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Zoo Spring Season Starts This Weekend!!
QCTU
The UMass A Team heads to Charlotte, North Carolina this weekend for the first tournament of 2018: Queen City Tune-Up. Follow along on Twitter @UmassUltimateM or @ultiworldlive
Coaches’ Corner
Tiina and I have launched a series on Ultiworld. It will “offer a template for coaches (or captains) on how to put together a new team or how to help a struggling team.” Follow the link to Ultiworld to learn more, and follow along with that series throughout the spring.
GEAR SALE!!!
The amazing team over at VC Ultimate has created the first ever UMASS Men’s Ultimate Gear Store. Follow the link to find a selection of ten items that are on sale for a limited time.
Winter Break Training Week
A week before the start of the Spring semester, the A Team returned to Amherst for 6 days of focused training and team bonding. This is always the part of the season when the team truly begins to feel like a brotherhood, and this year was no different.
Players arrived Monday night, stuffing into the off-campus apartments of their upperclassmen teammates and sleeping on couches or air mattresses. We planned a tight schedule for the week, with daily double sessions featuring sprint workouts, scrimmages, hill sprints, hiking, and lifting, as well as team bonding activities including movie night, team breakfast, spa night, bowling, and board game night. It was a challenging and rewarding week where bonds, brains, and bodies were all strengthened together, and now we look forward to the start of the spring season. Some highlights below…
Expect more from us here over the next couple weeks, and in the meantime…check out the team store or…
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