Brown University Mens Ultimate Spring Issue #2

March 18, 2009 www.brown.edu/Athletics/Mens_Ultimate

Stanford Invite Results

SaturdayPool Play (L) Florida 7-13 (W) Wash U 13-10 (L) Colorado 9-13 (W) UCSB 13-11 SundayPower Pool Play (L) Wisconson 10-13 (L) Stanford 10-13 (W) Georgia 14-12

Georgia Southerns Saturday Schedule

9:00 Ohio 12:40 Princeton 2:30 Dartmouth 4:20 Power Matchup

The Spread Stack: Browns New Offense The Basics: Instead of putting a stack of cutters in the middle of the field and then Stanford Invite: A Strong Start to the Season using just a lane for players to make cuts into, the spread stack literally What a weekend! No one on B-Mo will deny that the weekend started out rough, with an opening loss to Florspreads the cutters and handlers across the field. The three handlers line ida 7-13. But after that, the team pulled together for six up parallel to the disc and the cutters line up four across the field about thrilling games in which the team gave it their all. Highten to fifteen yards ahead of the disc. lights of the weekend included three Callahans (defensive Why it is better: Spreading the cutters out allows each cutter to have a full lane within interceptions in the opponents endzone for a score), two by which to work. This makes defense harder since there is no help on deep senior Alex Franks and another layout score by senior Drew Raines against last year's College Champions, the Wisconsin cuts. Furthermore, this new offense makes the whole field more usable, Hodags. The team pulled together nicely on the weekend as forcing the defense to cover more space. the offensive line reaped the rewards of the new spread stack What makes it hard: (see adjacent article) and the defense worked on perfecting The offense requires each person to know his position and his defenders position on the field. Defenders can poach and sag off their men in its zone and other tricky defenses. It wasn't just a coincihopes of getting Ds on people who arent their man. But a good offendence that B-Mo got three Callahans considering that team after team felt themselves backed up to their own sive player will know how to punish the defender severely. back endzone line. Why is it so The best victory of the weekend, no good for B-Mo Hard at Work doubt, was the final game Sunday facing a Brown: The Spread Georgia team that had just six weeks ago offense can be crushed B-Mo at the Florida Warm-up. B-Mo came out strong and after taking half on a deplayed in any fensive break, they never gave up the weather from lead. Despite being exhausted from six plus rain and wind to beautiful games in the weekend, offensive cutters sophoCalifornia sunmore David Flatow and senior Jeff Ericson kept the Brown Offense from getting broken shine. It gives the last five points of the game so that the score Brown the high remained extremely close. In the end, Brown powered ofbroke Georgia on defense and got an overtime fense it needs to be nationally victory with a final score of 14-12. competitive.

B-Mos Spring 2009 Schedule

January 17-18 March 7-8 March 21-22 March 28-29 April 11-12 April 18-19 May 2-3 May 22-25 Florida Warm-up: Orlando, FL Stanford Invite: Stanford, CA College Southerns: Statesboro, GA Roll Call: Washington D.C. Brown Cup: Providence, RI South New England Sections: TBD New England Regional: Hanover, NH UPA Nationals: Columbus, OH

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The Franz Fund Update Despite the economy, the Mike Franz Memorial Fund is steadily moving towards its goal of $150,000. Once complete, the Franz Fund will work to financially supplement Brown Mens Ultimate. The interest the team receives each year from this endowment will help pay for travel budgets, field time, and many of the expenses that players have been required to handle on their own, helping ensure that players are not limited from enjoying the pride and tradition of Brownian Motion due to financial limitations. With your help the Franz Fund can achieve its goal by summer and be a complete success.