Breeze players got a full dose of preseason training reality over the weekend thanks to 2016 Breeze Strength & Conditioning partner Morrill Performance and CrossFit DC. The team scheduled two training sessions over the weekend, with CrossFit DC graciously hosting the Saturday afternoon session at their East DC facility, 1365 H Street NE.
Two visits each by the Toronto Rush and New York Empire and a packed 7-game May highlight the 2016 Schedule. Toronto visits DC April 23rd and again June 4th, while New York visits May 7th and June 11th. Both the April 23rd Toronto game and the June 11th NY game have been included in the Must Watch: Best Matchups of 2016 by the AUDL.
Our official 2016 Breeze Discs have arrived! You can order yours at our Fan Shop or, better yet, pick up a Premium 7-Game Season Ticket by this Friday and we’ll send you the brand new disc by next week!
Team USA will have a strong Washington, D.C. presence in London this June at the WFDF World Championships thanks to 6 current and 2 former Breeze representatives all heading to London with USA teams.
Our first podcast of 2016 features host Greg Esser and guest Jonathan Neeley. Neeley returns to the Breeze after a year off. They discuss the Breeze past, present and future, regional playing styles around the USA, and even Neeley’s favorite hobby, Goaltimate.
New DC Breeze partner Rose Physical Therapy Group hosted a group of 2016 Breeze players and our two team trainers over the past weekend for Functional Movement Screens (FMS) and other training. The group provided a beautiful breakfast spread followed by two hours of intense FMS measuring and various fitness techniques.
Breeze Head Coach Alex “Dutchy” Ghesquiere led the list of a large group of Breeze players and other DC stars in Kissimmee, Florida last weekend for the USA Team tryouts that will determine who represents the country at the world championships in London this June. Ghesquiere will coach the men’s open team, while several Breeze players are competing for spots on either the Open or Mixed team and area Scandal stars shoot…
#63 Jon Pressimone – 2016 Cutter When he was a kid, Jon Pressimone’s uncle taught him how to throw and catch and his youth minister introduced the rules of ultimate when the rules of ultimate were still being written (“catch and take three steps,” Press recalls.) When he moved to North Carolina as a senior in high school, he tried to form a team by banding together with some off-season cross country…
#36 Nick Spiva – 2016 Hybrid Appropriately, Nicky Spiva’s first encounter with ultimate was a full-blown tournament halfway through his junior year of high school. After cajoling from a classmate and without a practice under his belt, Nicky took the field with Brutal Grassburn at the Shawn Adams Memorial tournament in Chattanooga, Tennessee. “I had no idea what was going on, but I scored a couple goals. That first tourney hooked…
One of our exciting new signees for 2016, Matthew “Rowan” McDonnell, is a consummate team player. We had already heard that, and it’s nice to see it by example in an Ultiworld article published recently that pays homage to wonderful teammates throughout the ultimate world… Matthew “Rowan” McDonnell is a Terrific Teammate. Garuda is playing PoNY at Northeast Regionals in 2014 and I’m completely out of my league, trying to play offense against…
