USC Men's Ultimate

Despite it being the middle of finals week, and the destination being 1000 miles away, the Ghettobirds traveled to Colorado to play in the 2010 Southwest Regionals for the first time in recent memory. As the 14th seed, we drew 3rd seeded UCSB as our first opponent as played fairly well against them, losing 15-5. [...]

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For the first time since 2004, and only the 2nd time in the program’s history, the USC Ghettobirds are going to the regional tournament. At the beginning of this season, 9 months ago, the team set a goal and embarked on a long, hard, tiring but also promising quest to make it to regionals after [...]

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The Ghettobirds took their first day success into the Championship Bracket on Sunday at the Pres Day Invite, and we didn’t disappoint.
We drew Chico State as our first match of the day at 9am. Chico finished last in their “power pool”- the tournament was designed with 2 power pools consisting of the 10 best teams, [...]

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The Ghettobirds were seeded the first in their pool at the Pres Day Invite in San Diego. And we lived up to our expectations.
For the first time in recent memory, the Ghettobirds went undefeated in the first day as we went 4-0 to finish first in our pool and move into the Championship Bracket. We [...]

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The Ghettobirds traveled to Las Vegas last weekend to play in the mega tournament, Trouble in Vegas.
It was cold. It was rainy. It was windy. It was awesome.
The Birds were placed in a pool with Notre Dame, Whitworth and UConn to play on Friday. All of these teams come from climates with much more weather [...]

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We didn’t have a game until 12:30 on Sunday afternoon, which was a bit odd. Usually we have to wake up before the sun and get to the fields before our 8am game. But with the unusual starting time, we didn’t know what to do with ourselves in the morning. Most of us were exhausted [...]

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It turned out to be a great weekend for Ultimate in San Diego as the Ghettobirds played the last tournament of the fall at UCSD.
We played our first game against Arizona-B at the bright and early time of 8am, and we got off to a blistering start. We took the first 4 points, which were [...]

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Sometimes when things aren’t going right, it helps to have a parent or two around to get things back on the right track.
That was the case on November 7, as the USC men’s ultimate team looked lost in two early defeats to San Diego State’s T and J teams. But during the bye game, Ethan [...]

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The USC men’s ultimate frisbee team recently played in the Irvine Huckfest over Halloween weekend.
This was the first tournament that the Ghettobirds brought rookies to and they didn’t disappoint. In fact, this was the first tournament in memory in which the Ghettobirds brought 2 teams because of the high numbers that have expressed interest in [...]

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It was a solid weekend for the Ghettobirds and we traveled down to Long Beach to play in Club Sectionals. Despite the fact that many of the players we played against were older, at the end of their season (read: in shape), and more experienced, we were able to move the disk and play some [...]

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