Abby Mathier #13 |
Years on Dish: New addition |
Position: Handler/cutter |
Experience: High school ultimate in Pittsburgh (4 years) and Northwestern GungHo (3 years) |
Spirit animal: Maximus, the horse from Tangled |
Aiste "Ice" Guobyte #24 |
Years on Dish: New addition |
Position: Cutter |
Experience: Maynooth/Trinity (college, 4 years), Gravity (2 years), Jabba the Huck (2 years)—all in Ireland—and Frenzy (1 year) |
Favorite literary character: Hanna Schmitz (I'm hesitant to say Hanna as my favorite character, but The Reader is one of my favorite books) |
Spirit animal: Penguin |
Alex "Chuds" Chudler #20 |
Years on Dish: New addition |
Position: Handler |
Experience: Northwestern GungHo (college, 4 years), Spicy Tuna (3 years), and Nemesis (2 years) |
In real life: I eat a lot, work out a lot, and read a lot. |
Favorite literary character: Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) |
Spirit animal: Wolf |
Amanda Dice #11 |
Years on Dish: 3rd year |
Position: Handler |
Experience: 8 years: John Carroll Thor, Ibex, Frenzy |
In real life: I work for an investment management firm where I measure performance and nerd out on excel sheets. |
Anna Scarbrough #19 |
Years on Dish: New addition |
Position: Cutter |
Experience: Northwestern GungHo (college, 2 years) |
In real life: I eat an abnormal amount of peanut butter, worry about climate change, and maintain a high level of neuroticism. (And play on GungHo!) |
Favorite literary character: Hermione (Harry Potter) |
Spirit animal: House cat |
Anri Brod #47 |
Years on Dish: New addition*
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Position: Cutter |
Experience: Northwestern GungHo (college, 4 years), Minneapolis Snap (1 year), Spicy Tuna (1 year), and practice player for Dish (1 year) |
In real life: I am just a lil bug trying my best. |
Favorite literary character: Sophie (Howl's Moving Castle) |
Spirit animal: Raccoon
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* 2016 Dish practice player
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Bridget Miles #15 |
Years on Dish: 3rd year |
Position: Handler/cutter |
Experience: Northwestern GungHo (4 years) and Dish (3 years)
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In real life: I work for Spikeball! |
Spirit animal: Baby bear |
Caitlin "CB" Bonham #42 |
Years on Dish: 6th year |
Position: Cutter |
Experience: Pretty much just Dish—and lots of fun UC leagues! |
In real life: I teach science to 7th graders. |
Favorite literary character: Ramona Quimby (Most notably from Ramona Quimby Age 8 and Ramona Quimby and Her Father) |
Spirit animal: Polar bear |
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Chris Freisinger #22
Captain |
Years on Dish: 12th year |
Position: Cutter
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Experience: All Dish, all the time! |
In real life: I enjoy music, adventure, and saving the built world! |
Favorite literary character: Frodo (Lord of the Rings) |
Spirit animal: T-Rex |
Colleen Costello #23 |
Years on Dish: 13th year |
Position: Handler/cutter |
Experience: Dish! Plus UC leagues. |
In real life: I science. |
Favorite literary character: Deeba (Un Lun Dun) |
Spirit animal: Sparrow |
Gail Reich #12 |
Years on Dish: 4th year
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Position: Cutter
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Experience: Food & Liquor, Skyway, Ibex, Gambit, Nemesis, Dish, Northwestern GungHo (grad school), and Ultimate Peace |
In real life: I am a psychotherapist and a photographer. I also organize Ultimate at the youth and adult level. |
Favorite literary character: You think I read fiction? Okay... I choose Galadriel (Lord of the Rings) |
Spirit animal: Penguin |
Hindeke "Ducky" Tewodros #25 |
Years on Dish: New addition |
Position: Handler |
Experience: Walter Payton (2 years), Northwestern GungHo (2 years) and Frenzy (1 year) |
Jamie McFarlin #7 |
Years on Dish: New addition |
Position: Cutter |
Experience: I played on my college women's team from 2006–2009 (we never made it beyond sectionals). I captained my senior year though so I know the 9th edition like it was my job! I've played rec league and pickup since then, all over the country including in San Francisco, Berkley, and Omaha! |
In real life: I'm a Ph.D. student at Northwestern. I'm a geologist and I study the climate system. I travel a lot for my research, with most of my summer spent doing remote fieldwork in the Arctic. Is this real life? |
Jeanne Shin-Cooper #21 |
Years on Dish: 2nd year
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Position: Cutter
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Experience: A little bit of everything—mixed and women's Chicago
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In real life: I am a mother of two boys, wife to an amazing man, read historical fiction, play field hockey, and love to be a geography nerdy teacher.
