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| Sport | Ultimate |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 |
| League | Premier Ultimate League |
| Based in | Portland, Maine |
| Website | portlandrising.me/ |
The Portland Rising is a professional ultimate team based in Portland, Maine which competes in the Premier Ultimate League (PUL). [1] It plays at Fitzpatrick Stadium. Their stated mission is to "dream big and work in partnership with our community to RISE together." [2]
Portland Rising formed for the 2020 season as part of a 4 team expansion to the PUL. [3] [4] [5] The team is owned by Chloë Rowse and is the first professional sports team to feature women, non-binary, trans, and genderfluid athletes in Maine. [3] The team held tryouts with over 100 attendees in January 2020 [6] [7] and announced its roster for the inaugural season in March 2020. [8] [9] [10]
The team would have played its first season in 2020 (as part of PUL's second season of play), but the PUL cancelled the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [11] [12] Of the cancellation, Rowse stated, "Regardless of what happens here in Portland and around the world over the next weeks and months, Rising is already so much more than this season's schedule. The Rising community and Rising energy that has been created over the past three months aren't going anywhere." [13]
in August of 2021 Rising hosted one of the three regional competitions that made up the 2021 PUL Championship Series, which served as an abbreviated competition season in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Rising was defeated by the Austin Torch and Medellin Revolution to finish 3rd in the International competition.
During the 2022 regular reason Rising complied an impressive 5-1 record, finishing second in the East Division. Multiple milestones were achieved for the franchise, including the first victory, as well as the first home win.
2022 Regular season schedule.
| Date | Opponent | Score | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 16 | Austin Torch | 17-14 (OT) | Win |
| April 23 | Atlanta Soul | 16-11 | Win |
| May 14 | Columbus Pride | 17-11 | Win |
| May 28 | Nashville Nightshade | 23-14 | Win |
| June 4 | NY Gridlock | 20-15 | Win |
| June 5 | DC Shadow | 6-22 | Loss |
| Year | Reg. Season | Playoffs | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Cancelled | 0-2 | 3rd Place International |
| 2022 | 5-1 | ||
| Total |
The team's 2022 roster is as follows:
| 2022 Portland Rising | |||||
| # | Name | Pronouns | Nickname | College | Club Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Emily Decker | Tufts | Brute Squad | ||
| 3 | Kate Powers | KPow | Bowdoin College | Frolic | |
| 4 | Makk K | MIT | |||
| 5 | Laura BItterman | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||
| 6 | Chloe Rowse | Colorado College | Slow | ||
| 7 | Alex Ode | University of Oregon | Brute Squad | ||
| 9 | Lisa Liu | MIT | Chaotic Good | ||
| 10 | Lauren Baecher | Bae | University of Vermont | Slow White | |
| 11 | Josie Gillett | Future | Bates College | Frolic | |
| 13 | Samantha Munson | Southern Maine Community College | Sunken Circus | ||
| 14 | Hannah Baranes | Dartmouth University | Slow White | ||
| 15 | Caitlin Fitzgerald | Fitz | University of Kansas | Slow White | |
| 16 | Erin Rea | Middlebury College | Brute Squad | ||
| 17 | Kelsey Devlin | University of Delaware | |||
| 19 | Olivia Hampton | Boston College | Slow White | ||
| 23 | Colette Pellegrini | Coco | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Sprocket | |
| 25 | Sophie Shen | Norhteastern University | |||
| 26 | Rachael Westgate | University of Wisconsin | Slow White | ||
| 27 | Sarah Judd | SJ | Harvard University | Wild Card | |
| 30 | Jean Huang | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Sprocket | ||
| 31 | Bethany Eldridge | University of Vermont | |||
| 32 | Megan Wilson | Moose | Tufts University | Brute Squad | |
| 33 | Yuge Xiao | Columbia University | Brute Squad | ||
| 37 | Hannah Henkin | Hank | University of Michigan | Brute Squad | |
| 55 | Sophie Knowles | Case Western Reserve University | Brute Squad | ||
| 60 | Caitlin Go | Stanford University | Sprocket | ||
| 76 | Emma Palacio | Northeastern University | Green Means Go | ||
| 83 | Zoe Hecht | Oberlin College | |||
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Official website: https://www.portlandrising.me/