Hucking off overseas...

This week, BrisbaneWomensUltimate Blog pays tribute to two of Queensland ultimate’s starlets, who are, sadly, preparing to leave us for foreign climes and ever-greater heights of academic achievement.

Photo: Tam getting a block on Italy at 2007 EUC

This Monday sees one of Sultry’s fearless leaders set off for her yearly pilgrimage to Denmark. Tam Davis is heading to Copenhagen where she will play the European tournament season, inject some of her ulti-expertise into the small but blossoming Danish Frisbee scene, party it up a bit... and possibly even find a little time to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos as part of her research into dark matter.


Tamara’s extensive experience on Australian representative and club teams, European championships as well as world-reknown international tourneys in Rimini and Kaimana, of course, pales into insignificance against the name she has carved for herself since coming to Brisbane in 2008: dual record consumption of long island iced teas at the RE and Regatta. On a side note, Tamara is pioneering sports science research into injury recovery and prevention through her innovative ‘sit in the kelvinator’ method of post-game muscle treatment.

Amy “Thurbs” Thurber -- our US import who flew into this year’s nationals under the radar and took the place by storm with a swag of MVP nods from opposing teams -- also heads homeward at the end of the month where she will undertake her PhD in biochemistry.

Thurbs arrived in Brisbane two years ago an avid basketballer with all of her hamstrings, Achilles tendons, calf muscles and quadriceps intact. All that was fated to change when lucky chance intervened in her sporting aspirations: UQ Ultimate on Wednesdays turned out to be more conveniently scheduled than b-ball training and a star was born. Something obviously clicked with Amy and Frisbee, and within weeks she had been recruited to a team for the 2008 National Championships.


Amy’s natural athleticism, unstoppable D and extensive and consistent, repeated injury record have all meant that she and ultimate are a great fit. Amy has been a key member of the UQ ultimate fraternity, as well as an invaluable addition to QLD’s nationals teams, on Minx in 2008 and Sultry this year. Whether rugged up at training, hobbling along the sideline, pushing the sultry squad with her sadistic ab-workouts or cheerily admonishing us to ‘cmon ladies, suck it up!!!’ from the wing, Amy will be sorely (hahah) missed.

Photo: Amy throwing a frisbee.