Hi Irvine ULTIMATE.

I would like to officially invite you to our club banquet on Saturday, May 22, 2010. This years theme is CASINO ROYALE.

Grass Ladies at the "Red Carpet" Banquet 2009

Banquet is for Irvine Ultimate Players only + Coaches + Alumni. Please don’t bring a +1. Get excited. Put on your dancing shoes. Think black, white, red, silver, gold, ocean’s eleven, 21, cards, rounders!!

Hello readers, Sorry I’ve been lacking on updating the website. Here are a few things to keep in mind:

• Saturday, May 1st at 10:00AM will be the Irvine Nightlife VS Alumni game at the ARC.
• Saturday, May 1st from 11:00AM – 2:00PM will have Safari Club Tryouts at Heritage Athletic Park. Contact me or Iris if you’d like to join us!
• Sunday, May 2nd from 9:00AM – 12:00PM will be the second day of club tryouts. Please make it out if you can, it’ll be a great learning experience.
• Saturday, May 8th is FOOLorado, our last tournament hosted by UCSD.
• Sunday, May 9th is Mother’s day!
• Saturday, May 22nd is Irvine banquet

Grass at Sectionals in Claremont.

I’ve played ultimate for about 3 years now, and I finally read the Official Rules of Ultimate (11th Edition). I highly encourage you to read through the rules when you get the chance! You should have received the small booklet when you signed up for the UPA. If not, the online version is linked on our “practice” tab above.

SAVE THE DATES:

April 10-11 College Open (Men’s) Sectionals in Long Beach (Come watch and support our boys!)
April 17-18 College Women’s Sectionals in Claremont
May 8 FOOLerado — Women’s tournament hosted at UCSD
May 22 GRASS NINJA + IRVINE ULTIMATE BANQUET

More details about the banquet to come, but mark it on your calendar. Plan to look classy and dress up! We’ll probably have Irvine Ultimate pick up at the ARC and then our banquet in the evening to wrap up our seasons.

Classic Grass Ninja photo taken by Scott Roeder. This is after Atomic dominated on the field with her awesome defense.

The weather is starting to heat up. Don’t forget to stay hydrated!!

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First practice starts on Monday, March 29, 2010 on the upper ARC fields at 6:00 PM. Don’t be late! Jamison’s throwing challenge ends April 1. Grab a ninja to throw with outside of practice.

Half of Grass Ninjas at BTOYL '10

Footage from Irvine Invite and BTOYL can be found on the media page. Much thanks to Steven Kevin Lowe, our #1 fan. Enjoy the rest of your Spring Break!

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We got back from BTOYL today and are officially on Spring Break! I finally got all our songs together.

Holler if you want a copy. Those numbers correspond to each grass ninja’s jersey number and their respective pump up song =)

Also, track 08 comes from this awesometasticly named game that I fail at: Robot Unicorn Attack

Have a great spring break! Don’t forget to throw!

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Hooray! We’re on Spring Break.

To Do List:

• THROW. Let’s finish up Jamison’s challenge by the first week of spring quarter. Don’t forget to log your minutes!
• Complete the club sports participation agreement
• Fill out the coaching/team survey
• Let us know if you’d want to be an officer next year

Add to your Calendar:

• March 21 BTOYL at Long Beach. Coordinate with your driver and be ready to rock some bunnies.
• March 28 SoCal Women’s Mixer (Optional Pick-Up in SD, see thislink. All are invited!)
• April 10-11 College Open (Men’s) Sectionals in Long Beach (For those that want to support NL/TL)
• April 17-18 College Women’s Sectionals in Claremont

At Newport beach to throw outside of practice. We took a break to thumbs down for #68. Notice the disc!

Here are some events to look forward to for spring quarter: beach days, lay-out practices, the UPA series, banquet, etc. etc. Woohoo!

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Hooray! The weather was on our side this weekend. Much thanks to all the teams that attended the first tournament hosted by Grass Ninjas. I hope you all had a most excellent time and got your fix of ultimate in. Feel free to email us with any helpful comments of what you liked and didn’t like about the tournament so we can improve it in later years =)

Grass Ninjas X placed 5th out of 12 teams. Yay!!! HUGE thanks to all the parents that came out to watch and support us! We really appreciated the spirit on the sidelines and the gracious amounts of snacks from the Nishimes’

**There is no practice tomorrow (3/8). Rest up. Drain your legs tonight and get your studying done. This Wednesday (3/10) will be the last practice of this quarter.

On another note, my ninja assassin game ended last week. Last one standing goes to Scott “Skeeter” Lem. Char “Pokey” Chiok got second. The person with the most assassinations goes to Josh “Jiggsaw” Yee. I think the count was 16. Some sort of prize should be given at some point in time…

From left to right: Treat, Cougar and Hotsauce at Irvine Invite '10

Happy studying for finals!

