Ella and Francisco

Last year Ella and I joined some good friends (Nicole, Ryan, Egon) and decided to start a new coed Ultimate team. In doing so we achieved one of the best outcomes of undertaking any type of team-building endeavor; we met all sorts of new players that we enjoy calling friends.

Our team held regular practices, went to a few tournaments in Texas, and competed in Sectionals in Denton, TX and then Regionals in Austin, TX. Sadly, I managed to catch some kind of bug and missed Regionals, but as you can see from the photo below, the team put aside their grief and competed with great spirit.

How did we get the name “Cougars!”. Well, interesting story.  The name was a product of an official naming session in a small (read: cheap) hotel in College Station. We were sun-burned, had a couple beers in us, and everyone was building groups to support their name ideas. One group of college grads was forwarding “Ultraviolet Catastrophe”, a physic concept. Another group wanted “Gravity Storm” in memorium for an old team Ella used to play on called Vortex. And I, of course, thought only the Simpsons could do the name justice, so I was pushing for “Spider-Pig”, Ella’s love went to “King of Kong”.

In the end, the combination of brain-sapping circumstances and the late-night caused a sudden last minute mania for “Cougars!”, a cultural phenomena term lifted from today’s finest periodicals like People, Us, and their global rivals, Hola! Alexa was our shirt logo artist. She knows how to capture the spirit of pouncing predators.

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