Our spring semester starts in a little over one month. Our practice schedule is posted on our Google calendar (found below), as well as our conditioning schedule. We will be adding early morning agility on either Tuesday or Wednesday mornings at the indoor track.
Tournament Schedule:
Feb 20--Iowa State Scrimmage w/ ISU and Wisconsin (Ames, IA)
Mar 13-14--Philly Classic (Philadelphia, PA)
Mar 20-21--Chicago Invite (Naperville, IL)
Mar 27-28--Womens College Centex (Austin, TX)
UPA Lake Superior Sectionals (TBA)
UPA Central Regionals (TBA)
SOLmates...make sure you are checking in with your accountability partner(s) over break. Push each other hard! If you are looking for workout ideas, send a Facebook message to Robyn Fennig, and she will get you set up with our Facebook group :) (Or you can always search "SOL Conditioning")
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The University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Women's Ultimate Team
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
SOL gets groovy
Well, after meeting up at the track and warming up, the few who showed up to the correct gym location in the snow storm for conditioning decided to get creative. Jess Haller suggested that the Zumba class (taught by former SOLmate, Kristi Finco) going on over at the other side of the track would be fun. Needless to say, Jess, Heather, George, and I attempted to do this. We got a great workout in...but I think I can speak for both George and myself when I say we do not have the greatest dance moves in the world. Unlike the one girl in the front row, us trying this new class was humorous to say the least. I definitely had some fun...and I'm sure Brit and Whit had fun laughing at us, as they could not participate.
We ended up taking advantage of the excess gym space (due to the intramural tournament of champions running through tonight) and enjoyed extra room to throw and what not.
Heather and I went to dodgeball and made some new friends too. I only got hit once in the face, but let's be honest, some girl already chipped my tooth yesterday at intramural finals, so no big deal.
Heading into finals with our gift exchange and SOLunch on Sunday afternoon before finals. Final stretch. Woo hoo.
{P.S. A special shout out to my new inspiration, Melissa Brown, for being the first SOL mate of the season to throw up at conditioning yesterday. She did her thing, and pushed through a hella tough workout in Zorn. We're working hard. SOL team stair count from conditioning practices only, thus far: 13,860 and yes this is an accurate number, I have been keeping track}
Go out and make a snow angel please. I know I will in the morning.
We ended up taking advantage of the excess gym space (due to the intramural tournament of champions running through tonight) and enjoyed extra room to throw and what not.
Heather and I went to dodgeball and made some new friends too. I only got hit once in the face, but let's be honest, some girl already chipped my tooth yesterday at intramural finals, so no big deal.
Heading into finals with our gift exchange and SOLunch on Sunday afternoon before finals. Final stretch. Woo hoo.
{P.S. A special shout out to my new inspiration, Melissa Brown, for being the first SOL mate of the season to throw up at conditioning yesterday. She did her thing, and pushed through a hella tough workout in Zorn. We're working hard. SOL team stair count from conditioning practices only, thus far: 13,860 and yes this is an accurate number, I have been keeping track}
Go out and make a snow angel please. I know I will in the morning.
Monday, December 7, 2009
I am Surprising, I am surprising, I am SURPRISING! SOL plays Dodgeball
Anna Hettler got an e-mail from the UWEC Chapter of Amnesty International about a fundraiser to send some money to the war-torn region of Darfur in the Sudan. The charity event, “Dodgeball 4 Darfur” was pretty well attended, by guys.
Here is the story the Raccoon Assassins (SOL) taking them down on the guys.
As the only all female team in the dodgeball tournament, we had our work cut out for us. Between Brit Gartner, Heather Wroten, and Tracie Anderson’s sniping skills and me and Anna Hettler catching everything, we were feeling good. Sprinting to get the balls at the center line cost us the first game victory, as two of the Raccoon Assassins were eliminated as sacrificial lambs. We changed our strategy so that we pretended to bust off the line to get the balls, and stopped. Basically giving all the balls to our opponents. But it was okay, as that strategy proved to help us. We ended up pulling off a second game win against the mostly male team. In the best-of-three round, we ended up falling after a marathon game. In other words, we took on a somewhat shady team who liked to cheat (aka cross the center line by 5 feet with every throw, or refusing to go out even though they were clearly out), we took them to a third round game. We lose in overtime. Sad day.
We found more success in the losers bracket, beating Jumpstart, led by former SOLmate Lauren Novak. I can say it was weird to pelt her with dodgeballs after she was once our teammate just a few months ago. But, what must be done was done. We eliminated their team quite handedly in a 3-0 victory.
