The Reason For the season
Brian Gleason IHUC Captain died in a tragic car accident on
January 11
2008. IHUC honors his memory with #16 on their sleeve. His
goal was to make IHUC an elite national program
IHUC Nation
Alumni, fans, parents and supporters would prove to be loud
and proud
at the 2011 nationals making a true IHUC nation. But this nation is led
by Ryan Nation, Team coach, former IHUC member.
Brillant strategist, devoted student of the game, Club National and
World Champion, coach and mentor
.
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Why do I huck?
Because I can.
Iowa Hawkeye Ultimate Club
Bursting the Bubble on Expectations
Whose bubble is this?
Kirk's Bubble!
Whose bubble is this?
Kirk's Bubble!
Whose bubble is this?
Kirk's Bubble!
Whose golf cart is this?
Norm's golf cart!
Iowa Winters mean indoor practice and a bubble tourney.
See
Photos
of
the
Bubble
Tourney
Read the summary
Dorothy It is Kansas!
Driving through snow and arrivng to fields covered with snow?
Call it the Free State Classic.
Still IHUC played on going 8-0, winning a championship
and a 'big check'!
How do you get that Sexy body?
Layout D's!
Running and lifting weights may not be exciting.
But the physical prepartions made IHUC ready.
Whether it was running Carver's stairs or hitting the machines at
Average Joe's.
IHUC did it.
Weekend at Bernies
Who is Bernie?
I'll Show You my Discs if you give me some beads!
Mardi Gras was the first major tourney of the season. And it rained. We traveled 900 hundred miles to face Luther and Minnesota?
Heartbreaking loss on universe in championship to Minnesota.
Head East young man.
IHUC chose the Easterns to prepare for the push to nationals.
Once agian we travel eleven hundred miles and we face Minnesota?
Another
heartbreaking loss to the Grey Ducks? Really?
The Future is Bright
Hucititis the Iowa B team grooms the future players of IHUC.
The
Chicago invite was freezing! And it was windy! Sunday of the tourney
saw the B team go 5-0.
Dorothy It's Kansas again!
IHUC goes 12-0 in the state of Kansas adding four more wins
and
another
championship in the neighbourly state to the west.
Fools Fest 2011.
SOTG
Play hard,!
Play fair!
Every game ends with a handshake.
Aliens have landed
IHUC headed north up I-380 to participate in the Inaugural
Western
Plains Conference Championships. There a friendly alien space ship
hovered overhead to view the action
(Oops sorry I was just informed that's the UNI Dome.)
Conference Champions
A narrow win on Universe point to ISUC and another to LUFDA.
What we have to play LUFDA again? Man that Eric Johnson
can huck.
Central Region Weather
Noun - cold and blustery, wind speeds greater than 7 on Beaufort Scale. Upwind points become an incredible challenge. Hey I saw Sergei huck one at Conference farther than any living man. It blew across the field, down the hill, rolled pass the huge parking lot and ended up in Waterloo.
IHUC would like to thank all the parents for their support, financial, emotional, and physical. From team dinners to gallons of gatoraide you just kept giving. Thanks for those who drove flew or hiked across the country to support us! And mom's thanks for your own special cheer! "Let's do this thing!" "Let's do this thing!"
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Under Water Over Wind
2011 Central Regionals were held in beautiful Appleton
Wisconsin.
Wait strike that; those fields were under water.
Move it to Madision (it's closer to Iowa City anyway)
.
We loved climbing the barbwire when the wind
took the disc
The Legend of Zelda
The green Zelda Jerseys
were a great look for IHUC
Who were those brave young men in the
Zelda greens? See the Roster
Pool Champions
As a gentle breeze blew through Madison (See 8 on beaufort
scale)
IHUC wins its Pool on Saturday
but falls to Carleton in the Semi.
The team caught fire on Sunday, beating Luther, and then IHUC crushed Minnesota and beat Carleton to take 2nd!
No Central Respect
The blogosphere was abuzz - those Guys don't deserve 4 Bids!
Why not - the North Central a perfect 8-0 on the first day at
National's,
beating great seeds Pitt, Florida,
Heck 3 of the teams were perfect against non-North Central competion (18-0) -- That's right IHUC and Hodag's only losses were to North Central champion Cut. Hey I think a fifth bid would have landed a very capable Grey Duck in Boulder.
