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Take your number, multiply it by 10 (or 50), and make a donation today to support Georgetown Ultimate going to USA Ultimate College Nationals!

This year the team finished in second place at the Atlantic Coast Regional tournament and earned a bid to the USA Ultimate College National Championships in Milwaukee, WI. We are very excited to be attending, but the costs for this tournament are rather large. Your donation will help us cover the tournament bid fee, flights to Milwaukee, rental cars, lodging, and food.

Check out THIS SLIDESHOW to learn more about the players, whom you can officially sponsor with a donation of $100 or more.

Your donations will help with a variety of expenses for the trip to Nationals, including:

· A $20 donation covers one day of food for one player

· A $50 donation covers one hotel night for a player

· A $75 donation buys a new pair of cleats for one of the six players who needed duct tape to keep them on at Regionals, including Sophomore Tom Elbert and Junior Jack Montesanto. (Seriously, these guys need new cleats!)

· A $85 donation covers for the bid fee for one player

· A $100 donation makes you an official sponsor of 1 Georgetown Ultimate player

· A $200 donation pays for one player’s one-way plane ticket to Milwaukee

· A $500 donation makes you the official sponsor of 1 Georgetown Ultimate player and will fund his entire trip to USA Ultimate College Nationals

Thank you for your support! You can order Commemorative Georgetown Ultimate Goes to Nationals gear!

Callahan Award Nominee - Christian Boxley
Each year, the Callahan is awarded to the Most Valuable Player in college ultimate. This is the equivalent of the Heisman Trophy in college football.

Award nominees display superior skill and athleticism, and college teams around the country create a "Callahan Video" to highlight their best players' skills. Shout out to Perry Cao ('17) for creating the video with help from our current players who reviewed this year's game film.

In addition to their on-field success, winners of the Callahan Award also demonstrate outstanding sportsmanship, leadership, and dedication to ultimate – personifying Spirit of the Game. Players are nominated by their teams or by their regional coordinators, and the award is voted on by current college players, meaning Callahan Award winners have also earned the respect of their peers. 

For more background, you can read about Henry Callahan and review Past Callahan Winners.

Catholic Justice is honored to present to you our co-captain and fearless leader, Christian Boxley, 2018 Callahan Award Nominee:


Georgetown Ultimate Origin Story
Georgetown Ultimate was founded in 2000. The Program evolved from 8 players on one coed team to 4 teams of Huckin’ Foyas, Biddin’ Foyas, Black Squirrels, and Catholic Justice.

We traveled up the ramp to our first Regionals in 2009, to winning 3 of the past 5 Colonial Conference Championships, to our first Nationals in 2018 as a result of countless years of hard work and dedication from players and coaches to #BuildTheProgram

Shout out to the Huckin’ Foyas for making the game-to-go last year and to the Biddies and Squirrels for building an inclusive Georgetown ultimate family.

This Nationals trip is dedicated to all current students and alumni who committed so much of their college experience to the Georgetown Ultimate Program. Georgetown Ultimate taught us to wear ABCs, to tell time, to count to 94, to show it, to recover from Kehoe sprained ankles, to become wizard people, to rent a wreck, to coop no coop, to celebrate Jortsmas, to play mini, to go to Wildwood, to overcome uncontrollables, to express gratitude for DeGioia, and to frolf at Augusta on Georgetown Day.

We are pineapple lovers, break ribbon dancers, leprechaun gold hunters, big fish, big dogs, and little pups.

Check out the 2018 CATHOLIC JUSTICE HIGHLIGHT VIDEO:






Colonial Conferences Championships Recap
As the weather finally warms up, what better method to enjoy the season than by reading about everyone’s favorite Georgetown Catholic Justice? With that in mind, we present to you Chris Dunn’s humble recap of the events that transpired on April 14-15, 2018 in North East, Maryland.  

Justice started out our day on Saturday by arriving first to the fields, the first of many victories—and many warmups—for the squad. The weather is always uncontrollable, and today we couldn’t control that it was 80 degrees and sunny with winds < 10 mph. Before the tournament’s first pull, we set the team goal of 5 breaks per half per game. 

Up first was Salisbury, and our D-line got their reps in, forcing 10 breaks in the game! The young pups made an impact on their first ever Sectionals game, with Zach, Jack Romp, and E.N. scoring, all proving that there are no longer any rookies on the team, only future returners. After Blake slowed down on his cut to ensure a proper layout and Dan danced his way into the end zone, Justice got the win 13-3.

