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Watching the Clown attend their first ever college regionals was a great experience. They were happy with their performance (nearly knocking out 9th-ranked BU in the back-door bracket), and the general consensus was that regionals is somewhere that they want to continue visiting. Brown and Williams clinched the two bids and are on their way to nationals in Ohio. Interested in the history of our region, I’ve compiled a list of the NE region teams that made it to natties since 1999, when the UPA redrew the regions from five to eight. The list is in seeding order:

1999: Brown, Yale
2000: Brown*, Tufts
2001: Tufts, Brown, Harvard
2002: Tufts
2003: Brown, Williams, Dartmouth
2004: Brown, Tufts
2005: Brown*, Harvard
2006: Harvard, Brown
2007: Brown, Williams

* – Champion
From: http://www.upa.org/hallofchampions/college/openqualifiers

For Brown, it’s just a another year, making nationals 9 times in 10 years (they made it in 1998 as well). It’s clear that even in off years, they have an incredibly solid program that continues to dominate the region. For Williams, it’s the first trip to nationals in a decade. So congrats, Brown and WUFO!

The Callahan Award is given to the MVPs of the UPA Men’s and Women’s College Series.

The nominees are put forward by members of their own team and then are voted on by players. You can find the official rules and a list of nominees at www.callahan-mvp.com.

Unfortunately, the only information you can gleam from the list of nominees is their score-o-matic page which doesn’t give much information to voting. Fortunately, some teams release a ‘vote for’ highlight video or put together an online plea for their nominee.

Here are all the ones I can find in the Men’s Division:

2007

Michael Stout — Claremont Braineaters
Dan Heijman — Wisconsin Hodags [website]
Tim Shelton — Salisbury BUZZ Ultimate

Past

Tim Gehret — Florida Gators — 2006
Adam “Chicken” Simon — Colorado Mamabird — 2006
Will Chen — Harvard Red Line — 2006 [pretty funny]
Beau Kittredge — Colorado Mamabird — 2005

If you know of any more past or current, please let me know