Founded in 2009, The University of Alabama’s women’s Ultimate team, Ramma Jamma Ultimate, is still a fairly new club. Playing a sport described by the team president Hayley Djuric as a mix between soccer and football, the team practices and competes in tournaments year-round with different schools across the country.

With 22 girls on this year’s team, Ramma Jamma Ultimate takes in more and more girls who are interested in the sport especially freshmen.

“It’s definitely a slow process bringing them up to speed,” senior Ahsha McQuain said. “I enjoy teaching them because most of them have not played ever, or know how to throw or do anything.”

What’s different about Ramma Jamma Ultimate is that there is no coach. The team has two captains, Machen Picard and Caroline Marsh, who run practices and put plays together.

“In some ways it probably would be easier to have a coach, it would be another set of eyes to watch us while we’re playing,” Picard said. “But at the same time, we really like the freedom it gives us and that we get the final say as a team with what we want to do.”

The captains run the practices, and Djuric handles all the scheduling while also being an active player on the team.

“I just love the people,” Djuric said. “We’re all friends on the team, and there’s not really any cliques.”

With its first tournament this Saturday, Ramma Jamma Ultimate will be in Athens, Georgia, in the Classic 
City Classic.