2012 Spring Schedule

Woman Scorned is extremely excited to announce our Spring tournament schedule.

Date TBD: Winter Indoor Scrimmage in Iowa City, IA

March 3-4: Midwest Throwdown in St. Louis, MO

March 10-11: Music City Mashup in Nashville, TN

March 24-25: Women's College Centex in Austin, TX

April 1-2: Fool's Fest in Lawrence, KS

April-May: The USAU College Series

Harvest Moon

Harvest Moon proved to be a great weekend for the scorned ladies. It started out with a 15 passenger van, and stripped out Iowa State Cop car that took the 8-ish hour trip to Fayetteville Arkansas. After getting to the cheapest/ smokiest hotel in all of Arkansas scorned settled in for the night.

Saturday:

 

Scorned dressed up like Monty Python so there were plenty of swords, and fake accents, Kate had a wonderfully created dragon knife. Becca, and Magon had some beautiful mustaches. Bottjen did a great job of giving out our spirit award with a wonderful performance of coconuts/walnuts, a scroll, the holy grail, and some spirit buttons.  Scorned went 4-0 on the day playing Drury, Hendrix, Southern Illinois, and WUWU.  Annhika had a sick face D, which resulted in a black eye and some face cuts.  

After games scorned headed back to the hotel for some showers and naps. After they headed to the “Sweet Tea Party” which unfortunately had no sweet tea.  While going down a hill the 15 passenger van started shaking, and although the cause still remains unknown, there is a rumor we ran over a raccoon. After dinner scorned headed back to the hotel where one room got into a big discussion about Alyssa’s English 250 paper. After some homework and getting ready scorned headed to the party dressed up as Miss USA.

Sunday:

Waking up Sunday Morning proved significantly easier than normal because of the extra hour from daylight savings time.  After taking the 15 passenger van through the drive- through at McDonalds, Scorned struggled a bit to find the fields. And after a slow start to playing, Scorned ended up having a very successful day going 4-0 again to win the tournament, and wooden disc.  Most memorable was the semi-finals game vs. Texas A&M which was an awesome fast-paced game. The final point was scorned with an AMAZING layout by Magon on a huck from Becca. The finals was also a good game played against Missouri State.  They were running a zone, and Scorned was really able to practice and work out the kinks in our Zone O!

After games scorned went to a Chinese buffet for some much needed food.  There also was a Texas team that was at the buffet who loved our cop car. Who knew a stripped out cop car would be such a good icebreaker?

 

Big thanks to the Nebraska ladies for staying and cheering us on for our last 2 days! You had awesome costumes! ANND one of the highlights of the weekend was using our police light on you on the way home! Sorry you could only drive 65 mph.  

Thanks to Iowa State for giving us a 1997 cop car, instead of a brand new ford fusion. ..

Thanks to Pesch, Bottjen, and Cassie, for being authorized and driving the 15 passenger vans.

And a big thanks to JAZZ! who joined us for an awesome weekend! 

The Final Season

This past week Woman Scorned got together, and we had our Spring goals meeting. Every year we have this meeting where we talk about how the fall season went, what we would like to accomplish in the spring, and how we are going to reach these goals. For the past 3 years, the meets have been pretty similar, but each season has a little something different to offer. Different people, different lessons learned, different plans to accomplish our goals... they all make each season its own.

Like every year, I am ecstatic, full of plans, and ready to make the commitment to my teammates and myself, but there was one thing that makes this year truly different for me. This is my last season playing with Woman Scorned.

I don't think the reality of this really started to hit me until the meeting. As we were going around the room talking about our team goals, one of my teammates said something that literally made me stop breathing for a minute. Daisy said, "I have spent all of my college career playing for this team and working hard to be the best I can be. This is my last semester, so I want to give everything everything I have. There is nothing left to hold back for."

Her comment really hit me hard. This is my LAST season with Scorned. The past 4 years (in February) have been very heavily dedicated to ultimate and this amazing team that I am fortunate enough to be a part of. I have sacrificed an unreasonable amount of time, money, and energy (all of it worth it), and this is my last chance to experience being a part of this team. Additionally, this is where I get to take all of the time and energy that other people have spent helping me become the player I am, and make it count. I have nothing else to hold back for. This is it.

For the past couple weeks, I have been trying to decide when I want to officially "start spring season." Basically, I need to flip the switch from "Off-season/fat week(s) mode" to "college season mode." After the meeting, I decided, why wait? Why shorten the season that is already going to end too early. Spring season starts now.

Although I am itching to get out on those fields at our first tournament, that is not where our season starts. Each practice we have, every sprint I do, every time I get the chance to hang out with my teammates; these experiences are all part of the journey that make playing for Woman Scorned so amazing. I have a little over one semester left. I'm staring my "Spring season" right now. Like Daisy said, "we have nothing left to hold back for."

Let's do this Scorned!


-Lindsey Gapstur #2

ps. happy Woman Scorned Thanksgiving day