Skirts vs. Shorts, Lumberjacks vs. Flintstones

Currently, there is an uproar of controversy taking place on the Woman Scorned email list serve battlefield. The following are serious topics, that require great analysis and thought:

#1: Skirts versus Shorts

In the beginning, there was Woman Scorned. It consisted of A LOT of BA ladies! They wore yellow T-shirts with a circular logo on the back and played ultimate outdoors, where they lay out D'd opponents and skied the dudes who dared to play with them. No words can describe the glory that was beholden when they laid out for discs. Their skirts captured the true beauty as they flowed in the wind.

As the years went on, Woman Scorned progressed as a team and new players entered the scene. New jerseys (made of read jersey) were created and ladies began to sport different styles of skirts.

The flowy skirt:

The wrap-around skirt:

The Short skirt:

The athletic skirt:

The long skirt:

The pink skirt:

The boxer skirt:
-Cy skirt:
-kisses skirt:
-The penguin skirt
-black nationals skirt:
-The leopard skirt:

So now we question whether we should wear skirts or shorts? So we need to weigh our options!

Pro's:
1. You look so damn good!
2. Can change pretty much everything on your bottom half w/o full exposure
3. layouts look real pretty
4. We are ladies!
5. show a little more leg
6. Get to see Tai or Dersch's undies when they layout D you
7. FOUNDATIONS!
8. Boxer shorts provide cheap and cute skirts
9. ventilation
10. show off your curves
11. This isn't on your conscience: "Don't you know that little tears from Derscheid dripping to the ground will cause you pain and cause your children pain and cause your children's children pain?"


When I think unnatural, I think this:























Basically, what do I have to day about shorts?
...Gross! Let's wear skirts! embrace our femininity! Embrace our roots! Vote skirts today!!!

ok, now on to a more pressing, but less controversial issue.

#2: Lumberjacks versus Flintstones

Not to worry Fool's Fest fanatics! Woman Scorned will be coming well prepared to Lawrence this weekend-as always. The anticipation and excitement of the weekend has brought practice numbers to an all time high and even pulled people from as far as Scotland to join in on the frisbee fun. While our field costume theme has been long ago decided and dibbs have been placed on each individual's role, we are on the brink of our party costume decision. The guidelines for Scorned's game plan is simple: Think of something that will show off our hot bods, but is functional for the field costume. Choose something that is a little slutty, shows more skin, and is awesome for the party.

I know you all really want to know what our field costumes are, but I am sorry. You will have to wait and find out. As far as the party costumes, that is still TBD. So what do you think?

Slutty lumberjacks?

Here are the texts I received to try to convince me:

"What about lumberjacks for the party?"-Hoistad
"ok, we have sooo many lumberjack/wood innuendos. Come on." -Magic
"Give me some ideas. Convince me-I'm still indecisive."-Me
"It's always a good time to work with some wood. Where's the crapper, I need to drop off some timber. I like my wood the best in the morning."-Magic
"How does that translate to looking slutty and awesome at the party?"-Me
"Wear a plaid shirt. Don't button it. wear suspenders. wear Daisy Dukes."-Magic
"Yeah true. See what the team thinks, I'm down."-Me

Flintstones?

Come on, just look at the amount of skin we can show!

...on second glance, they really don't show that much skin...

Disney fairy princesses? (or something like that?)

I was thrown out there, but I am just don't know if that idea is going to pass.

We did sprints all year to look good for this party. Tai pushed us past the point of looking good, to looking AMAZING so that we would be prepared to look good for this party (and be awesome on the field as a secondary benefit)! Now is the moment. Now is when we need to shine! Vote wisely my dear friends, we are on the verge of greatness!

-Definitely the thoughts and opinions of Lindsey Gapstur (with a few add in from other influential individuals)

Little Preview of the Remix

We got skills. Watch out Centex Dance-off, here we come.




Little Game time dancing?


The real thing?


Gosh I miss summer time


Why we won't win


from the archives here'


Other tricks up our sleeves



T-5 days.

It is never sunny in Philidelphia

Although SB 010 was looking to be boy-less, some last minute scrambling from Lauren set up a sweet party Thursday night to pack what is normally accomplished in a week, all in to one epic night. Since the boys were unwilling to move practice to start the celebration at a reasonable hour, we were left to wait until after practice; 1:00 am-5:30 am. With a beach bum theme, the puzzles didn't take long to complete before the bag began to be slapped and dancing commenced. As the party raged through the night, people began to make their way to the beach (home) and inevitably no one was left standing.

