‘Frisbee is Life’: Inside the Championship-Winning Ultimate Frisbee Community at UNC

Posted Jun 15, 2022
Andrew Li was a player on one of the most successful teams on the UNC campus: Darkside, the Carolina men’s ultimate frisbee team. Darkside and the UNC women’s team, Pleiades, did something that has never been done in the history of college ultimate: they each won national championships at the same tournament, and then they did it again. (Chapelboro.com)

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