WHAM-O'S NEW FRISBEE DVD SPORTS PHOTO OF UO PLAYER.Byline: Matt Cooper Matt Cooper may refer to:
The fast-paced sport Ultimate has taken Seth Wiggins to the highest levels of competition. Now it's taking him around the world. Well, his picture, anyway. Wiggins, of the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. men's team, is pictured on the face of an instructional DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. that Wham-O is now selling - with a new Frisbee made for the game - at Target and tens of thousands of other stores across the globe. Ultimate is played by seven-person teams who advance the plastic disc up and down a football-style field, scoring in the end zones. Eugene touts one of the game's early ambassadors, the late Henry Callahan Henry Callahan (1957–1982) was a player and ambassador of Ultimate and helped bring the sport to the University of Oregon, formally establishing a team in 1978. In 1982 he was murdered during a robbery while working in Boulder, Colorado. , and one of the longest-running tournaments in the Northwest, coinciding with the summer solstice. And another Wiggins played a part in the soon-to-be-worldwide Seth Wiggins image. Seth's mother, Scobel Wiggins, shot that picture of Seth, reaching high for the disc over defenders. Scobel has been an official photographer for the Ultimate Players Association, which oversees the game in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . For the Wiggins clan clan, social group based on actual or alleged unilineal descent from a common ancestor. Such groups have been known in all parts of the world and include some that claim the parentage or special protection of an animal, plant, or other object (see totem). of Corvallis, Ultimate is unquestionably un·ques·tion·a·ble adj. Beyond question or doubt. See Synonyms at authentic. un·ques  tion·a·bil a
family affair.
While Seth, Scobel's younger son, is the 21-year-old team captain for the Ducks, his older brother, Ben, once held that post himself. Ben won the college game's highest individual award in 2003, named for Callahan. Like her boys, Scobel said she gets "amped up" for big games, as she tries to capture the subtle nuances that lead to scores - the perfect fake or a player's quick first step that leaves a defender momentarily frozen. Of Seth, she said, "he's a photographer's dream come true. He's just wonderful to watch and he's always going 16 different ways at the same time. It's hard to take a bad picture." Seth Wiggins didn't exactly agree - `point out the inherent family bias in that quote,' he said, laughing - but he's encouraged by the game's growth. Here's the irony: Wiggins probably won't play Ultimate with the Wham-O Frisbee he's indirectly helping to sell. Michigan-based Discraft makes the preferred disc for top collegiate col·le·giate adj. 1. Of, relating to, or held to resemble a college. 2. Of, for, or typical of college students. 3. Of or relating to a collegiate church. and club competitions, and virtually all of recreational Ultimate, Wiggins said. "I've never seen the Wham-O disc ever used by anyone playing conventional Ultimate before," he added. That's bound to change, said Peter Sgromo of Wham-O, based in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . The company is targeting new and recreational players with its Frisbee, which carries the stamp of approval from the players association. Given the reach of a store such as Target, the Wham-O product is the one that many of tomorrow's athletes will see when they're deciding whether to buy a football, a basketball or a Frisbee. "Our objective is to grow the sport," Sgromo said. "That fits Wham-O's image." CAPTION(S): An instructional DVD by Wham-O sports a photo of UO player Seth Wiggins. |
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