12:00 pm Friday: Departure time for Philly.

As we jumped in the cars, plans were set for making it to Pennsylvania just in time for games. As we received a text from Michelle that our first game was at 7 AM, our captains got a look of terror realizing that our ETA was set at 6:30 AM. As we vowed to make it work, Michelle came through for us (once again) and graciously gave us a noon game to allow a little more time. As the lead car, we (Jazz, Jessy, & Gap) we were in charge of picking up the stragglers. First stop was Des Moines to grab Jenny from Drake. Then we headed to Chi-town to snag Lauren and hit the road again. As we all learned a little bit about how awesome Jenny is for creating "IPEX," the new Drake Women's team, we made our way across the country.

The drive was relatively uneventful with the exception of #1 in our "Series of unfortunate events."

#1- Hoistad's car gets a ticket for following our own caravan too closely.

Although we all wished really, really hard and watched "it's always sunny" in hopes of sun, we reached State College in a down pour. We checked into a hotel for a nice 4 hour nap before our first game versus Ottuwa.

Game one vs. Ottuwa:

With the loss of the flip, this game went to Ottuwa. They were a fun bunch of ladies to play with, and I really enjoyed it when they started speaking French on the field. This really is the ultimate tool because none of us are anywhere near fluent in French! Conditions were so miserable in this game that neither team scored an upwind point, and there were times when both teams were just wishing for the game to end regardless of its outcome.

Ottuwa 3-4

With a bye before our second game, we headed to a burger joint to warm up. As we all stripped down in the entrance, the locals looked at us like we were crazy. As we tried to stop shivering, we ate what we could and ran to the tiny local laundry mat to attempt to dry our clothes in 30 minutes. As we all stood in our skibbies, we laughed at Bosco as she fell out of the dryer and almost broke her tailbone. Unwillingly, we headed back out into the cold 35 mph wind and rain.

Game two vs Brandeis:

With spirits very low, we started the game in a whirlwind. Too cold to function, drops were everywhere and throws were uncatchable. In the roughest game Scorned has played yet this year, we fell to our own mistakes. What seemed like a close game was taken away from us in a run with 2 upwind scores by the Banchees. Although the game was completely miserable, these ladies from Boston proved to be wonderful with great spirit throughout the game. We really hope we can play them again in better conditions!

Brandeis 4-8



Due to the new tournament setup and limited fields, Scorned ended up only having two Saturday games and four Sunday games. While we originally thought this would be detrimental, it proved to be quite beneficial as the conditions on Sunday were much more playable. We headed back to the hotel to get out of our clothes and grapple to get something productive out of the day. On our way back to the hotel, in the midst of an accidental unnecessary lane change, we provided a local with a puddle splash bigger than his entire body. Although this was super unfortunate for the man, it did lift our spirits a little bit. :)

Back at the hotel, showers were taken in true spring break fashion: 3+ people in there at once. The bathrooms were destroyed with the mud from our bodies and some older ladies took clothes to the laundry mat so that day two would be possible uniform-wise. Dance practice resumed from Throwndown in the hotel's conference room, and what started as semi-productive, turned into a serious 3 hour class on how to be awesome. Love was our teacher, and we got half of our dance routine down pat!

After dancing up a storm, the ladies started a variety of activities including, eating at Perkins, chillin’ in the hallway, visiting College Street for some Penn flavor, meeting a Warlock, seeing the Dixie Chicks wannabes, and just being ridiculous in the rooms.

An 8 am wakeup from Jazz and Chelle reminded us all that we came to this state to play frisbee! A central region match up was first on our plate Sunday with a game against the notorious SOL. We were pretty upset that they didn't provide any sol Sunday, but we couldn't stay mad long once we saw their shining faces.

Game three vs Wisconsin Eau Claire:

With temperatures the same and the presence of rain still there, the only improvement to Sunday was the decline in wind speeds. This was a HUGE difference though! SOL threw their cup on us and while the game started off as its normal neck and neck battle, EC began to pull away just before half. Their zone defense completely ruined Jazz and my plan to run Robyn all over the field to tire her out (we knew, due to our friendship factor/fb stalking, she was sick with bronchitis). Drops and crappy throws were the name of the game once again and Scorned's enthusiasm plummeted as the game went on.

Wisconsin-Eau Claire 5-11

With a bye, ladies ran around trying to find food, shelter, and Jazz's wallet before meeting back at the fields.

