A team consisting mostly of Iowa State University students and alumni won the world Ultimate club championships for the sport of Ultimate in Prague, Czech Republic recently and a Ringgold county native was part of the group.
In fact Jon Staron and Ringgold county native Rachel Derscheid, who were recently married, joined another couple in making the trip to the world championships their honeymoon.
The Iowa State University-based team, called “The Chad Larson Experience” for a friend of the team, won the mixed division of the competition by beating Onyx, a Canadian team, by a score of 17-10 in the finals.
Derscheid, who a veterinarian in the department of veterinary pathology at Iowa State University, emailed parents, Ted and Nan Derscheid of Ellston with news of the victory.
“In case you haven’t seen it on Facebook or heard it elsewhere, we are the world champions,” Derscheid wrote. “Oh, John and I both got injured, but we are still the champions.”
Ultimate is a limited-contact field game in which teams score by throwing a flying disc to other players to advance down the field and score. It was formerly known as Ultimate Frisbee.
The object of the games is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to the end zone in football or rugby.
Read more about the event in the online edition of the Mount Ayr Record-News