{"id":101457,"date":"2016-05-20T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=101457"},"modified":"2016-05-20T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T16:13:06","slug":"video-womens-club-ultimate-heads-to%e2%80%8b-national-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/20\/video-womens-club-ultimate-heads-to%e2%80%8b-national-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Women&#8217;s Ultimate club heads to\u200b national championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates women&#8217;s Ultimate team is in uncharted \u2014 and unexpected \u2014waters this weekend as the club competes in the Division III College Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Earning a tournament bid was &#8220;never something I expected playing Ultimate at Bates,&#8221; says co-captain Ruthie Baker &#8217;16 of Minneapolis. &#8220;For us, it&#8217;s been a really cool thing to watch the team transform in such a way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cold Front: Bates College Women&#039;s Ultimate Frisbee\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mx0ooMCIc50?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Known as Cold Front, the club is <a href=\"http:\/\/play.usaultimate.org\/events\/USA-Ultimate-D-III-College-Championships-2016\/schedule\/Women\/College-Women\/\">seeded third<\/a> in the 16-team tourney and faces Luther College of Decorah, Iowa, at 9 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Per usual when it comes to national competition, NESCAC has a big presence, with Bates, Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams in the tourney.<\/p>\n<p>Co-captain Josie Gillett &#8217;19 of Seattle is a member of the U19 national team heading to Poland this summer for the World Junior Ultimate Championships.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101459\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/160512_gillett-W_Ultimate_152_1-copy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101459\" class=\"size-large wp-image-101459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/160512_gillett-W_Ultimate_152_1-copy-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Josie Gillett '19 of Seattle delivers a pass during practice on May 12, 2016. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/160512_gillett-W_Ultimate_152_1-copy-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/160512_gillett-W_Ultimate_152_1-copy-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/160512_gillett-W_Ultimate_152_1-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/160512_gillett-W_Ultimate_152_1-copy-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/160512_gillett-W_Ultimate_152_1-copy.jpg 1524w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josie Gillett &#8217;19 of Seattle delivers a pass during practice on May 12, 2016. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been playing on competitive teams nonstop since sixth grade,&#8221; she says. &#8220;But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen a group of teammates progress as much in a single season as this team has. That has been incredibly, incredibly rewarding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not their professor. I&#8217;m their superfan.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cold Front&#8217;s adviser is Elmer Campbell Professor of Economics Lynne Lewis, who&#8217;s seen the sport go from casual to competitive at Bates, as it has nationally, since she arrived in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>For her, &#8220;it&#8217;s wonderful to get to know these young people in a different way&#8221; than being their teacher in a classroom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not their professor. I&#8217;m their mentor, their coach. I&#8217;m their superfan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The club has come far, says Ruthie Baker &#8217;16 of Minneapolis. 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