Following the win and a lesson in domestic aquatic ecosystem maintenance from D-Noll, Justice was ready for our next challenger: UMBC. Toib hit Max for the lefty to lefty connection they liked so much they did it later on in the game, Kunwoo broke his mark to earn a break, and cutter Dunn scored in a play so beautiful it caused the tweeters to simply write “We hold.” Justice revved up the Zone Shredder 3000 and won 13-10.

After a bye in which Wawa proved it was the weekend’s clear MVP and Justice was able to take in the play of some of our Squirrely and Foya friends, our next game was against Towson. Justice shined in the abbreviated game with Tom hitting Paul for the goal a break train riding us to the best bagel we’ve had since Bagel Place in College Park, MD at Bro Down.

After more Squirrels and girls and our third warm-up of the day, Justice played their last pool-play game of the day against Delaware. Box scored on three straight points to start the game, Luke showed why he is known throughout the Colonial Conference for his handling skills, and Logan’s Yates hours paid off. After a Delaware player and an observer confirmed to each other that they knew the definition of a pick, Justice won 11-7 to go 4-0 on the day.

After a quick stop at the world’s only shampoo-less hotel and (captains: don’t read this, there was definitely no inter-team communication) a failed attempt to get the Foyas to give us some of theirs, Justice was off to a dinner at Tony’s (although this one wasn’t on our O-line). This time it was Stricker and Logan who showed off their eating abilities, and Justice went to sleep with dreams of the finals against Maryland dancing in their heads.

On Sunday, Justice came out against Maryland in the finals, and the wind and rain and 40-degree weather were our real opponents. The Georgetown cheering section was packed with parents of Max, Box, Dylan, and Mallow. Under the supportive eyes of those parents who braved the elements to see what they must have expected would be high-quality ultimate, Dylan proved that completion percentage doesn’t matter so much after all.

The break train rolled out of the College Park metro station with David, Dan, Dylan, and Jack Montesanto clamping down with a suffocating 4-man cup, and Maryland doubled down on their strategy of throwing it deep against Box and Cullom, who were happy to snag more than 80% of the discs that came their collective way. Justice beat Maryland and the wind to get the 12-8 win and bring the Colonial Conference trophy back to its rightful home.

After a photo shoot that included every permutation, and combination, that the roster had to offer, Justice rode off as champions, ready for their next challenge: formal. Based on yesterday’s practice in Burlieth, everyone on the team survived frisbee formal (with only a few black and blue marks).

Georgetown Ultimate is proud of our accomplishments thus far, and we look forward to continuing upwards and onwards on the ramp at Regionals in Axton, VA on 4/28-29!

The week ahead presented a unique opportunity – one that Catholic Justice has never seen before at Regionals. The hard work and dedication of UNC, UNC-W, NC State, and Virginia Tech earned the Atlantic Coast 4 Bids to Nationals!

Catholic Justice was seeded 7th of 16 teams from South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, DC, Maryland, and Delaware. We are in Pool B with UNC-W, Georgetown, UNC-Charlotte, and Johns Hopkins.

Why not us? You can follow along this weekend on twitter @GeorgetownUltiM, and we promise to do a better job tweeting that during the championship game against UMD.

We believe that we will win #BuildTheProgram



Atlantic Coast Regionals Recap
To understand the story I’m about to tell you, however, I need to start a little bit further back than a week and a half ago.

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The year was 1789, and on the sunny shores of the Potomac, John Carroll and his buddies in the Maryland Province of Jesuits were looking for something to do. Washington, D.C. as we know it did not exist yet, and the federal capital was in its rightful home in Philadelphia, so the bored bishop needed a way to occupy himself. Rummaging through all his belongings, Carroll picked up and tossed an old paten aside. Surprised by how far it flew, Carroll and his friends began to toss the gold plate around, finding that, when turned upside down, they could make their flying saucers tear through the air.

Carroll and his friends decided to do this with a regular frequency, deciding that every Tuesday and Thursday they would meet by the river to run and throw. For a reason that has been completely lost to history, undiscernible by the most intelligent historians of American Catholicism, the Jesuits decided that 10 pm- midnight seemed like an appropriate time for their meetings. Soon enough, the Jesuits devised a game in which they arranged into two teams and tried, by only throwing and catching, to get their gold plate into one of two end zones set up on the field.

