Team Name: Pike
City/State: New Jersey
Website: http://www.pikeultimate.com

Players:
1 – Jonathan Tamari, 5’7”
2 – Ben Kleaveland, 6’1”
3 – Dusty Rhodes, 5’9”
4 – Steve O’Lare, 6’2”
5 – Dan Heckman, 5’11”
6 – Mike Jaeger, 5’11”
7 – Jude Travers-Frazier, 6’1”
8 – Dave Williams, 6’1”
9 – Walt Kalicki, 6’0”
10 – Ryan Todd, 5’6”
11 – Matt Dufort, 6’2”
12 – Dan Sage, 6’1”
13 – Brian Lo, 5’10”
14 – Ian McClellan, 5’11”
15 – Harrison Treegoob, 5’10”
16 – Derek Sasaki-Scanlon, 5’11”
17 – Dennis Hu, 5’8”
19 – Joe Spies, 5’11”
22 – Mike Jackson, 5’11”
23 – Jim Regetz, 5’9”
24 – Ken Taga, 5’9”
25 – Trey Katzenbach, 6’1”
27 – Seth Vatsky, 5’8”
33 – Christopher Klitgord, 6’0”
88 – Bailey Russel, 6’0”
89 – J Dono, 5’10”
98 – David Hollander, 5’10”


Team History:
Although New Jersey has served as an important setting in the history of ultimate, its contribution to the national club scene was long hindered by the lack of a true urban center. After years of fielding hungry teams but failing to advance beyond Regionals, a core group of players from Havoc (NJ) combined with Black & Gold (Pittsburgh, PA) in 2000, seeking to forge an elite team. Despite falling short of Nationals, the team’s performance yielded promising signs of things to come. Re-named Pike in 2001, the team retained a core group of Pittsburgh players but reverted to a largely NJ-based roster. Its 4th-place finish at Regionals was a new high-water mark for this generation of players. In 2002, Pike welcomed a group of talented players from Philadelphia along with several Jersey boys returning to their roots. This team took another step forward by securing the third Mid-Atlantic bid to Nationals, bridging a 20-year gap with the NJ teams that competed for titles in the early 1980’s. Entering as the 15th seed in its first Nationals appearance, Pike stormed its way to a 10th place finish. After an off-season marked by numerous retirements and relocations, Pike reloaded for 2003 by infusing the roster with considerable new talent from NJ and its metropolitan neighbors to the north (NYC) and south (Philly). After winning Henlopen and Choptank, the team took 2nd place in the Mid-Atlantic region this fall, and arrives in Sarasota hungrier than ever for victory.