Whether D-III or intramural, college ultimate frisbee is flying high in Minnesota. Here are some quick facts about the scene.
Ultimate Frisbee is a sport with a low-barrier to entry. Across the country and in the Twin Cities, it is played at all levels, including college intramurals, clubs and rec leagues.
Campuses in and around the Twin Cities are especially great places to join an ultimate frisbee club because there are many competitive and successful Division III clubs with a lot of history.
Here are some facts about them:
- The University of Minnesota’s B and C club intramural teams have nicknames, according to C team player Lewis Garthwaite. The B team is called Ugly Duckling, and the C team is called Rubber Duck.
- Macalester College has two D-III ultimate frisbee club teams, one for men and the other for women. Both teams placed in the Top 15 of the USA Ultimate Frisbee DIII College rankings in June 2026. Macalester’s men’s team placed 11th, and its women’s team placed seventh..
- Carleton College has two D-III teams: CHOP (men’s) and the Eclipse (women’s). CHOP stands for Carleton House of Pancakes. The Eclipse placed sixth, and CHOP placed third in USAU’s national college rankings in June 2026.
- University of St. Thomas’ women’s ultimate frisbee club team, the Haze, returned in 2024 after a pause in 2018. The Haze competes through the USAU’s D-III division but has not been ranked in the USAU’s top 25 teams yet.
- In the 1980s, when Carleton’s first ultimate teams formed, the women’s team and the men’s team made a bet to see who could go to nationals first. The Women’s team won that bet when they went to play in nationals in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1988.