{"id":518,"date":"2017-12-04T18:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/?p=518"},"modified":"2017-12-04T18:29:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:29:13","slug":"spirit-of-the-game-torontos-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/2017\/12\/04\/spirit-of-the-game-torontos-goat\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of the Game: Toronto’s GOAT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Canada Magazine – December 4, 2017<\/em>
\nWritten by: Alison Fischer<\/a><\/p>\n

In honour of International Spirit of the Game Day<\/a>, Ultimate Canada is shining the spotlight on three competitive teams: Traffic, GOAT and Union.<\/p>\n

In 2017, these teams were not only successful on the field, but also in the spirit rankings at elite tournaments including the Canadian National Championships (CUC) and the USA Ultimate National Championships.<\/p>\n

Want to find out how they did it? Read on!<\/p>\n

TEAM NAME: GOAT<\/strong>
\nDIVISION: OPEN<\/strong>
\nRANKING: 1st<\/sup>\u00a0CUC 2017, 14th<\/sup> USAU Championships 2017<\/strong>
\nSOTG RANKING: 1st<\/sup> CUC 2017, 2nd<\/sup> USAU Championships 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alison Fischer: Does your team have a SOTG philosophy? If so, can you please tell us a little about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cameron Harris (captain):<\/strong> We do not have a formally established a spirit of the game philosophy.\u00a0We had tried to implement the idea of changing perspectives to understand conflict from the other side, but this has not been discussed since London 2016.<\/p>\n

AF: How has your team’s approach to SOTG evolved over the past few years?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Iain Mackenzie avoids contact on a bid. Photo\/Daniel Ngai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CH:<\/strong> We are all well aware of Canada’s reputation of not being a spirited team.\u00a0Going into London, we discussed this as a group and made a conscious decision to try and shake this reputation.\u00a0Since then our team has had a lot of turnover with a influx of young players, and they have done a fantastic job bringing a more spirited attitude to our games.<\/p>\n

AF: How does SOTG come into play in tight games?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CH:<\/strong> A large part of spirit of the game is maintaining the same level of sportsmanship regardless of how close the game is.<\/p>\n

AF: Is there any player or team you admire for their approach to SOTG?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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GOAT Celebrates winning CUC 2017. Photo\/Ed Kung<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CH:<\/strong> On our team, I really admire Marijo Zlatic’s approach to the game.\u00a0Regardless of the moment in the game when a call is made, he maintains his composure and is able to have a spirited discussion with his opponent.<\/p>\n

AF: Do you have any tips for teams looking to improve their SOTG scores?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CH:<\/strong> If teams want to improve their spirit, a good piece of advice would be to make this a group discussion point.\u00a0It is a lot easier to become a more spirited team if it is a team process as opposed to individual efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Canada Magazine – December 4, 2017 Written by: Alison Fischer In honour of International Spirit of the Game Day, Ultimate Canada is shining the spotlight on three competitive teams: Traffic, GOAT and Union. In 2017, these teams were not only successful on the field, but also in the spirit rankings at elite tournaments including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[195,197,52,192,193,142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ucm.canadianultimate.com\/secure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}