Ultimate Frisbee Gets High. Marks! Gets High Marks!

by Nick Summers | September 8, 2006 at 12:05 pm

Ultimate Frisbee Gets High. Marks! Gets High Marks! Ultimate Frisbee always gets a lot of flak. "It's a sport for stoners" and "It's a sport for sissies"; most of the time, it's derided as not much of a sport at all. Well, you know what? We've played a game or three of Ultimate, and let us tell you -- these guys are athletes. And their pot is unreal.

Which is why we're delighted by a new study out of the University of Washington that says  competitive Frisbee is a better predictor of academic success than grades or even SAT scores. The top seven schools, nationally? Stanford, Brown, Harvard, Tufts, Dartmouth, Yale and Princeton. Falsetto: Hollll-la!

It feels good to find another sport we dominate, after crew and squash. Even the two dozen "correlation vs. causation" emails we're about to receive can't take that away.

(Credits: Inside Higher Ed; Dartmouth Ultimate. Sorry, Big Green! We were looking through your site for a good pic, and the best happened to be of this lion-maned Brown kid absolutely destroying one "Hoffman." Take solace in your huger quads.)

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