Demons Ultimate Frisbee Team was founded in September 2004 by Andy Lee, who had discovered the sport himself a few months earlier. The team received no funds from the DeMontfort University Athletic Union and had to rely on sponsorship and player participation for funds for kit and tournament entry. During the team’s first year, Andy had secured a deal with a local pub in Leicester, The Pride of Leicester, and they supplied the Demons with their first kit.

Despite being a brand new club and having players that had only heard of the sport for a few months, let alone had any experience, The Demons continued to grow in strength and stature. The most notable achievements during the first year were the unbeaten run

of 18 months without a competitive defeat to local rivals, Leicester University Jesters. This run of victories was capped with an outstanding game at Outdoor Regionals, where the Demons dealt the Jesters a crushing defeat to win 15-3. This was followed a week later by a close victory in the Varsity match. The first year ended on a high note at the Colours Awards, with a drunken speech from Chairman Andy Lee being a particular highlight. In their first year as a team, the Demons finished ninth at Outdoor Regionals and this was a fantastic achievement by all involved.

At the beginning of the 2005/2006 University year, the Demons sadly lost a number of members but the majority of the regular squad remained. Chairman Andy Lee, vice captain Moggy and key team members David Tomlinson, Joe Beales, Kev Veitch and Tim Blackburn were all present as the Demons geared up for their second year as a team. The squad’s main aim for the second year was to recruit more players and build on the foundation that was started in the previous year. Andy Lee also believed that the team would be able to improve on their divisional ranking of twelve from last year. After a promising Fresher’s Fair, the squad was bolstered by new members, but for one reason or another a number of them didn’t actively participate until after Christmas.

The Indoor Regionals brought some good fortune for the Demons though as six players went to Birmingham and came back with good victories over University of Birmingham, Oxford Brookes and Loughborough. A narrow defeat against the Warwick Bears saw the Demons rise to a very respectable eleventh and began to show a great improvement from the first year. Outdoor Regionals saw the squad come together properly for the first time. New members Mitch Loan, Max Von Anrep, Matt Allison and Rich Gemmell made their competitive debuts for the club and impressed all. The Demons enjoyed a successful run into tenth position and participated in two tough games against the Warwick Bears, who were fast becoming a thorn in the side of the Demons. However, the luck of the Demons against the Bears changed at the first ever University Ladder League fixtures where the Demons managed to overthrow them, confusing them with their tight zonal defence to take the victory. The club rose to be ranked seventh in the region and fully deserved the progress the club had made in such a short space of time.

The future of the club looks promising under the guidance of current Chairman Mitch Loan, and the team can only improve as the current squad gain more experience, and new players are brought into the world of the Demons.

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Written by Andy Lee and Moggy