This morning, friday the 20th of March, if you checked your email and you are a coach of a bay area high school ultimate team you got a little surprise. Allen Thoe coach of Foothill HS and the Cal State Coordinator left a message for everyone saying that the 2008 UPA National Champions San Francisco Jam will be playing a team that finished 5th in that same championship San Francisco Revolver.Coach Thoe does have the in with Jam since he does play for them, but this is a great opportunity to see some great ultimate. Jam is filled with alot of veteran players and great throwers, so the kids should have a great time watching Jam move the disc up and down the field. Hopefully they will realize that the punt and play defense theory is a really bad theory and should actually move the disc around.
Revolver is a younger, more active team. There athleticism and hucking style will give the young audience a site to see.
These two teams seem to always meet and battle no matter what spot they are playing for or the reason. Hopefully these two teams won't be lazy and not bring out there best. For some reason I have a feeling that the show is one bad call or spike away from becoming very intense.
Spiking is not allowed in youth ultimate, so, I wonder if Thoe will be telling them not to spike and show bad spirit? Also, to make it really fan friendly will the score board be running? All of these things would be amazing. I hope this happens. This is great for the kids and I'm sure when they find all of this out will be really excited.
This was also done last year (although possibly at a later tournament) and it went pretty well. I don't recall it getting too intense or getting out of hand in any way. It was definitely great to watch.
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