| Years on team = |
1996-present
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| Born = |
1974
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| Height = |
6' 2"
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| College = |
UCSB
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| Degree = |
BS Environmental Science
MS Geography
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| Occupation = |
PhD Candidate Geography
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| Birthplace = |
Geneva, NY
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| Living in = |
Santa Barbara, CA
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| Marital status = |
single
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Favorite Type of Play:
Man-to-man defense is the most gratifying. Just you against him, pretty barbaric. Easy to measure if you win or lose the encounter.
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Reason for playing ultimate:
To win, and make the other team lose.
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When and where started playing ultimate:
In the UCSB Anacapa dorms freshman year. Started playing on the lawn, then some of the more serious of us formed an IM team our sophomore year. That game was fun. Kept getting better at it and played in the summer after sophomore year in Long Beach with some of the current Condors and other older players who gave me a lot of tips. Started playing on Black Tide my junior
year.
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Lessons learned playing ultimate:
How to deal with people. How to maintain integrity. That there are two types of people in this world... those I play with, and those I have to beat. Not many people like a winner.
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Noteworthy:
Team co-captain since 2000
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Greg - 2 years old in Texas
[photo compliments of his parents Tish & Bill] |
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| Years on team = |
1993-1995 & 1997-present
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| Born = |
1970
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| Height = |
5' 8"
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| Colleges = |
Cal Tech
Graduate school: UCSB
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| Degrees = |
BS Electrical Engineering
MS Computer Engineering
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| Occupation = |
Software Engineer
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| Birthplace = |
Fayetteville, NC
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| Living in = |
Hayward, CA
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| Marital status = |
single
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Favorite Type of Play:
When its working well, playing point in the zone (one of the markers) is one of my favorites. The challenge is making adjustments to the offense on the fly, such that we force the offense to play to our strengths. The point plays a huge role in forcing the offense to do what we want them to do. Zone defense is very rewarding when it is done well, because it requires everybody on the field to know their responsibilities and work together.
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Reason for playing ultimate:
When I started playing, it was a lot about those individual moments of glory that happen at pick-up games or wherever, when somebody would say "Wow that was fantastic!" I think that now, I play because I enjoy the feeling of working as part of a team, at a high level, for a common goal.
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When and where started playing ultimate:
Intermurals at Caltech, my sophomore year. Well, actually, we played in junior high at lunch time, but I'm not sure that we even knew the rules back then.
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Lessons learned playing ultimate:
Time management is a big one. During the time that I practiced 5 days a week, 3 hours a day and was in school, I had to make pretty good use of my time. Also, my organizational skills, have grown a lot.
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Noteworthy:
Has been captain of Condors since 1997
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