Micromachine

MicroMachine was a men's team active in 2005 led by Mike Kinsella and Cam Berry. Formed as a feeder team for Machine and comprised mostly of players from Northwestern, U Chicago, and Wheaton College, they practiced next to Machine and ran the same offensive and defensive sets. 5-8 former MicroMachine players competed at the club championships in the Open and Mixed divisions. Micro enjoyed a good first season, but failed to navigate the Chicago Ultimate Seas of Change and did not return in 2006.

In 2010, speared by the huge youth movement from Neuqua Valley and Jacobs High School (more specifically Java, Tony and Luke) Chicago sent their first youth club team to YCC in Minnesota. A node to Machine, the premier club team in Chicago, the boys and girls chose to call themselves the MicroMachines. Completely separate from the former team the boys and girls competed well up in Blain Minnesota finishing 5th. The team was lead by Tim Fergus (Lake Park HS), Tasha Arvanitis (IMSA), Johnny Saniant (Neuqua), Jan Szmanda (Jacobs), Ben Carver (Neuqua), Eric Bultman (Jacobs), and Bridget Bobcock (Fremd). This mixed team was the start of the incredible success Chicago has recently seen in their youth programs with many players heading off to play on top club and college teams including Machine, Hodags, Illinois, Natives and many more.

Two years later many of the orignonal youth players (Johnny, Jan, Ben, etc) decided to bring the name Micromachine as they head to Minnesota one last time representing Chicago at YCC. Only now the MicroMachines send 3 desitinct teams to YCC all hoping to bring home the coveted first place trophy.