definitely the most special to me. It was a close Do you think Furious’ absence from I remember when it really became an issue
game and we had come so far in two years to numerous national championships in recent for players. At ‘97 Canadian nationals Furious
beat teams who had spanked us in the past. years has been good or bad for Canadian played the 3rd Vancouver team in the semis
Winning the first of anything is always great Ultimate? and the 2nd Vancouver team in the finals.
validation of a belief that you have and will It’s probably not been a great effect but I After that, it was impossible for the players to
always remain special. don’t really see it as that damaging either. value the tournament very much. Fortunately,
The unfortunate that is changing now, particularly with GOAT
reality is that becoming a much stronger team over the last
for a number of few years.
years, there was a What does Furious do for off season
real discrepancy training?
between Furious We don’t really do anything as a team for off
and the rest of the season training, everyone kind of does their
country. This has own thing, and I think that shows in how we
left most of the start our season. We have an older team now
players on Furious that struggles to balance Ultimate against
not very interested other life priorities and every year we seem
in attending a little less prepared physically to challenge
Canadian to be the best team in the world. About the
nationals when only thing we do as a group (other than poker
it means travel and beer) in the offseason is some of us play
dollars and goaltimate on the weekends. Maybe we should
vacation time start something more formal this year.
at the expense Thanks Andrew, and have a great year
of some other ahead.
tournament. My pleasure. »U
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Which UPA title has meant the most to you?

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Again, the first time we won UPA’s in 2002
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was an incredible feeling. It was a dream that a
few of us especially, had been building towards

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for a number of years. We had lost so many
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players from the year before, over half of our 14
starters were gone, that it was a rebuilding year
in many senses. To have so many guys step into
bigger roles than they ever had before and to
win against the best teams in world was great.
The semis we played against Boston that year,
where we made only two turnovers all game,
also made winning that year pretty incredible.
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