The Ghettobirds are travelling to Irvine this weekend for the annual Irvine Halloween Huckfest! After travelling to two tournaments so far this fall, the team is getting into the flow of things. Check out the twitter feed for real time results after each game and check out this link for brackets.
Registration is now open for IM league this fall. Use the form on the IM League page to sign up. We’re shooting for all co-ed this year, so don’t be confused that you don’t have an option to play just men’s.
Welcome back Ghetto! Hope everyone had a great summer and played a bunch of ultimate.
We’ve got our first two events of the year next Wednesday, 8/25. The fall involvement fair is from 11-2. We’ll need people there all day, so please come out, hang out, toss the disc, and help recruit. Later that day we’ll have our first team meeting, where we’ll talk about the team a bit, and about our plans for the semester. The meeting will be at 6 pm in WPH B27.
While the USC Ghettobirds put their best season in the books a few weeks ago, the USC Hellions, the women’s team, just completed an even bigger feat by finishing 5th at Nationals in Madison, Wisconsin. After getting to Nationals last year for the first time but finishing 20th, the girls came back this year as champions of the Southwest region, thanks to a 15-14 win over defending national champs UCSB.
Despite a tough loss to Cal in pool play, the women looked confident as they handily beat the two other teams in their pool. In pre-quarters, they took down Pitt and came across UCSB again, this time in the national quarterfinals. In a game worthy of a national semifinal (whichever team won had an easy road to the championship game), the Hellions fought valiantly but came up a few points short. However, it was the best season ever for the women’s team and a we congratulate them on a job very well done! Good work Girls!
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. However, we knew the next game was gonna make or break our tournament.
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 coming tantalizingly close for the past two seasons. But this year was different. With the majority of players returning from last year’s squad that narrowly missed out on regionals last year, and an influx of talented and committed freshmen, the team looked better than ever. They proved it this weekend at sectionals by playing Ghettobirds Ultimate- fun, fast, loose and most importantly, as a team.
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, and then 2 other pools of everybody else. Every team in the power pool made it to the Championship Bracket but only the top team of each of the other 2 pools made it in, so we were one of those 2 top teams. Long story short, Chico was seeded higher than us.
We came into the match sore from the day before, but fired up.
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 outscored our opponents 52-17 on the day.
First up was Long Beach B. The Ghettobirds came out hard and destroyed their zone defense they threw enroute to a 13-2 win. For his stellar offense, Souren was name King of the Game.
Next up was Arizona State. They put up a fight and had some physical play, but we prevailed and won 13-7. Matty Ice took home King of the Game honors here.
After the bye game, we came out against Cal-B and former Ghettobird (and Jeopardy winner Shadd) and shredded their zone to cruise to a 13-5. For his fantastic pulls and great enthusiasm in his first Ultimate tournament in 6 months, V-Neck was named King of the Game.
Lastly, we played San Diego (USD). We’ve had trouble with them in the past but they lost a lot of seniors and we prevailed 13-3. For his great pull that nobody knew he had, Thomas was named the King of the Game.
Overall, a great day for the Ghettobirds as we move into the Championship Bracket tomorrow. Stay tuned…
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 than Los Angeles, which is a good thing most of the time but not so much during Ultimate tournaments.
