Safari's 2001 Season

Southwest Secionals were held in Santa Barbara. Safari placed second to the Santa Barbara Condors. Regionals were held in Indio, CA at their beautiful polo fields, where the weather was typical SoCal - hot and sunny. The format was a little different this year, because there were seven women's teams, the UPA decided we would play a straight round robin - the 1st and 2nd place teams would be awarded Nationals bids. Saturday, we finished 4-0 beating Rare Air, on Sunday, we watched the Condors secure our place at the 2001 National Championships when they also defeated Rare Air. We ended up second in the Region, with our only loss to the Santa Barbara Condors. Nationals were held in Sarasota, FL, where the weather was extremely windy with scattered showers the entire week. We were defeated by Godiva in the quarter finals, sending us on to play off for 5th place. We defeated Schwa to secure our 5th or 6th ranking, then went on to defeat Backhoe in our final game, ranking Safari 5th in the Nation for the 2001 season.