Team Name: Empire
City/State: New York, New York
Coaches: Sanjeev Khanna (Captain)

Players:
0 - Blake Baxter
1 - Eddie Stone
2 - Josh Polur
3 - Kenny Silver
5 - Charley Riggs
7 - Simon Eisinger
8 - Doug Propp
9 - Alex Milenkovic
10 - Neal Perchuk
11 - Jonathan Stein
13 - Jug Chokshi
14 - Mark Schultz
17 - Jason Lucero
22 - Dave Chaiken
23 - Krishna Finkenberg
25 - Jeff Urell
27 - Conrad Aamodt
30 - Peter Konigsberg
33 – Sanjeev Khanna
34 - Danny Klotz
35 - William Harris
42 - John Garb
44 - Frank Valenti
45 - Derek Chodkiewicz
46 - Russ Bogin
55 - Mark Hatley
69 - Steve Golinski
73 - Eric Dorsch
77 - Linwood Lewis
79 - Joe Hunt
88 - Scott Bolden
91 - Tony Rubano
99 - Bill Baer


Team History:
Empire is simply the latest installment of New York Masters, who have been attending Nationals since the mid 90s as Squash, Yesss! (combo NY/Boston – only in ultimate, never in baseball!), Cigar, Pro-State and Slow Children. While many of the old guard have simply grown older, they continue to come out and teach the “kids” how to smoke ‘em, both on and off the field. There are several new faces this year and for most of them, it will be their first Nationals experience. We’re carrying a big squad in ‘03, but there are still many more who wanted to join us and couldn’t, like Sas Peters, Skip Kuhn, Matt Jefferson, Paul Ferrari, Wu Jinn Ho, Mike Winser, and Blake Baxter, to name a few.

We’re particularly proud to see the level of competition in Masters continue to rise, as we had a very competitive Regionals against formidable foes Red Tide and Ottawa, and the wire tells us this will be an extremely well-contested Nationals as well!

Like birds on our annual migration south, we look forward to sunny Sarasota. We also look forward to some spirited play, and now that KWA are back in the fold, we’re really looking forward to the shot-guns!