The men's frisbee team, the Tufts E-men, this year boasts an impressive squad that has caught the nation's attention. Tufts currently sits atop the USA Ultimate College Series Rankings, holding onto first place yesterday when the rankings were updated.
The team has a 7-1 record and won the Queen City Tune Up tournament on Feb. 11-12. That tourney included a number of tough opponents, including four other top-15 teams — North Carolina-Wilmington, Ohio, Penn State and Dartmouth. The E-men's one loss came at the hands of North Carolina-Wilmington, a team Tufts bounced back to defeat in the finals. North Carolina-Wilmington is sixth in the rankings among 272 schools.
Over spring break, the E-men will have a chance to defend their top ranking at a tournament in Austin, Texas.
Ewo tested out West
On the women's side, the spring season is just getting underway. The Ewo ‘A' team traveled to Palo Alto, Calif., last weekend to compete in the 2012 Stanford Invite for their first matches of the year. Though the team returned to Massachusetts with a losing record of 2-5, they secured impressive wins against two strong teams in Carleton College and Pittsburgh, and their losses came at the hands of some of the best teams in the country.
Tufts was defeated by Washington — the number one women's team in yesterday's rankings and the tournament winner — as well as UCLA and British Columbia, two schools that rank in the top 10. Its other losses came to top-20 teams UC Santa Barbara and Stanford. Tufts' performance earned them the 21st-place USA Ultimate ranking among 162 teams.
The squad will next compete over spring break at the College Southerns, a tournament hosted by Georgia Southern University.