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Here are the final schedules for Invite.

Women: http://scores.upa.org/scores/#college-womens/tournament/7031

Open: http://scores.upa.org/scores/#college-open/tournament/6685

I check 2 different weather websites almost every 5 hours of my day. I am so nervous. I’ve been emailing the captains of each team tournament updates and i’ll be sure to send another once we get a better idea of how the weather will be. It’s a 50/50 right now. Send happy vibes our way!

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We’re gearing up for Irvine Invite this week.  Captain’s packets were sent out today. Here is our final guest-list (In no particular order):

WOMEN
1. UCI Grass Ninjas X
2. UCI Grass Ninjas Y
3. UCLA Midas X
4. UCLA Midas Y
5. U of A Scorch
6. U of ASirens
7. Redlands Jillalopes
8. USC Hellions B
9. UCSD Psycho Berserk
10. CSULB No Regrets
11. CSUSM Dos Manos
12. UC Berkeley Tarts X
13. UC BerkeleyTarts Y
14. SDSU Cha Chas

OPEN
1. UCI Thuglife B
2. UCLA Smaug B
3. USC Ghettobirds A
4. USC Ghettobirds B
5. CSULB Stalkers B
6. CSUSM
7. Redlands
8. UCSD Squidlight B
9. SDSU B
10. Cal Poly SLO B
11. CalThugmo B
12. SF State

Come out to watch and support us! First round starts at 9:00 AM. If all goes well, there will be sunshine, cotton candy, great food, photography, and beautiful ultimate! Our zip code is 92612 if you’d like to check the weather for yourself.

Scott Roeder, UCI’s 2010 Homecoming King – Congratulations!

There are a dozen people left in Ninja Assassins. See you on the fields!

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What up. As requested, here’s a list of the people still alive in my ninja assassins game. This is up to date as of Feb 24, 11:25 PM  Please stay ninja-like and stop teaming up or talking about who has who! Or else the prize is gonna be less cool..

GRASS NINJAS (8 living)
Abby “Mona” Sarafian, Alma “Tron” Sugiarto, Alyssa “Squeeky” Singh, Anais “Frosty” Sahabian, Charistia “Pokey” Chiok, Christina “Stitch” Lam, Christine “Shinobi” Mathewson, Elaine “Elmo” Weng, Hannah “Tank” Wells, Hussai “Sizzle” Nuristani, Ingrid “Pato” Paterson, Jenna “Cougar” Swanner, Katy “Boo boo” Wells, Katya Krassovsky, Kiran  “Shocktop” Simmons, Kristin Ng, Leticia “Lala” Lozano, Lisa “Wuhoo” Wu, Lola “Seli” Morales, Mellissa Spalding, Nicole “Hotsauce” Nishime, Nikki “Atomic” Matsumoto, Rachel “Rocket” Brown, Tallin “Dino” Muskat, Tasha “Ketchum” Ashe

NIGHTLIFE (4 living)
Andrew “Thundercat” Ho, Bryan “Stig” Nguyen, Derrick “D-rock” Chan, Evan “Eyore” Valdes, James “Sherlock” Watson, John “Mowgli” Laughlin, Matt “Baloo” Edwards, Nathanael “Launchpad” Lenart, Peter “Fish” Zhou, Phil Hansen, Scott “Miller” Miller, Scott “Roeder” Roeder, Thomas “Chip” Fok, Kale Eaton
Josh “Jiggsaw” Yee, Scott Crawford, Pratik Panda

THUGLIFE (9 living)
Adam “Silver” Silver, Alexander Helmintoller, Brian “Muffin” Edwards, Perry “Yogi” Leventhal, Scott “Skeeter” Lem, Travis “Spacebook” Lee, Arl Hernandez, Chris “Kaju” Cho, Daniel “Rotinaj” Taxier, Jian “Dexter” Yeung, Kyle “Penguin” Johnson, Mitchel “Magmar” Mikasa, Shaun “Papaya” Homsapaya, Thomas Debeauvais, Tim “Dope” Johnson, Tyler “TK” Kenney, Victor Ho, Jerry “Denim” Chen, Ian Massey, Lawrence Ho

A ninja.. being a ninja.

Week 8 updates:

• Grass Ninjas will be fundraising on Ring Road tomorrow (2/25). Please look for us and come out to support.
• Come out to the student center this weekend to support Scott Roeder. Vote for homecoming king: http://www.elections.uci.edu
• Good luck to Nightlife who will be traveling to Standford Open this weekend.
• Irvine Invite is next weekend. March 6-7. Keep your weekend free and come out to support Grass and ThugLife
• BTOYL is March 20-21, please check the google doc and sign up so we don’t have to play savage. Thanks!
• Also, start logging your throwing times. We all owe Jamison 160 hours of throwing before he will donate to our club. Get on it!

Keep on keepin’ on.

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