Last Wednesday, during frisbee, I was invited to go to Sydney this weekend to play as “punching bags” against the Australia Women’s National Ultimate Team. This is the girls team that is going to be playing in “Worlds” in August in Vancouver. So today, Scott (another frisbee player) and I drove to sydney, got there about 1, and watched the Australia Masters Team play the New Zealand Masters before we were scheduled to play. Some of the other guys from the Newcastle Team were already up there; they play on the Australia National Mens team, and they had played New Zealand the previous day. At 2:30, our game started. There were 17 women on their team, and we started with 12 guys, although we ended up with nearly 16 by the end.
These girls are fast. I knew they were good, everyone said they were good, but I didnt expect them to be so fast. At one point, I was guarding a girl they call ‘Snail’ (yeah, i have NO idea where that comes from…) and they threw it to her in the endzone, and we were both sprinting for it, and I could not get a lead on her, but I was lucky enough to have position, and we both dove for it, it bounced off my hands just before she would have caught it, and so we were both laying face down in the endzone, with arms outstreched, and she looks over and says “your fast” and i turned and said “me? I think after this point Im gonna go have a nap.” I have never been so tired after a game before in my life. Basketball or anything. I had to sleep the whole way home.
We had a huge variety of players on both teams, ranging from nearly 50 down to 18. All of whom I felt were very good players. And the game was fierce. The game was tied nearly the entire game, all the way to 14′s. Then, by some miracle, our team went up 16-14, and we were only playing to 17, so we thought we had it in the bag, but then they just got even more intense and came back to beat us 17-16. A little disappointing but it was one of the most fun games of frisbee I’ve ever played. Afterwards, we hung out on the fields for a bit, had some snacks, and headed home after grabbing a pizza, that got destroyed.
Now, Im going to bed….