I saw yet another men’s ultimate highlight film getting shared on Facebook today. Don’t know why this one was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but there are actually women’s highlights, too, for f’s sake.

Sorry for all of the great ones I missed, these were literally just off the top of my head and I stopped at 7, and this post took literally 20 minutes to put together – come on people making highlight films, it requires so little freaking actual effort to show a balance of players in the sport.

RANT RANT RANT

Amazing players making amazing plays:

(1) Rohre Titcomb vs. Manu Argilli starting of UltiVillage’s highlight film. Watch the whole video if you want (because it is awesome), but check the Rohre vs. Manu battle at the beginning. Two of the best to ever play the game matched up one on one:

(2) Ashley Young’s block in the 2013 College Women’s final.

Should have been the first women’s clip on Sportscenter. Instead . . . . it didn’t even get a replay in the broadcast! One of the nastiest blocks you’ll ever see. The reaction of #14 from Oregon on the sideline was similar to my reaction 🙂

(3) Gwen Ambler’s catch to take half at the 2014 World Championships – top players making top plays at the highest level of the game:

One extra great part of this catch was seeing Tino Tran (the photographer) sitting there at the end. I knew that picture would be on my wall 🙂

(4) What I think was the first women’s ultiamte highlight on Sportscenter – Hayley Wahlroos’s insane catch in the 2014 college semifinals:

(5) Fury’s Gen Laroche with a highlight grab from the 2014 US Open on Sportscenter.

(6) Lauren Sadler’s grab in the Riot vs. All Star game that made Sportscenter happens around 1:35 in this video, but this whole video is amazing and a great memory from the All Star tour this past summer:

(7) Lisa Pitcaithley’s All Star Tour grab on Sportscenter:

(8) and then, as I was writing this I remembered the two incredible grabs that Jenny Fey had this year.

The first clip comes from this Ultiworld article:

http://ultiworld.com/2015/12/09/give-rock-scandals-jenny-fey-sets-standard-offensive-dominance/

I have no idea if this will embed right, but if it does you’ll see Fey make as incredible a catch as you’ll ever see reacting to a double helix hammer from Sarah Itoh:

Then, to top that one, here’s Fey against the All-Stars living in a time warp, I guess, running to where a disc is about to be tipped BUT BEFORE IT IS ACTUALLY TIPPED in order to make a grab (21.48 in the video if the embedding doesn’t work):