Carleton University
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Carleton University is located in Ottawa, Ontario. Carleton offers both mens and womens university-level ultimate. They compete in the Canadian University Ultimate Championship series. They have also ventured to the United States to play in a number of tournaments against university teams from both Canada and the US.
Ultimate is recognized by Carleton as a "Competitive Club". There has been a large push by the club in the last number of years for 'varsity' status from the school. While the school athletics deptartment has not changed their stance, they have become more supportive and recognize the club more.
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[edit] History
[edit] Early Years
In the early days of Canadian University competitive ultimate, Carleton had a devoted and highly skilled set of teams that ranked high amongst the relatively few nationally active teams going. Due to unknown reasons, most likely students moving on and lack of organization, Carleton did not have an active team during the late 1990's and early millennium years.
[edit] Notable Results
1995 Canadian University Ultimate Championship
Open Champions: Carleton
MVP: Tom Miller
1997 Canadian University Ultimate Championship
Womens Champions: Carleton
MVP: Kate Fleming
[edit] Relationship with OCUA
Being located in Ottawa, Ontario, home of the Ottawa-Carleton Ultimate Association (OCUA), one of the world's largest ultimate leagues, has produced mixed-results for the development of Carleton's University ultimate program. While no doubt a number of high-level players from the OCUA league teams have attended Carleton, there wasn't much of a connection between the league and the school club until 2004. A suggested theory is that a large number of players native to Ottawa, and active in OCUA league teams during summer months, ended up leaving their hometowns as is common in Ontario/Canada, and playing at other universities. As time has gone by, OCUA and Carleton Ultimate have forged a much closer relationship and players can be seen actively participating throughout OCUA's league
[edit] Current Program 2004-
[edit] 2004
In 2004, a large group of students who were active in the OCUA league as well, finally re-organized the Carleton program and the teams were reborn. Under the strong management leadership of Erin Pleet, word was spread about tryouts and mens and womens teams were formed. One new approach to the program's development was taking on a coach for the mens team. John Haig, an active player with OCUA's Phoenix competitive team and Queen's University Mothership alumnus, leant his time and wisdom to help the teams practice and lead from the sidelines.
The mens team became known as Chess Club and the womens team represented as Pegasus.
The ties between OCUA and Carleton might not have appeared overly significant at this point, but in actuality, the connections ran deeply. As skills developed and Carleton teammates played together more, many became active players in the OCUA leagues. Some played for Phoenix and Firebird, and others became regulars on some of the leagues more notable teams.
[edit] 2005
With the 'inaugural' season behind them, 2005 brought a much-improved, organized program to the fore. Many younger players returned and the profile of ultimate at Carleton had been raised significantly so skillsets were much higher. As a result Carleton presented teams at Nationals and at UPA tournaments in the United States that clearly showed the school's serious dedication to a developing program.
[edit] 2006
Led by returning coach John Haig, Carleton boasted number of experienced players (Billy Alexander, Luke Phelan, Andy Corey) and had high hopes as Tom King, who was also in his final year as a member of the team, organized the 2006 Canadian University Ultimate Championships in Ottawa. Unfortunately, the team hit a few bumps throughout the tournament and finished a disappointing seventh-place.
[edit] 2007
Following his final year with ChessClub, Luke Phelan took over as head coach from John Haig and helped Carleton soar to new heights. The team finished CEUCC (Canadian Easterns) in a franchise-high third place with a victory over Queen's University in the Quarterfinals. Although the win was followed with a Semifinal loss to the University of Toronto, ChessClub defeated McGill University, who it had lost to in a windy affair on the previous day. Carleton also competed in two American tournaments to prepare for the Spring Season.
[edit] Spring 2008 =
Carleton had one goal for its Spring season; UPA College Nationals. To commence, ChessClub traveled to Wilmington, North Carolina to compete in Spring Collegiates, where University of North Carolina-Wilmington and North Carolina State headlined the competition. After a slight disappointment, the team traveled to Roll Call in Poolesville, Maryland for its final preparation before Sectionals. With ChessClub's full roster finally at one tournament, the team lost two games on universe point during Round Robin play on Saturday. Carleton rebounded on Sunday with two universe point victories and began a streak of 13 straight victories. With a team of only nine players (due to exam conflicts), ChessClub headed to UPA UNY Sectionals in Ithaca, NY. After going 5-0 on Day One, the team won its Semifinal game and played a hard-fought battle against a tough Cornell University squad. Carleton brought the game to universe point and then forced a turnover (following the pull) in the opposing end zone. The turnover was proceeded by a one-throw score for the victory and Carleton University became 2008 UPA UNY Sectioals Champions. At UPA NE Regioanls, Carleton defeated Penn State in a close first game but choked against the University of Pennsylvania after giving up a five-point lead. Brokenhearted, the team then lost their next match and the season was complete.
[edit] Fall 2008 =
ChessClub held tryouts at the beginning of the fall term. 50+ students showed up to tryouts with only 17-18 makeing the final cut. Turnover from last year was low and sights were set on finishing first at CEUUC in Montreal.
After going 4-0 on day one and defeating McGill, Carleton lost its quarter final to 8th ranked U of T by a score of 11-10. U of T was a stronger team on Sunday as 4 players missed saturday's games to due practicing with their club open team GOAT.
Carleton went on to beat Guelph and Sherbrooke to finish a dissapointing 5th.
ChessClub competed in one more tournament that fall at Yale. They finished third losing a tough semi final game to UConn by 2. They beat Cornell to take third.
[edit] 2010
The Open team finished third at the Canadian University Ultimate Championships held in Ottawa.
[edit] Tragedy at 2005 Nationals
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[edit] Results
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