Sharing the Love of Ultimate

Woman Scorned hosted a youth ultimate frisbee clinic on Thursday, helping teach young teens in the Ames community about the game of ultimate and how to play. Teamed with a local program called VERB, Scorned helped to introduce the basics of the game to these future players. Despite the rain and humidity, about ten kids came out to join us and everyone had a ton of fun.


Emphasizing the basics like Spirit of the Game, how many players are on the field, how to score, pivot feet, catching the disc, and basic throwing allowed the participants to pick up the game quickly. In less than 30 minutes everyone there was successfully throwing both backhand and forehand throws.


After the skills portion of the clinic, everyone was split up into teams including a couple Woman Scorned girls on each. The game was intense with more D's than drops, and it even ended on a universe point win.


The future of ultimate looks bright if these new players are any indication of the potential for the sport. After getting scored on, D'd, and out-pulled by these young ultimate players, Scorned is seriously going to have to step up our game if we want to keep our spots on the team in up coming years!

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What is Woman Scorned up to for the Club season?


The Chad Larson Experience (CLX)- Mixed Club from Ames, IA:
Magon Liu
Rebecca Miller
Sarah Pesch
Jessy Erickson

Midwest RevoLOUtion- Women's Club from St. Louis, MO:

Lindsey Gapstur
Jasmine Draper
Sarah Hoistad

BEAST- Mixed Club from Milwaukee, WI:

Kehinde (aka Love)
Daisy Velasco
Cassie Panther

Sting (previously Pony Keg)- Women's Club from Ames/Des Moines, IA:

Kaira Carter
Caitlin Bosco
Cami Nelson
Sam Sauerbrei

Administrative Business:

Congratulations to the following people for their 2011 season accomplishments.

Callahan Nomination: Jessie Erickson

First Team All Region: Jasmine Draper

First Team FOTY: Cami Nelson

Second Team All Region: Lindsey Gapstur, Sarah Hoistad, Magon Liu

Nationals Individual Spirit Award: Cassie Panther

Woman Scorned 2011

West Plains Sectional Champions

North Central Regionals 3^rd place

National College Championship 10^th place

Thank you everyone for an amazing season!

We especially thank our Graduating Seniors, Jessie, Jazz, and Love. Woman Scorned 4 life! We will miss you!

We also thank our coaches for the season, Lana, Kevin and Memo. Our season would not have been the same without you!

And here is the 2011-2012 Woman Scorned Executive Team:

Captains: Sarah Hoistad and Magon Liu

Treasurer: Becca Miller

Secretary: Sarah Pesch

Conditioning Captain: Lindsey Gapstur

Social Chair/Activities Director: Catie Bosco

Recruitment Chair: Cassie Panther

Fundraising: Daisy Velasco

ORM Rep/Webmaster: Cami Nelson

We look forward to the 2011-2012 season!!

Day 3: College National Championships

Sunday morning put us in the 9th place bracket up against Carleton for the first game. Scorned's spring record with Syzygy consisted of only one game which happened to be the semis game at regionals. Syzygy took that game quite handily, so we were looking to come out strong and get some redemption and prove our spot in the region.

Scorned came out strong and ready to prove our point putting points up on the board right away. Syzygy kept up the fight, but Scorned took half at 8-4. Fired up we danced away the ten minute half and returned to the line ready to finish the game. Syzygy came out of half ready to fight back and change the tempo of the game. Scorned scored the first 3 points after half before Syz could put any on the board, but once they got running they weren't looking to stop. Carleton brought the score to 11-14 before we put another disc into the end zone to end the game and take the win 15-11.

After a short break between games, we look the field in a game for 9th place against Washington Element. This is the first time EVER that Woman Scorned has played Element, so that was pretty neat. This team had great spirit and phenomenal athleticism. Although we came out looking to win the Ninals bracket, Element came out harder. Element took half 4-8 (I think?) and Scorned used the half to attempt to recuperate and hydrate. The heat and weekend was taking its toll on us and it was showing in our game. The second half gave us a chance to fight back, but we were unable to shut down Elements big hucks and running game. Although we kept our heads up and took the line ready to fight every point, Washington owned the game and took the win for 9th place with a score of 15-6.

Finals turned out to be quite exciting, showcasing two of the teams in Pool A (our pool), UCSB and Michigan. UCSB took the game from the beginning but Flywheel never gave up the fight and nipped at their heels the entire game, pushing the intensity and making for a great show. The playing field of the tournament was unique in the fact that no team went undefeated and there were quite a few "upsets." Congratulations to the Skirts for winning the championships and taking home the gold. It was great weekend of games and ultimate for us!

Woman Scorned finished in 10th place at the USAU College National Championship, breaking seed by 7! It was an absolutely amazing weekend and we couldn't have asked for more.

