Bunker Specialty Coffee and Chocolate

The Heroes Ultimate Club is pleased to announce their new supporter - Bunker Specialty Coffee.

For those who have not yet experienced the likes of this fine establishment - we strongly encourage you to do so. Furthermore, we are giving out an "Above and Beyond" Award in association with Bunker (consisting of a delightful free coffee/chocolate for 2) to players who give outstanding performances in teams that we play against in all Brisbane Ultimate Leagues. So make sure you bring your A-game to your next BUML, BPL or Women's League match against a team from the Heroes Club (Starts tonight!).

The Vice.

Awards Night Wrap Up

A few tales have surfaced post HUC Awards Night, some true, others not so. To prevent you from living in doubt and uncertainty any longer I present here an accurate account of the evenings proceedings:

The Agent Orange made an appearance, assassinating many (beers). Award winners such as Matt Boevink and Vanessa Brown who were not in attendance are presumed dead, perhaps falling in battle against the AO.

Glamour couple Panties and Sonter arrived fashionably late.

The Vego Force united against the forgetful League's Club, defeating them and procuring for themselves an extraordinary pasta dish.

DJ Rickybeatz danced himself into submission, but was able to party boy and thrust countless others before being escorted home.

Founding father and esteemed guest Huddy Fuller teleported himself back to his base in Van Diemen's Land at the night's end.

Party Liason Officer Chris Brown moved the after party to the within-walking-distance Regatta where he was denied the delicious James Squire amber ale on tap due to his own clumsiness of leaving his ID at home. Big Brother Sebastian smoothly attempted persuading the bouncer, but to no avail.

And despite convincing the bartender that I was a big winner, with Bevan's trophy in hand, she still made me pay for my drinks....



The real winners:


Agent Orange - Above and Beyond S2 2010
Vanessa Brown

Salvatore Colangelo ‘Cola’

Heroes Division 2 - Above and Beyond S2 2010
Laura Sonter

Bradley Dull

Discheads - Above and Beyond S2 2010
Matt Schultz

Katie Truss

Super Heroes - Above and Beyond S2 2010
Carl Behrendorff

Robyn Parkinson

Heroes BPL - Most Valuable Player S2 2010
Bevan Rudolph

Heroes BPL - Outstanding Rookie Award S2 2010
James Morrell

Wonder Women - Most Valuable Player S2 2010
Jo Ashdown

Wonder Women - Outstanding Rookie Award S2 2010
Sarah Thompson

Heroes Ultimate Club - Recruitment Awards 2010
Daniel Strelan - for his leadership of the club over many years and for his passion, which has either started or stoked the ultimate fire within so many Heroes players. His recent receival of AFDA recruiter of the year highlights the ability this man has to bring people into the club. His enthusiasm and efforts are nearly unmatched by anyone in the HUC.

Joshua Weier - for his creation of Discheads. At the time his leadership was an essential part of this team being formed which consisted of an almost entirely fresh roster and now boasts a healthy bench (maybe too healthy?). Josh put great effort into pre season training (season 1) to give these beginners a solid foundation on which to build, to the point where they convincingly took the BUML div2 flag after only 2 seasons together. Although Discheads weren't a part of Heroes during Josh's on field time, they certainly are now, and we owe their existence and much of their development to him.

Heroes Ultimate Club - Coaching Award 2010
Matt Boevink - for his tireless (and so far as the scoreboard goes mostly rewardless) efforts in coaching the Heroes BPL team through 2 seasons, as well as running several coaching sessions throughout the year for the benefit of the entire club. Many Heroes have learnt a lot from him this season.

Heroes Ultimate Club - Culture Award 2010
Carl Behrendorff - for his creation of the blog, as well as the countless hours put in to designing logos and creating posters for tournament prizes. The blog has been the central hub of Heroes communication. It has helped in shaping the culture of the club (history, awards, social) and gives us a presence in the wider ultimate community, with a regular readership coming from all over the world, primarily in Brisbane, but certainly not just limited to the HUC. Carl has conducted interviews and season reviews that are both entertaining and informative. It has been a major contributor to the health of the HUC.

Heroes Ultimate Club - Outstanding Male Award 2010
Adam Beu ‘Jangles’ - for his input to the Heroes BPL team, mostly on the field. He has been the only Firestorm player to come across from another team and help us. He has been enthusiastic about showing us the ropes and the level we need to play at, and has stuck with Heroes despite countless disappointing scores. He has been essential to the workings of the Heroes BPL side.

Heroes Ultimate Club - Outstanding Female Award 2010
Robyn Parkinson - for her creation of the Wonder Women team and encouragement of Heroes women to play in the WUFL. Her presence and voice has been the primary influence in many of our women making the jump from 'casual' to 'interested in more'. As captain of WW she also led these ladies to take the premiership in their first season.


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This year our little club has seen many highs and lows, and some people have found themselves caught up on results and performance from time to time. After conversation with The Vice it seems obvious however that the success and health of this club is dependent not on wins vs losses but rather on us being excellent to each other. Regardless of how well we do in tournaments to come, and whether the BPL team gets some wins or not, and even if we never make it to WUCC 2014, it will still be awesome being a part of this group.