The Maryland Jesuits soon became very good at the game they invented. Father Boxley was faster than anyone on the field and was known to make spectacular plays that would be written about in all the gazettes of the newly formed republic. Father Cohen-Casado (an odd name for an Irish priest, indeed) would throw the plates, and Father Dunn… well Fr. Dunn was just happy to be there.

One day, a group of people walked by and saw the Jesuits playing their game and, impressed by the athleticism and skill they saw, challenged the Jesuits to a match three weeks later. After weeks of hard practice, the agreed upon date came about, and the Jesuits faced off against their foes in their toughest challenge yet. At the end, however, John Carroll and his teammates came out on top. As their opponents walked off the field, heads hanging in shame, one of the priests shouted, “Now that’s some Catholic Justice!”

For the next 200 or so years, the rules of the game were forgotten until some high schoolers in New Jersey came up with it again all on their own.

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With that backstory in mind, I present to you my humble recap of Justice’s trip to 2018 regionals.

Our weekend started on Georgetown Day, and as our peers were engaging in debauchery, Justice was preparing for the trip down to Axton, Virginia to compete in the Atlantic Coast regional championship. A quick check of the Ultiworld website reminded us that our region was only worth two fire emojis and that, if they were lucky, a bubble team like Maryland or USC might be able to snag one of the region’s four bids to Nationals. With that in mind, and definitely not too concerned about the snub, we headed south.

Our first game of pool play was on Saturday morning against Johns Hopkins, and, after being the first team to the field, Justice was more than warmed up to face off against Dangerzone. We came out firing in the first half, with Box calling “And one!” and our D line cranking out breaks to give us a 7-3 first half lead. Justice continued their scoring in the second half, with Tony taking D-Noll’s pregame speech about being greedy leprechauns seriously by going deep and taking the gold for himself, and away from his own teammates. Justice won 13-7.

Up next for Catholic Justice was our old friends UNC Charlotte, a team we last faced off against in the championship of the Queen City Pre-Nup, known across the frisbee world as the most prestigious of tournaments. After an early break for the bad guys, Justice regained composure and Dylan snagged a Callahan to put the game back on serve. Box and Cullom put on a defensive clinic with the Foyas watching, and Logan dove his way into the endzone for a break to take half. In the second half, Matt put up the bladiest of flicks which somehow landed in the hands of Tony, and Justice pulled out the win, 12-9.

After a bye game that included watching the Foyas take on JMU and enjoying the diversity of dining options that Axton had to offer, Justice was ready for their biggest challenge yet: UNC Wilmington in a game to decide who would be the winner of Pool B. With a group of cowbell-swinging parents to cheer them on, the Seamen came out ready for a fight. Kunwoo had a hand block that led to a break—and a bruise the size of his head to show for it—and the half ended 7-6 on serve. In the second half, Grant wondered “What did the environment ever do for me?” and Justice filled the break train up with all the coal we could get our hands on. Box told the team to “Rise Up” and immediately made a layout grab of Max’s hammer and Blake laid out for a disc that was most certainly not for him. Still, the game came down to universe point, and, well, you all (and 2.8 million other people) already know what happened. Shoutout Dan Fain. Justice won 13-12.

After celebrating the win and then celebrating it some more, Justice had another game to play, this time against UVA. We broke early and often in the first half, and Sky entered next level blade-master status, while Justice broke to take half 8-6. After Box’s legs literally stopped working, it was time for cutter Max to step up, and he did just that, catching two deep shots and throwing three assists of his own in the second half. After Matt used UVA’s soft calls as a pillow, Justice showed why we practice double score so often. Logan made a layout grab at the end to get the win, 13-10. Game. Set. Nationals.

As Justice stormed the field and bumped along to Drake, Zach led us in a chant of “Why not us?” and our trip to Nationals, and the bag, were secured. The night was spent drinking margaritas bigger, even, than Kunwoo’s bruise and watching Box on SportsCenter. After a morning of trying to get Darkside players to laugh at my jokes, we were ready for our real goal: Sunday at Regionals.

We faced off against Darkside in the finals, and all you really need to know about this game is that Dunn made a heroic comeback from his injury that kept him sidelined for almost all of Saturday to score against the #1 ranked team in the nation. I really can’t emphasize that enough. Grant jumped and screamed his way around the field while the Chapel Hill boys handed Justice our only loss so far in the Series. 15-6.

