Finals Week Updates...Because I don't Want to Write my Environmental Politics Essays...

Yo,

What have your favorite Lady Gnomes been up to???

High Tide

It's official! We're taking a Women's team to High Tide this year. Currently we are accepting $50 deposits so that we can pay for the bid before the price goes up buy $100 (yuck). Get yo check to Colleen before you leave for finals.

Why am I pumped about High Tide this year? I'm stoked to have to opportunity to play against teams from all over the U.S. Because of our limitations when it comes to funding and such, it's hard for us to get to tournaments outside of our Midwest bubble...which means we play some combination of Loyola, DePaul, Purdue, U of I, and North Park at pretty much every tournament. Not that it's a bad thing, considering they're all in our section, but it'll be nice to see how we stack up against other teams. High Tide is also going to be a good warmup tournament for us. It's 3-4 days of ultimate with a mixture of sun, sand, partying and all of the things the Lady Gnomes love. We'll also be bunking/traveling down with the Men's team so that'll be fuuuun!

Uniforms

We're finally looking into getting a Lady Gnomes design (HOW EXCITING). Don't get me wrong, the Men's Stanley design is sweet as hell, but it's about time we step out with a badass Stella design. I've been contacting people about working on designs over break. If you're interested in sketching a Lady Gnomes design and I haven't messaged/called you lately, please let me know and I'll give you an idea of what we're looking for. Also, if you CAN'T draw and you have an idea of how you want our uniforms to look, feel free to let me know. Don't be scared! I'm open to all ideas! Also, no ideas will be finalized without a lady Gnomes vote first, so everyone's opinion will count!

Additional Tournaments

At the moment the only tournament other than High Tide that we have a bid for is Chicago Invite, which looks like it's going to be pretty awesome this year. Obviously we'll also be attending Sectionals and (fingers crossed) Regionals...maybe we'll throw another tournament in there. I would LOVE for us to go to Midwest Throwdown, but once again, it's held the weekend we leave for High Tide. The other options are Whitesmoke, which from what I gather was run pretty poorly last year, and Huck Finn...which uh...couldn't get enough Women's teams together to hold a tournament. Weird.

What's This Girl up to?

Well...over break I'll be getting a bunch of not-so-awesome dental work done, which will probably result in me drinking my Christmas dinner. Awesome, BUT I am most definitely looking forward to spending the holidays with my family and heading up to Clinton, WI for Christmas. I promise promise promise to have made progress on uniforms. I realize that we'll be debuting them at High Tide, which gives me lots of time to get them together, but I'd rather have them done sooner than later in case we run into any problems (which seems to happen every year when ordering uniforms).

OK! Back to the essays!!!!!!

-Emblebee
(buzzzzzzz)