Ladies and gentlemen, here is your 7 on the line…ok technically it’s 11 but you get the idea. This summer after elections and natural selection this is the group of people who will be spending the next 2 years doing their best to serve you, the LAOUT community. This ragtag conglomeration of humans is here to make sure you have the opportunity to play as much ultimate as your bodies can handle.
Grant started playing ultimate in 2002 in front of his MA high school with a local player turned mentor. After starting a college team, coaching, and playing competitively in NYC; Grant moved to LA in 2012. After leading local clinics and youth events, Grant founded and is now the the Executive Director of both Southern California Youth Ultimate (SCYU, pronounced Sky-You!) and California Ultimate Association. He still plays for the SoCal Condors; and is an amateur disc golfer and salsa maker.
Lu has been playing ultimate since 2004, starting as a freshman in high school. He moved to LA in 2013 and has loved being part of the LAOUT community. The LAOUT community has given him his main social circle and a community of friends that he will be forever grateful for. Lu has played for various college, club, and pro teams throughout the years including NYU Purple Haze, New York Empire, SoCal Condors, LA 7 Figures, and most recently LA Lotus. He currently works as an actuary at a tech firm and his passions, aside from frisbee, include disc golf, any and all racquet sports (tennis, ping pong, pickleball), climbing, and cooking. He also spends an unhealthy amount of hours watching YouTube, TikTok, and trashy reality TV.
On September 15, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Trent witnessed his first University of Kansas Horrozontals captain, Vinny Ciaramitaro, break his nose on a layout D and soak his brand new white jersey in blood. Trent has been obsessed with ultimate ever since. Since then, Trent killed a car driving to too many tournaments, ate 15 eggs at Poultry Days, played at the best club nationals in Rockford, Illinois, managed an AUDL team to just 3 wins, moved back in with his parents, sobbed until snot ran down his chin during COVID, got a dog, and moved to Los Angeles. He’s excited to be here!
Sherry Jung is an LA native. She’s been a part of the LAOUT community since 2010. When she’s not playing frisbee, she’s a dog mom and a nurse practitioner. As a nurse practitioner, she provides primary care needs for homebound elderly in the LA Community. What she likes the most about the LAOUT community is that she is able to meet so many different people from so many different walks of life. Due to her medical professional background she feels that she bring a different approach to the Ultimate community. She firmly believes that exercise and socialization are some of the keys to a happy and healthy life.
Stitch has been playing ultimate since 2016 right before she started playing on her college team at CSULB. As soon as she entered the ultimate scene, she engulfed herself in as many of the tournaments and pickups that were available to her and somehow still managed her time well enough to graduate with a B.A. in Linguistics. Since college, she had experience running pickups in her area, coaching a college men’s team, and playing semi-pro in its’ inaugural year of 2022 and being a teacher-coach of the ever-spreading youth outreach initiative in South LA, introducing ultimate in their schools, summer camps, and after-school programs. Stitch hopes to bring more awareness to the sport she adores so much so that the general public will not only know what it is, but also come to possibly acknowledge it as a sport to be taken seriously.
Mei-Lien Converse grew up in Madison, WI and has been playing ultimate for over 10 yrs now. She had been talking about moving to LA for over 10 yrs and finally in late October of 2021 she made the jump and moved here. She works for Ultiworld as a camera operator, coaches youth sports and is on the hunt for a graphic design job in the LA area. In her off time she also enjoys dog sitting, traveling to new places and eating great food. Back in Madison, she first played mixed ultimate and helped create some new teams that still exist today. A couple years ago moved to women’s and have been playing that ever since. She currently plays for a masters team called Aged Cheddar out of WI and Wildfire from San Diego. She joined LAOUT with some encouragement from current board members and can’t wait to continue improving and expanding the LA ultimate community.
G started playing Ultimate in 1978 with the Oconomowoc Ozones in southern Wisconsin. After moving to Madison, WI in 1979, he joined the fledgling Madison Club team. Over the next 13 years, G played Club, College and multiple leagues in Madison, culminating with the 1993 World Championship hosted in Madison. Since then he has played on dozens of Club, GM, GGM and mixed teams across the country as he moved from Wisconsin to Florida to Missouri to Colorado and eventually, California. He has played in multiple National and World Championships. G brings a deep sense of community and service to LAOUT, looking to foster SOTG across all levels of play and to expand access to ultimate to those not yet engaged in the sport.
Mike started playing ultimate in 2009 and has been involved with LAOUT since 2012. Through LAOUT-sponsored leagues, tournaments, and pickup games he has made lasting friendships with many of the wonderful people and dogs of the community. He is excited to have this opportunity to give back to the organization. In his time on the board he hopes to help the LAOUT leagues continue to run smoothly and be as much fun as humanly possible. Off the field Mike works as an engineer and spends as much time skiing as he can.