Team Name: Kaze
City/State: Chicago IL

Players:
1 - Tun Bhothinard, 5' 11"
2 - Mina Kim, 5' 3"
3 - Leo Wang, 5' 10"
4 - Carlo Blanchet-Ruth, 5' 10"
5 - Kate Kingery, 5' 7"
6 - Amy Converse, 5' 5"
7 - Jeff Bacote, 5' 5"
8 - Craig Moore, 6' 2"
9 - Jason Miller, 5' 10"
11 - Leah Gesoff, 5' 4"
12 - Anjali Thawani, 5' 1"
13 - Alvin Wang, 6' 5"
21 - Peggy Wang, 5' 2"
23 - Sally Mimms, 5' 7"
25 - Eric Abando, 5' 8"
27 - Remy Schor, 5' 6"
28 - Margie Parkis, 5' 6"
30 - Bryan King, 6' 2"
32 - Kevin Cho, 5' 7"
33 - Tony Blanchet-Ruth, 5' 10"
45 - Rick Russell, 6' 0"
80 - Becca Scharffe, 5' 3"
88 - Leo K. Wang, 6' 4"


Team History:
Kaze (Kah-Zay) was born in the summer of 2002 as a Chicago-based descendant of the offseason ensemble Tea and Strumpets. Our first season was hindered by our late creation and after winning Sectionals we stalled at Regionals to place 5th. Disappointed but buttressed by memories of good times at Dairy Queen, we resolved to return for another go round.
This year we came out early, found great fields and recruited a lot of new talent with the intention of becoming a squad worthy of a Nationals spot. Things were sketchy until around August when our greatly revised offense and tough defense started to make us look like a team; we still lost that second day at Cooler but we invented our team drink, the Mantonio (Root Beer+Vanilla Stoli), so the weekend was a success. Thereafter we sent a small squad of 10 players to Labor Day in Santa Cruz and had a heck of a time with some great West Coast teams, going 2-5 on the weekend but getting a damn good reality check of what we could expect to see outside of our region.
Since coming home we made semis at Tune-Up, won Sectionals, watched a lot of baseball and finished second at Regionals. Having our emotions toyed with once again by the Cubs has left us surly and prone to wild mood swings. We’re looking forward to the welcome forgetfulness of warm sun, friendly plastic and sweet sweet vodka in Sarasota.