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This page covers information related to college division competition in 1997.

 

 

  
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1997 College

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  Date May 30 - Jun 1  
  Location Davis, CA  
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The 1997 UPA College Championships took place in Davis, CA. 

  
 
     

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  • About the teams (not yet available)
  • Full results (not yet available)
Standing School Region
1 California-Santa Barbara West
2 Stanford West
3T Carleton College Central
3T East Carolina Mid-Atlantic
5T North Carolina-Wilmington Mid-Atlantic
5T Wisconsin Central
7T Cornell Northeast
7T Rice South
9T Oberlin Central
9T Wesleyan Northeast
11T LSU South
11T Yale Northeast

 

  

 

 
1997 College Open Division Final:
 
California-
Santa Barbara
 		   vs
 		 Stanford

 
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  • About the teams (not yet available)
  • Full results (not yet available)
Standing School Region
1 Stanford West
2 British Columbia West
3T Carleton College Central
3T Rutgers Mid-Atlantic
5T Brown Northeast
5T North Carolina-Wilmington Mid-Atlantic
5T Oberlin Central
5T Yale Northeast
9T Georgia South
9T Rice South

 

  

 

 
1997 College Women's Division Final:
 
Stanford
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 		 British Columbia
 
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This section will contain links to internal and external articles related to the event.

There is a recap of this event in the UPA Newsletter following the event, and it will be made available after it is scanned. 

    
 
 
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Teams were from one of 5 regions: Northeast (N); Mid-Atlantic (M); South (S); Central (C); West (W).
 
Information about events prior to the championship is not yet available.

If you have any other information regarding 1997 College Regionals, please contact archives@usaultimate.org.
 
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Information about events prior to the championship is not yet available.
 
If you have any other information regarding 1997 College Sectionals, please contact archives@usaultimate.org.
 

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Although there was not yet a formalized regular season, many teams participated in events prior to the series.
 
 

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Developed in 1987 by Sholom Simon, the UPA College Rankings rankings utilized a computer algorithm based loosely on a formula borrowed from the U.S Chess Federation.
 
Below are the final rankings for the 1997 season run after the College Championships.
 
