National Runner-Up
Is this from 1979 Cal States or 1978 SB Classic or 1978 SB Open?
Back Row (standing):
Bart Merrill / Michael Mininni / Larry Leveille / Chaud Richards / Steve Rieck / Brian Humphries / TK / Jeff Soto / Bill Clark / Mike Broughton / Tom Shepherd / Kip Harmer (pack) / Paul Hooston / Tom Cleworth / Cliff Marhoefer / Bruce Gale / Cliff Towne (hat) / Steve Fisher
Front Row (kneeling):
Chris Vaughan / Greg Sharp / Craig Carlisle / John Schmechel / Bruce Gale / John Olcott
This was the year that we lost to Glassboro in the finals at State College, PA. It was unfortunate that we had not yet worked out a good offense against a zone defense at that point. We had one part of it down (swinging the disc - we called it "umbrella offense") but had not yet figured out how valuable a dump pass was and how to use a popper to beat the cup. In our defense....(if memory serves) we only lost by a point and the weather was PERFECT for a zone - cold, windy and WET!
by Cliff Towne
This was the time frame when TK helped support the growing intramural Ultimate efforts in Santa Barbara. He would participate with the new teams and instruct them on the fine art of Ultimate. He developed the intramural teams into a 'farm club' for the Condors.
1979 Roster:
Broughton, Michael 'Snuffy'
Carlisle, Craig
Clark, Bill
Cleworth, Tom
Fisher, Steve
Harmer, Kip
Hooston, Paul
Hughes, Jerry
Humphrey, Brian
Kennedy, Tom 'TK' [Captain]
Leveille, Larry
Marhoefer, Cliff 'Poodlehead'
Merrill, Bart
Mininni, Michael 'Meanie'
Olcott,, Johnny 'Sky'
Riech, Steve 'Leak'
Schmechel, John
Sharp, Greg 'Greggo'
Shepherd, Tom
Towne, Cliff
Vaughan, Chris
1979 Non-Traveling Players:
Gale, Bill
Hodgeson, Andy
Jessick, Joe-?
Richards, Chaud
Monte (full name?) Monte-?
Each year, when the Nationals were not in sight, we had 25-30 top quality players traveling to each tournament - we would break up into two teams and frequently ended up playing each other for the championship of these tournaments. As the Regionals and Nationals approached, we would then go through a series of major tryouts. Those players who did not make the Condors National squad ended up on the Santa Barbara SeaWolves (named after Jeff Hirsch's dog) and we would go to the Regionals, win a couple games, but never qualify for the Nationals.
The Ducks (Saturdays at SB High School) consisted of players just out for a good time, playing good quality Ultimate, but not going to tournaments, and not really caring who won.
Mike "Snuffy" Broughton
Penn State Ultimate '76-'78
Cleveland Frisbee Club (founder) '76-'77
Santa Barbara Condors, Ducks, SeaWolves '78-'83
Santa Barbara Lady Condors (coach) '80-'83
anterior cruciate victim '83-present