The Watertown Ultimate Frisbee League was created in the summer of 2005 by Dane Street, a school teacher and coach in Watertown CT. At the time there was a growing interest in the sport and a great demand by his students at the time for a more formal league in which to play. The result was the WUFL.
Thanks to the extreme generosity of the Kuslis family, Street and Mykal Kuslis transformed a hay field into a makeshift playing field. Not quite regulation size, not quite level, and full of dangerous terrain, the original field on Barnes Road in Watertown was the home to the first year and a half of the WUFL.
There were just four teams during the first season (The Founding Fathers, Great Danes, Flying Beers, and Blind Beagles) and they played each other A LOT during the first summer. The 40 or so members of the league learned the basics and began to improve. The very first championship saw the Founding Fathers top the Great Danes.
In the second year the league went to a two-session format. Still at the Kuslis farm during the first session and with another team in the mix (Lozzagurth . . . many other names . . . Boys 2 Men), the league continued to grow as word spread. An additional hay field housed the second championship, with the result the same as the first . . . the Fathers topped the Danes, and a dynasty was born.
With the addition of Off A Hippo (now Wet?) and Watertown United (now Ed Nevins Forever) in the second session of 2006, WUFL was simply too big for the farm and moved to the fields at Veterans' Park. The league topped 100 people for the first time and any doubt about the health of the league vanished. The fields at Veterans' treated the Fathers just fine, as they extended their title streak to three, this time defeating Miss Veronica Vaughn in the title match.
Last year (2007) was the biggest and best yet for the Watertown Ultimate Frisbee League as the number of teams grew to 10 for both session one and session two. The Blind Beagles took a hiatus during session one while Team Secore, Franco's Fury, the Decepticons, and Ven Conmigo Tortuga all joined the league. Team Secore made the most of their brief stay in the league, capturing the session one title over the Great Danes.
After Secore's disappearing act, the session two title was up for grabs. The Blind Beagles returned to the league and the 10 teams battled for ultimate supremacy for six weeks. In the end just one was left standing . . . William Wallace. They topped the Founding Fathers for their first WUFL title.
ON TO THIS YEAR!!
After an exciting first session that culminated with some great tournament games and a 4th title for the Founding Fathers (runners-up Flying Beers), the second session saw the expansion of the WUFL to an unprecedented 13 teams!!
With some of the best ultimate to date in the league and great competitions throughout the ability levels, the second session of '08 was by far the best yet for the league. The Fathers pulled off the double, finishing undefeated during the regular season and winning the tournament as well, with Boys 2 Men the runners-up.
Stay tuned for next season, when the WUFL will enter its FIFTH YEAR!!!
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