Colorado scores in Ultimate Frisbee national championships, and now a pro women's team is coming!
Claire Chastain moved to Denver in 2013, after graduating from college in North Carolina; she wanted to help build one of the top women's Ultimate Frisbee club teams in the state, Molly Brown, into a national champion. Nearly ten years later, her work paid off: The team took home its firstIt was the first national championship for a Colorado women's club team; a Colorado men's team, Johnny Bravo, also emerged victorious.
That slow start impacted Molly Brown, Chastain notes; the team “got crushed” at a tournament in the Bay Area before reshaping its schemes and winning a tournament in North Carolina six weeks before the national championship. “It's been a really long time coming for this team,” Chastain says. “We've had a lot of talent for a long time. … We've had our eye on wanting to win a title and have, obviously, fallen short so many times, and that feeling of disappointment is just kind of always in the back of your mind. To get past that…it's totally indescribable.”
Though the announcement of the team on October 26 came at a great time considering the Colorado teams’ national championships, Doperalski says that wasn’t intentional. Rather, it was based on the WUL timeline for when the Alpenglow needs to host tryouts to fill its roster before the season starts in March. Still, the pro team's founders are thrilled that Molly Brown won, and say they hope its players will try out for the team.
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