A soldier and a mullet-wielding redneck want the recognition they say they deserve for winning the Student Recreation Complex Ultimate Frisbee tournament.
Members of "That Team," as they call themselves, said they are disappointed that their team photo was not posted in the SRC among the other intramural champions in sports such as basketball, softball and racquetball.
The team dressed up in Village People-like costumes for the tournament, which was held on Feb. 22.
The team costumes included an army soldier, a redneck, a Catholic schoolgirl, a tennis pro, a thug, two Hawaiians, a construction worker, a kung-fu expert and a 70's guy.
Computer science senior Jim Lynch said that his team turned some heads when it took the field.
"We got some weird reactions and stuff, but we ended up playing really well," he said.
Lynch said the main reason his team dressed up is because it knew the pictures of winning teams would be posted in the SRC, or so it thought.
Lynch said that as time went by, he noticed all the other intramural winners' photos were being displayed, but That Team's was not. He inquired at the SRC twice about the matter, he said.
The first time, SRC officials told him that the photo could not be found, but that they would look for it and post it when it was found. The second time, Lynch said he was told that the photo was lost, and nobody offered to take another picture of the team.
"We each spent a long time on the costumes," Lynch said. "They never put [the picture] up. All that time we put toward getting our costumes ready went out the window."
Toby Hall, a fine arts senior, and the redneck captain of the team, said he would have loved to see the team's picture up in the SRC. He said the SRC staff seemed sincere about trying to find the picture when he talked to them.
"I don't know why they didn't put it up," Hall said. "That was one of our goals in dressing up. We thought it would be funny to have [the picture] up there."
Tara Fisher, program coordinator for intramurals at the SRC, is in charge of the intramural photos. She said she has not had a chance to talk to team members.
Fisher said that with 40 to 50 intramural sports going on, some unlabeled photos can't be identified.
"I have a bunch of pictures, and I don't know who they are," Fisher said. "I just need the team to come in and tell me.
"Some of [the pictures] just go through the cracks. It's not that we don't care about those students -- we just get too busy sometimes."
Fisher said she would be in support of a better system for keeping the photos organized and up-to-date. She also said that the team could e-mail her a picture and that it would be posted.
Hall said that he and Lynch planned to send Fisher another picture of their team.
Reach this reporter at timothy.taylor@asu.edu
