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The Ultimate Frisbee Club will host a five-team Halloween Tournament 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday at Metzgar Field and the Newlins Road intramural field.
Lafayette’s team, nicknamed “Aflicktion,” will host other co-ed squads from Dickinson College, University of Scranton, Muhlenburg College, and East Stroudsburg University.
Aflicktion took fifth place in a Sept. 27 tournament at Colgate University, winning two of four games. Lafayette defeated Muhlenburg, 13-11, in a scrimmage earlier this fall. This past summer, the team played in a Connecticut tournament, winning one of four games.
Most of the Leopards who regularly play are first-year students and sophomores, with upperclass leadership provided by Shara Gregory ’04 (Collegeville, Pa.), a double major in international affairs and German, and Emily White ’05 (Shutesbury, Mass.), a double major in English and Spanish.The team has 17 men and five women, including 10 sophomores and 10 first-year students. Winfield Browning ’07 (Ramsey, N.J.) serves as understudy.
“Aflicktion prides itself most in having the ‘spirit of the game,” says team handler Joseph Crobak ’06 (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), a computer science major. “This is self-governed rule explained as good sportsmanship plus the willingness to have a ton of fun. We love playing with and meeting other schools.”
Lafayette was the first college to have an Ultimate Frisbee team (see related story). Joel Silver ’74, who went on to finish his undergraduate studies at NYU, introduced fellow residents of South College to the sport in 1970. (Silver now heads Hollywood’s Silver Pictures and is producer of the Matrix trilogy.) However, the team has existed intermittently, almost disappearing in the mid-1980s before experiencing a revival in 1989, notes biology major Sam Hetzel ’06 (Metuchen, N.J.), officer at arms for Aflicktion.
“This year’s team is once again a revival of the sport at Lafayette College,” he says. “With a large freshman class last year and another promising group this year, the team looks to improve and become a sectional, and eventually regional, competitor.“
The team practices nearly every day at 4 p.m. Construction at Skillman Library relocated practices to March Field this semester, but recently, Aflicktion resumed playing at the Quad and also at a municipal field about two miles away.
“The team has lots of raw talent and heart, and this year is focused on bringing all that into play, with new drills and plays, as well as practicing the fundamentals daily and attending as many tournaments as the budget allows,” says Hetzel.
Spring is the main season for Ultimate Frisbee. It will bring an absence for White as she studies abroad in Spain and the return of last year’s captain, psychology major Erin Mirocha ’05 (Minnetonka, Minn.), from her semester in Australia.