Author: revolver

Name:
Kurt Gibson      

Jersey #:
30

Height:
6’2″  

Date of Birth:
August 28, 1985  

Place of Birth:
New York, NY  

Current City of Residence,
Houston, TX  

College Team:
University of Florida

Previous Club teams:  
Bulge (2003)
Vicious Cycle (2004-2006)
Ironside (2007)
Doublewide (2009-Present)    

Favorite game or tournament moment:
Winning 2006 College Ultimate National Championships      

Favorite tournament:
Centex

Favorite tournament dinner Saturday night:
Chili’s

Favorite Song:
Backstreet Boys – The One      

If I didn’t play ultimate I would be…:
In a boy band  

Favorite sports team outside of ultimate:
Tampa Bay Rays  

Favorite player on Revolver (so far):
Mark Sherwood.  I have a ton of respect for Mark – we played against each other a significant amount in college and it was always a dogfight.  He is a great player, the ultimate competitor, and one of those guys you would take on your team any day.  I can’t say enough good things about him and I’m glad we have the opportunity to play with each other.    

Something unknown about me:
I am a cancer survivor of 3 years.  I was diagnosed Aug. 4 2008 with Stage 3 Colon Cancer.  I underwent surgery and 6 months of chemotherapy causing me to miss the 2008 UPA Club Ultimate season.  I have since bounced back and am very blessed and thankful to be playing at a high level again.

Revolver concluded the tryout process for the 2012 club roster last week and is pleased to announce that Jordan Jeffery and Taylor Lahey will join the rest of the returning team from 2011 to compete for a third national championship in the Fall.  Jordan and Taylor will be filling the roster spots left by the departure of Bart Watson and the leave-of-absence by Eric Halverson, two players who will be sorely missed for their significant contirbutions to the team in past years.  The tryout candidates this year were extremely impressive, the talent level in the Bay Area provides us with a wealth of very good players and some very difficult choices.  Thanks to all the players who participated, in particular Davide Morri for his commitment to trying out all the way from Italy and for showing us a new level of dedication to improving at the sport of ultimate. 

Humble Hill, Tuesday Night workout in SF.

Day Two.
Our first game was against the USA part of Sockeye.
We broke on our first D point with a nice huck from Taylor L. to Mac.
Halftime score: 7-3, (the actual) Team USA.
We went up 12-7, then gave up 2 breaks before closing it out.  The rule for the day is “Contact”.  Kurt learns more about doing push-ups for missed contact calls than the actual contact rule.
Final score: 13-10, Team USA
 
Game two was against Nomads, the Canada masters team.
Cruikshank and Mauro highlighted a crafty Canada masters team.  They had a good clam defense that we spent a few points figuring out.  Russel sparked a run with a huge layout D on Shank and we got a few breaks to take half Halftime score: 7-4, USA.
In the second half, Chicken hucked to Kurt full field after getting a nice block in the endzone, redeeming a Kurt turnover.
Final score: 13-6, USA


Sockeye USSR beat team Canada during pool play, so we would play a combined Sockeye in finals.
Ashlin started the game off with a deep huck to Kurt on the first pull.  Sockeye was loose and made some errors that we were able to convert into breaks.  Sherwood hucked to Martin for the first break.  Martin later went on to get a huge sky D on a floaty huck.  Joel cleaned up a huck with a huge layout after the intended receiver, Josh, collided with Reid at the front of the endzone.
Halftime score: 8-3, USA.
Davide got another point block.  Greenwood came down hard on the pull and got a run-through Callahan goal off the first pass.  We got another break when Funk got a deep D and Sherwood hucked it to Russel who boxed out a crowd of people to bring it down.
Final score: 15-6, USA.


All in all, a good weekend for the moons, but there is still a lot of work to be done and only 5 weeks until the first games in Japan!