{"id":2867,"date":"2014-06-30T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2014-07-03T02:39:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T02:39:27","slug":"sheagles-take-2nd-ultiamate-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/2014\/06\/sheagles-take-2nd-ultiamate-states\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSheagles\u201d Take 2nd at Ultimate States"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emmy Hamilton prepares to throw during the championship game against Beacon. Photo courtesy of Jessie Hamilton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This spring, for the first time in Fieldston history, the Ultimate Frisbee Team sent its newly created Girls squad to the 2014 USA Ultimate New York State Youth Championship Tournament. \u201cThe Sheagles,\u201d as the team calls itself, was made up of nine female members of the B team as well as four recruits from the Varsity Softball, Lacrosse, Volleyball, and Track teams. Coached by Fieldston Physics teacher Mr. Ben Wearn and co-captained by Jessie Hamilton (IV) and Caroline Carty (V), the team won 2nd place in the tournament in addition the spirit award. The success of the girls\u2019 team marks a rise in women\u2019s ultimate. \u201cI think that Ultimate will follow the trajectory of other sports,\u201d says Mr. Wearn. \u201cOutside of the high school level there are a lot of women\u2019s teams and mixed teams and co-ed teams. There is talk of having the New York City B division league be mixed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It was clear that not many of the A teams at Staes had females. Mr. Wearn says that there are no girls on the Fieldston A team this year because \u201ca league depending on individual schools\u2019 policies is open to all genders but given that schools want to put the fastest possible team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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together it is often the case that girls have trouble making the A team.\u201d But many of the girls on Fieldston Ultimate don\u2019t necessarily want to be the fastest and win the most. Amelia Geser (V) explains that her \u201cfavorite thing about Ultimate is that the environment is totally different from other sports. In ultimate, the atmosphere is less about competition and more of a learning environment where even the newest player feels comfortable asking questions and learning the game.\u201d That is what makes Ultimate so unique.<\/p>\n

Julia Rosenberg (IV) had her doubts regarding the success of the team, but was happy with the result. \u201cMy experience was very empowering. I feel like we came from a team where a lot of people didn\u2019t take it seriously, both because of our gender and how little we had played together. It was a fun and rewarding experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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