In the break before our second-place game, Justice cheered on our friendly neighbors from Maryland and watched William and Mary qualify for Nationals—twice.

With second place on the line, Justice faced off against William and Mary, although they were no match in scariness compared to Kunwoo and Harry. Tom pulled off the classic triple-bobble-but-make-the- catch look, and cutter Dylan pulled in a score. Wookie showed what 10,000 kettle bell swings can do for a puller, and Jack and the observer had what can only be called a productive conversation about proper defense of crash cuts in zone defense. After Dark Horse made the mistake of forgetting to guard Box, Justice got the win 15-13 and took second in the region.

After more celebrating the field, a stop at Cook Out that featured the entire Maryland team, and some sleeping pups on the way home, Justice returned to the Hilltop knowing that our season was not done yet.   


USA Ultimate College Nationals Recap
To Our Esteemed Readers and Beloved Supporters,

When we last left you, Georgetown Catholic Justice had qualified for Nationals for the first time in the Program’s history. While the hype was slightly subdued by the reality that Nationals-caliber athletes still must take exams, the weeks following our adventures in Axton, VA were ones of excitement and anticipation. Finals passed, along with Senior Week, and—although we tried to halt the ceremony to keep them from getting diplomas—graduation marked the end of the academic careers for the team’s seven seniors, Box, Cullom, Dan, Dylan, Logan, Max, and Tony.

As we were reminded earlier in the season under the light of the Moon’s Shine, academics make up only a small part of the life of a frisbee player, and the seniors, along with the rest of the team, still had one final test for their Georgetown careers. As final grades came out, the members of Catholic Justice boarded planes, trains, busses, and cars, eager to forget those B-’s and make it to the promised land: Milwaukee, WI.

After travelling the country and exploring for much of Wednesday and Thursday, Justice arrived at the fields on Thursday afternoon for a team meeting and practice. Each player shared their perspective and goals with the team before our final practice of the season on the glorious, lush fields at Nationals. Following the practice, we made our way to a local park for a team dinner, generously sponsored by the Wilke Family. There was food, fun, frisbee, cornhole, and good times had by all. After the dinner, we went back to the hotel for another meeting to discuss our plans against the morning’s opponent—the gist: score more points than them—and settled in for an excitedly sleepless night.

Pool play began on Friday morning against the Hodags of Wisconsin, and, propelled by the contingent of Squirrels, Foyas, alumni, and parents that came to watch, began their first ever Nationals game. While Justice started out shaky with some “first game ever at Nationals jitters,” Wisconsin’s favorite son Dan Fain and known D-Line star Tony each had heroic endzone Ds while Dylan executed a perfectly-timed timeout call to claw back from 1-5 to get to 6-8 going into halftime. It became clear that Justice was prepared to compete against the best teams in the country. A Justice score to start the second half made it 7-8, but the Hodags would soon run away with the game, winning 8-12.

Filled with Chic-Fil-A, Panera Bread, and the veteran status that came with one game under their belt, Justice was ready for their next opponent: Oregon Ego. Ego came out strong, showing that their high ranking and pre-tournament buzz were not a fluke. After a strong Justice performance in which the whole team could contribute, Ego took the game 15-6, and Justice’s first day at Nationals was over.

Friday, May 25, 2018 was a truly special day for the Georgetown Ultimate Program. Our squad of 24 stellar college ultimate athletes competed at the highest level of our sport. The team was supported and cheered on by dozens of Justice alumni, current student frisbee friends, parents, and siblings. We are incredibly grateful for all the love and support of the Georgetown Ultimate community. After competing at the highest level of our sport, the team, family, and friends traveled to Athens (Family Restaurant) for a feast with our 60 closest friends to celebrate and soak in the amazing accomplishments of the day. Ancient Olympians would be proud of us.

On Saturday morning, Justice made their way to the fields to games 3 and 4 of pool play. Despite an 0-2 Friday, we controlled our own destiny because two wins on Saturday morning would elevate us to third in our pool and advance to the pre-quarterfinals (top 12 guaranteed finish). Our team was eager to embrace the challenges ahead, project dominance, and lean into any adversity we encountered.

