Bruin Ladies Ultimate (BLU) is the UCLA women's ultimate frisbee team. We began as a UCLA club team named Blue Lightning many years ago, started by several grad students. However, with few undergraduate students, Blue Lightning fizzled.     In the fall of 2003, a not-so-young upstart named Jason "Popeye" Schissel, decided enough was enough. UCLA had gone far too long without a women's team. He took it upon himself to recruit young, athletic women to play ultimate frisbee. He had members of Smaug, the UCLA men's ultimate frisbee team, tabling and encouraging women to show up to an informational meeting. At the aforementioned meeting, the veteran Smaugies introduced themselves to the women, telling them about what a wonderful sport the women were getting themselves into. They were so right.     Alex Korb and Jamie Nuwer became the first coaches of the newly dubbed BLU. Korb played for Brownian Motion as an undergrad and currently plays for the LA club team Monster. Jamie Nuwer, at the time, was starting her first year of med school at UCLA. She had graduated from Stanford where she had played with Superfly and was now going to spend her last year of eligibility coaching and playing with the girls of BLU.     We had high hopes that first year, setting our sights on competing at UPA College Nationals in Seattle, WA. Unfortunately, we lost the game to go to Claremont. Our second year, we set our sights equally high. We played an intense game against Colorado in semi-finals of Regionals, tying the game at 11s after being down 5-11. We lost on a double game point. Our third year, however, we defeated Colorado in the finals of regionals to win the #1 bid in our region to Nationals! After a hard-fought weekend in Columbus, OH, we played Stanford in the finals game and finished a strong 2nd.     In our fourth season we returned to Nationals, which were once again in Columbus, OH and came away with a 3rd place finish. At the end of this season we said a tearful goodbye to all but one of BLU's original members.     As we head into our fifth season, our hopes are as high as they've ever been and we look forward to another fun-filled year.