We would like to give a huuuge thank you to all of our supporters and fans. Thanks to Joe Brisbois and Bob Liu for sideline support. Thank you to all of our alumni and parents for helping us travel to Colorado and for the support through phone calls and text messages! We would also like to thank all of our observers for their amazing work during games, they were absolutely phenomenal, and one more big thank you to everyone at USA Ultimate who made the tournament run so smoothly, you do amazing work!

Lastly we want to thank our unbelievable coaches, Kevin, Lana, and Memo. We could not have accomplished what we did this season without you. Thank you so much for all of the time and hard work you put in and for pushing us even when we didn't want to.

-Gapstur #2


(photos thanks to Steve Fury)

Day 2: National College Championships

Saturday, 6:20 am wasn't too bad knowing we had a day full of ultimate ahead of us. After a fun little drive to the fields, listening to our extremely over played CD that only plays half of the songs without skippin, we started warm ups. First game was versus Michigan.

I have wrote about Michigan several times on here and both of our games this season were quite memorable. Scorned took a win at Easterns over Flywheel to take 5th in the tournament, but had a solid loss to them in the first game on Sunday of Centex. I have wanted this rematch ever since Centex and was pretty excited that we got it at the big show. Michigan definitely brought their game today!

The game started out with a score from Michigan, but Scorned answered back quickly to keep the game close. Both teams kept the intensity up and traded points but Scorned took half 8-6. Coming out of half, Scorned was looking strong and keep putting them up on the board, but Flywheel didn't let up either. Although Michigan took the final point of the game, Scorned was able to hold them off long enough to take the win at 11-10 in hard cap. The intensity in this game was definitely something to mention and both teams never let up or accepted defeat. Thank you to Flywheel for 3 great games this season and bringing hard competition every time.

The next (and last) pool play game was against Gungho at 2:30. Scorned watched these girls pull out an amazing win against first seeded UCSB on universe point right before we took the field with them.

Gungho was still riding that high from the last game and came out hard to score the first point. This game honestly looked very similar score-wise to the Michigan game. Both teams fought hard and traded points but Scorned snuck a few extra points in there to take half at 8-6. This game was full of absolutely insanezo bids from both sides of the disc. Big hucks and bigger grabs were made, but (in my opinion) this game held the highest spirit of the weekend for us. Scorned came out fired up in the second half and pulled up a bigger lead taking the game with 14-11. This win put us with a finish of second in our pool!

So, like every single tournament pretty much ever, the inevitable happened. Our pre-quarters match up put us up against none other Saucy Nancy! Not looking to shy away from this match up, Scorned took the field amped and ready to go.

Saucy came out ready to go and took the first several points of the game. Scorned was not ready to back down. Taking the fields with our heads up every point, Scorned never let up on D or O. Although the game didn't end in a W, Scorned is far from disappointed. We played with all of our hearts, laid everything out on the field, and played as a team. I can't post this blog without a mention of Jazzy's INSANE D in this game. She had several layouts that literally put any ultimate I have ever seen to shame. She really inspired us to keep fighting and giving everything we had not matter the score.


Scorned plays Carleton Syzygy at 10:30 am for 9th place. (can't escape the North Central Region, can we?)

-Gapstur #2

Nationals: Day 1

Oofta, this is going to be a fun blog post. Well, it just happened and I haven't really had time to take it in, nor will I because tomorrow we are about to get right back at it. But here is what happened...

Being the 17th seed overall and 5th seed in our pool, we had our first game at 2:30 pm! It worked out, but it was pretty difficult to sit around watching other people get to cleat up and not being able to take the fields ourselves. After watching some great games (like Carleton beating UNC) we finally got to start warm ups and eventually take the field.

The first game of the day was against Tufts Ewo. Woman Scorned has seen this team once at Centex and we pulled a win out on universe point in the last game of pool play. Tufts went on to have an amazing tournament ending up 3rd place overall.


Tufts came out strong right away as we worked the jitters out. Ewo went up 2-0 right away before Scorned could put a numbers up on the board. We pulled ourselves back together and started to really get a run going. Scorned went up and took half 8-5. After taking the first actual 10 minute half this season, we came out hard and kept pushing our lead. Tufts worked several different defenses, but with each adjustment, Scorned answered back and we came out victorious with a final score of 15-10. This was a great game that was hard fought on both sides and a lot of fun all the way through.

Coming off of the Tufts win, felt great and Scorned utilized the 30 min break between games to cool off and hydrate. A few of us were starting to feel the altitude, but thankfully it was nothing too serious. The next pool play game was versus University of California Santa Barbra-the #1 seed in both the tourney and our pool. Scorned has only ever played UCSB once (last year at Centex) so we didn't really know much going into this game other than that this would be anything but an easy game. Personally, I have always had a bit of a team crush on them because they ALL wear skirts!

