Wow, looking at the World's juniors results (http://www.wugc2008.com/team/301 and http://www.wugc2008.com/team/201) which are amazing, Terra have managed to beat both Canada and USA, and checking the stats I've realised aside from HOS we are probably the powerhouse of Australian elite junior recruitment, funny as that sounds.
Phil is successfully building up another promising group at Chatswood who are only 13-14 years old and will be amazing by the time they are our age, and even better when they are older, one of the Xavier got a handblock on our youth nats game against them on Tiger. Our legacy at NSB and strangely the legacy of a lot of NSB's ending up playing frisbee - many of the current Dingos are from NSB (well not that many) there is another group of Ultimate players coming through NSB now showing a lot of promise who recently came second at the NSW schools Gala Day (Chatswood came first)
Our friends at NSG who played Frisbee becuase they were friends with us have now made their own name on the Worlds Scene, Bec Villis and Clare Langford being part of the team that beat Canada and USA as well have successfully started up ultimate at NSG with Nathan and Tiger now being employed as coaches of that team.
As for Friskee, started a few years ago, captained by Phil White the current Australian Junior Captain. In the first season we had Myself, Tiger Webb, Max Halden, Angela Felhnar, David Noble, Tom Tullett, Graham Shilson-Josling, Phil White, Ellie Spark, Mark Evans and a few others I forget. Since then we've also brought to the sport Josh Jacob, Alistair See, Clare Langford and Bec Villis (headhunted - no long on Friskee) as well as Alex Allen and Alex Peters, Peters who didn't want to try out for the Junior Women and Allen who was a very strong contender along with myself, Mark Evans and Graz who were cut at the last cut for the Junior Open team. This season we gained Sarah Hammer and Calan Spielmen, but they came into the sport not through us, we also introcued Loren Viswalingam (not sure if surname spelt right) to Ultimate and shes now off in Vancouver this year as well.
Friskee has been the main source of Sydney juniors who tried out successfully for the Junior Australian ultimate teams. I think what makes us different from the other Sydney Juniors (In-Tents) is that we actually recruited new players into the sport, pretty much all of present Friskee except Phil, Alex P, Ange, Calan and Sarah H who came into the sport through themselves or other people, have come in through Friskee, or Friskee's "Recruitment Program," which was pretty much bringing frisbee's everywhere and a healthy amount of peer pressure.
However we are having slight growing pains, our staple NSL div 2 even though we've never placed better than 2nd last (this season is looking no different) due to our stacked worlds line up will not be allowed another season at div 2, and we would get torn to pieces in div 1 beuase of the number of new people we have on our squad each season. So we're going to have to either split up, or move up a division due to our size, we've also reached the point where we've had to turn down players since our roster was 16 or so people.
The future for Friskee?
Well we need to order some new shirts...
In my humble unbiased opinion,
Recruiters of the year?
Yeah. I think so.
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yo semfel,
nice write up about recruitment. my opinion though: (bear in mind i agree with your closing statement)
i think that schools like chatswood, NSB, killara which are all based on the sydney north shore and have a strong ultimate heritage have strong links with each other are ultimately going to produce better youth players than other schools/other institutions. Friskee, being the awesome bunch of guys and gals you are, are always going to be the team of choice when making the step to 'the next level' (from school tournaments to league).
however, for example, myself, and most of the other players in our club team, rubi, started playing at uni and have only been playing for 2 years. also it means that most of us only got decent after the cutoff age for junior worlds. so when looking at recruiter of choice i think you have to look at the average length of time a team has been playing compared to how the do in various tournaments etc.
but as a youth recruiter i totally agree with you.
so i guess its really when you started playing hey?
Nah mate. Geelong.
Three teams of players all under 20 years old (exception of two or three on GFUC Vintage), of which two of those teams tore BUUF to shreds in the last few weeks.
But you guys play a very, very important part in junior recruitment/development - somewhere to go beyond PE class/after school. Part of the reason we ended our schools program here in B-Town is that we didn't have anything to offer players if they wanted to take up the sport (apart from drunken interstate road trips once every term).
Geelong will win both divisions of Youth Nats in 2010. You heard it here first.
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