Team Roster: Aideen Dowling, Alex Weinberg (c), Courtney Hosp, Dave Smyth, Jason Milligan, Katie O'Brien, Kevin Timoney, Paul Cronin, Rose Schmaltz, Sam Smith, Siobhan Covliet.

'Naoise Murphy' was the Irish mixed club representative at Mixed Tour 1 in Brighton, taking place over June 7/8 2008. The standard at this tournament was very high, with a record number of clubs taking part. The venue was excellent, offering two days of sunshine-filled ultimate on great pitches, and a beach party was arranged for Saturday night, much to the delight of all teams. Seemingly everyone was delighted not to be marooned in the moors of Mansfield that particular weekend. Naoise's relatively inexperienced line of five guys and six girls struggled to keep up with the other teams during Saturday's games, and it was quickly realised that the seeding of 24th out of 40 teams was probably too high. Succumbing to injury setbacks on Sunday, Naoise battled on, at times with only three guys who had to play iron man. While victory in any of the games was never in truth a likely occurence, Naoise really did improve noticeably with each game, not only based on the increasing score tally. Everyone learned a lot, as can only happen when repeatedly faced with more experienced, fitter, and better-drilled opposition. Due to the power pools and bizarre tournament structures employed at Tour events, Naoise finished the weekend in 28th place, much to the confusion of just about everyone.

More at http://brightonultimate.co.uk/mixed-tour-1-2008/