UCSB came out hard and scored the first point, but not without a fight. Scorned answered back right away with the next 4 points to take the lead 4-1. After taking a time out, the Skirts came out hard and tied the score up and took half 8-6, but we were not willing to settle for a game that was just close in the first half. Scorned came out hard and took the first point after half and continued to rally in the second half. Soft cap went on as we tied it up at 11-11. Although Scorned continued to push hard and give everything we had, the Skirts took the next two points to take the game with a great layout score for one in their end zone. This game was not only intense, but it also proved to have great spirit and show the true grit of both teams.

Scorned kept our heads high although this was a tough loss, and we are very excited to jump right back into our cleats and play Michigan and Northwestern tomorrow! Games start at 8:30 am for us, so we will see you in the morning!

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-Gapstur

(photos from USAU website)

The Road to Boulder

Literally our trip Tuesday from Ames until our campsite outside of Boulder.

9:32 Leave Ames

9:38 Daisy tries and fails to quit her job,

10:01 Daisy whips out the red vines.

10:14 Well at least this car ride isn’t as bad as mardi gra

10:56 healthy snacks come out

11:27 t swift shuffle hour

11:39 everyone is wearing woman scorned hats in the car

11:53 Daisy finished pump up buddy letter

12:03 started raining

12:13 cool lightning strike

12:18 holy rain..

12:29  tswift power hour over. Next song, international harvester

12:51 DQ in Lincoln

1:13 Wieno found a quarter at DQ

1:25 leaving DQ. Woman Scorned Loves Kurt from the Lincoln DQ!

1:47 first Colorado license plate (still in Nebraska)

3:04 regionals recap in the car

3:11 archway monument

3:14 gas station stop #1

3:18 Cami and Gap took a picture with a bear at a gas station in Nebraska

3:21 left the gas station

3:43 just decided to have mini smores for dinner

3:48 alpaca sighting

4:18 cami claims she saw a porcupine

3:55 just went back in time (entered mountain time zone)

4:27 McDonalds bathroom and snack stop

4:29 Daisy realized her coffee she set on top of the car fell off when we drove away

4:40 passed a huge boat on the side of the road

4:49 made it to Colorado

5:32 standing water on the road..

5:42 almost got struck by lightning

6:29 spotted mountains

6:56 Loves truck stop, 53 degrees! 37 miles

7:19 Woman Scorned flag up in the car, almost to boulder

7:23 entered into Boulder County!

7:38 made it to the fields!

8:13 ate chips and salsa at rio grande, downtown Boulder

8:56 Gapstur stopped at a round a bout

9:51 arrive at campsite get yelled at by mean campsite guy

10:14 walked a mile to the bathroom to brush our teeth

10:37 went to sleep

Feel the Fury, Unleash the Love.

11 days to Nationals...

Jessy Erickson for Callahan

Jessica Erickson for Callahan

I have had the privilege of playing all of my five years with Jessy, and she has gained my respect and the respect of her teammates through her ultimate skills but also her leadership. Her words have influenced Woman Scorned in almost every situation our team has encountered. The natural skills she has as a captain have facilitated the cohesiveness of this year’s team. She is a very cool, collected, and leveled headed lady who always seems to know what to say on and off the field. Her leadership has kept the team focused and held together during our struggles in the season.

Her cool presence and tactfulness are just a few of many skills she brings as a leader. She may not be the loudest but her presence is definitely felt on the field. In the past, other great player have overshadowed Jessy’s great role as a cutter. Unfortunately, it has only been recently that she has received the recognition that she deserves. This lady has matured into one of the top offensive threats in the country, and this season she has been Woman Scorned’s most consistent player. Jessy can get open against any defender, and throughout her career on Woman Scorned she naturally developed the ability to catch every disc that is thrown her way. Whether it’s a low bullet or a disc thrown 4ft away from her, she makes it her job to catch it. Teams will even see her move the disc by breaking the mark or hucking it deep.

Defensively, Jessy is a wall on the mark and has one of the top counts on Woman Scorned for hand blocks. Her expertise in zone defense ranges from the cup all the way deep. Jessy’s dominance in the air allows her to be a deep threat in any sort of defense.

When it comes to spirit of the game, Jessy plays with class and knows the rules well. Win or lose, Jessy always keeps her composure, and I’ve never seen her blame others or make excuses. She always gives positive reinforcement to her teammates and other players on the field. She is gifted with the ability to calmly discuss a dispute using the rationale of the rules. Like many others, Jessy has been dedicated to this sport since her rookie year, and she has continues the legacy of great leadership on Woman Scorned. Jessy Erickson embodies the perfect candidate for the Callahan Award, and that is why she is Woman Scorned’s nominee for 2011.

-Jasmine Draper #12 on behalf of Woman Scorned