2001 Year-end Summary Thanks to everyone for an enjoyable season of Ultimate "Frizzbee". Special thanks to Tim and Nancy Walker for again hosting the season-ending game and party at their house, and to Bill "Mr. Enthusiasm" for his weekly reviews, announcements, and spot-on weather prognostications. For those of you who missed the season-ending party, Bill handed out the following 2001 awards: 1. The "Preseason" Award went to Karl and Brooke for their successful preseason training regiment. We should all be advised to follow their training program to prepare for the 2002 season. (For those of you who don't have a clue what this is, see their new daughter, Morgan Kristine, born 10-4-01.) 2. The "Stealth" Award: to Scott R for his stealthy, appearing-out-of-nowhere, defense. 3. The "Veterans" Award: to Barb for her consistent attendance, high quality of play, and team spirit for oh, only about 19 years in a row. 4. "Most Honorable Excuse" Award: to Steve Formisani for taking off 5 weeks to kayak the Maine Island Trail (nearly 300 miles of the Maine Coast). 5. "Spielberg" Award - to Bob Naftal for his many sound effects while throwing, catching, defending, and (especially) faking throws. Whoosh! 6. "FART" Award. The coveted "Frequent Attendance Record Trophy" went to the Begin family for their combined high attendance. Roger and Janet combined for 25 game appearances, not including Jessica, Ryan, and their grandparents. -------------- 2001 Records: This year, we broke 3 all-time team records, and 3 individual records: 1. On the first game of the season, we broke the record for the most players in a season opener: 22. That blows away the previous record of 15, set in 1996 and tied in 1999. 2. On the very next game, May 8, we broke the record for most players in a game: 26. [This level was not sustained, and our average of 15.8 people per game can't touch the record of 16.7, set in 1999. See full list of records below.] The previous record of 25 players was set on 8/31/99, at Seabrook Beach. 3. We had the most players ever in a season: 61. That breaks the record of 58 set just last year. 4. Brian Anker became the youngest player ever to play, at age 9. We're not sure who used to hold that record. 5. Dan Luckom became the youngest competitive player, at age 11. We're not sure who used to hold that record, either. 6. Finally, Tom Merrick broke his own record as the most senior player ever, at age 65 years and 3 days (but who's counting?). We hope Tom will continue to break that record many more times. Summary of All-Time Records: (any others you want tracked?) TEAM RECORDS # Year Most ave players/game: 16.7 1999 Most players/game: 26 5/8/2001 Fewest players/game: 3 10/15/1996 Most players/season 61 2001 Most new players/season 22 2000 Most players 20+ games 8 1999 Earliest season opener 4/4/2000 Latest season opener 5/7/1996 Most players/opener 22 2001 Latest season ending 10/24/1995 Earliest season ending 10/7/1986 Most players/last game 18 1999 Most consecutive games 24 1999-2000 Most cons. games sgl yr 22 1995 Most games in a season 27 2000 Fewest games/season 21 1985 & 1996 INDIVIDUAL RECORDS # Year Name Most games in a year 26 2000 Bill Most games in 1st yr 20 1998 Dusty Longest consec. streak 54 95-98 Bill Youngest player 9 2001 Brian Anker Youngest compet. player 11 2001 Dan Luckom Most senior player 65 2001 Tom M Honorable Mention: 1. Bill once again tops the individual attendance record, with 21 of 22 games. Bill, you're going to have to cut back on those vacations to improve on that! 2. With our late start and two rainouts, we almost tied the record for fewest games. We played 22, just one more than we did in 1985 and 1996. 3. We had 19 new players this year, second only to last year's 22. Welcome! 4. Streaks of 8 or more games in a row: Dale: 13 Bill: 12 and 9 Eric: 8 Barb: 8 Aditi: 8 Final tally of games played: 1. Bill Anker 21 2. Eric Krupka 18 3. Dale Wisler 18 4. Barb Kramer 16 5. Roger Begin 15 6. Bob Naftal 15 7. Scott Roland 15 8. Jon Rockwell 15 9. John Carty 14 10. Scott Merrick 13 11. Aditi Garg 11 12. Ted Smith 10 13. Patty Cheng 10 14. Janet Begin 10 15. Ed Polanco 9 16. Jane (Krupka) 9 17. Tim Walker 9 18. Judy Lee 8 19. Gene Albert 8 20. Raphael Luckom 8 21. Bernard Chan 8 22. Karl Arakelian 8 23. Eric Sciacca 7 24. Curt Hunnewell 6 25. Wendy Albert 5 26. Steve Formisani 4 27. Vinny Rossi 4 28. Wally Long 4 29. Bruce Bouchard 3 30. Joe Demore 3 31. Jack Lin 3 32. Arnie Buck 3 33. Jeff Albert 3 34. Mike Equi 2 35. Matt 2 36. Brock Bouchard 2 37. Pete Ewing 2 38. Scott Smith 2 39. David Haroutunian 2 40. Hyon 1 41. David Yeh 1 42. Adam 1 43. Craig Goodwin 1 44. Mark Patnaude 1 45. Jesse Pan 1 46. Marc Goldfarb 1 47. Dave Rupe 1 48. Zack Patnaude 1 49. Lauren Anker 1 50. Brian Anker 1 51. Steven Hein 1 52. Stan Yen 1 53. Tim 1 54. Dan Luckom 1 55. Avni 1 56. Katty 1 57. Cecilia 1 58. Dusty King 1 59. Mike Phillips 1 60. Erick Russell 1 61. Tom Merrick 1