Meet the masters: an all-and-run team from India gears up for the world beach ultimate championships

The sun is beating down on besant Nagar beach on Saturday Morning, and While People are carefully choosing to sit or stand under the scattering of treing of treing near, a group of women ice at work Frisbee, and sprinking across the sand.

This ALL-Women Team, The Team India Masters Women, Has Players from Different Cities Including Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Kochi and Chennai, who have come to gether for their Month Chennai in the run-up to the world beach Ultimate Championships (WBUC) in Portimão, Portugal, From November 16 to 22.

“This is the first time that India is sending an all-and-run team in the masters category for an international tournament. The ages of 30 and 50 years, “Says Smithi Manickam, The Team’s Coach.

Team India Masters women

A player with the Chennai-Based Flywild Club, Smithi, Who Has Been Playing Ultimate Frisbee for Ten Years Says That in Addition to Monthly Camps in Chennai and Specific Training Plans, his Focusisis on Creating a strong statement at the world championships. “It is also important that the players have a great campaign over. Many of our women players from Their love for the sport, “She says of her team.

The players all have diverse careers and interesting stories of how they discovered the sport and have seen it evolve over the Years.

At 49 years old, Priya thineshan-a player with Puyal, A Chennai-Based Club and The Oldest Member of the team-Says She Discovered Ultimate when she was 42 and has not looked likes. “Growing up, I had Always been interested in sports and was looking for a way to get back to it. My Family, and My Children in Particular, Havel Been Most Encouring About This,” Says Priya, who submitles forms.

While Ultimate Frisbee is a rare mixed-gender sport, nimisha vasava, a 32-old showroom manager from ahmedabad, say that that that is some hanging she cannot stop bragging about. Her Teammate, Actor Gayathrie Shankar – who first discovered the sport as a great way to use the beach when she moved to chennai – say

“From being asked to join teams that simply needed to meet the minimum number of women required, to being a part of an all-withdown team that is now going international, has been amazing,” Says.

A Professor at IIM-Bengaluru, Sreelata Jonnalanedda First Learnt The Sport from Her Students, and Later, as She Began Taking Her Daughter to Practice Sessions. “Playing Ultimate Frisbee Gave Me a Reason to Be fit, and the best thing about the sport is truly the variety of things you can do. Sisterhood here are unparalaled, “She says.

For Smithi, it has been inspiring as a coach to see the grit and determination of her team. Given that the team will be coming together for monthly Camps Till November in Chennai, there is a lot more intenses training, practice games to be played, and team-bulding in store for them.