The Carleton Ultimate Team (CUT) is the division I men's ultimate team at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. A perennial national contender, the team won national championships in 2001, 2009, 2011 and 2017. History The Carleton Ultimate Team was founded in 1984 from a team named the Frisbee Union of Carleton Knights. In the late 1980s there was a concerted campaign to make the team more competitive through winter conditioning, specializing players in defense, and recruiting athletes from varsity sports teams on campus. CUT made nationals for the first time in 1990, which was the beginning of a 16-year qualifying streak. At the 2001 nationals in Boston, MA, CUT won its first championship over Colorado 15–11. 2006 marked the end of CUT's 16 year nationals streak when the team lost to Wisconsin 12–15 in the Central Regional Final (the region only had one bid that year). The team made semifinals every year from 2008 to 2013, including a finals berth in 2010 and national championships in 2009 and 2011. The 2014 team overcame the death of three of its players to finish tied for 9th. The rebuilding effort resulted in a third-place regional finish in 2015 (only the second year since 1990 that the team did not qualify for nationals), a T-13th finish in their return to nationals in 2016, and a fourth national championship in 2017. After the Covid-19 Pandemic, Carleton participated in the 2021 Winter Nationals series, but was disqualified partially through the first game due to the reporting of a positive Covid-19 case. 2010-2011 The 2010-2011 season saw CUT win two major regular season tournaments on its way to the second national championship in three years. In mid February the team traveled to Tampa, FL and won the Florida Warmup over a field where 8 of the 9 teams had competed at Nationals the previous year. A few weeks later in early March, CUT competed in the Stanford Invite, a high-level tourney where 13 of the 18 teams qualified for 2011 Nationals. CUT went undefeated on the weekend, winning the tournament with a +46 goal differential. Over Carleton's spring break, the team drove from Minnesota to Wilmington, North Carolina to play in Easterns which also featured a strong field, 10 of the 16 teams in attendance earning a spot at the big dance later in the year. This was CUT's first tourney loss of the season, losing