Winter League Tournament!

This past weekend was the Winter League tournament. Derrick and I play winter league almost every year and we both really enjoy it. You sign up and your name is entered into a pool of players. All of the captains get together and have a draft to choose teams and you get together to play against one of the other teams every Saturday. I love that the triangle has such a large ultimate community! It allows you to meet and play with new people every league season.

This year, Derrick and I were drafted to team Natty White. Natty Greens is a Pub and Brewing Restaurant and a winter league sponsor...hence the name shout out. We had an awesome team! Everybody was a blast to play with and it was a nice change from former years to have 6 ladies on the team! It's much more common for the ladies to have to play close to every point during the season because of lack of numbers so it was nice to have 6 ladies who all liked to show up to play!

The weather Saturday was terrible! It was about 35 degrees and raining.  Typically the WL tournament is two full days with each team getting at least 4-5 games over the weekend. Due to the weather, they had to re-structure the tournament to fit all of the games on the UNC turf fields and a lot of teams only got 2 games in crappy weather.  We ended up having one of the best games of our season on Saturday despite the conditions and we moved on to the quarter finals on Sunday morning.

Sunday's weather was picture perfect! We won a very close game in Quarters and moved on to Semis. We ended up losing in Semis to the team that ultimately won the tournament.

Derrick and I really enjoyed playing on this team this year! Everybody on the team was very nice, fun to play with, and really enjoyed the game which is what it's all about. Here's a picture of the team yesterday after our last game.

And here is our teams Spirit Award winner Doug with his spirit disc!

Thanks for a great season Natty White!