Category: Video

Falmouth MS Ultimate alum Ben Field playing professional ultimate, making highlights!

Check out Ben Field of the Salt Lake Shred land in the #1 spot in the UFA Week 2 Top Ten Plays! Way back in 2013, when the Falmouth middle school ultimate team was first formed, Ben Field was an 8th grader and one of the leaders on the team. He went on to a solid playing career in high school and then in college and is now playing professional ultimate with the Shred.

You can check out Ben’s Callahan nomination video too for more awesome ultimate.

The best Callahan video I’ve seen

The Callahan Award is given each year to the best man and woman player in college ultimate, proceeded by the release of a flood of highlight videos of contenders from all over the country. If you search for “Callahan Ultimate” in YouTube, you will pull up hundreds of results, all showing top-level college ultimate players in their best moments, but not every one of those videos is produced and edited at a high level. Not this one, showing off the ultimate prowess of Jacques Nissen from Brown University- I am pretty sure this is the best Callahan video that I’ve ever seen in terms of production- the pacing, edit choices, quality of footage, and audio mixing are all *chef’s kiss*. Top notch stuff.

Travel team homework!

This is a great game from a while back between two of the top women’s club teams in ultimate- Boston Brute Squad and the San Francisco Fury. Travel team players should watch the whole game this week- get your family involved if you can!

Some things to look for include how the handlers move and where they stand on the field, how the cutters set up their stack down the field and how they cut from there, and the types of cuts that both positions make. How about how they always have an easy option in the backfield? Pick a player and watch her throughout a point to see how to move.

Special note- #52 on Brute Squad is Caitlin O’Connell, who is local to the Portland area and is a rostered member of the Portland Rising professional ultimate team.

Spirit of the Game- Falmouth Rogue represents!

Falmouth Rogue represents!

Check it out! Falmouth Rogue alum Caitlyn Hanley (FHS class of 2019) pops up in this great video produced by USA Ultimate about the importance of the Spirit of the Game! Caitlyn was a founding player for Falmouth Rogue and a leader in Maine’s YCC program, which sends the state’s best ultimate players to Nationals every year to compete against other state all-star players, and it was under that banner that she was under for this video appearance.

We’re all mega proud to see that! Awesome work and great spirit Caitlyn!

You can see Caitlyn around the 0:23 mark.

Roll Falmouth Rogue!

Ben Field for Callahan 2022!

In 2013, I took over as coach of the Falmouth middle school ultimate program, which had started just the year before under the coaching of my friend Jason Quint. One of the 8th graders on Jason’s 2012 founding team was a kid named Ben Field, who went on to a stellar career on the Falmouth high school team, winning numerous state championships. Once Ben hit college, he started racking up ultimate-related awards and accolades and playing for top tier club teams club teams when he wasn’t leading his college squad. This past season was Ben’s last playing at the college level and his school, Northeastern, just released this nomination and hype video for Ben to be given the Callahan award, the highest award given to college players each year- one to the top men’s player and one to the top women’s player.

Give this a watch!

  • Coach Shea