Game four = Quarters vs. Maryland:

As we came out on to the field, the game started with a fight putting us somewhere around 3-3 when Becca decided to change the way the weekend was going and save the day. She got the stats book out! Apparently, this is what it took for us to turn around our game, and we went on a run to take the game to half. As we stood in the huddle, the only words that anyone could find were "Hey, we're winning. Our coaches might not kill us after all." Dumbledore cheers were used way too much and L-Dawg finally got a field cheer as well. Spirits were lifted and we started playing like Woman Scorned again.

Woman Scorned 12-4


With another bye before our last two games, Scorned split up and headed out in to the town of State College. This leads us to unfortunate event #2.

#2: Three cars head to town to eat at Golden Wok, but park in a parking lot nearby with no signs about parking. They come out 30 minutes later to find their cars towed because Arby's apparently claims they have a sign saying it was Arby's parking only. Total cost to Woman Scorned: $315.
Total cost to Arby's: 15 girls who will never eat at Arby's again (at least on ult trips)

Thankfully, Becca is addicted to Quedoba and that car was spared (along with Mikey's car which chose to stay at the field and fall asleep with it running and heat on high-the smell inside was horrific.)

Game five = Semi's vs Penn:

As we cheered "F*** Arby's" Scorned took the field against our 2009 nationals competitors. Remembering the game from last spring, we were determined and re-amped. As both teams battled hard, Scorned continued to reemerge from our temporary shell, and Lady Pesch learned how to play ferocious defense with a sky D. While Pesch played an amazing game, Jazz takes the cake with a sick layout grab against Opi in the end zone for the score. Jazz also had a great huck D with her face, early on in the game that she took like a champ. Penn proved to be great competitors and very nice on the field. We also greatly appreciated their sympathy towards our Arby's incident.

10-8 Woman Scorned

Game six = Finals vs. Cornell:

A whole new team, yet still very cold and tired, we powered through into our last game. As we sat in the huddle, I calmly explained the very basic theology behind this game being the finals game, and we all agreed that if we won this, we would win the tournament. (good thing “pool play games” don't really matter!)

Coming out strong against Cornell, we pushed the score as both teams grabbed upwinders. Scorned broke away to take half and much to our delight, Cornell approached us to request a quick halftime. After half, we continued to fight strong as injuries and the weather took its toll on our numbers. With a strong sideline and a rejuvenated willpower, Scorned took the finals game and ran to our cars ready to get the heck out of the cold!

Woman Scorned 8-6

As we stood on the line during the last game the brilliant idea came to mind to take showers before the 15 hour drive home. As we attempted to break into the Rec center, we found ourselves looking at a fully functional shower room filled with little girls and tutus. A little upset, but not discouraged, Lauren led us to the next brilliant plan and #3 on the list of unfortunate events.

#3 Using the Men's locker room at the Penn State Rec Center.

As we entered the locker room cautiously, we called out "men?" and learned there was in fact a man in there. We waited outside and stripped down to very limited clothing. After he exited (and we sent away like 3 guys looking to enter) we headed in. What we did not know was that there was another very naked man in the shower. He then proceeded to get quite angry at us, and we were forced to run out and head home without showers.

The ride home went smoothly for the most part, with the exceptions of bad events #4 and #5.

#4: Coming out of a toll, we over shot our top speed and before realizing it, a cop did for us. $95 dollar ticket.

#5: The one car that ventured down to Georgia in search of some warm weather, had a mild collision with another car causing damages that will no doubt result in more $$$.


Although a rough start to SB 010, Scorned was able to come home knowing in our hearts that we won the tournament and with a promise from Michelle to "see what she can do" about getting us a trophy or team Patagonia shorts. With no hatred towards any PEOPLE (besides the two cops and the Arby's people), we all vowed to never return to Pennsylvannia again- it really is the worst state ever to exist.

On a final note- we are all quite broke now, and would really love it if you would buy a Woman Scorned Disc. They are only $10 and totally worth it!

-Gapstur

***This blog may contain some false or embellished information. Also, sorry for the terrible pictures. My camera didn't make it out much and when it did, the water seeped in and caused fogging.

Flipidelphia

My apologies for not getting last weekends recap posted. It is finished, but with technical difficulties involving pictures, I just can't bring myself to post it in anything less than finished condition.

