Women's Division: Canadians Close Out Centex

With all the success of Furious George at the UPA Club Championships, the men are used to Canadian dominance, but it is something entirely new to the College Women's Division. Bookending Ottawa's shocking win at the first Premier Event of the National Collegiate Ultimate Series, Trouble In Vegas, was British Columbia, dominating a steamy Saturday and windy Sunday to win Centex this past weekend.

In addition to winning the biggest tournament of the season, British Columbia also took home the $2,000 Grand Prize having advanced to the Semi-Finals in Vegas and the Finals in Palo Alto. UBC was locked in a tie in total number of points with Trouble in Vegas Runner-Up and Stanford Invite Champion UCLA, who was eliminated in the Semi-Finals at the hands of Washington. UCLA had edged Washington at The Stanford Invite in the same round by the score of 13-12. British Columbia won the tiebreak by virtue of its more recent Championship win.

UCLA, the top seed at the tournament, who advanced from an impossible pool that included Wisconsin, Stanford and Pittsburgh, stands in line for the top seed in Boulder at the UPA College Championships by virtue of two head-to-head wins over UBC, 12-8 in Vegas, and 13-9 in the Finals of The Stanford Invite. They also will receive a free bid to a Cultimate Event for their 2nd Place finish in the NCUS Standings.

Washington, the Centex Runner-Up, and a dangerous team as the season shifts toward the UPA College Series, has improved through each stage of the NCUS, making the Quarterfinals at Trouble In Vegas, Semi-Finals at The Stanford Invite, before falling to UBC 9-7 in the Finals in Austin. Those results put them in 3rd Place in the NCUS Standings and the recipients of 50 discs.

Both Washington and UBC play in the difficult Northwest Region that also includes three-time Defending National Champion Stanford, and other tough teams like Oregon and Western Washington. UCLA , meanwhile, plays in the Southwest Region with teams like National Runner-Up California-Santa Barbara and North County, leaving them with another difficult challenge just to advance to Boulder. Ottawa, who has not been seen since its win in Vegas, will be a huge question mark if they can advance out of the Metroeast Region. Even with many surprises still possible, the biggest of all might be the playing of the Canadian National Anthem at the end of a Sunday in May in Boulder.