Finals are over!!!

The biannual evaluation of our academic progress worth anywhere from 10-15% of one's total class performance came to a close last week.  For two weeks, students across the country partook in strenuous mental marathons in preparation for these make-or-break exams that, more often than not was the difference between two letter grades.  Why must I have to persuade a teacher into swinging my grade two tenths of a percent up?  Anyway, this is why I have not been posting for a while.  So to all of you who I have given "Blog Blue Balls," I'm sorry I have been such a tease.  I will try my hardest to post at least once a week and provide you with as much High School Ultimate Commentary as possible.

Now, for the important stuff: Spring season has officially started.  Practices are getting harder, committed players stay and future lacrosse players leave, coaches get angrier and your team finally finds its identity.  Fall season is, in retrospect pointless now because it's Spring season baby!  Throw that vertical stack out the window and start teaching your confused little Freshmen such strategic mind-fucks as the cup and end zone offense.  Say goodbye to meager, cold tournaments and look forward to slightly larger, cold tournaments.  While the world holds its breath for Westerns/ Easterns and YCC, now we must prepare ourselves.  Finals are over and Spring season is upon us.

We, at HSUC love your input.  How do you transition from the Fall to the Spring?  What Spring tourneys are you most pumped for?  As a team, how do you best prepare yourselves for the rigors of Spring?  Email me and comment.

Sweet Meat Highlights from 2010 HS Western National Championship

Amherst and South Eugene Repeat?

The extremely talented and prolific teams from both ends of the U.S. definitely proved their worth last year stomping every opponent they had faced.  With a few blow outs between the two teams and impressive wins that never really seemed to come close, these squads deserved to be our outright open winners.  Though the schools are separated by 3,000 miles, two South Eugene Axemen and three Amherst Hurricanes connected to represent Team USA in Heilbronn, Germany for the WJUC over last summer. It is no question, two incredible teams from both coasts.

That was last year.

The question that we at HSUC want you to answer is whether or not these great teams from last year can repeat.  Who are the new stars on these teams?  Which teams can dethrone SEHS and ARHS?  Who is more likely to repeat?

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Lets try this

I am completely new to blogs and to be honest I have never really been much of a computer guy.  My hope for this little project is not to become the next "The Huddle" or use this as a medium to one day become a writer for USAU, but to cater to those eager high school players who understand those references.  I hope that the oh-so important demographic of Ultimate that our governing body loves to talk about is represented well.  I felt the need to create a blog focused on youth Ultimate because I have scoured the Internet for ages searching high and low for a satisfactory site to immerse myself in.  I make daily visits to the usual online magazines and web sites dedicated to our great sport but all only feature youth Ultimate every once in the while or have a small section thrown in as if added as an afterthought.  If this blog cannot deliver the goods, I really do hope that some other site will pop up to feed my Ultimate addiction and enable some more late night homework procrastination.  Anyway, post a comment with any ideas, links, or criticism.

Vinh