We are nice Jewish guys who throw and catch frisbees together once a year in Santa Cruz, California at the annual April Fools West Ultimate tournament (thru 2013).  We have been made up of some of the best Ultimate players in the world, have won more April Fools West tournaments than any other team, and have beaten some of the best organized club teams in the country. How does a bunch of yiddishe boys come together and work that kind of magic, and why? A little history would be in order.

In 1987, Steve Courlang made phone calls around the country and gathered tribe members from 6 or 7 teams to play together at the April Fools West Tournament, then at Stanford. The team called themselves The Red Sea Pedestrians. Unfortunately, they lost in the quarterfinals, but bonded and were determined to do it again.

Eight years later, David Barkan, who had been living in Israel in 1987, resurrected the Hebrew disc slingers. This time, he named them the Matza Balls. In 1995, the first year, the Matza Balls had players from New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, L.A., and San Francisco. We made it to the finals and faced Seattle, a relative Goliath. Seattle would go on in six months to be #2 in the country, but the remaining uninjured Maccabee wannabees pulled off a stunning upset, and the legend began. by David Barkan

Video of Games (1987-2013)
Video of Team in Israel (2005)

note: Roster = number of active (non-injured) players on Saturday/Sunday.