Statue of Liberty

It's rare that you hit it off with someone right away. It's rare that you find someone you can get along with on many different levels. I was lucky, and I did. No relationship is perfect, to be sure, and no relationship is without conflict or bumps in the road or times when you *gasp* don't get along and don't like each other.

But if you really care about each other, you get through it.

There is no one else I would have rather gone through my first club experience with. There is no one else I would have rather "almost quit" with. There is no one else I would have rather bitched/cried with before practice, during practice, and after practice. There is no one else I would have rather stayed up all night talking ultimate with. There is no one else I would have rather co-captained with. There is no one else I would have wanted to close out my college ultimate career with. There is no one else I would have wanted to play point after point after point with. Statue of Liberty all day, every day. Because there's no way you can stop her high release flicks and there's no way you can stop me from waddling upfield and catching it for a score in the endzone (just before my entire body cramps up).

We always had each other's backs, and sometimes it felt like us against everyone else. Whether that was or wasn't the case, I wouldn't have chosen to be on that side of the fight with anyone else. It wasn't a conspiracy and it wasn't an unholy alliance -- never that. It was unconditional support and being there for each other when times were shitty.

I can't really explain it in words, but there's just something about it. There's something about us always knowing where the other wants the disc, always knowing where the other is on the field, always knowing what the other's strengths are, and always, always knowing how to detonate bombs (more her than me ... I'm usually the bomb).

It's like that parent at CCC said -- our chemistry is unreal. Four years and a summer of club together really does that for you, both on and off the field. On the field ... c'mon. Let's be real here. We are at our best when we can play together on D (part of the best cup ever), and we are at our best when we can play off of each other on offense. I never feel more confident than when we are playing O together -- she knows I'll get open for her and I know she'll put it exactly where I want it, and vice versa. The best part is that words don't even have to be exchanged for us to just know. And off the field ... I'm sure I don't even have to talk about this.

(25 - 10 = 15)


"We'll look for each other. And since we've been playing with each other, day in and day out since we got here, we know how each other plays, we know what we think, we know where we're going to be. … It's just a connection you have that we just always know what's going on and what each other is doing."