ways of running vertical, horizontal, and end zone stacks and it's always fun when we get to work on guarding new people and trying new throws. 

This year's theme was Timber by Pitbull ft. Ke$ha. Oh and by golly did it go down. There were many laughs, great plays, and some sick layouts!

It was great seeing everyone having fun and getting to know the ultimate community. Even though it's challenging and fun to try to win tournaments as an individual or team, it's equally as important to use a tournament like this to remember why we love the game. 

The next tournament will be KFall (Kendra Fallon Memorial Tournament - formerly known as SoCal Warm-Up) at UCSD on November 22nd and 23rd. 

Gas PEDAL!