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50th Anniversary Celebration and Ultimate Reunion

Thank you!

The Brown Ultimate Community thanks all ultimate alumni/ae, family, and friends who traveled back to Providence to join with our current teams to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our founding in 1975. More than 200 alumni/ae returned to campus to join over 50 current players to enjoy a weekend of activities October 10-12, 2025. See photos.

Photos
If you have any photos or videos from your involvement with Brown Ultimate you're willing to share, add them to one of our Google Photos albums:

Brown Ultimate 50th Celebration: for any photos from the 50th Reunion weekend.
Brown Ultimate History Contributions: for any photos from the last 50 years of Brown Ultimate.

Please take the time to identify who's in the photos by name and class year if possible.

Reunion Stories
Likewise, we'd love hear your stories and memories from the Reunion. Please email your favorites to brownultimatereunion@gmail.com. We may reach back out for followup or possible video interviews.

Reconnecting
Find old teammates in our directory where we list over 1,000 players and friends!

Other fun stuff

Get a 50th Anniversary hoodie! Or just load up on other BMo and Shiver schwag.

Like crossword puzzles? Did you miss the Ratty brunch? Here's something fun to do on your way home: a Brown frisbee-themed crossword! It was specially made for us by a friend of Bess (Shiver '21) whose puzzles have been published in the NYT. Enjoy!

Wanna know who's the best (or worst) golfer in our crowd? We have Disc Golf Tourney Results!

Supporting Brown Ultimate

Supporting the programs
Brown supports the Women's+ and Men's ultimate programs each with an Endowment fund and an Annual Spending account (4 funds total). Both programs are currently seeking donations to their endowment funds to guarantee permanent fee-free access to ultimate at all levels for all Brown community members. Click a button below to make your donation - you can split it across the Men's and Women's+ programs as you see fit:

Join our alumni/ae network
Interested in helping our Brown ultimate community continue to grow and thrive? Become an active member of our alumni/ae network.

Please log in or register as an active community member, which will let you edit your profile and privacy settings and see more details about your teammates and friends.
Make sure you're on our email newsletter lists and that we have your current email address.
Come join in our monthly Zoom meetings (usually the first Wednesday 9pm ET, details TBD).
Join our Facebook group

2025 Team

Team News

May 2025 - BMo places 5th at New England D-I College Men's Regionals; Top three teams including UMass, Northeastern and UVM continue on to Nationals. For details, read the Captain's recap.

April 2025 - Team hosts Conferences and places 3rd; moves on to Regionals May 3-4 in Portland, ME. UMass top of the class, then Brown, UVM, Tufts, and Northeastern all in the mix for three bids to Nationals.

Nov 2024 - Team edges Alumni in scrimmage then stars in halftime demonstration at Brown vs Columbia football game.

Oct 2024 - BMo places 3rd at Lobsterfest.

May 2024 - BMo wins Nationals for the fourth time in program history (Details).

BMo recognized in 2024 Ultiworld Men's D-I College Awards

Jacques Nissen - Player of the Year
Leo Gordon and Jacques Nissen - All-American First Team
Jake Smart, Jonathan Stout, and Nate Taylor - Coaches of the Year

View the 2024 Team Roster.

Nov 2023 - Team loses at cap to Alumni in scrimmage.

Team Highlights

Over Memorial Day Weekend 2024, BMo won Nationals, beating SLO in the final round, capping a dramatic march to victory for the #8 seed.

In early May 2024, BMo won NE Regionals, beating top seeded UMass 15-11; a nice upset for #3 seeded BMo.

In May 2023, BMo reached Nationals where they lost 14-15 in the quarters to eventual winner, UNC, in the closest contest in the finals round.

In May 2022, led by Callahan winner John Randolph, the team made it all the way back to Nationals where they eventually lost in the finals to UNC.

In late 2021, led by Callahan winner Azeez Adeyemi, the team came in second in the pandemic make-up tournament featuring players from the "lost years" of 2020 and 2021.

In May 2019, the last year before the pandemic, BMo won Nationals for the third time in their history, joining the earlier championship teams of 2000 and 2005.

Hellfish

Alumni News

Zip Elected to Hall of Fame

Brown's own Josh Ziperstein '05, the 2005 Callahan winner, was inducted into the Ultimate Hall of Fame in November 2024. Zip joins Billy Rodriguez '85 and Fortunat Mueller '99 to become the 3rd BMo player to be recognized for his on-field ultimate career, joining team co-founder Ron Kaufman '74 who was inducted for his early contributions to the sport. Moses Rifkin '01 was also nominated for the Hall this year.

Read more about Brown's four Hall of Famers:

Brown celebrated BMo's fourth BMo National championship on November 16, 2024 with an on-field recognition and team photo followed by a demonstration scrimmage at halftime of the Brown vs Columbia football game.

Defending National Champs Even Beat Alumni

Before the football game celebration, BMo soundly defeated the Alumni Squad in their annual matchup at a morning scrimmage at Stevenson-Pincince Field, avenging last year's narrow loss at the cap.

Links

Team Fundraising Challenge

Woo-hoo! We attained our goal of raising $35,000 towards the 2025 team budget! Thank you to all who gave so generously to support the team; your generosity guarantees that no player will need to pay-to-play to help BMo defend its Nationals title. See below for additional details on donating to BMo.

Membership Drive

Do you know someone who'd like to keep up with the team? Have them enter their contact info on this website, which is dedicated to the players, parents and friends of Brown Ultimate, so feel free to share it with any of your buddies who might be interested.

Supporting BMo

As we head into our 50th Celebration and Ultimate Reunion this October, our fundraising efforts will be focused on raising the endowment to the point where annual fund drives become unnecessary to guarantee dues-free participation in Brown Ultimate. Look to this space for details in the coming months.

Cash gifts are always welcome, even $10 can help! If you are fortunate enough to be in a position to consider a significant gift to the program, consider contacting the folks at the Brown Office of Planned Giving and Philanthropic Strategies, where you can talk to the experts about estate planning, charitable trusts, and other similar arrangements that offer immediate benefits to the ultimate program even without any cash outlay on your part today. Giving can be as easy as naming BMo as a beneficiary on your IRA - Brown may not get any money for decades, but the ultimate team will benefit tomorrow.

Brown University Sports Foundation

Gifts to the Brown University Sports Foundation (BUSF) help provide immediate-use support to the ultimate program that allows our teams to thrive. When you make a current-use gift, you're helping this year's team get to Nationals. While Brown stepped up its funding of the program in recent years, BMo still depends on money coming from BUSF to help cover the cost of travel, coaching, equipment, and access to training staff.

Maintaining a Nationals-caliber ultimate team costs a lot of money. Over the past few years, we have managed to raise $35,000 or more each season to make up for the team's budget shortfall and enabled players to participate without team dues. Money goes to coaching, training staff, travel, equipment and other tournament costs.

Here's how:

Visit the BUSF Club Sports giving page
"Select a Fund" should already be selected and you should see this:
Choose "Support Club & Intramural Sports" from the drop-down under "What would like to support?"
Choose "Club Ultimate Frisbee (Men's and Open)" from the drop-down under "I'd like to give to"
Fill in the amount and you're good to go. Thanks!

Franz Fund

Did you know that Brown Ultimate has its own endowment fund named after Michael Franz '03? As an endowment, its funds go to help both this year's players as well as future generations. Keep in mind that you can actively promote equity and diversity in our sport by reducing or eliminating the need for player fees, which can be as much as $1,000 per player per year and may limit who can play for BMo.