A little SOL update.....

At the end of winter break this year, SOL traveled to Iowa University to compete with the other top teams in the central region. SOL, UW Madison Bella Donna, Iowa State Women Scorned, and University of Iowa Saucy Nancy all got together for some pre-season ultimate and fun party times. At the end of the weekend, the scores weren't exactly in our favor, but we did get a pretty good idea of what's ahead for our spring season. The newbies also got to see some high level ultimate! Keep an eye out for our next blog entry with a combined recap of Iowa, indoor practices, and the Midwest Throwdown coming up soon!

Mmmmm, turf....

Happy to finally play ultimate!

Ready, set, pull

Three of our alumni joined us!

SOL loves the Packers

SOL Gets Sponsored by Five Ultimate!!!

After 2 loooooooong weeks of anticipating November 29th, it finally came. SOLmates everywhere anxiously awaited results of our submission to Five Ultimate for a Growth Sponsorship and on November 29th those results were in. Myself and co-captain Heather went to practice with full knowledge that SOL had received this sponsorship, but decided it was best to wait for the right moment to let all the ladies of SOL know. This led to me having to lie and mumble something about East Coast being 2 hours behind so they probably wouldn't send emails till later. Of course everyone believe it because they had to. After hanging out with our homie Mr. T for a quick minute, the time was right. It seemed only right that Beef, who spent extensive hours converting the video to the right format ("Because Brit is an idiot and got the wrong type of camera" quote from Beef) and editing this masterpiece, would be the one to let everyone know we got it! After Beef read the email to all and we disclosed the awesome hookups we will be getting on gear, the cheering was rather loud. I would like to apologize to the Womens Basketball coach who was probably trying to do work in her office at this time so most likely disturbed by our shouts and tears of joy (ok, so the tears might be an exaggeration...).

And there you have it! SOL gets sponsored by Five. With that, we all know how extra hard we will be working to show all of the ultimate world what's up! If you or anyone you know is amazing at designing jersey's WE WANT YOU!!! Please contact me via email (gartnebm@uwec.edu) if you are interested in submitting any jersey designs for a fresh new SOL look! Sublimated or not, show us what you got! (that rhymes)

If you are one of the 5 people who haven't seen the video yet, for your convenience we have the link RIGHT HERE:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150095527006383&comments&ref=mf
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Looooooooove,
Brit

It's the end of our fall SOLmester...

Here are SOL's Fall 2010 Graduating Seniors!

Rachel "H Squared" Herr-Hoyman, #16

Rachel Culver, #33

Moira "Mo Mo fo Sho Sho" Farrell, #84

Sol won the very first Fazoli's Pizza and Breadsticks Competition:

Who says boys can eat more than girls?!?

We also enjoyed some nostalgic middle school memories....

See you in Spring 2011!

Uno, dos, tres, OLE!! Taco pizza, ON BUFFET!!!!

SOL hosted the women's college division during the Eau Claire Chillout this past weekend. Because of our amazing large numbers, we split into two squads to take on other the other women's teams. Saturday our ladies were up bright and early to set up the fields and get the games started. We had our kaBOOMbox charged and ready to pump us up.


On Saturday, SOL X played four games against Carleton, UW-Whitewater, Minnesota Duluth, and St. Ben's. SOL got their first look at former regional rival Carleton of the year. The game against UW Whitewater was a lot of fun. The Shist ladies are always up for a good game of ultimate. Minnesota Duluth was a little rough for SOL X, but our funtensity kicked in and we came away with a good win. St. Ben's had few subs but they still brought a lot of energy to the game. We gave them a good St. B-B-B-Benny and the Jets cheer! At the end of the day, the SOL X ladies had a record of 3-1. SOL Y played games against UW-Milwaukee, UW-Steven's Point, Minnesota, and Winona State. These ladies went 4-0.


On Sunday, SOL X started with a game against the Minnesota Ninjas. It was a challenging and fun game for both teams. We both brought a lot of intensity to try and win our way into the championship bracket. Minnesota held out for the win in the end. SOL X went on to play a good game with the Shist ladies, winning to land 5th place in the EC Chillout. SOL Y played Minnesota next. The game was similar to the previous round, but these SOL ladies pulled away with the win to go to the championship game against Carleton. 


Mega SOL v. Carleton


Both SOL teams combined to form MEGA SOL for the game against Carleton. Carleton scored the first few points of the game. SOL soon responded with some sick D's and picked up points to follow and tie up the score. It was a Carleton score and SOL answer score game until Carleton pulled ahead at the half. SOL stepped up to play some sick ass defense, but Carleton got away with a win at the end. Mega SOL ended the day with 2nd place in the EC Chillout. 

No Wisconsequences Twenty Ten

SOL traveled to Merton, WI for No Wisconsequences Twenty Ten last weekend. With a good mix of returners and newbies, it was a great weekend to learn each other's ultimate skills. SOL also got to meet their brand new KaBOOMbox. If you don't know what this is, just look for this amazing music producing box during our warm ups at a tournament near you! Our first night consisted of a giant bonfire, star gazing, and the viewing of a movie that inspired the line "Get that virgin!". We went to bed early due to an 8:30 am game time.

Brit The Videographer

SOL v. UW-Milwaukee Black Cat

Saturday began a little slowly as we all woke up during our first game against UW-Milwaukee's Black Cat. The game was an exchange of points until the Black Cat women got away with two more points to win the game 9 over 7.

SOL v. Minnesota-Duluth Lake Effect

SOL's second game of the day was against Ohio Wesleyan Yeti. SOL started flowing and won the game 8-6. Our third game was against Duluth's Lake Effect. SOL took this one pretty quickly with a winning score of 13-1.

SOL v. North Park Allihopa

Tracie - Maniac Scorekeeper

The final game of the day was against North Park's Allihopa. SOL won their final game of the day with a score of 13-3.

SOL attended the No Wisconsequences tournament party that night for some ultimate fun. Our very own alumna Martha Harris won a Patagonia item during the raffle! Kathleen and Samara impressed some break dancers by spinning each other in the middle of their large circle. The SOL ladies also graced the tournament attendees with their 1st place Centex Dance! After the raffle and a deer-filled drive home, we slept sweet ultimate dreams.

SOL v. Iowa State Women Scorned

On Sunday, our first game started at 10am so SOL was well rested and ready to go!

This was a competitive game for the SOL ladies with a few game changing calls mixed in. The final score was SOL 10 - Women Scorned 13.

Estelle likes to fly!

SOL v. St. Olaf Durga

The second game that day was against St. Olaf Durga. This game was also more difficult, giving the SOL rookies a taste of what's in store for the spring.

SOL ended the weekend at 3-3. A few standout plays included both Emy and Meredith getting their first callahans! Megan caught the disc in on the sideline by doing the splits to keep one foot in. The rookies learned how to work an awesome shut down zone too!!

The ride home in Beef's car was quite entertaining. It consisted of a meeting with some frisbee boys at McDonald's, a mooning to keep up the streak started at Hucktoberfest, and over 100 total cows counted! SOL takes on I-94 like none other.

SOLove