E-Mail: leamingtonlemmings@gmail.com
Practice - Monday and Thursday Evenings
The Leamington Lemmings are coached by fully qualified UK Ultimate Association coaches.
Summer Practice - Monday and Thursday Evenings
Summer practice will be held Monday and Thursday evenings at the Newbold Comyn sports pitches.
Practice will start at 6:30pm, and will last around two hours, followed by a beer in the local pub.
You will need to bring boots, water, discs if you have them, and a white and a black top.
All welcome, all abilities.
(If you're travelling a long way, or coming for the first time, email leamingtonlemmings@gmail.com to confirm beforehand)
Latest News...
UKUA Open Tour 2008
The Leamington Lemmings are entering a team into the UKUA Open Tour 2008.
All are welcome, boys and girls, all abilities.
Dates are...
15/16th Mar - Tour 0 - Wimbledon
5th/6th Apr - Tour 1 - Bristol
26th/27th Apr - Tour 2 - Cardiff
10th/11th May - Tour 3 - Mansfield
6th/7th Sept - Nationals - Kingston
...email lemmingsopen@gmail.com if you're interested.
Lemmings Host An Indoor Tournament - 2008 Lemmings Luau
The Lemmings hosted an indoor tourney at the St Nicholas Park sport centre in Warwick, with a Hawaiian theme! Loads of teams showed up and played really well, and much fun was had by all! Photos from the weekend are here: http://www.leamingtonlemmings.fpic.co.uk Saturday Results:
Winners: Gummi Bears
Plate Winners: Leamington Lemmings
Spirit Winners: Lady Lemmings
Sunday Results:
Winners: Danger! High Voltage
Plate Winners: Warwick Bears
Spirit Winners: Evolution
Lemmings Finish 7th at Regionals
Lemmings went to Manchester (26/27 Jan) to compete in the Northern Division of Club Open Indoor Regionals. The team narrowly missed out on qualifying for the Nationals (top 5 went through) and finished in a highly respectable 7th place (out of 16).
Lemmings Win Spirit (Again!)
At the Warwick Indoors Tourney on the 5th and 6th January, the Leamington Lemmings won the Spirit award, playing some great Ultimate along the way.
Lemmings Finish 8th and 12th at Great Barr Crawl
Taking two teams to Birmingham Indoors, we managed to get the Lemmings placed 12th (out of 24 teams) and the Lemurs 8th, beating Basic and Kamaya Maya along the way. A great weekend for both teams.
Lemmings Win Spirit!
The Leamington Lemmings won the Spirit Award at Brum Warm-up, and moved up two seeds on their ranking.
Squad: Lucas, Jenny, Dirk, Si, Corina, Nicky, Mike, Pete, Ian, Lizzy, Thrash, Paul.
Lemmings Yahoo Group
All updates, news, tournament invitations, practice times and details of socials will be sent out on the yahoo mailer, but sure to sign up to it if you haven't already.
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/leamingtonlemmings/
2008 Lemmings Kit
Lemmings Kit available to purchase.
Click the link on the right hand side.
(Lemmings at Glastonbury Tournament 2007)
Club History
Back in September
of 2006 a very handsome chap* called Lucas got bored of playing
football. It wasn't because he was rubbish, in fact he was destined for
greatness, he just didn't like the mentality of his fellow sportsmen. He had gone to two Ultimate
Frisbee practice sessions whilst at Cardiff University,
but for some reason stopped. So in the autumn of 2006, rather than
kicking a ball around, he dragged a few of his work colleagues to
Victoria Park in Leamington Spa, and they threw a Frisbee between
themselves. Jumpers and car-keys were used to mark out endzones.
A yahoo mailer
group was established, and the 'club' (if you could call it that!) was
registered on the UKUA website. Lucas was faced with an online
registration form with the field "team name" to be completed. He only
knew of one other Frisbee team, the Warwick Bears, so he hastily
plumped for the name the Leamington Lemmings (somewhat more modest than
the Bears he thought). One by one, people started to discover the
Leamington Lemmings, including the local cricket team of the same name
(Lucas was unaware of them, until he received a hostile email from a
club member!). It was Yan Pugh-Jones who was the first non-work
colleague at practice, and the only one who actually knew the rules!
Attendance at
'training' sessions, which involved doing our best to chuck a disc
between ourselves, starting to pick up, but was promptly halted by the
on-set of winter - playing Frisbee in the dark is pretty damn hard. The
Lemmings went into hibernation, and then early summer of 2007, Lucas
yet again set about getting more Lemmings throwing pieces of plastic to
each other. More and more people started attending, and the Lemmings
got their very first website!
Lucas spent his
lunchtimes designing a super sexy kit for the Lemmings, and Mrs. Disco and Mr Duncan (a friendly concept artist at Blitz Games) helped out with a cartoon sketch of a Lemming to add to the logo. Their
first ever tournament was that summer in Glastonbury, Somerset - and suddenly everyone was hooked on Ultimate!
Since then the
club has gone from strength to strength. In February of 2008 the
Leamington Lemmings Ladies entered their first tournament, and the club
hosted their first ever tournament, the Lemmings Luau. They will be
entering both Open and Mixed Tours in the 2008 season, and aim to have
both Junior and Women's teams for the following season.
*shurely shome mishtake? ed.
Team Contact:
email: leamingtonlemmings@gmail.com
There were  Lemmings jumping off a cliff...
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