Australian team takes Bronze!

Well if you are keen on frisbee stuff and you haven't been locked under the stairs for the past week, you probably already know that the Australian team crushed the Canadians in the Bronze medal play off at the World Games in Taiwan this week.

Canberra has been so lucky to be graced with the presence of several of the Crocs including Matt Dowle, Keah Molomby, Jonno Holmes and even a quick visit from Di Worman. Hopefully they'll have their bling to show off next week while they are around and about.

If you see them, give them a kiss for me!

Kaboom training squad announced!

Hi everyone,

Thanks to you all for your interest in the Kaboom training squad for Mixed Nationals this year. We have never run tryouts before so hopefully the sessions were as interesting to attend as they were to run.

Unfortunately, it became clear during the tryouts that we do not have sufficient interest to field two organised and trained Kaboom teams at Mixed Nationals this year. This has forced the Kaboom stewards to reduce the training squad to suit the one team that Kaboom will be able to send. Hopefully a pickup team will form to help fly the ACT flag in Hobart (the ACT has two slots so a pickup team would automatically qualify). It also made spots in the squad more competitive and difficult to get. The squad is still quite big but once the usual toll of injuries, work hassles and bankruptcies take their toll we will have a normal sized squad from which to select the team towards the end of the year.

With that in mind extra congratulations are due for the Kaboom 2009 Mixed Nationals squad:

Annette Zou
Asha Sharma
Carrie Flynn
Heather Tolley
Larissa Arney
Micaela Hartley
Shoko Okada
Sue Brown
Vickie Saye
Angela Hudson
Rachel Gentle
Lorna Barr
Laina Hall
Erin Wallis
Jess Preston
Nat "Trouble" Cheong
Charlotte Peterson

Adam Mortimer
A J
Andrew Sutton
Ben Matthews-Hunter
Tom Walcott
Tom Watson
Gareth Beyers
John Horan
Peter Flynn
Max Wheeler
Ian McKerracher
Ross McKerracher
Asher Gentle
Wawrick Shepherd
Peter Hemphill
James Ley
James O'Reilly
Myall Hingee
Matt Howarth

Well done to everyone selected for the squad. Thanks again to everyone for braving the winter weather and heading along to the tryouts. Hopefully it was a worthwhile event for everyone and if you would like any individual feedback or more information about why you were or weren't selected please contact John or the rest of the leadership group at who.is.the.schmooze@gmail.com.

For those people who were not selected it was great to see you looking to improve your ultimate and we hope you get the chance to build up your skills once the ground unfreezes and regular ultimate resumes in Spring.

Tom, on behalf of the Kaboom stewards Jess, Erin, Pete, Tom and John

Kaboom training squad tryouts complete!

Well last night saw the 2nd and final evening of try-outs for the Kaboom training squad. Try-outs are now done and dusted and the leadership will be meeting on the weekend to determine who will get on to the training squad that will later form the two Kaboom teams heading to Hobart later this year.

The evening saw much more pleasant conditions than the previous week, with no wind or wet to challenge the players. We are pretty pleased with how the night went and are looking forward to what is to come.

-Tom