AUC 2013.

Training and competing with the women’s club team Phoenix brought me to one final ultimate tournament in another new location – the 2013 Australian Ultimate Championships in Bendigo, Victoria.  Nationals!  I traveled with the majority of the team for this tourney, so I didn’t have extra time to explore much of Bendigo.  Bendigo is a regional town (population of the area is around 80,000), about an hour and a half drive northwest of Melbourne.  It is one of the towns in Central Victoria founded on gold back in the mid 19^th century.

AUC takes place over 4 days, but the games are spread out a bit (I think we only played 10 games over all 4 days).  There were 16 open teams and 14 women’s teams (could be up to 16 but there aren’t enough teams interested).  It was good to see other teams that we haven’t been playing in the past few months, such as teams from SA, WA, Tassie, and even New Zealand.

In the end, Phoenix placed 10^th, just meeting our goal of coming in the top ten.  Thanks to all the Phoenix ladies for letting me play with and get to know them over these past months!