While the GPS was certain that we were in Wisconsin, the game looked like we were back in DC, as we took the field against Maryland. This was Justice’s third meetup with the team from College Park, and Justice started out the rubber match with a layout D from Jack Montesanto. Strick and Kunwoo connected for an early break and Coach Geoff promptly called a timeout to yell at the team to play better defense. Toib sliced the Maryland defense apart, and Max showed the fans what Catholic Justice Ultimate is all about by boosting it whenever possible. 8-7 good guys at the half. In the second half, Matt and Box leaped while Tony dove and Logan returned to his football roots by getting tackled just about whenever possible. Wilke showed that he can play O-Line too, and Matt hit Box deep for the break and Justice’s first ever Nationals victory, 13-11 (2-1 on the season series against our Colonial Conference friends, 2-0 in the postseason).

After our win against Maryland, Justice faced off against Jojah with a pre-quarters appearance on the line. In the first half, Tom and the rest of the O-Line handlers swung their swings through the Georgia zone, while Logan hucked and Luke scored, and it was 6-8 Jojah at the half. In the second half, Sky made acrobatic catches while Cullom continued to come away with everything in the air. Literally, everything in the air.

With the score 10-11, the Georgetown fans got in the heads of their opponents during the pool with a long drawn out Geeeooooorrrrrrrggggggeeeeetttoooowwwnnn chant. Jojah proceed to drop Kunwoo’s perfect pull on the endzone and Georgetown picked up for an easy score to tie the game. 11-11 game to 13. After two holds, the game, and Justice’s chance at the bracket, came down to universe point. It was 12-12 and the next point wins. As two of the spectators sitting behind your reporter debated whether “universe point” and “double game point” are the same thing, Georgia’s O-line jammed the disc up the jam hole before trying to hit one more cutter – the disc was overthrown past the receiver into the back of the endzone – and caught by another Jojah player for the goal, the victory, and the spot in the pre-quarters.

Following the game, Justice greeted, thanked, and took pictures with their fans and then enjoyed lunch and time to watch more frisbee. Here’s the link to see the hundreds of photos from Nationals [http://bit.ly/justicenationalsphotos].

There was still one game left, however, with a rematch of the regional second-place game coming in the form of Justice’s crossover game against the scary boys of William and Mary. Cullen played a point #LifeGoalAccomplished while Zach got a layout goal and E.N. showed that he is a deep threat. Some dude named Dunn showed that nothing—not even of the so called “lines of the field”— keeps the Pull Catching Committee from doing its job and Fitz jump-caught his way to glory. Tall Paul skied them all, Grunt laid out, and Romp made the easy catches hard and the hard catches still hard for a final score of Fun-Fun.

With the last of their games behind them, Justice did a tournament-wide Moments and then, just because we love to reflect on our feelings at the end of a monumental journey, did it again for the whole season. After each player and coach got to reflect on why they play ultimate, the team was treated to dinner once again and the 21-year old contingent joined up with the alumni and fans for what will be simply called a long, glorious night.

Surprisingly, the games continued even after we were done playing in them and, following the election of our new captains (Kunwoo and Toib), we were able to take in UNC Darkside’s come-from-behind win over Oregon Ego, a 28 minute point between Dartmouth Princess Layout and Stanford Superfly, and championships for both Darkside and Princess Layout. As the team said their goodbyes and went off to their respective summer locales, each member left with the determination to get better, to return to Nationals, and to prepare for the most important tournament of them all: The Rookie Round Robin in September.

Building the Program,
Georgetown Ultimate



Press Mentions
"There would be no stopping Catholic Justice as they plowed their way to a 13-10 win in the first place semis over UVA in the late afternoon. Players embraced each other, howled the phrase “Why not us?” in triumph and struck up to Drake’s God’s Plan"

Sportscenter Top 10: What just happened? [2,843,240 views on Instagram] 
Deep Look: Regionals Madness, Georgetown & The Greatest [Podcast interview with Captains at 16:00-31:00] 
Chaotic Atlantic Coast Regionals Rife with Upsets (Atlantic Coast D-1 Men's Regionals Recap)
D-I Regionals 2018: Mega-Preview (Men’s)

Campaign Logistics
This campaign was organized by several current students, alums, and coaches. Mike Malloy is one of the Georgetown Ultimate coaches. The money donated to the campaign will be delivered to the team's bank account, where President Blake Spangler will be able to allocate reimbursements to players for travel, lodging, cleats, and food. Thank you for your donations!

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Justice "Highlights" 2018