Friday, September 15, 2006
Dr. Lavigne approached me yesterday to determine if forming an intramural Ultimate Frisbee team with Classics Society members would be a viable idea. After I again closed my jaw, I agreed to be team captain and set forth to find members for the roster (due to intramural coordinators later in the afternoon). He came upon this notion very suddenly from one of his colleagues in the Russian department, who apparently has a team of Russian staff and students that dominates.
I want to dominate. With games occurring Fridays, most likely during Dr. Lavigne's graduate seminar over Homeric epic, I went downstairs and entreatied the graduate students, thereby solving any conflict of schedule. Another Classics Society member, Cody, who is farm-boy strong and built like a baseball pitcher, became adorably animated when injected with the proposed scheme, signing up himself, his brother, and another friend of theirs. Adrian and Jennifer agreed to play (thus putting the number of girls who will stand around at one edge of the field talking to three).
Concerns about having enough players (seven, plus a decent set of relievers) led me to conclude that perhaps it might behoove to involve the Germans. I spoke to Dr. Bonzo, who jumped upon the idea, having played a significant amount of Ultimate Frisbee before he married. He mentioned he was ambidextrous and used that to his advantage to get around blockers. Wie süß! He probably cannot play himself, though, for he has several article reviews he has to complete between teaching this semester. But it would be hilarious to have him play.
The particular Germans in mind were the deRiese brothers- Tamme, Johannes, and Heiko, who are all very tall and aggressive. I talked to Bonnie, Deutscher Klub Sekretärin, who plays Ultimate often already and knows more people who would assuredly join. Ausgezeichnet. Was für ein Spaß. Later last night Tamme saw me at the pool, and, as expected, he agreed we should mention the intramural team at the Deutscher Klub meeting this evening.
An initial roster was due yesterday. Games begin today, but I was given no times or exact information about at which fields we should meet when I turned our information in. The intramural website is incomplete (it doesn't even list Ultimate Frisbee as a sport), but I hope to figure everything out before three this afternoon. Teams are allowed two forfeits, so I suppose we should be fine.
Bringing on other people who actually play should hopefully offset the small fact that I have only played Ultimate Frisbee twice, in high school. But the game isn't rocket science.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 9:50 AM]