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The athletes of the 29th ranked Illinois women's ultimate Frisbee team have one thing on their minds going into Saturday's Regional Tournament - redemption.

Although Frisbee is popular on Myers quad and other campus locales, the women's ultimate Frisbee club team plays for more than recreation. The team refers to itself as the Hodawgs. "Ho" stands for horizontal, team members said, the position of a player outstretched for a Frisbee.

The Ultimate Players Association Collegiate Ultimate Championships will be held in Boulder this spring, and the CU men's Ultimate Frisbee club team, Mamabird, is hoping for a spot in the national competition.

One day after the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing, four Santa Cruz women brought home gold medals. While it wasn't Olympic gold, they could still claim to be world champions.

Dartmouth’s men’s ultimate frisbee team made history this season, winning the New England open regional tournament for the first time.

Twenty five years have passed after the first game of Ultimate Frisbee was played in South Africa, but the sport is definitely not getting old.

This was proved at the biggest tournament on the Ultimate Frisbee calendar, the South African National Championships, which was held over two days at Bergvliet High School.

The club men's ultimate Frisbee team, the "Gentlemen's Club", is set on breaking the stereotype that club sports can't be competitive.

Some local press coverage of Trouble in Vegas - "The Whitworth Ultimate Frisbee Club team joins a field of 90 teams competing at this weekend’s Trouble in Vegas national tournament held in Las Vegas, Nev., on Feb. 6-8."

Great weather today for the Northwest; just about 60 degrees, a thrower’s wind (8-ish MPH, just enough to allow only good throwers to hit the endzone from anywhere, but not enough to make them shy), and very little rain.