On another note, follow us this weekend to Philly! We will be celebrating Spring Break Philly style, and we are thoroughly banking on it being "always sunny in Philadelphia!"

http://twitter.com/ISUWomanScorned

More to come soon!

Watermelon Throwdown in the Midwest

Spirits were as high as the warm temperatures as Woman Scorned rolled into St. Louis Friday night. With no snow in sight, we headed to our host house to catch some z's.

As we blindly followed the Garmin to the fields, music was pumpin' and Scorned was getting psyched up for some outdoor ultimate! After some warm up action, sideline dancing, and me frantically trying to find cleats to play in, we started game one.

Game one vs. Wash U:

As we worked to stretch out our legs and steal back those memories of how to throw outdoors, WUWU fought fiercely in retaliation. WS took half with WUWU close behind. After half, WUWU took a run bringing the score to even 7's before Woman Scorned was able to take control and play our style of ultimate. Britt had several sky D's (and one with her face) while Bosco and J-Rick added to the D list. Cassie 'sexy' Panther had a layout grab in the end zone to bring the score to 10-8. Point 12 was too ridiculous to comprehend as the score book just says "we pull, they turn, we turn, they turn, we turn, they t, this is just ridiculous!" The game was finally ended with a huck from Gap to L-Dawg for the score, and Woman Scorned took their first win of the tournament.

Spirit discs were handed out by each team in pool play games to the player who showed the best spirit during the game. WUWU presented Love with their spirit disc for game 1. WUWU was, as always, a ton of fun to play, and it proved to be a very difficult decision picking just one lady to present with a spirit disc.

13-8 Woman Scorned
Game two vs. Minnesota:

After struggling to our first win of the day, Scorned came out ready to work the kinks out of our game. We started with a nice 3 point run before Minnesota could get some points up on the board. Scorned continued to push points up while only allowing a few scores from our opponents before taking half. The Ninjas answer to half time with a three point run before Bosco and Jazz pull out some D's to throw a few more up. With only one hiccup in our game, when Jazz forgot to jump for a floating disc, Woman Scorned finished the game with several D's from Stine, Jazz, Pesch, and Annihka before J put one to the end zone for Magical Liu to make a pretty play.

With a sweet cheer from Minnesota, the game was over, and Jazz received the spirit disc for game 2.

13-6 Woman Scorned

Game three vs. Emory:

As we approached our third game, we could see that the competition was getting more intense. Emory brought a fight to the field as they stepped on with fierce legs and stellar hucking ability. The game started with a Mag to Stine score, and was followed with a big D from Bosco to allow Gap to pick up the disc and put it right back to Bosco for the score. Despite Jiear's head D, Emory picked up the third point of the game to make it 2-1. Emory took advantage of their rally and brought the score to 2-3 before WS called a time out to recollect ourselves. With our heads back on track, J-Rick got a sweet hand block and WS went on to take the game to half. WS continued to look strong after half with a huge huck from Jazz to J-Rick for point 11, and we ended the game with a D by Gap (just to throw it away again), recovery D from Jazz, and a put from Stine to Mag for the win.

With a tough game brought from Emory and a great come back under our belts, we cheered Emory and they presented the spirit disc to Gap.

12-8 Woman Scorned

With pool play over, our cross over game meant another go with our home state rivals. As we prepared to play our last game of that day, we stretched out our bodies dancing on the sidelines. Without giving away too much to the teams that will soon be our competition at Centex, we practiced our dance moves and learned a few tricks from Love about hip hop.

Game four vs. Iowa:

As trash talk began before the disc was even flipped, Iowa used their baton-twirler to aw us into submission. The first points were fought hard as we struggled to get the batons out of our minds and focus on the frisbee. With a 3-2 lead on Iowa, a sweet put was thrown to Love near the end zone. She made the great catch, tossed it down, and did a victory dance as we all screamed "No!" because she was not in the end zone! As we all laughed and gave her crap, Iowa picked up the disc and began working up field. What was likely to be a quick point, soon proved to be the LONGEST point in the history of Ultimate Frisbee. After a time out from Iowa, Love tried to revive herself with a D, but the point continued a good several minutes longer before Stine sent it to Gap in the end zone for the score. New line. The remainder of the game was Scorned domination with D's across the board and a foot block from Bosco. We ended the game, with our biggest point differential of the day and solidified the trophy for the Ultimate Cy-Hawk Challenge.

