The Lot: Early Nights of Ultimate Frisbee

The Lot: Early Nights of Ultimate Frisbee The Lot is a feature documentary on the past, present and future of outsider ultimate frisbee.

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And your High School National Champions for Spirit of the Game are Minnesota MISCES Minnesota Ultimate and Amherst Hurri...
06/12/2026

And your High School National Champions for Spirit of the Game are Minnesota MISCES Minnesota Ultimate and Amherst Hurricanes Varsity Amherst Boys/x Varsity Ultimate !

Tag your teammates. Some future stars in here I bet.

From the 2003 UPA juniors Championship in Birmingham. Amherst defeated Paideia Gruel Varsity Ultimate đŸ„ŁđŸ„Ł in the finals to also win the tournament and Amherst Girls won the Girls division

iwasahurricanemovie 👀

From the UPA Newsletter
đŸ“· by Tim Drennan

#2003

If you’re going to graduation with a 165g ‘bee you’re probably a lifer.More pics from the early 80s Masters of the Bee ...
06/06/2026

If you’re going to graduation with a 165g ‘bee you’re probably a lifer.

More pics from the early 80s Masters of the Bee and

James “Skeeter” Riddick, “Jerome “Rome” Stallings, Eugene “Yogie” Jackson, Kenny “Fun-K” Hofler, Michael Kidd, Larry “Pops” Sturdivant, David “Doc” Love, Fred “Spliff” Stephenson

Missing from pics: Remy Ervin, Kazoo, Tim Taylor, Flash Williams, David Blocker and Joe Proud (RIP)

Photos from Doc Love

If you wanted to roll with the MOB you better listen to the proper tunes aka George Clinton and Parliament/FunkadelicFou...
06/04/2026

If you wanted to roll with the MOB you better listen to the proper tunes aka George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic

Founded by Jerome “Rome” Stallings in the early 1980s the all-black MOB ultimate team played up and down the east coast for 6-7 years.

“From my point of view, it was an opening to a whole other dimension. We very seldom had an opportunity to go to other communities and play and have fun and do our thing. I found out ultimate was attracting not only jocks but computer science people and political people. The ultimate family was coming from all walks of life.”

David “doc” Love and Stallings only recalled one time when they were openly faced with racist remarks. More common, they said, was the warmth and openness long-associated with the ultimate community.

“We felt welcome. It’s the only game where I felt people were themselves. People were free-minded. They were open.” Said Love

The MOB were elected into the
In 2022

Words by Jerome Stallings and David Love

Photos from David Love.

In 1991 Seattle Country Day Middle School teacher Mary Lowry started the first middle school scrimmages on Queen Anne Hi...
06/02/2026

In 1991 Seattle Country Day Middle School teacher Mary Lowry started the first middle school scrimmages on Queen Anne Hill near downtown Seattle with fellow teacher Joe Bisignano and her then-husband Jeff Jorgenson.

They then organized a league for the middle schoolers and Disc NW was the follow up to that.

With budget cuts in the early 1990s, the Seattle public schools asked to organize a school-specific fall league. The rest, as they say, is history.

“Whenever the administration of a school has chosen to adopt ultimate it has been very successful,” Mary noted in 2004

No wonder she’s in the . Next time you see Mary, Joe or Jeff — give them a high five from frisbee lovers everywhere.

From Dave Brown’s magazine World Ultimate (Spring 1998)

The feet tell the story. 2001 snaps. Eric Boyd of stuff’s Jay Hammond of UGA, Trigger Hippy low release, men’s final at...
05/29/2026

The feet tell the story.

2001 snaps. Eric Boyd of stuff’s Jay Hammond of UGA, Trigger Hippy low release, men’s final at Kaimana Klassik and the last photo is a mystery. But if you know, you know.

Feel free to identify players in comments and the first correct guess at photo 4 receives a prize pack.

đŸ“· by the great GWAC

#2001

An enduring mystery of D1 College Nationals: what shirt is Dylan Tunnell repping?Mystery solved: it his uncle Scott’s fr...
05/27/2026

An enduring mystery of D1 College Nationals: what shirt is Dylan Tunnell repping?

Mystery solved: it his uncle Scott’s from the Middle Tennessee State University Ultimatics from the mid 1980s. MTSU played their first game against Huntsville in the spring of 1981. They were “throwing parties, getting money from the school and making a lot of road trips.” According to the book Ultimate: Southern Style by Kip Sharpe.

“However by the fall of 1983 and spring of 1984 fewer and fewer people were showing up to practice and the last MTSU road trip was 1984 sectionals in Mobile.”

Shout-out to Murfreesboro: let’s get those partying ultimatics back on the scene!

Images and text from Kip Sharpe, via William Brotman and Joe Seidler

This is Liz Penny on getting a catch block on future Hall of Famer Miranda Roth at Club Worlds in 2002. Riot won Worlds...
05/26/2026

This is Liz Penny on getting a catch block on future Hall of Famer Miranda Roth at Club Worlds in 2002. Riot won Worlds that year

And two years earlier it was Penny and the D that took the college title home to Northfield for .ultimate

đŸ“· by GWAC

From Chasing Plastic and The First Four Decades

Been awhile but won 1986 nationals and hosted 1976 Nationals. Here are some vintage discs to remember. From Michael Bec...
05/25/2026

Been awhile but won 1986 nationals and hosted 1976 Nationals. Here are some vintage discs to remember.

From Michael Becker and Larry Schindel collections.

Snapshots of College Nationals of the folks behind the scenes: Chuck Nathan Ariana Garrett and AmandađŸ“· and
05/25/2026

Snapshots of College Nationals of the folks behind the scenes: Chuck Nathan Ariana Garrett and Amanda

đŸ“· and

Need a safe spike disc at Nationals?Avoid the blue cards and pick up a vintage 1989 Bob Harding “For Spiking Only” disc....
05/24/2026

Need a safe spike disc at Nationals?

Avoid the blue cards and pick up a vintage 1989 Bob Harding “For Spiking Only” disc. Limited time only. Edge spike and taco-worthy, gran this classic now while supplies last.

From the Michael Becker collection of Boston Hostages discs

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