[stextbox id=”alert” color=”050505″ bcolor=”6cc3f8″ bgcolor=”ffffff” big=”true” image=”null”]School Name: Hunter College
Team Name: TBD
Captains: Cliff Pysher, Ian Levy, Marc Liu, Alex Kraljic
Coach: Cliff Pysher
Year Founded: 2009
Jersey Colors: Purple and White
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Tell me a little about yourself. How did you get involved with ultimate at your school?
Cliff Pysher: I am the head captain and coach of the Hunter College Ultimate Frisbee team. I started playing Ultimate for some post-basketball season fun in my senior year of high school and got hooked. Because I got into the sport so late, I did not consider it in my application process and found that Hunter College had no team. I played in leagues and tried out for PoNY and other club teams in my freshman year but decided I really wanted to try and compete at the college level while I still had the chance. I founded the team in the beginning of my sophomore year and we have grown dramatically since.
How did your team do last year?
Cliff: Last year we did not do very well. I came into the season very optimistic and left very disappointed, along with many players on the team who expected better. We had an undefeated preseason and a winless season, but the “Steakfest ’10” tournament was far and away our favorite even though we lost some close games (13-11, 11-10) and got clobbered some others.
What was the highlight of your season?
Cliff: The highlight of the season had a lot of drama to it. When I played in the NYC High School Ultimate League, Stuyvesant was extremely good. Last year, they won city/state and I believe placed 13th in the High School Easterns tournament. Nonetheless, I was able to secure a game against them in our preseason. Our team was composed of me and four players who had some prior experience (including a former bench warmer for Stuy) and the rest of the team had never played a competitive game before. It felt like David and Goliath. Here was a team that had destroyed me in high school when I had a team with much more experience. But thanks to fate (there was a heavy wind and our only competent defense was a variation on the 4-man cup) the playing field was leveled and the game was EPIC. After a grueling and physical game, we’re up 13-12 and we work it all the way upwind and call timeout and give the whole pep talk and then we turn it over and they huck for a touchdown…universe point. 13-13. They pull to us, we turn over at midfield, they turn over on the end zone, we turn over on a huck to their end zone, they turn over on the next throw, and before any of us can set up a rookie picks up the disc and tosses it in the end zone. 14-13 C
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