Can U Sky?
Shark in the Water!
Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!
IHUC members would continue to
sky over the mountain tops
in their 2011 National Pool Play
Read the Road to Boulder at Skyd
Apocalypse No
En Sabah Nur the Pitt Ultimate team
entered the tournament the #1 Seed.
Priding themselves on their D
it would be IHUC whose
Defense would reign supreme.
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Listen Alex Versackas interview with Skyd
We tweeted
That's no Grinnelephant!
Elephantitis disc work is familiar to IHUC just Down the road are our good friends and friendly competitors who were in D III. But this was a different set of pachaderms. These tough Tufts took us to Universe point
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Oh Baby You Got What I Need!
And You say he's just a friend
Oh baby
You, you got what I need
but you say he's just a friend
Our Coach is the Best Man
Were you playing "Where's Ryan?" at Nattys?
Sadly he was not there. Neither was Jimmy Wiesbrook. Jimmy was
just north hucking rocks.
Ryan Nation was best man at his brothers wedding.
Substitute in Mike Denardis UI Alum UNC Ultimate coach,
along with Jake Bradley and Andrew Edwards; their coaching prowess
aided
a great IHUC run.
(By the way Nation we saw a hundred turkeys on the ride
home)
Border Brawl
Our cross border friends and rivals the University
of Illinois Ultimate Club
faced us in Pool play in a rematch of the 2010 hotly contested
pool game. IHUC pulled away early but Chillini kept their cool and
would not go away with out a fight.
(By the way Illinois you guys had the 2nd loudest sidelines
in the tourney - 2nd only to our great fans!)
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What's up Wasabi?
Colorado College came in hot.
And a lot of experts in the blogosphere picked them over IHUC.
This was IHUC's first game on the Showcase Field 1.
Home state favorite Colorado had a huge cheering section.
IHUC already guaranteed, a Quarterfinal appearance rested some, but
Wasabi made
the action hot.
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See
photos
at
ultiphoto.com
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It's the Huckeye State
The state of Iowa is ranked 30th in population
But it was #1 in Nationals teams.
Congrats to LUFDA, IHUC, Saucy Nancy and Woman Scorned for
4 great teams!
If you huck it they will
come.
View the IHUC 2011 Roster
Video
Will you ever Quit?
No!
we want some mo!
we want some mo!
we want some mo!
Little Iowa City
The Big Blue tent kept us cool. And gathred around it were
Hucititus
teammates, alumni, Saucy, relatives, fans and friends
Thank you all who gave us the
greatest sidelines.
There is no Room for Ego
Selfless play and true team effort took IHUC to the Semi
Finals. A
great
run from Blackout Sunday at regionals to the semis at Nats, a streak of
8 straight wins.
The Oregon game was a great contest including a spectacular layout D by
Oregon that was turned into a spectacular layout point by Baby J.
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The Cruelest Cut of all
An elbow to the face and a broken nose for Prookie, Shark
tackled
in the
endzone, TMF's flying everywhere,
IHUC would not give in, but kudos to Carleton who played a better game
this day.
CUT 15-10
Those girls are Hot!
Hot and Spicy Saucy Nancy
gave great support to our boys.
Congrats Saucy on 5th at nationals
Thank You Seniors
Back to Back National Tourney appearances.
9th in 2010,
3rd Place in 2011
We will miss your
camaraderie
and
spirit.
Newly minted Alumni - Welcome to the IHUC Nation
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Central Region Weather
It was a beautiful three days in Boulder. Sunny, mild and
gentle breezes
The championship game meeting between
North Central Wisconsin Hodags and Carleton Cut meant the North Central
Winds had to blow.
Huge gusts just before the game brought crashing speakers, and falling
tents.
Our prayers are with the injured.
IHUC Summary of Nationals 2011
North Central ,#1 #2 #3 and #13 - not bad.
The 2012 Season Starts Now
Run!
Throw!
Lift!
As we have seen; the road to Nationals 2012 goes through the toughest region in the Country to get back will take outstanding effort and dedication
Picture Courtesy of Short Family
