<p>Now I am not saying that all ultimate frisbee players aren't athletes, that's stupid. There are definitely very athletic kids that play. </p>
<p>What I mean is if I just told you someone was good at ultimate frisbee, and that's all you knew, would you consider them an athlete? For example, if I said someone was good at soccer or football or something like that then you would say they are an athlete.</p>
<p>If they’re good/play on a team? Absolutely. It’s actually quite a taxing sport. </p>
<p>Someone just playing in the park for kicks? No. Just as I wouldn’t call someone kicking around a soccer ball an athlete.</p>
<p>Yes, definitely. I play Ultimate frisbee, and if you actually participate it’s straight sprinting with quick turnarounds for whenever the frisbee changes hands.</p>
<p>That said, I must admit that my team does have some people who just show up b/c their boyfriend/girlfriend is on the team; those people just sort of stand on the field in order to hang out during our water breaks…</p>
<p>I would. Most of the people I know who play ultimate compete nationally.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t… not college athletes anyway. I used to play on my college’s club team before this semester, but now I’m focusing on school and career paths; I might play in the spring, when it really counts. Ultimate is a sport that’s really easy to pick up on. Any rookie that was a good athlete in high school could pick up on ultimate in a couple of weeks and be a pretty competitive player. That’s just from my perspective. Most college ultimate players never really played ultimate competitively in high school.</p>
<p>But if you’re a player in a school like Carleton, it’s a different story. As far as I know, that school’s commitment is ultimate. They even do recruiting out of high schools, and their ‘unofficial B team’ made the national tournament (top 20 teams) 2 years ago.</p>
<p>IMO, ultimate is a sport that’s not dependent on your talents so much as your commitment to the sport and to the team.</p>