Club History

 

Being a relative newcomer, Rebel Ultimate has a fairly limited history when only the present club is

considered. The history of club Ultimate in the Cork region however is more vast. Numerous attemps to

try and foster a high level team, bolstered by players from the local college, University College Cork,

have been attempted in the past. Such teams which experienced varying degrees of success include

Last Minute Dropouts and Juice - an ongoing Cork-Limerick collaboration.

 

In December 2009 Rebel Ultimate was born in room An Guigán on the second floor of the UCC student centre. The club arose from the desire of UCC students and alumni to develop a decent Cork club to challenge the likes of Dublin based Broccoli and Johnny Chimpo as Ireland's top team. The members felt that with the unprecedented recruiting and tournament dominating success enjoyed by UCC Skulltimate this year and the level of talent amongst the soon to be alumni, the 2009/2010 season was the ideal time to launch a long lasting and viable club. The experienced Brian O'Callaghan took the reigns as captain following a vote and endorsed a policy of separation from the college in order to ensure independence and the long term survival of Rebel Ultimate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following subsequent meetings important issues were ironed out. Rebel Ultimate was adopted as the official name beating out stiff competition from CorkScrews, Lee Siders and Cork Ultimate - a name devised from the short lived counterpart in Dublin. The club's logo was developed in Dublin Airport by UCC student's Ray Considine, Richard Hobson, Fergus McAuliffe and James Finn when they were returning from their 5th place finish at UK Nationals in Sheffield. The image depicts a stand alone Cork amidst a back drop of the island of Ireland. The term "not cork" is used to describe any region that was unfortunate enough not to be in the beautiful boundary of the Rebel County. While Cork, the home and birthplace of Rebel Ultimate, is the main focus of the crest, the logo illustrates the separatist  ethos of  "There's us the team, and then there's everyone else" and is not supposed to alienate other members from around the world.

 

In its earliest days, the club had decided to rent out its own training grounds for two main reasons: the first on account of establishing itself as a fully stand alone team without any reliance on the money or facilities provided by UCC. The second reason was because of the extreme weather which hit Cork in the winter of 2009/2010. Floods and freezing temperatures destroyed most of the free and available grass areas in the city and so Rebel adopted the indoor astroturf training rooms of Nemo Rangers. Later the grass at Deerpark became the official home for all of the club's training.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rebel benefitted from the coaching efforts of numerous players such as Leo Yoshida, Alan Doyle, Donal Murray, Kieran Giller and Oisín Flanagan since its inception. While officially an open team the club is known to dabble in mixed. Its very first outing was at All Ireland Mixed Nationals 2010 where the squad returned home as champions. Rebel's first open tournament was in Amsterdam at the famous Windmill Windup 2010 where they broke the top 20 of Europe's elite and took 18th out of 38. Other successes included a young squad finishing as finalists in Whacking Day 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rebel's second full year as an established club was a huge success. In addition to finishing C Tour 3, Belfast Not the Euros, Bingefest and the prestigious Cork Open as champions, the Cork team completed a clean sweep of all three All Ireland Championships; Indoor, Mixed and Open Nationals. The club's dominance was further bolstered by the fact that they entered multiple teams into these events. The spring of 2011 marked another milestone in Rebel Ultimate's coloured history. Wanting to capitalize on the unprecedented success of the Cork junior women's development program and the fact that women down here are class at Ultimate, a fully fledged and stand alone Rebel Ultimate ladies team was launched.

 

Today while the Rebel roster is made up mostly of current and past UCC players, it also boasts talent from further afield such as Venezuela, Germany and even Waterford IT. If you're an experienced Ultimate player in the Cork region and looking for a club then give us a shout. All the info you need is up in the sidebar.