Angela Lin, ME 99, MS ME 02, a research engineer in Tech’s orthopedic bioengineering lab, was an alternate player on the U.S. national Ultimate Frisbee team that won the gold medal at the seventh World Games in Duisberg, Germany.

Teams from the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Germany and Finland played in the three-day tournament in August. The U.S. team won all five rounds of pool play, defeating Australia and 2001 gold medalist Canada, before beating Australia again in a rematch for the gold medal.

"I began playing about nine years ago with another Tech alumna, Jackie Bourgeois, PhD 98. She tried to make it a club sport but there wasn’t enough interest, so we played for Ozone, a local team,” Lin said.

Ultimate Frisbee — a combination of the running of soccer with the aerial passing skills of football — is played by two seven-player squads throwing a plastic disc on a field roughly the size of a football field. The objective is to score points by completing a pass to a teammate in the opponent’s end zone.

Lin said 10 men and nine women were chosen from more than 100 applicants Those finalists competed in several tournaments across the country to determine the starters and the alternates.

"It was a great experience to be able to compete with the best in the country," Lin said.

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