Testimonials

Not convinced?  Here’s what players around the nation, from our oldest friends to people we’ve never met in person, have to say about our work:

“Michelle has helped bring college tournament revenue back to college teams, with the focus being on providing an overall awesome experience for players on and off the field. College Centex is THE BEST facilitated regular season college tournament. Food, water, and trainers are readily available to everyone and information on the tournament is easy to find and understand. During the tournament, Michelle can be seen as a blur running around making sure everyone has what they need and continuously updating score reporter.  Michelle has been a large part of the movement to expand women’s college ultimate; providing more teams the opportunity to compete in “big” tournaments. She has also compiled information on how to start, lead, teach, and run ultimate teams from a number of different sources that she rallied together.”
– Carolyn Finney, current UCSB Burning Skirts captain and San Diego Knock Out! player (has known Michelle since 2006)

“Midwest Throwdown is the absolutely best run, most fun, and most inspiring tourney that I have ever been to.  You are all so kick-ass.  Please share your tricks with other TDs.  Please.”
– Midwest Throwdown Skills Clinic attendee

“Over the last year, Michelle has made it possible for college programs to once again run their own well organized tournaments– Throwdown, Pres Day and Centex.  These tournaments raise money for women’s college programs around the nation which is essential to the growth of the sport.  Centex is by far my favorite pre-series tournament– great fields, awesome BBQ, fun team social, organized score reporting, free housing, high level ultimate and more women’s teams than any college tourney nationwide.  You would be crazy to miss out on any of these tourneys.”
– Andrea Romano, former UCSB and Santa Barbara Lady Condors captain, Callahan nominee, and All-Region selection, current Bay Area Zeitgeist player (went to high school with Michelle / has known Michelle for a full decade)

“Three tournaments in 2009 particularly demonstrated the commitment and investment of College Women’s players across the country: Pres Day, Throwdown, and Centex. All three events were well-organized with great facilities, directions, and, most importantly, food (here I’m remembering the 2 free large pizzas that Michelle delivered to our sidelines after our last game at Throwdown).  The match-ups were fun and the schedules made sense and the TDs made it possible for us to go to all the tournaments by arranging free housing with players and supporters (way more fun than sterile, expensive hotel rooms) (Lorig’s house in Austin is bomb).  And it was really exciting to be at tournaments that were run BY women’s players, exclusively FOR women’s players.  Don’t get me wrong, and any of my teammates will back me up on this: I am unashamedly boy-crazy and love hanging out with guys at tournaments.  But after 4 years in the sport I got real sick of the men’s quarterfinal drawing five times the crowd of the women’s final, even if the men’s game was a chippy, screaming mess.  Centex and Throwdown reminded us that we can play hard, classy Ultimate and then bust moves for each other on the dance stage after the games. These events were focused on SOtG at every level: between individual players, between teams, and within the Ultimate community as a whole. I’m reluctant to say that that was the MOST important aspect of these tournaments, because we also played a shit-ton of kickass Ultimate, but that was what made them such memorable and positive experiences for our team.”
– Julia Busiek, former Carleton College captain and All-Region selection (has known Michelle since 2008)

“Participating in Philly Fusion and seeing those 40 women’s teams served as a powerful reminder that women’s Ultimate as a whole is strong and growing… With the addition of the skills clinics, this tournament provided an ideal combination of competition and learning for all the members of our team, both new and old, also providing some interaction between the club and college divisions.  Our new players had not only the luxury of some recovery time on the sideline (still unbelievable to the seniors!) but also the ability to be impressed by the high caliber of play in the club divisions, watching teams that many of our players aspire to play for post-graduation. Tournaments like Philly Fusion provide the best of both worlds for seasoned vets and for new players who are just learning how great the sport is, benefiting players of all levels.  I would like to thank Philly Fusion’s organizers for putting together a successful tournament of such magnitude, especially on behalf of developing women’s college programs like mine.”
– Meredith Schuessler, Bucknell University captain

“In my four years of competitive ultimate at the University of Kansas and my two years in the club scene, I firmly believe that Midwest Throwdown 2009 and Centex 2009 (tournament director—Michelle Ng) have been the highest quality tournaments I’ve attended. Michelle was awesome to work with—I always had up-to-date information about the tournament progression from the day it was announced to the results and wrap-up after the tournament had concluded. Any captain or team President can agree with me that communication between tournament staff and participants is vital.  Beyond that, there is so much about the tournaments that really makes for a great experience—the fields are the best around and there are always back-ups, the competition level is typically higher but with a good bracket schedule to give teams the best opportunities possible to really make the weekend count, and the TD/host team have gone out of their way to help make our trip affordable with housing and/or travel discounts when possible. Tournament “givens” like food, water, and trainers are provided, but then there plenty of fun “extras” such as the captains gift bags at Centex and the Ultivillage DVD. Both tournaments had a good number of sponsors to donate to the tournament and the experience, and the merchandise is always pretty hot. All of this is awesome, but I also really valued these tournaments because I felt like they were truly promoting our sport in a great light at both the local and national level. These tournaments are fun too—that’s what it’s all about after all. Bids to these tournaments are worth fighting for. And if you’re going to Centex in 2010, get ready to get your dance on!”
– Tasha Parman, former University of Kansas captain and All-Region selection, current RevoLOUtion captain