  Open Division   Women's Division  
 
Rank Team PR W L Win %
1 California-Santa Barbara 1943 32 2 0.941
2 Stanford 1865 35 2 0.946
3 British Columbia 1742 18 3 0.857
4 East Carolina 1576 30 6 0.833
5 Wisconsin 1562 36 5 0.878
6 Carleton College 1542 26 4 0.867
7 Cal Poly-SLO 1538 16 8 0.667
8 Colorado 1517 35 7 0.833
9 California-San Diego 1512 21 12 0.636
10 Victoria 1490 9 4 0.692
11 North Carolina-Wilmington 1426 24 7 0.774
12 Las Positas 1373 9 8 0.529
13 California 1353 17 11 0.607
14 North Carolina State 1338 17 7 0.708
15 Rice 1315 23 6 0.793
16 California-Santa Cruz 1313 9 10 0.474
17 Cornell 1303 38 6 0.864
18 California-Davis 1302 13 14 0.481
19 Northern Arizona 1272 5 4 0.556
20 Occidental 1241 11 10 0.524
21 Iowa 1239 12 6 0.667
22 Oberlin 1235 26 13 0.667
23 Wesleyan 1232 24 11 0.686
24 Georgia 1224 15 9 0.625
25 Colorado State 1178 13 8 0.619
26 Harvard 1168 23 7 0.767
27 Notre Dame 1159 21 6 0.778
28 Oregon 1158 4 10 0.286
29 Yale 1157 19 11 0.633
30 Ohio University 1146 10 6 0.625
31 Brown 1120 18 6 0.750
32 Lewis & Clark 1102 2 5 0.286
33 Washington 1101 8 15 0.348
34 Florida 1088 17 5 0.773
35 LSU 1079 11 11 0.500
35 Michigan 1079 19 8 0.704
37 Appalachian State 1072 11 10 0.524
38 Tufts 1066 18 7 0.720
39 Florida State 1061 11 8 0.579
40 Massachusetts 1047 27 8 0.771
41 Nebraska 1037 7 5 0.583
42 Colorado College 1028 9 7 0.563
43 St Olaf 1013 16 9 0.640
44 UCLA 1003 3 11 0.214
45 California-San Diego-B 1002 3 14 0.176
46 Macalester 997 15 11 0.577
47 Claremont 996 3 13 0.188
48 Lehigh 981 19 8 0.704
49 North Carolina 972 7 5 0.583
50 California-Santa Barbara-B 953 4 17 0.190
51 Humboldt State 952 3 8 0.273
52 Carleton College-C 931 6 8 0.429
53 Clemson 926 7 12 0.368
54 Stanford-B 916 3 11 0.214
55 Chicago 911 15 13 0.536
56 Illinois 910 11 13 0.458
56 Virginia Tech 910 4 4 0.500
58 Indiana 900 15 20 0.429
59 Denver 896 7 9 0.438
60 Oregon State 875 2 8 0.200
61 SouthernIllinois 871 6 4 0.600
62 Williams 870 15 14 0.517
63 Middlebury 868 15 10 0.600
64 Dartmouth 859 9 13 0.409
64 Vermont 859 12 10 0.545
66 Wyoming 854 6 6 0.500
67 Kentucky 846 4 3 0.571
68 Haverford 839 16 10 0.615
68 Texas 839 9 5 0.643
70 Pennsylvania 834 22 22 0.500
71 Penn State 819 28 14 0.667
72 Swarthmore 809 26 20 0.565
73 Salisbury 803 18 12 0.600
74 Duke 795 7 13 0.350
75 Northwestern 784 12 11 0.522
76 Air Force 780 3 12 0.200
77 Georgia Tech 779 4 9 0.308
78 Rensselaer Polytech 778 17 9 0.654
79 Rutgers 764 17 18 0.486
80 Princeton 759 16 18 0.471
81 Amherst Regional HS 752 3 4 0.429
82 Columbia 745 11 13 0.458
83 Delaware 741 14 6 0.700
84 Texas A & M 735 7 4 0.636
84 Winona State 735 5 13 0.278
86 Michigan State 730 5 3 0.625
87 Virginia 721 7 10 0.412
88 Purdue 713 5 13 0.278
89 Washington University 699 4 7 0.364
90 Rochester 698 10 11 0.476
90 SUNY-Albany 698 10 15 0.400
92 Amherst 686 5 6 0.455
93 William & Mary 682 10 14 0.417
94 Northern Colorado 670 2 5 0.286
95 Minnesota 644 6 14 0.300
96 Syracuse 622 10 16 0.385
97 Colorado-B 608 2 13 0.133
98 Guilford College 603 2 9 0.182
99 Ohio State 573 2 9 0.182
100 Bryant 555 2 6 0.250
101 Maryland 543 17 23 0.425
102 Miami (Ohio) 538 3 13 0.188
103 Baylor 530 3 6 0.333
104 Lawrence 519 0 8 0.000
105 McGill 502 4 4 0.500
106 SUNY-Buffalo 481 4 7 0.364
107 MIT 478 5 9 0.357
108 RIT 466 3 9 0.250
109 Dayton 455 1 6 0.143
110 Carnegie-Mellon 446 8 24 0.250
111 Hampshire 445 2 12 0.143
112 SUNY-Binghamton 437 6 14 0.300
113 Navy 418 6 13 0.316
114 Rose-Hulman 415 0 10 0.000
115 Vassar 412 4 15 0.211
116 Cincinnati 390 1 8 0.111
117 Texas Christian 379 1 6 0.143
118 Bucknell 334 3 21 0.125
119 Boston College 329 2 10 0.167
120 Yale-B 325 4 12 0.250
121 Drew 295 3 13 0.188
122 Fordham 275 4 15 0.211
123 Johns Hopkins 157 2 15 0.118
124 Lansing CC 81 0 7 0.000
125 William & Mary-B 33 0 9 0.000
126 Towson 28 1 6 0.143
 
