Senior Year

This is it.

Pretty much my entire frisbee career I have talked about my senior year. It  got to the point where the one catchphrase I ever invented myself was "Now not that I want to talk about senior year, but...." So its here. Jive has lost its greatest class ability wise in years. Jake, Jack, Matt and Nate (yes, even Nate) all gave Jive its first run to regionals and a 11-15 scare to Pitt. I learned a lot from those four players but even if they had mroe to teach any of the remaining Jivers, they're gone. Its up to one motley crew of  replacements to try an get jive back on the path to Reigonals.

This summer I played (for the first time) on another team than my college.  Key Party is a new coed team in my area and I get to see my first tournament action with them at Chesapeake.  That means that this is the first summer where my "training" was not the occasional foray into free weights and push ups, a probably a mile or two before going back to college, and the few wednesday pickups at Longs Park I could make (I think my record was last summer with 3). Through Key Party I got in touch with several Lancaster legends of frisbee, and learned from GMU captain Wes what a 'snertz' was.

Since I have already run the risk of boring anyone to tears about how frisbee was my freedom from 8 (sometimes 9) hour work days at School Specialty, I'll cut to my real point. What do I want to see in my senior year.  I am keeping out team goals for two reasons : One, I'm V.P. which therefore means its not my job to make the goals. Two, I want to see where we are talentwise. I'm already hearing about some stud freshmen, and I've heard as weel as seen with my own eyes about players who improved over the summer. Those idiots who got hurt with toad will idealy come back better players. And well, I know my housemate Ian is lookign for a big year.

That cuts into personal goal number one, the biggest priority but actually least serious: Ian is not allowed to sky me. Fortunately I can just give up on deep cuts in scrimmages before that happens. Suck it Hall.

On a more serious note, I want to play d points. That means I have to be faster. Much faster than before. I also have to be smart. My offensive game came around last year, ad its still improving while i work on break throws and decision making, but the pure athleticism that has always been my weakness is hopefully going to start making up ground through actual workouts. Plyos are new to me but I can feel the muscle building. Lets hope it leads to results.

In short, with about a month and a half before my first tournament with Jive (playing with Key Party at club sectionals), I am already psyched for the season to begin. And I would like to see the coed team win a tournament in the Fall, and the mens team make it to regionals in the spring. Thats a ton of work before then. And whoever is back at Dickinson before school, get ready to feel what a snertz is.