USA Ultimate has announced the 64 players – 32 men and 32 women – selected to tryout for the national team that will represent the country at the 2017 World Games. The governing body also named five alternates of each gender that will be invited if spots become available leading up to the tryout camp.
As expected, the vast majority of those selected were on one of the three US teams that competed at last summer’s World Ultimate and Guts Championships in London. Only ten players not on a 2016 WUGC roster have been invited. ((Those ten are George Stubbs, Grant Lindsley, Johnny Bansfield, Nick Lance, Noah Saul, Cree Howard, Jaclyn Verzuh, Jesse Shofner, Nancy Haskell, and Sarah Levinn.))
Coaches Alex Ghesquiere and Matty Tsang will initially select 20 athletes for their team based on a tryout to be held in Dallas over the weekend of March 11-12. From there, the roster will be trimmed to just 14 players – seven of each gender – who will travel with the team to Wroclaw, Poland in July.
Here are the players that will compete for spots on the team:
Men's Tryouts
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Women's Tryouts
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Originally published at: https://ultiworld.com/2017/01/11/2017-world-games-usa-tryout-attendees-announced/