Rank Team PR W L Win %
1 Stanford 1774 22 0 1.000
2 British Columbia 1570 16 2 0.889
3 Rutgers 1452 30 7 0.811
4 California 1383 8 6 0.571
5 North Carolina-Wilmington 1373 24 4 0.857
6 California-Santa Barbara 1345 16 4 0.800
7 Carleton College 1318 16 4 0.800
8 Yale 1282 23 8 0.742
9 Oregon 1269 13 7 0.650
10 Victoria 1226 3 2 0.600
11 Cornell 1217 28 5 0.848
12 California-San Diego 1197 12 8 0.600
13 California-Santa Cruz 1101 7 10 0.412
13 Columbia 1101 19 10 0.655
15 California-Davis 1096 3 2 0.600
16 Oberlin 1075 14 10 0.583
17 Brown 1066 17 12 0.586
18 Texas A & M 1024 6 1 0.857
19 Pennsylvania 1022 27 16 0.628
20 East Carolina 1017 23 10 0.697
21 MIT 998 15 4 0.789
22 Indiana 974 15 7 0.682
23 Kansas 922 6 4 0.600
24 Las Positas 896 2 12 0.143
25 Georgia 878 2 5 0.286
26 Haverford 847 9 6 0.600
27 Humboldt State 839 2 7 0.222
28 Princeton 834 16 10 0.615
29 Wisconsin 833 11 7 0.611
30 Middlebury 794 9 8 0.529
31 Colorado 789 12 11 0.522
32 Swarthmore 734 16 18 0.471
33 Stanford-B 731 1 12 0.077
34 Wesleyan 721 0 8 0.000
35 North Carolina 720 7 10 0.412
36 Rice 681 0 10 0.000
37 Penn State 679 11 10 0.524
38 Washington 668 0 5 0.000
39 Dartmouth 663 3 8 0.273
40 Amherst 654 1 4 0.200
41 California-Santa Cruz-B 648 0 6 0.000
42 Macalester 646 4 6 0.400
43 Virginia 633 6 5 0.545
44 Smith 620 7 6 0.538
45 Appalachian State 619 1 4 0.200
46 Maryland 615 8 12 0.400
47 Williams 562 2 8 0.200
48 Wellesley 549 8 7 0.533
49 Notre Dame 541 4 7 0.364
50 Rochester 539 7 10 0.412
51 Massachusetts 478 1 6 0.143
52 Denver 457 3 4 0.429
53 Minnesota 452 2 3 0.400
54 Colorado State 437 4 5 0.444
55 Winona State 434 1 5 0.167
56 Syracuse 376 2 12 0.143
57 Tufts 354 3 11 0.214
58 Bucknell 347 2 6 0.250
59 McGill 342 1 4 0.200
60 North Carolina State 278 1 7 0.125
61 SUNY-Binghamton 276 1 5 0.167
62 Drew 274 2 15 0.118
63 Delaware 266 0 12 0.000
64 Duke 206 0 6 0.000
65 Chicago 203 1 6 0.143
66 Illinois 189 0 5 0.000
67 Boston College 170 1 4 0.200
68 Rensselaer Polytech 155 0 7 0.000
69 William & Mary 149 0 6 0.000
70 Vermont 40 0 5 0.000
71 Harvard -30 0 7 0.000
72 Colorado College -70 0 5 0.000
 
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Jim Schoettler (Stanford)
1997 Callahan winner, Open Division
 

Dominique Fontenette (Stanford)
1997 Callahan winner, Women's Division


For more information about the award, visit callahan-mvp.com

 

 

 

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