13-5 Woman Scorned

As we ended our game, the majority of Woman Scorned headed over to tourney central to get ready for the skills clinic. After commandeering the food table, we were introduced to some Stellar Women's Ultimate players and headed to our respective clinics. The next few hours were magical-improving our ups, learning how to devastate marks, and turning our D into realITY, (ya like that?) HUGE thanks to Michelle Ng, Holly Greunke, Anna Nazarov, and WUWU for putting on this great tourney!

Scorned headed out to eat dinner and wash up. Arriving to Blake's house in waves, Scorned got the night started with some animated movie fun-Kungo Fu Panda style! Love, Jazz, and I headed out to an unofficial tourney party with Saucy Nancy and Tsunami, while the rest of the team headed out for a McDonald's night cap. After a little bit o' Midwestern socializing, we headed home to get some genuine sleep and fully appreciate our first round bye. Although rain was in the forecast for Sunday, we awoke to 60 degree weather and decided to come back in black! Unfortunately, Chelle lost the flip for color and we were forced to put our smelly reds back on (making me monochromatic once again), and saving our blacks for another day.

Quarters game vs. Northwestern:

Determined to continue our improvements from Saturday, we came out strong and rolled the score straight up to 5-1 with a sweet layout score from Magic for point 4 and a sick D from her on point 5. Love, Jiear, and Stine also got some D action on point 5 and then we called a time out which gave NW time to recollect. With NW grabbing the next point, Annikha, Cassie, and Bosco fought hard with D's to get the following score. Northwestern took a run with the disc, bringing the score to 7-6. In the following point, a floaty disc went up and proceeded to get attacked by three hands (one NW, one Magic, one L-Dawg). As they landed on top of each other, no one dared to let go. After getting up, Magic yelled "I LEARNED THAT AT THE SKILLS CLINIC!" After a little bit of discussion but mostly laughter, disc went to the offense (us) and Mag proved her new skills with a put to Bosco for the point. The rest of the game was fought to the death with D's on both teams and a tight game at universe point. With NW in possession of the disc, ferocious Scorned D gets the stall count high with Jazz on the mark. As Gap’s handler desperately dump cut for the disc, Jazz and Gap kept hard D allowing only a floaty toss off of a hand block before the stall. As Gap jumped for the D, so did her girl, into her and Gap only got enough to tip it into Jazz's beautiful hands (which came from no where) before she hit the ground. Jazz gets a Callahan for the win on universe point!

12-11 Woman Scorned

After rushing the field to celebrate our win, we come off to find Carleton setting up camp, ready to play out semis. With some nerves starting to build so did the wind, we cheered Northwestern and started to get ready for our next game.

Semifinals vs. Carleton:

As we took the line, we could see that Carleton has come to play. With numbers twice what they were in the fall, we were looking at a much different team (Anna Snyder even had the same colored cleats on this time). Right out of the chute, Carlton took the lead. The wind took its toll on our throws and it appeared as though we hadn't seen wind in 4 months (weird). Syzgy took half at 8-3 and Woman Scorned took advantage of this time to recoup and clear our heads. With a little more dedication to team defense, Scorned was able to fight back and get on a run. D list included Chelle, Daisy, Jiear, Cassie, Jazz, Mag, Pesch, Bosco, and Lauren. Although we fought hard, with an absolutely RIDIC backwards D from Jazz, our efforts only pulled the score to 8-13 when Carleton took the game. Their zone trap proved to be too strong for our offense and the forced turn overs were our downfall.

8-13 Carleton.

After the devastating loss to our Regionals competition, we headed to field three- our first game on a new field-to get ready for a rematch with Emory.

Consolations vs. Emory:

With spirits running low and winds still strong, Emory came out to seek revenge. WS allowed a 3 point run before deciding to put a couple on the board. As Emory worked to advance their lead to 2-5, Woman Scorned took a gut check and decided this was still our game. With some pumping up from our Coaches and captains, we took to the field determined to find our groove- and find it we did! Scorned hit a streak to take the game to half at 7-6, and after Dersch just told us to go dance it out for five minutes, we came back on the field ready to finish the game. With D's all around the table and a Callahan layout score from Stine, Scorned took the game, not allowing another score from Emory.

13-6 Woman Scorned.

Immediately after our win for 3rd, priorities were put in place as we utilized true team work to hoist a huge watermelon to the top of a 15 foot vertical wall with Stine. As she struggled against the wind to balance, Jiear-time ran to the car to grab the camera. With a victory/battle cry, the watermelon was released!

