The 2012 Bilkent Goats Outdoor Season opens this Friday, March 14th, at 8:00 at the East Campus Turf Field.

Note: this is not the East Campus Turf Field.

Player Bio and Interview: Ilker Demirci

Nicknames: none
Year of birth: 1989 
Height: 5'8''
Jersey Number: #1/#89
Started playing Ultimate in: 2008            
Joined Goats in: 2008

How?: When I started college,I joined an American Football team. After about two months I had a back injury and I felt disappointed, unhappy.Then, one of my closest friends, Hüseyin (Camalan) took me to the ultimate practice and I loved the game.
Layouts, deep cuts are the best things in this game.


What were your best and worst moments in the team?
Best moment: The moment that we got the title in our team’s second year. Most of the good players had gone and  we didn’t think we were good enough to win. We were group of rookies but we won somehow. That’s why that championship is the most valuable one for me.


Worst moment: This year (When I was in Germany for Exchange), when I learned that Goats lost the title. I only wanted to drop the phone.Not being able to help friends was really painful.

31/07 Sunday Practice: It's about quality and not quantity

The attendance for the Sunday practice (4 healthy, 1 injured players) could have proven to be detrimental for the practice, but one must not forget that this is the Goats! Even though we didn't run a lot, we still had our wounded take nice photos of us so that we could have new facebook profile pictures! Throwing, jumping and lay-out exercises involved.

 Some nice air battles indeed

 To ultimate or not to ultimate

 Here is our injured photographer Şerife (Gündoğan), thanks to whom those moments were eternalized

Goats looking to go to Europe in 2012

The Goats, having played for 3 years in local tournaments now are seeking to get some international Ultimate experience! The question is not whether to go, but where/when to go. Here are some well-known Ultimate tournaments in Europe that we might consider playing in:

Banana Cup in Czech Republic: Some of the participants this year include the college champions in Germany, the junior German National Teams and Austrian National Team. Top-level competition for a really cheap price, and possibly one of the best trophies one can ever see!

The Four Piglets (a.k.a Marburg): Played outdoors on 4-4, this tournament's not to be underestimated! Lots of top-level players in Germany attend this tournament. Coming up with a smart strategy on the smaller field may prove more important than just raw power!

Paganello in Rimini: Being the biggest Beach Ultimate tournament and one of the biggest Ultimate events in the World, Paganello is also known to be a very expensive, week-long tournament in April. While it is perhaps not the best option for next year, it could be an interesting one to think about in the forthcoming years.

UUT Amsterdam: While only open to students this year, UUT may be an option if they change this rule.

Talampaya in Geneva: A 20-30 club team tournament that may prove to be a very competitive event. Takes place in mid-June.

Heidees Cup in Heidelberg: Very nice light-mixed (5 men, 2 women on the line) tournament in a very nice city that takes place in mid-June. The Heidees also happen to be teams of veteran player İlker (Demirci) and our guest player David Hermann in the İTÜ Tournament in 2011.

Windmill Windup: With its name already familiar to many in Turkey because of Turkish National-ish Team's participation this year, Windmill Windup is a possible option with teams from many levels.

Player Bio and Interview: Garrett Hubing

Nicknames: none
Year of birth: 1984
Height: 5'10''
Jersey Number: #12
Started playing Ultimate in: 2003
Joined Goats in: 2010


How?: The first ultimate I played was with UC Berkeley's B-team, in California. I moved to Germany a year later, and played for around 7 years with a really nice team in Göttingen. When I decided to move to Ankara last year, I thought it might be the end of my frisbee career. I was extremely happy to find that there was already a vibrant ultimate community at Bilkent (my hat goes off to the team's founders). I felt very welcome here from the very first day I came to practice, and now that I've been here for a year, the team really feels like a second family.


What were your best and worst moments in the team?
Best moment(s):I really enjoyed playing a couple of final games with the Goats this year. Someone came up to me after one of those games and said something along the lines of "that was the most intense game of ultimate there has ever been in Turkey". I think it's fantastic that I get to be part of the rise of Turkish ultimate, in terms of level of play, popularity, etc.

Player Bio and Interview: Cem Türkeri

Nicknames: Antuan 
Year of birth: 1987
Height: 6' 3"
Jersey Number: #3
Started winning by playing Ultimate in: 2010
Joined Goats in: 2010

How?: I was talking about sports with my English speaking teacher in prep school and she told me about ultimate frisbee. Thanks to my teacher, I wondered what this sport was about and I participated in practices.Since that day, I play ultimate :)

Player Bio and Interview: Ahmet Arkın

Nicknames: never had one
Year of birth: 1989
Height: 5' 8"
Jersey number: #41 (inspired by Dirk Nowitzki of Dallas Mavericks)
Started winning by playing Ultimate in: 2008
Joined Goats in: 2008


How?: I was on my way back to my dorm from cafeteria when I saw people throwing discs and yelling. I thought “screw homeworks, gonna watch these guys” and became the only audience for about 10 minutes. Then Seray (Öztürk) and a few other guys came to me after the practice and asked if I wanted to join them or not. Gladly, I said “sure”. Since then I am a member of this stubborn feet-dragging, hard-ramming, ultimate winning team.

What were your best and worst moments in the team?
Best moment(s): Tournaments are definitely the best moments for me. Everyone comes all around Turkey and plays and eats and drinks (a lot) and has so much fun. Times like these you feel the spirit of the game very deep in your heart. Team-wise, I feel that the team identity and belonging surfaces the most in tournaments. So I feel like a goat when I play with my lucky #41 jersey against other teams.

"I feel like a goat" (from Bilkent National Championships, 2010)
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