{"id":1818,"date":"2013-08-06T15:44:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T04:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2013-08-06T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T04:44:50","slug":"frisbee-champ-brings-home-a-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2013\/08\/06\/frisbee-champ-brings-home-a-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisbee champ brings home a bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1819\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1819\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1819\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/files\/2013\/08\/FRisbee-champs-IMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"The Monash University Ultimate Frisbee team, with Martin Chan fourth from right in the back row\" width=\"430\" height=\"275\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Monash University Ultimate Frisbee team, with Martin Chan fourth from right in the back row<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of Gippsland Medical School\u2019s Year A students, Martin Chan, qualified to compete in Monash University\u2019s Ultimate Frisbee team at the recent Southern Uni Games\u2013 and came home with a bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Ten universities competed at Ballarat and the Monash team, with Martin in the key position of \u2018handler,\u2019 managed to beat the University of Tasmania for the bronze.<\/p>\n<p>This was Martin\u2019s first full campaign, having played Ultimate Frisbee sporadically for two years prior to 2013. His role as the \u2018handler\u2019 is similar to a quarterback in American football. Handlers are responsible for maintaining possession of the disc, making smart, decisive and accurate passes to find receivers to move the disc and score goals. Games are 80 minutes long and with overtime can run for more than 100 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament spanned four days and after winning five out of the six pool games, the Monash team came up against University of Melbourne team in the semi-final with Melbourne winning 9-5. Martin\u2019s team beat the University of Tasmania team for the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Martin found the experience amazing and is now trying out for selection in the Monash team for the Australian University Games. He would love to make the squad to play with Australian representatives and the best university players in Australia, and to be on team that takes the \u2018Gold\u2019 back to Monash University from the current champions, the University of Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Gippsland Medical School\u2019s Year A students, Martin Chan, qualified to compete in Monash University\u2019s Ultimate Frisbee team at the recent Southern Uni Games\u2013 and came home with a bronze medal. Ten universities competed at Ballarat and the Monash team, with Martin in the key position of \u2018handler,\u2019 managed to beat the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2013\/08\/06\/frisbee-champ-brings-home-a-bronze\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,1581,2082],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}