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FUNdraising

All you need is a disc, a 120 x 40 yd area, and 14 people. There are no sticks, body pads, nets, baskets, gloves, goal posts, or other physical things needed to play. It is pretty amazing how such a simple game can be made into such a complex sport.

Although ultimate can be played with a total cost of about $10 (for the disc), the college season costs are actually in the thousands of dollars for a legitimately competitive team. Being a school club team means that we get some funding from the university, but by no means enough to cover all of our expenses. As ultimate grows and the economy continues to tank, bid fees go up, university funding decreases, and job opportunities to raise money get snatched up. All of these circumstances, unfortunately, lead to a lack of funds which decrease the opportunities we can take advantage of and offer as a team.

While the situation isn't ideal, it is humbling and in many ways strengthens us as a team. The bonding situations that arise from the adventures we endure in attempts to make a buck or two, honestly build our bonds as a team. Some teams throw a tournament as their big money maker. Unfortunately, living in Iowa, the months of the year when tournaments aren't already established, the fields are claimed by a couple feet of snow or mud. So we resort to pimping ourselves out in any way we can think of to get some money to pay for the future hours in the car that we crave.

In my four years with Woman Scorned, I have racked up some pretty interesting fundraising memories. My first and by far the most traumatizing fundraising adventure was cleaning Hilton Coliseum. Hilton is where ISU basketball, volleyball, wrestling, and many other events like concerts are held.  After spending about 4-5 hours cleaning spilt beer, cheese, and the God-forsaken popcorn out of the 14,356 person arena, the team would usually earn anywhere from $500-$1000. It is a dirty, painful, demoralizing job, but we enjoyed the profits. Back when the team had about 9 girls, this job was especially brutal. Once the attendance policy was established and we started making fundraising and parties "mandatory", cleaning became a little less painful with the increased numbers. Many WS stories have stemmed from Hilton Cleaning, but the ones that stick out in my mind include the sophomores (at the time) eating a cup o' cookies that they found and claimed was unopened, Lauren, Jazz and I creating the Pre-Cleaning Welch Ave Station tradition and bribing rookies to pick us up on the way to Hilton, and best of all, the time we accidentally left Chelle at Hilton because we all took off before the guy in charge told us we had cleaned it well enough. Oh, and how could I forget Magon somehow managing to pull her hamstring from her inability to walk down the isles?

Another fundraiser that goes down in WS history is refereeing ISU Intramural Ultimate Frisbee. I have no idea if we made much money off of this, but it was adventure for sure. It may be different other places, but at Iowa State, IM Ultimate is pretty bad. In theory this was a chance to share the sport of ultimate with newer players, but in reality it was just a free frawl of kids running around, confident in their IM ultimate skills, and completely ignoring all of the rules to real ultimate. The best part of this fundraiser was that we got to wear highlighter yellow polo shirts and blow whistles (UPA should consider these alterations to observers).

Serving food at ISU concessions is always an interesting fundraising experience. Usually we get to work football or basketball games. We are a pretty good team with customer service and efficiency, but we don't enjoy the grease aspect. One thing I think we can all take away from these is an appreciation for just how unhealthy concession food really is for you (even though we def still eat it every time we work).

Then there are always the smaller jobs like cleaning Dersch's house (thanks Coach D), pimping ourselves out in any way possible just to sell a disc, begging businesses for sponsorships, clicking a link approximately 1 million times, creating accounts on MyEDU that one time to get money, gift wrapping at the Memorial Union during ArtMart, and really just any possible thing we can do just to make a dollar or two. All of these experiences have added to the small bank account that we work to generate each season to be able to play the sport we love so much together.

While money is the basis of reason for all of these endeavors, the financial outcome is rarely the most lucrative aspect. Let's be honest, the bonding that occurs as you are cleaning fake cheese and tiny popcorn crumbs off of the top level of a Coliseum just can't be replicated in any other way. Most teams share sweat, blood, and tears... but the poor club teams share those AND grimy moments attempting to earn money. As much as these fundraisers suck each year, I can always count on a good time because Scorned will rarely allow a dull moment to exist no matter what the situation is. Plus... I would probably do the dirties job on  Dirty Jobs if it meant I got to play another season with this team.

 Lindsey Gapstur
#2 Woman Scorned

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays from all of us on Woman Scorned....

...but only 2 of us bothered to make a Christmas card.

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

No Wisconsequences

Needless to say an interesting tournament: Filled with some interesting stuff. 

-Iowa State Suburban and Excursion 

-WIND, and Zones

-Showing up to the fields at the same time as ISUC even though they left an hour after us. 