Things Toohey's New will make you (forget to) say

In my concluding remarks at last night's awards spectacular, I wish I had said the following:

A thanks to all the outside people who have encouraged and showed their support to heroes players individually, and to the club as a whole. People who supported the BPL team despite opposition and those who came down on Sunday afternoons and coached us through various aspects of the game stand out to me the most. Your contribution has been very valuable.

And a huge thanks to Gavin Croft, who has put a huge amount of effort and passion into the club over the year, and in particular in recent months with the vote to become incorporated and everything that goes along with that. The way Gavin selflessly goes about the things that need to be done, the way he conducts himself on and off field and his enthusiasm for Ultimate and life in general makes him a great leader of the club. There is no doubt in my mind that he will continue to do a fantastic job in his position as President of HUC in 2011. Thanks Gav!

It's time for a celebration!

It's that time of year again, and for the first time the Heroes Ultimate Club are putting on a little celebration! Will this be the party of the year? Who knows... but what I do know is that the best parties are made by the people that attend them. Thankfully, we have 30 keen Heroes members descending on Wests Rugby ground this evening striving to make this the best HUC party ever!

How will the evening be structured? Will Laura S retain her duties and to an extent chair the evening? Will the HUC president address the masses and instill in everyone a sense of pride, belonging and outright enthusiasm to bring in the new year with? Will Carl ramble on seemingly endlessly, reminiscing about the one time he was able to play a game and not get injured, or perhaps the one time he was able to throw a huck assist without the disc curving away from the receiver (jk Carl ily)? Will Foxxy prove once and for all that Canadians are indeed the better drinkers? Will Chris' Party Liason Officer skills be put to the ultimate test and will he have the foresight to organise the kick on?

All of these questions and more will be answered tonight! Will you be there??? I... wouldn't want to miss it.

Who got you into Ultimate?

With the recent mention of Dan receiving the AFDA recruiter of the year, I had been eagerly awaiting the official nod from the AFDA website before creating this post. But seeing how BPL is cancelled due to rain and I just got off the phone with James 'Panties' VP who confirmed this award (there is even a certificate and everything), I figured that tonight was as good a night as any type it up.

So, as club president I take great honour in congratulating Daniel 'dstrel-ds-d-danny boy-nugget' Strelan in his receival of AFDA recruiter of the year. It is a deserved aknowledgement for his infectious enthusiasm and encouragement towards new people getting involved. The Heroes club owes so much of its current health to Dan. And as a club we are truly greatful for and humbled by his efforts.

On a personal note, I wouldn't take any of this frisbee stuff as seriously as I do now if it weren't for Dan's suggestion of playing at the upper level and recruiting me into the Heroes BPL team. Before then it was purely a social thing for me (and there's nothing wrong with that!) but these past 12 months have been an eye opener to what ultimate can be. I saw the competitive side of the disc, and as a result I'm fitter and stronger than I've ever been. I've enjoyed my captaincy of div2 Agent Orange, and have even completed the level 1 coaching course. I've asked questions about club incorporation and helped facilitate that process to this point, finding myself elected as club president. I have visions and ideas for the future in regards to this little heroes club particularly involving growth and the contagious inclusiveness that ultimate breeds. More than ever, I appreciate the community of players in brisbane that is not dependant on what team you play for or how good you are, and find myself wanting to be involved as much as possible. This is all the result of Dan putting the idea forward of playing more than just 1 hour on a monday night. It wasn't even something that I jumped at right away - he had to put in some decent effort to persuade and encourage me. Obviously however this is something that Dan is good at, as I know that I'm not the only one who has found themselves loving frisbee because of his enthusiasm (natural recruiting ability).

This leads me onto my last point and title of this post. Who got you into ultimate? Was it Dan? Or someone else? Think about how thankful you are that they did/how much you love playing disc. If it's VERY THANKFUL/A LOT for you then why not show your appreciation by shouting them a beer next time you get the chance. (This may result in a very drunk Dan at the next Heroes 5P's beer and burger night!) Now although Dan sparked my 'ultimate awakening' the person responsible for getting me into it in the first place was my older brother Russ who showed me how to play this continuous, minimal rules version of the game that he had learnt from some visiting americans. He now laughs a bit when he sees how much I love playing the real thing, and that it is an actual sport. I let him know what it means to me, and what he means to me. It's important.

Congratulations once again to Dan 'AFDA-recruiter-of-the-year' Strelan, and a personal thank you for watering my seed.

Club Tradtions

This Heroes Ultimate Frisbee Club has been around for a long time. In that time we have enjoyed moments of success and failure. Throughout there has been a strong sense of unity and passion for the club that we all love. To honor that tradition it is time to start to reward some of our best playing efforts both on and off the field. So Make sure you're at the game on Monday Night for our 3rd place show down so after it (when we win) we can give our some awards for best and fairest, most improved, hardest working and so on.

We will also be planning the post season party so be there to have your say.

Also in the mode of tradition lets reflect on where we came from (photo supplied by Dstrel and Sean's Facebook)