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Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School ultimate\u2019s founding class graduated in 2025, so Frida Greene wasn\u2019t quite sure what to expect this spring. \u201cWe weren\u2019t exactly recovering,\u201d the junior said, \u201cbut it was definitely a new era.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Back in April nobody, including Greene, expected to make a cross-country flight to compete in the national tournament. But the Falcons (26-4) fly to Oregon Thursday for the program\u2019s first-ever appearance at the two-day High School National Invite.<\/p>\n

The Falcons are one of 16 girls teams participating from around the country. Its 15 players and two coaches, along with three parents, will take a passenger van and SUV to Salem, the state\u2019s capital city and host of the tournament. The two-day tournament runs Friday and Saturday at Pioneer Sports Park and is organized by Ultiworld and Competitive Ultimate Training (CUT). Other New England teams include the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 teams from Four Rivers Charter School in Greenfield, Mass. and the Lexington High School boys\u2019 team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the powerhouse teams,\u201d coach Erik Sebesta said. \u201cWe really had to earn our way in there, it was sort of touch and go. The girls earned it. They played tremendously all season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CRLS ultimate program began in the spring of 2022 with a girls\u2019 team. In 2024, a boys team and mixed gender squad entered the fold. The girls captured the Division 2 state title in just their second year, and last season ranked in the top 25 nationally. They\u2019re in the top 20 this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ultimate is not yet recognized as a varsity sport by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA), the state\u2019s governing body for high school sports. Instead, New England Ultimate and the Boston Ultimate Disc Alliance (BUDA) both organize competitions. Traditionally, western Massachusetts teams such as Four Rivers, Amherst-Pelham Regional High School and Northampton High School rule the state\u2019s ultimate roost.<\/p>\n

At the start of the year, the CRLS girls\u2019 team hoped to finish top three in the state. They set their sights higher after beating all three western Massachusetts powerhouses during regular season play \u2014 twice \u2014 the Falcons (26-4) received notice of their \u201cstrength bid\u201d to the national tournament. They placed second at the Division 1 states and third at the New England regional tournament.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur first few games we were a little shaky, but as the season progressed we got exponentially better and found our groove,\u201d junior Dori Coplon-Newfield said. \u201cA big thing about our team is our spirit and how we interact with each other, and we\u2019re all super close.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Coplon-Newfield was one of six players to earn state all-star status, a feat in a sport where seven players make up a side.\u00a0<\/p>\n