-New Library Card cheer

-Some great competition

-  Winning the party and 2 wedding at Club Indigo

-Most successful cheese cheer yet

The best part of No Wisco were all the promising things that were seen out of our rookies, and how they stepped up and adapted to the conditions and kept positive the whole weekend. 

Thanks to our captains Mag and Hoistad for a great weekend. 

Git It Ladies: Scorned in Sarasota

Congrats and good luck to all  playing in Sarasota Florida this weekend at Club Nationals! We are especially proud of our Scorned ladies who will be representing the central region!

Current Scorned players:

RevoLOUtion:

Gapstur

Hoistad

CLX:

Pesch 

Magon

Becca

Coach K

Lana

Also Congrats to all Woman Scorned/ISUC alumni and friends of Iowa State Ultimate!

Grinnell 2011

Ahh Grinnell..

 It started out on Saturday morning around 5:30  when we were supposed to leave. The first car got on the road at about 6:20, the last around 7:20, but it was ok, because we still made it to the captains meeting in time to have our first round bye. 

The early cars then went to Mcdonalds for the breakfast of champions, where we also encountered the "smarter" of the ISUC team who chose to drive not bike the 70 mile trip. After some small talk in the Grinnell Mcdonalds, WS headed to the Middle school for their first game of the day vs Macalester  (St. Paul), followed by Iowa (y), SLU, and then Drake. 

The Macalaster was a great first game of the season, with plenty of rookie action. Our new girls got tons of playing time and were getting D's left and right. There was even some Monica- Annihka action. It was a super fun game with tons of spirit!

13-5 (w)

We then played Iowa (y) who were giving us some trouble with zone, something we hadn't practiced yet. WS adjusted fast though, giving Iowa a tough game, but WS fell to saucy. Highlights of the game a pretty awesome cheer that involved pump up buddies, dance moves and a mixture of Grease and I whip my hair back and forth, also Magon Liu tackling Cassie to the ground. 

7-13 (L)

After the Iowa game, we played SLU. This was a great game for our rookies, who were getting scores and D's left and right. It was a great game, and will be remembered by the awesome spirit and the super long last point. 

(w)

We then played drake, in what I believe was some sort of crossover game. It was a great game of competition and spirit with a lot of joking around with Jazz, Love, and FKPK (team formerly known as pony keg) girls. Ibex has been working hard, and it shows. This is a team with a lot of athleticism and raw talent that is going to make them a team to keep your eye on. Thanks Drake for an amazing game, and congrats on a great tournament. Also this game ended with WS tackling Jazz and trying to take her pants off. 

13-12 (w)

After that WS showered and got ready for the party. Which was Awesome! A lot of fun, maybe some bad decisions, but a special thanks to Tessa the Tank, who showed up at about 1:30 am, with tents and blankets and led ISUC-WS to the party victory. Thanks to ISUC for helping with this feat.

Sunday morning, after a slight problem with someone losing their keys, (thanks Jazz for helping us out) we made it to the fields just in time to go for a warm up run and start our game vs Iowa (x). It started out a little rocky, but after WS figured out the zone we were able to pull out the W.

12-10 (w)

After Iowa WS took on WUWU a team that we knew was going to be a tough one. WS managed to capitalize on some hucks and short turns and won this game and went to the finals. 

14-10 (w)

It wouldn't be a tournament without playing Iowa, and lucky for WS we got to play them 3 times this tournament. It was only fitting that WS would take on Iowa (y) again for the title of Grinnell Champion. It was a fun game, for both sides, and with some big plays from WS returners and some rookies, WS was able to pull out a W on Iowa (y) and bring home the flag. 

13-10 (w)

Overall it was a great tournament. The rookies got to experience their first taste of an ultimate tournament, and what better way than grinnell. Thanks to all who were there, especially Grinnell ultimate for all the work they put in. Thanks also to coach memo for being there on our sidelines, and driving Amanda back to the campsite when she found her keys. 

10 Ways You Know You Are a Frisbee Player

1. You have at least one disc hanging on your wall

2. You own something made by Patagonia. Probably a couple of pairs of field shorts and a jersey.

3. You have a bag half way packed for a tournament at all times.

4. You've considered trying to find someone to rent your rooms from you on the weekends.

5. You have discs strategically stored in all of the locations that you might happen to find yourself with ten minutes of spare time.

6. The most notable thing you remember about most of the states you have visited are the quality of the ultimate fields in each location.

7. Throwing a party for your non-ultimate friends would not only be pathetically small, but also quite lame in comparison

8. You plan your class schedule around ultimate practice.

9. You are extremely good at studying in cars.

10. Mondays usually involve some combination of losing your voice, limping a little bit, and a mild sunburn.


...there are so many more.