While third place didn't win us Patagonia shorts, we did get the opportunity to work out some kinks in our game in nice warm weather and we got to see some regionals competition. While the shorts would have been great, we decided Woman Scorned looks much better in skirts anyways.

The drive home went fairly smoothly. Despite a bit of fog near Des Moines, all of Woman Scorned made it home safely Sunday night- just in time to hit the books before our short week of pre-spring break class.



-Gapstur with the help of the stat book (sorry for the third person usage)

Midwest Throwdown this weekend!

This weekend Woman Scorned will be traveling to St. Louis to participate in Midwest Throwdown.  We're the first seed, so let's hope Michelle let's us keep our skirts on and there are no huge gusts of wind sending our discs across the parking lots... Thankfully both our offensive and defensive coordinators will be there this weekend, which makes life a lot less hectic for the captains, as well as allowing a lot of feedback for our team. There looks to be some promising dance practices at half-time as well as opportunities to meet the other teams with tournament spirit discs and the skills clinics after Saturday's pool plays. With all the positive and motivational emails sent to the team, let's hope we're all PUMPED UP!

Follow the tournament updates on the WS twitter, the tournament twitter and on score reporter.

Feedback from Gap following!

What Would Derscheid Do?

There is a game that we used to play as kids where we would say a word, and you would have to respond with the first thing that came to mind. It usually ended up revealing some interesting truths and funny thought processes. For me and many others, the first thing that comes to mind when someone says "ultimate frisbee" is "Rachel Derscheid."

Woman Scorned is a relatively young team, but our program has grown rapidly in the few years we have been around. Many great players have come through our program and added to it, but every single person who has been involved with Woman Scorned points to the same person when you say "heart and soul of Woman Scorned." This is Rachel Derscheid.

After playing with ISUC, Dersch started the ISU woman's team (Woman Scorned) and has been the driving force behind it ever since. In the time I have been a part of ultimate, I think she has "stopped coaching" or "stepped away from ultimate" like three times. As hard as she tries, her love for the sport and the team pulls her back, and for this we are very grateful. The dedication of Dersch (and all of our coaches) is an asset that puts us at a definite advantage above many women's teams. We have world class coaches, with an abundance of experience and knowledge to mold us into the best team that we can be.

As badass as Dersch is on the ultimate field, it doesn't hold a candle to the off-the-field Derscheid. During weekdays from 8-5, she is known as Dr. Rachel Derscheid. Rachel is currently finishing up her PhD and residency in Veterinary Pathology. If this doesn't make sense to you, just know that she will be a doctor twice over and will have more letters after her name than most people can acquire in a lifetime. Even as impressive as this is, her personality is what really makes her the Derscheid we all know and love. Intensity and passion carry over into all parts of her life, and she is always enthusiastically willing to help anyone in need.

Ultimate has its roots buried in a history of people who like to have a good time. As the sport has developed, some people have turned the sport into a job and forget how much fun it is. Even when WS gets going on a 5 weekend tourney streak and starts to complain about practices, we are always brought back by Dersch yelling at us (through emails) about how much fun ultimate is and how much she wishes she could just play it all the time. We remember pretty quickly how easy our lives are, and how much fun we get to have running around the country, throwing a disc around. Woman Scorned, despite its rapid improvements skill-wise, has not forgotten its "fun roots." The epic stories that involve the names like "Dersch," "Taiwo," "Hucket," and many others still get told on long car rides, and the new ladies of WS fight hard to live up to their legacy. Before our goal was to make nationals, it was to be the team everyone wants to play. As our team progresses in skill level, we may advance our goals toward higher levels of excellency, but the goal to be the team people want to play still remains.

The love and respect we have for each of our coaches is more than we can properly put into words, but the way that we can best describe our affection for Dersch is shown in the common saying, “What would Derscheid do?” We even considered putting it on our 'throwback' jerseys! Basically, this saying can apply to almost every aspect of life:

1. You are on the field and somehow you get the disc in your hand-What would Dersch do?

2. You are at a tournament party and someone throws a full disc in front of you- What would Dersch do?

3. You see your defender running right ahead of you towards an floating disc-What would Dersch do?

4. You are trying to decide if you should further your education or just graduate and get a job-what would Dersch do?

For me, Derscheid has been a huge influence in my life, and I know that many others say the exact same thing. So thank you Dersch! We know how much time you don't have to give to ultimate, and we really love that you decide to do it anyways. Woman Scorned and the ladies of it would not be the same without you!