February 4, 2010 - New Semester... Long Time Since the Last Update
As the spring semester starts up, so to does the spring ultimate season. As of now, we're practicing three times a week, with a mix of conditioning and other practices (when possible). Conditioning is Monday at 7:00 pm and also either Wednesday or Thursday at 7:00 pm (two days since not everyone could make either day). We'll meet in the field house for these to get in shape for the upcoming season. Also, Sunday afternoons at 2:00, we have reserved Davis Gym to give us a chance to throw aroud a bit, as well as improve our durango boot game. So far we're looking to go to a decent amount of tournaments this semester, in hopes to make up for our disappointing lack of tournaments in the fall. I'll do my best to get updates up on here a bit more often.

February 4,, 2010 - Fall Wrapup (Should've done this earlier, I forget most of it now)
After the first week of practice, we had been maintaining a decent amount of frosh, which we were very happy with. After graduating our seniors from last year, we were looking to keep a decent amount of numbers from the initial practice sessions. The team continued to get better, and the frosh were quickly learning the game. After a few unfortunate mishaps with tournament planning and weather, we finally were able to go to our first tournament... in the first week of November. We travelled to Shippensburg for a Friday evening/Saturday tournament under the lights. Though our record for the weekend was nothing to really brag about, our first tournament as a team was very helpful in meshing our team. Injuries had plagued the team the entire semester, so even a short-handed team was able to piece together moments of brilliance at times. After returning from Ship, we had a week to rest up before our home tournament. The field was dropped to only 8 after other tournaments were rescheduled to the same date, but the tournament still ran smoothly for the most part. Mud played much better than the previous week, going undefeated to the finals (including a win over the alums). Due to the fact that Wodatch was not playing for the alums on Sunday, Old was able to pull off a victory in a very close game. Even with the loss though, Mud was able to gain a lot of confidence for the spring season.

A great part of the home tournament was when Harvey Edwards (founder of Mudsharks ultimate and UPA Hall of Famer) stopped by to watch the festivities. He shared stories about the original days of Mudshark ultimate before throwing the disc around a bit... and let me tell you, he hasn't lost his touch. An time-out was called for a mid-game speech from the HoFer, before both teams brought it in for Sh-Sh-Mud. Harvey then got the honorary pull to resume play before heading off for the day. It was great to see Harvey out there, representing the history of our team.

August 12, 2009 - Welcome to Bucknell Class of 2013 / Activities Fair
For those of you getting ready to start your first semester at Bucknell, I want to welcome you to campus and wish you the best of luck for the year. In addition, I would like to let any of you that may be interested in playing ultimate frisbee with the Mudsharks (or are even curious about the idea in the slightest bit) to stop by our booth on August 24th during the Activities Unlimited event. We will be giving out all sorts of information regarding the team and the year, so stop on by and we'll be more than willing to chat. In addition, we will have an Interest meeting Monday, September 7th in the LC Forum that we invite everyone to attend. In the meantime, if you guys have any questions, feel free to email us and we will be happy to discuss anything and everything about the team. In the meantime, enjoy the last bit of your summer, I hope to see a lot of you in a few weeks!

July 16, 2009 - First Attempt at a Newsletter/Season Wrap-up
Due to my current arrangement downtown (and lack of internet) I took a brief hiatus from writing this, hence the major delay of it being put up. Follow the link to read a little bit about how the 2008/2009 season finished up for the Mudsharks. Feel free to send me any comments/suggestions for future ones. In addition, any incoming freshmen (or current Bucknellians who may be new to the game) interested in learning more about the team, shoot me or any of other captains an email and we'll be happy to chat.

2008/2009 Mudshark Newsletter