About the LA Throwback Foundation
The LA Throwback Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity that hosts the LA Throwback Beach Ultimate Fest, an annual beach ultimate tournament on Santa Monica Beach.
We use the funds to promote the playing and teaching of ultimate (with an emphasis on beach ultimate) and the civic engagement of our community. We want to support young players to become organizers and leaders in our sport and we want to help change the demographics of our sport to reflect the larger communities in which we live.
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LA Throwback Foundation Members
I’ve been an avid player and coach in the ultimate community for 3 years now. I’ve been an active part of LA Throwback since the first tournament in 2018, as field staff and as a representative. I spent two years as a player and captain of the Santa Monica youth ultimate team, Riptide. Currently, I am coaching the Santa Monica High School ultimate team, along with an afterschool clinic at Paul Revere Middle School. I also have significant involvement with LMU Shorebreak, as a coach and player. I really enjoy teaching ultimate to beginners, particularly youth since that is where I began. I get the most satisfaction from seeing the progress that beginners make from not understanding the sport, to having fun and really becoming passionate about ultimate.
When not busy working on LA Throwback or throwing risky hammers into traffic and trying to keep up on D, I teach Biology at East LA College, visit the border and do radio stories about the refugee crisis in Mexico, and write about the nervous control of physiology. In earlier days I was a founder of the UCSD Air Squids, coached UCLA Smaug for its first 5 years, and served as Collegiate Sectional Coordinator for So. Cal. and Arizona (1989-95) for the late, lamented Ultimate Players Association.
A quiet goofball millionaire who skydives regularly except Victor pays someone to jump out of another plane and catch him in midair. Oh and he likes Ultimate too.
In moving to Long Beach to attend CSULB, I found my second family with my school’s club ultimate frisbee team. During my four years on the team, two of those were spent as tournament director and one as a captain. Ive discovered the joys and community that ultimate can bring and I’m excited to share the experience with others. Outside of frisbee, I love doing escape rooms and playing games. Competitive isn’t a word I take lightly to say the least.
I’ve been playing ultimate since setting up my own team in Liverpool with some friends in 2005 and have been involved in running ultimate tournaments and events since 2008. I’ve been involved with LA Throwback since the start and am excited to continue putting on awesome events for the community. When I’m not doing frisbee related stuff you’ll find me looking at tiny things with electron microscopes.
Hello people who have stumbled upon my bio! Since you’re here, I guess I’ll tell you a bit more about myself. I have been playing Ultimate for about three years. This sport has changed my life in all of the best ways, so I’m super excited to be working with such an incredible foundation and people to spread love for it. When I’m not playing ultimate, you can find me on the sidelines of any ultimate tourney because I just can’t stay away from the game for too long! Looking forward to seeing y’all out there at the next throwback tournament!
LA Beach Ultimate Player
Organizer Burbank Lunchtime Pickup
Organizer Burbank Lunchtime Pickup
Hi! I’m Meg and have been playing ultimate for, well, a long time. Then I wasn’t. Then I was. Then I wasn’t. Now I am again. But this time I’m trying to find more ways to get involved and opportunities to teach others what I know and have learned (i.e. how not to do things wrong). And I build rockets, but I don’t keep score at games (it’s too difficult).
Team history: Meddling Kids/Prion, Alpha Cobra Squadron (ACS), B.I.D., Showdown, Dirty Birds, Cosa Nostra, VIVA, Spoiler Alert, LA Astra (practice player).
Priya (Finnemore) Renkert is a casual ultimate player who was first introduced to the LA pickup scene in ~1995. She then played more structured ultimate while in graduate school at UCLA, under the tutelage of Mark Rubin and the UCLA men’s team, Eccentric Circles (which soon after turned into Smaug). After playing with some local women’s club teams (including Phyllis), she partnered with a few others (Noriko Yamaguchi and Karna Nisewaner) to start the first UCLA women’s team (later to become BLU). Priya played dozens of years on the LA pickup and club scene, mostly co-ed, and sometimes traveling to fun tournaments and the occasional Regionals. Her favorite form of ultimate by far is co-ed beach (although any form of women’s ultimate takes a close second). She played in the first ever Lei-Out tournament, and was in charge of organizing the party and having discs made for the first several years of the tournament. Fun fact – she has never missed a single year of Lei-Out/Throwback since the tournament’s inception. Priya lives in Tahoe City with her husband David, baby daughter Asha, and sweet black lab Marley. She plans to continue traveling annually to play (and help out) at Throwback for as long as her baby, body, and budget will allow.
Raised in Washington, DC I learned ultimate by playing with the fine women of Rutgers College’s Shakti. Post college, I returned to DC, played league, pickup and club. I relocated to LA to work in film 20 years ago. In 2000, I helped establish Lei-Out and served as tournament director for its first five years. My involvement in ultimate has tapered off in recent years (mainly due to my six year old twins) but I always come out for beach league and Lei-Out. LA Throwback is an opportunity to get back to basics, to create a more intimate but festive event that focuses on fun, inclusiveness and community.
SoCal Ultimate Player who got her start in 90s with Santa Barbara Condors; plays USAU Grand Masters, mostly beach pick up and leagues and obscure pick up games.
She is Web Designer, Graphic Designer, Muralist, and Cartographer. Monika has been playing ultimate off and on since 1996. She is currently the LA Throwback Foundation web master, social media coordinator and graphic designer.
She is Web Designer, Graphic Designer, Muralist, and Cartographer. Monika has been playing ultimate off and on since 1996. She is currently the LA Throwback Foundation web master, social media coordinator and graphic designer.
