Introducing....Melissa Jo Gibbs #23

Nicknames: Gibbs, Gibbler, Gibbsatron, Gibberish, Gibberoni, Gibble's n' Bits, Gibblestein, Gibbasaurus, Gibble Gobble and "slut."

Height: 5'7"

Hometown: Shell Rock, IA

Attending: Iowa State University

Position: Deep. I live to run down big hucks.

Autobiography: I saw a poster for the Iowa State women's Ultimate team on the floor of my freshmen dorm the first week of college. I thought to myself "I think I played that in P.E." After that time, I've been unsuccessful at everything in "normal" life which others may understand. Sometime after my first college season, I found out one, maybe two fools, voted me the Freshmen of the Year in the Central Region. After that, I whored myself out to Club teams to feed a competitive addiction: Meddling Kids in Illinois, 2005, CLX going to Worlds in Australia 2006, and Small Rackages 2007. Now, my goal is to play the best Women's Ultimate that I can find nearby and POP is it baby! Since around the middle of my career thus far, I've been attempting to help captain Iowa State's "Women Scorned" to great things. I made all-region in the Central region of college last year so I'm glad I remembered what it took to be good between freshmen year to now. I like cheetah patterned skirts, showing off my quad muscles, long and unnecessary naps, Jack Johnson, the beach, backwards hugs and "keeping it on" because I "can't turn it off." I occupy the rest of my available time imagining my Ultimate offspring with various SubZero players.

Introducing...Trish York #24

Nickname: T.Y.

Height: 5' 8"

Hometown: all over Minnesota

Attended: University of MN

Position: Handler

Interesting Information about the Player:

-Years playing ultimate: 17ish. Jane Air (MN), Flygirls (CA), Clutch (MI), Bait, POP

-Achievements in Ultimate: silver medal as a coach for the 2004 US Junior Women's team at worlds in Finland (i've won some tournaments, but this was the coolest.)

-Occupation: Technical writing supervisor at Medtronic. I write manuals about implantable cardiac devices for doctors and nurses. Snap!

-Outside Ultimate: I am a not-so-closet Martha Stewart wannabe. My apple pie will make you wish I was your mom.

-Favorite sideline nourishment: GU and pringles will get you through anything

-Strange pre-tournament rituals: I always shower Friday night before a tournament. Clean hair and smooth legs make me feel fast (or at least less crabby about getting up at the butt crack of dawn.)

Introducing...Elizabeth Mead Cavert Scheibel #25

Nicknames: The Ginger, Lizzard, the "Ultimate Librarian."

Height: 5'4"

Hometown: Minnetonka, MN

Attended/Attending: undergrad from Macalester College, current grad student at the College of St. Catherine.

Position: Reluctant Handler

Autobiography: Liz grew up on the beautiful shores of Glen Lake. In such an idyllic setting, she couldn't help but become a sensitive, gentle person. Unfortunately, she went to a college that is a den of cynicism and bad attitude. She now enjoys reading books that English teachers like, obsessively organizing things, and drinking the HATERade.

Introducing....Kristen "Krissy" Joan Thatcher #48

Nickname: Tiger

Height: 5'3"

Hometown: Edina, MN

Attended/Attending: Colby College, Waterville, ME (undergrad), U of MN, Minneapolis, MN (grad).

Position: Cutter...but she occasionally masquerades as a handler.

Interesting Facts about Tiger:
Krissy began her ultimate career in 2003 by starting and captaining the "Southern Oracles" at Edina High School. She then played for four years on the Colby College "Dazzlin' Asses" and was captain the last three years there. She managed to use her last year of college elligibility in 2008 by playing a year on the University of Minnesota "Ninjas," where she earned the award of MVP and Layout Queen! When she's not playing ultimate, Krissy is a second year PhD student in biomedical engineering at the U of M and that's pretty much all she does outside of frisbee because it takes up so much time!

Introducing...Rachel Sheldahl #12

Nickname: Shel

Height: 5'3"

Attended: Iowa State University

Position: Icing an injury on the sideline.

Biography: Rachel started playing in the spring of 2002. Rachel Derscheid was trying to start the first women's team at ISU and needed players. R. Sheldahl's older sister Amy was recruited already and having the influence of an older sister, simply informed Rachel that she would be going to Sectionals. After attending one practice and then playing sectionals with 8 girls, Rachel was hooked. Ultimate was to consume her life from that point on. Rachel played for ISU Woman Scorned till graduation in 2005. She played on CLX from 2003 - 2006, Small Rackages in 2007, and Pop in 2008.

Introducing...Meghan "Joggles" Cain #28

Nicknames: Joggles, Joggs

Height: 5'6"

Hometown: Edina, MN

Attended: Tufts University

Position: Mid

Autobiography: My creativity has been squashed out of me by countless hours of learning about rare diseases I will most likely never encounter and god forbid I ever catch. Needless to say, all I ever do is go to school and play frisbee and fix all the shit that breaks in my frat. I like naps and hate alien babies.

Introducing...Lisa Fenske #10

Nicknames: Smith, then Fenske, now MILF

Height: 5'4"

Hometown: Corvallis, OR

Attended: University of Oregon (2nd at College Nationals 1992), Chapman Unversity in Orange, CA 1995

Position: Cutter

Autobiography: Lisa Fenske started playing friz at the University of Oregon in Eugene in 1991. She played in the women's division with "Wild Hairs" out of Corvallis, OR and "Fly Girls" out of Los Angeles, CA. Fenske also played what was then known as "co-ed" on the west coast through 1998. She then started playing in the women's division in the Minneapolis/St Paul area with "Jane Air" and then "Bait" until joining the bestest most greatest of Minnesota Women's teams with POP in it's current and inaugural year.

Introducing....Tara Elizabeth Olds #14

Height: 5'4"

Hometown: Bettendorf, IA

Attended: University of Iowa and National University of Ireland Galway

Position: Candler

Biography: Tara is a bridge building, bike riding, triathlon training, lawn maintaining, wood working, stained glass cutting, hammock reading, multi-country traveling ultimate player. Tara has helped design and build bridges in four different countries (Peru, Honduras, El Salvador, and the United States). She likes to get skids in on her mountain bike whenever she is not riding her road bike. She is currently training for her first triathlon to follow in the footsteps of Slammer. In her spare time, she really enjoys gardening, building benches, making stained glass stepping stones, and enjoying a good biography or memoir in one of her hammocks. Out of all her travels, her favorite places to be include Holland, Peru, England, and cuddling in the arms of someone she loves.

Introducing...Christie Dosch #1

Height: 5'4"

Hometown: Apalachin, NY then Rochester, MN

Attended: UW-Madison

Position: Cutter

Biography: Began life as a soccer player. Hit college and quit sports to be in the marching band. Survived 4 years of high stepping only to realize that I missed out on playing ultimate in college (why didn't anyone tell me it existed?) I played some city league in Madison and Minneapolis before joining my very first team that practiced, Oh Boy! I played one season with them before joining Pop for their inaugural season.