SERVICETON’S Lauren Tink is heading to the World Flying Disc Federation 2014 World Ultimate Club Championships after her team won the 2014 Australian Ultimate Championships women’s division at the weekend.
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Tink’s team – Sporting Team Box Athletico United – went through its 10 matches undefeated, winning the tournament final against Western Australian team KAOS 14-11.
The tournament – played at Kingsway Park, NSW – went for four days, starting on Thursday and finishing on Sunday.
The women’s division was contested by 15 teams from across Australia.
Tink, 20, said winning the tournament – and entry to the week-long world club championships in Italy in August – had taken much hard work.
“I’ve only been playing since September last year, so I’ve been training pretty heavily since then,” she said.
Tink said winning the tournament had been a thrill.
“It was pretty unreal – the last goal was a pretty spectacular catch from one of our players,” she said.
The Ballarat-based university student described the sport as a cross between netball and rugby – with the aim of the game to have a team-mate catch the frisbee in their attacking end zone.
Seven players from each team take to the field at once, with Tink’s Melbourne-based team containing 20 players.
The tournament final was streamed live on YouTube.
Tink and her team-mates will now begin raising money to fund their world club championships campaign.