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Favorite literary character: Thomas the Train |
Spirit animal: Wolverine |
Jen Sanfilippo #8 |
Years on Dish: 2nd year
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Position: Handler
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Experience: Marist Fox Ultimate (college, 4 years), DePaul Laser Chains (1 year), Baywatch (2 years), and Dish (2 years) |
In real life: I cook, read, write, watch (yell at) sports, and spoil my cats.
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Favorite literary character: Lola De Leon (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) |
Jess "Bearden" Lang #54 |
Years on Dish: 8th year
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Position: Cutter
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Experience: Dish (8 years), Nemesis (1 year) |
In real life: I spend my days with a sweet, assertive, independent 2-year-old. |
Favorite literary character: Edmond Dantès (The Count of Monte Cristo) |
Spirit animal: Griffin |
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Kristol "Luda" Das #10 |
Years on Dish: 2nd year |
Position: Cutter |
Experience: 1 year of mixed club, 7th year playing women's, 2nd year with Dish |
In real life: I'm in training to be a pediatrician! |
Spirit animal: Koala |
Krystle Jiang #88 |
Years on Dish: New addition
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Position: Cutter/wannabe handler
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Experience: Boston College (4 years), Boston Mixed Nuts (5 years), and Do You Even Goalty, Bro? (1 year)
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In real life: I am a "consultant", whatever that means.
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Favorite literary character: The orange that looks like an apple from the cover of Freakonomics (I don't read fiction)
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Spirit animal: Whale (I eat a lot)
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Leanne King #4
Captain |
Years on Dish: 5th year |
Position: Handler
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Experience: Some different teams from different places—women's and co-ed |
In real life: Somehow fit a 20 hour a week job into 40 hours! |
Spirit animal: Llama |
Lena Goren #2 |
Years on Dish: New addition
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Position: Handler
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Experience: Northwestern GungHo (3 years) and Notorious CLE the summer after freshman year
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In real life: I study cognitive science, captain and play ultimate with Northwestern GungHo, and try too hard at every activity I attempt.
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Spirit animal: Mountain goat
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Molly "Swag" Schulman #5 |
Years on Dish: New addition
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Position: Handler
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Experience: 10 years—started playing in Amherst in high school
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Olyvia "Chinch" Chinchilla #1 |
Years on Dish: New addition
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Position: Cutter
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Experience: Northwestern GungHo (3 years) <3
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In real life: I study the economy, politics, and literature; write poetry and memorize motivational quotes; talk to strangers about everything from their life history to novels; and walk backwards as a campus Tour Guide.
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Favorite literary character: Alyosha (The Brothers Karamazov)
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Spirit animal: Elephant (because they can sleep standing up, have amazing memories, can recognize themselves in the mirror, and are very social)
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Sammi Wong #14 |
Years on Dish: 3rd year
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Position: Cutter
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Experience: Prior to joining Dish, I played in college at the University of Southern California.
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In real life: I teach tiny humans to become future ultimate frisbee players.
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Favorite literary character: Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
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Spirit animal: Otter
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Wendy Rochon #9
Captain |
Years on Dish: 9th year |
Position: Handler |
Experience: I started at Purdue with Brickhouse a while back and played leagues until I met up with Dish! |
In real life: I enjoy my circus of my wife, cat and two miniature dachshunds! |
Favorite literary character: Tania Aebe (Maiden Voyage) |
Spirit animal: Wiener Dog |
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