Team Profile: UCSB Burning Skirts
Meet the UCSB Burning Skirts, a dynamic team that made history by qualifying for Nationals as freshmen. Leah Forrester shares her experience of attending spirit captain and captain meetings, surrounded by familiar faces from Callahan videos and articles about ultimate frisbee on campus. The team's journey is a testament to their dedication and passion, which helped bring attention to the sport and its growing community. As a rookie team with many newcomers, they were able to revive tradition and make frisbee a legitimate presence on campus. Leah reflects on the significance of this moment, realizing that the team was part of a bigger movement shaping the future of ultimate frisbee. Watch as she shares her insights into what it's like to be part of this inspiring team.
Meet the all-female UCSB Burning Skirts team as they navigate disc golf, training, and teamwork in this exclusive team profile.
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my name is Leah Forrester and I play for the UCSB burnin skirts making it to Nationals as a freshman is obviously an incredible experience going to that spirit captain and captain meeting and seeing all these people that I recognize from Callahan videos or like highlight videos or reading about the different articles was absolutely wild and there was one point where they had a stop and like look around the room they look around the room you are the future of ultimate and that was absolutely incredible to realize that we were such a part of such a bigger thing that's growing so much it was such a special moment to like see that our team was like going to Nationals with so many rookies and the vets were finally able to go after joining a team that they had heard about that always went to Nationals and just bringing that tradition back and being able to make frisbee a more legitimate thing like on campus and it's been such a great season
