Nation,
The first Ottawa Spring Shootout took place this weekend. The picture gallery is available here, with special thanks to Rene Champagne for his time and ability to shoot photos in the dome.
The goal of this tournament was very simple: Have an open indoor tourney in mid February that brings the best open and college in Ontario and Quebec together. It's good for relations between cities, it's good for college guys to experience, and it should be a kick in the proverbial pants for those of us who need to realize more off season work is needed. 3 hours of sub on the fly at an open level pace of play is definitely a workout in February.
Teams were split up with the hopes of being fair and also to take advantage of existing rivalries. Luckily, the general consensus is that these goals were realized. The final time slot featured an all star game with pre selected "stars" and players who played their way into the tourney (MVPs of their round robin team).
Team three, despite trailing in the midway point in all of their games, managed to go undefeated and win the tournament. The team roster was as follows:
| Jeff | Lindquist |
| Colin | Green |
| Mike | Davidson |
| Dave | Brook |
| Dave | Hennigar |
| Brent | Gerhart |
| Tim | Nardy |
| Jason | Grant |
| Ahmed | El Sidani |
| Sean | Harkins |
| Rahil | Suleman |
| Steven | Trainor |
One player was selected as an all star from each team an given a swank new VC jersey compliments of tournament sponsor VC Ultimate. These players are:
- Peter Hook
- Dave Hennigar
- Seth Sazent
- Aaron Kucherawy
The all star game was played out to much fanfare, with a very large number of females present to encourage the players and direct them to the after party at Barrymores. Hopefully we help raise some much needed funds for the Ottawa lady Gee Gees UPA run this spring.All Star teams were as follows:
| All Star Team 1 | |
| Derek | Alexander |
| Jamie | Craig |
| Billy | Alexander |
| Ken | Alexander |
| Scott | Westwell |
| Brent | Gerhart |
| Rey | Arteaga |
| Sean | Harkins |
| Peter | Hook |
| Dave | Hennigar |
| Joel | Bellavance |
| All Star Team 2 | |
| Colin | Green |
| Jeff | Linquist |
| Luke | Phelan |
| Mike | Wronski |
| Paul | Cobb |
| Marc | Pepin |
| Rahil | Suleman |
| Shaw | Dungate |
| Seth | Sezant |
Aaron Kucherawy
Finally, Kevin Korecki and I would like to thank our sponsors for the tournament:
VC Ultimate
Red Bull
We look forward to seeing everyone at the event next year!
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