Breeze players Matt Kerrigan and Rowan McDonnell joined forces with elite women players from DC club teams Scandal and Grit Sunday night in Arlington, VA to launch the first session of the WAFC/Breeze Middle School Clinic Series. It was a tremendous start, as almost 40 kids aged 10-14 came out in perfect 80-degree weather to get instruction from some of the best ultimate talent the DC area has to offer.
The AUDL has announced the All-AUDL 2nd Team, 1st Team, and All-Defense Teams this week. As expected, the lists feature multiple members of Final Four teams. Champions Dallas Roughnecks lead the way with 4 entrants including 1st Team honoree Jimmy Mickle (pictured).
Breeze 2016 offensive leader Jeff Wodatch was named to the All-AUDL 2nd Team this week. Wodatch led the Breeze in goals and +/-, and was 2nd in assists and total points played while participating in all but one of the 16 games this season including both playoff games. He was a stalwart and top producer on an O-Line that scored 392 goals on the way to its best finish ever, with only an overtime road…
$5 clinic includes 2016 Breeze disc and a ticket to Breeze Opening Day 2017.
The DC Breeze and WAFC have partnered with YULA and elite players from the area’s best club teams to create a Middle School Clinic Series this Fall. Coaching instruction at the clinics will be performed by pros and other elite male and female players from around the region in the first series of its kind for the DC area.
Three head-to-head games, two 1-point margins, one 2OT result, a 75-72 Breeze lead in overall goals scored, and a 2-1 win-loss advantage for the Rush. That was the regular season. And that 2-1 advantage was the difference between a home Division Title game for the Breeze and another brutal road game in Toronto.
Breeze Head Coach Alex Ghesquiere will lead top local women’s club team Scandal in a friendly against the traveling Women’s All-Star Ultimate Tour Monday night in Rockville.
Click Here For The ABC7 Video Scott Abraham of Washington’s ABC affiliate WJLA/ABC7 released the latest installment in his Rising Stars series Tuesday. Airing during the 4pm newscast, the story featured several Breeze players and coaches with Summer camp kids at Fort Stanton Recreation Center in Southeast DC.
The 2016 AUDL Champion will be decided this weekend as the four division winners descend on Madison, Wisconsin! The Breeze were so close to being one of those teams, separated from the final four by an overtime loss to 4-time defending division champions Toronto Rush.
From the AUDL: “Toronto Rush player Geoff Powell has been assessed a one-game suspension by AUDL Commissioner Steve Gordon for a play featuring excessive contact during the East Division Final on Saturday.”
Here is the full-game condensed video of our division title game against Toronto July 23rd It was the 4th meeting this season between the two teams with 2 1-point games and Toronto holding a 2-1 advantage in the season series.