We lose the next round, despite Brit Gartner’s slide tackling maneuver at the mid-line, but end up winning the 10th place game. Heck yes. SOL can do other things.
I ended up picking up with Fenske’s Intravarsity team with former Eauzoner Chris Schasse after two of Fenske’s teammates had to leave. In the quarter finals, we ended up playing the team SOL lost to in the first round, which I re-named “Cheating for Charity.” The final game, the “Cheaters for Charity” team called a timeout, and subbed their two best MALE players for the remaining male/female pair who was on the court before the timeout was called. Talk about sexism. Our team ended up pulling out a narrow victory thanks to Justin Weber’s sick skills.
We faced the UWEC Dodgeball Club A-team in the semis. We lost by one in the first game. I single-handedly beat the Dodgeball Club A-team in the second game. It was all six of them vs. me after all of my teammates were eliminated. I proceeded to catch 6 throws in less than two minutes, getting all my teammates back in and eliminating all 6 of theirs. Speechless in my performance, my new teammates could not believe it. I was semi-recruited by the dodgeball club. Guess what I’m doing on Tuesday night? Playing dodgeball, obvi.
(Left to right. Top Row: Whitney Esson, Jess Haller, Melissa Brown, Heather Wroten, Anna Hettler, Robyn Fennig, Brit Gartner. Bottom Row: Tracie Anderson, Estelle Taquet)
Here is the story the Raccoon Assassins (SOL) taking them down on the guys.
As the only all female team in the dodgeball tournament, we had our work cut out for us. Between Brit Gartner, Heather Wroten, and Tracie Anderson’s sniping skills and me and Anna Hettler catching everything, we were feeling good. Sprinting to get the balls at the center line cost us the first game victory, as two of the Raccoon Assassins were eliminated as sacrificial lambs. We changed our strategy so that we pretended to bust off the line to get the balls, and stopped. Basically giving all the balls to our opponents. But it was okay, as that strategy proved to help us. We ended up pulling off a second game win against the mostly male team. In the best-of-three round, we ended up falling after a marathon game. In other words, we took on a somewhat shady team who liked to cheat (aka cross the center line by 5 feet with every throw, or refusing to go out even though they were clearly out), we took them to a third round game. We lose in overtime. Sad day.We found more success in the losers bracket, beating Jumpstart, led by former SOLmate Lauren Novak. I can say it was weird to pelt her with dodgeballs after she was once our teammate just a few months ago. But, what must be done was done. We eliminated their team quite handedly in a 3-0 victory.We lose the next round, despite Brit Gartner’s slide tackling maneuver at the mid-line, but end up winning the 10th place game. Heck yes. SOL can do other things.I ended up picking up with Fenske’s Intravarsity team with former Eauzoner Chris Schasse after two of Fenske’s teammates had to leave. In the quarter finals, we ended up playing the team SOL lost to in the first round, which I re-named “Cheating for Charity.” The final game, the “Cheaters for Charity” team called a timeout, and subbed their two best MALE players for the remaining male/female pair who was on the court before the timeout was called. Talk about sexism. Our team ended up pulling out a narrow victory thanks to Justin Weber’s sick skills.
We faced the UWEC Dodgeball Club A-team in the semis. We lost by one in the first game. I single-handedly beat the Dodgeball Club A-team in the second game. It was all six of them vs. me after all of my teammates were eliminated. I proceeded to catch 6 throws in less than two minutes, getting all my teammates back in and eliminating all 6 of theirs. Speechless in my performance, my new teammates could not believe it. I was semi-recruited by the dodgeball club. Guess what I’m doing on Tuesday night? Playing dodgeball, obvi.
(Left to right. Top Row: Whitney Esson, Jess Haller, Melissa Brown, Heather Wroten, Anna Hettler, Robyn Fennig, Brit Gartner. Bottom Row: Tracie Anderson, Estelle Taquet)The final game of the day was a showcase game of IV vs. SOL. Jess Haller took my place on her boyfriend’s team, since Fenske tore his ACL. There was an epic wrestling match for a ball to start it off, where I had to basically use Justin as a shield from getting pelted by his teammates. Brit outlasted everyone in the second game with her dolphin dives and nearly won the game single handedly.
What a great time.
I will leave you all with one of the best pictures of Eau2's captain HotCarl, who had one of the best costumes I have ever seen, winning second prize in a costume competition. Lookin' good Freddie Mercury.
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