Over 250 alumni/ae and current team players honored the legacy of Brown Ultimate.
50th Anniversary Celebration and Ultimate Reunion
Thank you!
The Brown Ultimate Community thanks all ultimate alumni/ae, family, and friends who traveled back to Providence to join with our current teams to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our founding in 1975. More than 200 alumni/ae returned to campus to join over 50 current players to enjoy a weekend of activities October 10-12, 2025. See photos.
Photos
If you have any photos or videos from your involvement with Brown Ultimate you're willing to
share, add them to one of our Google Photos albums:
- Brown Ultimate 50th Celebration: for any photos from the 50th Reunion weekend.
- Brown Ultimate History Contributions: for any photos from the last 50 years of Brown Ultimate.
Reunion Stories
Likewise, we'd love hear your stories and memories from the Reunion. Please email your favorites to brownultimatereunion@gmail.com.
We may reach back out for followup or possible video interviews.
Reconnecting
Find old teammates at our alumni website
where we list over 1,000 players and friends!
Like crossword puzzles? Did you miss the Ratty brunch? Here's something fun to do on your way home: a Brown frisbee-themed crossword! It was specially made for us by a friend of Bess (Shiver '21) whose puzzles have been published in the NYT. Enjoy!
Wanna know who's the best (or worst) golfer in our crowd? We have Disc Golf Tourney Results!
Supporting Brown Ultimate
Supporting the programs
Brown supports the Women's+ and Men's ultimate programs each with an Endowment fund and an Annual Spending account (4 funds total).
Both programs are currently seeking donations to their endowment funds to guarantee permanent fee-free access to ultimate at all levels for all
Brown community members.
Click a button below to make your donation - you can split it across the Men's and Women's+ programs as you see fit:
Interested in helping our Brown ultimate community continue to grow and thrive? Become an active member of our alumni/ae network.
- Please log in or register as an active community member, which will let you edit your profile and privacy settings and see more details about your teammates and friends.
- Make sure you're on our email newsletter lists and that we have your current email address.
- Come join in our monthly Zoom meetings (usually the first Wednesday 9pm ET, details TBD).
- Join our Facebook group
Brown Ultimate Today
Started in 1975 as a single co-ed squad, today the Brown Ultimate Program comprises five different teams and over 100 players competing nationally in Division-I. There are three Men's teams led by National Champion Brownian Motion (BMo), with support from its "B" and "C" teams Polyester Funkadelic (PFunk) and Mother Ship (MoShip), which have competed annually for decades and are competitive in their own right, with Pfunk regularly besting “A” teams from many of Brown's peer colleges and universities.
Brown University Ultimate is also championed by two Women’s and Gender Expansive programs: Shiver and Cosmic Rays, the “A” and “B” teams respectively. In the last several years, Shiver has found increased national level success, missing out on attending the national championship tournament by only one place in 2024. On all fronts, Brown’s Men’s and Women+’s programs have garnered tremendous success across the US ultimate community and are a uniquely loved part of life on college hill.
Indeed over the past 25 years, our program has evolved significantly from its intramural and club roots, enjoying
considerable success at the national level, including:
- Four National Championships (2000, 2005, 2019, 2024)
- Six Callahan Award (National Collegiate MVP) winners:
- 1999 - Fortunat Mueller '99
- 2000 - Justin Safdie '00
- 2002 - Pauline Lauterbach '02
- 2005 - Josh Ziperstein '05
- 2021 - Azeez Adeyemi '21
- 2022 - John Randolph '22
- Four Hall of Famers
- An award-winning coaching staff with Jake Smart, Jonathan Stout, and Nate Taylor named 2024 Coaches of the Year

2024 BMo - National Champions

1975 The Founders
More about the current teams:
Useful links
Supporting the programs
Brown supports the Women's+ and Men's ultimate programs each with an Endowment fund and an Annual Spending account (4 funds total).
Click a button below to make your donation - you can split it across the Men's and Women's+ programs as you see fit:
All Brown Alumni/ae site at BrownUltimate.com. Includes news,
a searchable alumni directory for all program alumni/ae.
BMo Alumni Team site at Alumni.BMo.team. Includes team and alumni news and
program donation information.
Current team sites for:
- Includes
links to captains and coaches and a current player roster.
Women's+ team sites:
- Includes
links to captains, current roster, fundraising details.
