Finally Fakulti

My ultimate frisbee club, Fakulti, has finally won nationals.

Over the Anzac Day long weekend each year the Australian Ultimate Frisbee Championships are held, in both Open and Women’s divisions. This year was up in Coffs Harbour, which treated us to weather of all kinds over the 4 days.

Our club has a history of making finals – I think 5 out of the last 6 years one team from the club has made it through to the last day. This year, instead of splitting the club into two even teams (for development of younger and more inexperienced players), we took an A and B squad. 

I made the A team… just. (There are lots of very good players in Fakulti.)

We stormed through the opening games pretty much unchallenged, with the closest games being 15-9. The final against Fyshwick United (Canberra) was much closer, with points trading until about 10 all. We eventually won 15-12 in a bit of a nail-biter, which the crowd appreciated. There’s nothing worse than turning up to a final only to see one team absolutely dominate (last year’s AFL final, anyone?).

So, finally, we’re national champions. I missed the awards ceremony as we made the trip back to Sydney a little earlier, leaving halfway through the Women’s final. So I only got my gold medal today. Here ’tis.

2008 Champions. Yay for us.