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Ultimate Frisbee Whizzes into the Classroom
“I want you all to pay attention to these guys,” instructs Ivra Jackson, the physical education teacher at Oberlin’s Langston Middle School, before turning her class over to members of the College’s Preying Manti and Flying Horsecows ultimate frisbee teams.
Her class is learning the game for the first time, and Jackson expects full respect for the new instructors. It doesn’t take long. As Jackson slides into the background, the Obies deliver brief instructions on throwing and catching; soon the entire gym is a blur of wobbling, whizzing discs.
It was last fall when Oberlin’s frisbee teams first approached the local schools with a proposal to teach the basics of ultimate. They devised a curriculum that tested so successfully in four high school physical education classes that they expanded into the middle school as well. “The response we received at Langston was incredible,” says program coordinator Wilson Skinner ’06. “At first we received unsure glances and nervous questions, but their timidness soon melted away. In the end, six of us had taught the game to half the students in the middle school.”
Jackson persuaded the principal to incorporate ultimate into the yearly physical education curriculum, which in turn inspired the Manti and Horsecows to raise funds for 25 frisbees and cones.
“Working with the Langston students was a great opportunity to step outside the Oberlin College bubble and become part of the community,” says Manti Captain Carmen Welton ’06.
“My hope is that this will act as a catalyst, not only for the sport of ultimate, but also as a positive model for the productive involvement of Oberlin students in our adopted community,” adds Wilson.
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This is why I love Oberlin.
Right now nervousness is overtaking my whole life. I can't concentrate on anything but how nervous I am that I'll have huge roommate problemos and I'll just bungle up life and everything everything everything else. But, due to things like this, and my overall desire to get more kids I know to apply to Oberlin, I feel deep deep deep in my soul that I'll really be happy there. Despite everything else. I just feel like Oberlin's been out there waiting. Oberlin wasn't made for me, but I feel like it was - or I was made for Oberlin. I just feel like it will really fit.
“I want you all to pay attention to these guys,” instructs Ivra Jackson, the physical education teacher at Oberlin’s Langston Middle School, before turning her class over to members of the College’s Preying Manti and Flying Horsecows ultimate frisbee teams.
Her class is learning the game for the first time, and Jackson expects full respect for the new instructors. It doesn’t take long. As Jackson slides into the background, the Obies deliver brief instructions on throwing and catching; soon the entire gym is a blur of wobbling, whizzing discs.
It was last fall when Oberlin’s frisbee teams first approached the local schools with a proposal to teach the basics of ultimate. They devised a curriculum that tested so successfully in four high school physical education classes that they expanded into the middle school as well. “The response we received at Langston was incredible,” says program coordinator Wilson Skinner ’06. “At first we received unsure glances and nervous questions, but their timidness soon melted away. In the end, six of us had taught the game to half the students in the middle school.”
Jackson persuaded the principal to incorporate ultimate into the yearly physical education curriculum, which in turn inspired the Manti and Horsecows to raise funds for 25 frisbees and cones.
“Working with the Langston students was a great opportunity to step outside the Oberlin College bubble and become part of the community,” says Manti Captain Carmen Welton ’06.
“My hope is that this will act as a catalyst, not only for the sport of ultimate, but also as a positive model for the productive involvement of Oberlin students in our adopted community,” adds Wilson.
link
This is why I love Oberlin.
Right now nervousness is overtaking my whole life. I can't concentrate on anything but how nervous I am that I'll have huge roommate problemos and I'll just bungle up life and everything everything everything else. But, due to things like this, and my overall desire to get more kids I know to apply to Oberlin, I feel deep deep deep in my soul that I'll really be happy there. Despite everything else. I just feel like Oberlin's been out there waiting. Oberlin wasn't made for me, but I feel like it was - or I was made for Oberlin. I just feel like it will really fit.