Students and alumni joined together to celebrate the community found in Frisbee. Ultimate Frisbee alumni reunited on campus for a disc-throwing celebration for their 15year anniversary. HU Apocalypse, founded in 2003, hosted several events over homecoming weekend that were attended by current members and alumni. The events, which took place from Friday, Oct. 19 through Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018, included traditional Front Lawn throwing, late-night scrimmages between members and alumni, pick-up games and a catered dinner. Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and International StudiesDr. Whitaker Jordan was a charter member of HU Apocalypse as a student and was the main organizer for the events for the reunion on homecoming weekend. He remained involved with the team over many years and said that a main aspect of the group was the community. "The bonds that are made are very strong and definitely last throughout college and beyond " Jordan said. "They're deep, and it's just great friendships that are established, and many rimes those relationships that are established with the team [develop] somuch that it becomes a family." Junior Wright Herndon, one of the co-captains of the 2018 ream, said that this same type of community was what drew him into Apocalypse when he wa a freshman. Herndon joined the team after seeing them throw Frisbees on the Front Lawn and learned the significance of the tradition during his time on the team. "It's tradition for us to always go out to the Front Lawn and throw," Herndon said. "It's like a community thing for whenever you have anything going on or you just want to have some fun or get away from whatever you're doing." Herndon said that the Frisbee ream became a home for many people who did not want to participate in other sports but were athletic and looking for a community. "It was great to be able to do something that wasn't just this typical club thing or like hanging out with friends," alumnus Jorden Sims, former member of HU Apocalypse, said. "It's like we're working towards something else. I would try to be an influence in the ultimate community, which was already just a really fun place, but like trying to carry Jesus into it. Similarto like how clubs function, but it's a lot more close-knit sinceit's a smaller group of guys." story by Macy McClung 261 I ATHLETICS
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