Ugmo, as Cal's mens ultimate team is known, made a strong case for itself as one of the top teams in the nation, and contender for the Northwest Region's sole bid to the 2003 National tournament, late in the fall of 2002, when Cal made semis at the preseason Classic City Classic tournament in Athens, GA.

As the official spring season began, Cal lived up to the promise, winning the Santa Barbara Invite and losing in finals in hard fought and particularly fun games at President's Day and Stanford Invite, against regional rivals Oregon and Stanford, respectively.

For spring break Cal sent a small team of 13 players cross-country to the highly touted Easterns tournament in Wilmington, North Carolina. In a showing indicative of both the team's strength that year and the exciting potential for upcoming seasons, the team of 13 (which included only two graduating players) made semis, where they came up short against a strong Stanford team once again.

After a tune-up weekend against largely club teams at DUI in Davis, Cal had a loss against UC-Davis in deteriorating weather at Sectionals, and then lost to both Stanford and UC-Santa Cruz in rescheduled Sectionals play the next week.

Having been dealt these disappointing defeats, Cal entered Regionals seeded second in their pool. In pool play, Cal failed to win the pool over UC-Davis, and subsequently lost to Stanford in quarters the next morning, ending their season.

Roster

UGMO
Mike Walsh (captain)
Dan Hodges (captain)
Idaho Arambula
Nikolai Barca-Hall
Ghetto Joe Collins
Jake Cooper
Arlo Faria
Boo Garcia
Dennis Garcia
Big B Grone
Joel Guenther
Ryo Kawaoka
Nat Kinsky
Jeff Marcus
Yasuyuki Motoyama
Goose Pasienski
Dave Redinger
Gabriel Saunkeah
Adam "Flava" Scow
Jesse Ward-Karet
Sam Wilcke

Record

Overall Record: 31-10

Santa Barbara Invite - Santa Barbara, CA Jan 25-26
U.C.Berkeley 13 U.C.San Diego 10
U.C.Berkeley 13 U.S.C. 2
U.C.Berkeley 13 Arizona 5
U.C.Berkeley 13 Stanford 11 (Semis)

President's Day - San Diego, CA Feb 15-17
U.C.Berkeley 13 Colorado State 7
U.C.Berkeley 10 Dartmouth 6
U.C.Berkeley 13 North Carolina 4
U.C.Berkeley 13 U. Penn. 9
U.C.Berkeley 13 Colorado 5
U.C.Berkeley 12 U.C.Davis 6
U.C.Berkeley 9 U.C.Santa Barbara 7
U.C.Berkeley 10 Washington 6
U.C.Berkeley 12 Texas 10 (Quarters)
U.C.Berkeley 12 Humboldt State 11 (Semis)
Oregon 15 U.C.Berkeley 13 (Finals)

Stanford Invite - Palo Alto, CA Mar 1-2
U.C.Berkeley 13 British Columbia 8
U.C.Berkeley 13 U.C.San Diego 9
U.C.Berkeley 11 U.C.Santa Barbara 9
U.C.Berkeley 13 Washington 6
U.C.Berkeley 15 Wisconsin 14 (Quarters)
U.C.Berkeley 13 Brown 10 (Semis)
Stanford 16 U.C.Berkeley 14 (Finals)

Easterns - Wilmington, NC Mar 22-23
U.C.Berkeley 13 U. Penn. 8
U.C.Berkeley 15 UNC-Wilmington 8
U.C.Berkeley 13 Carleton 11
Illinois 15 U.C.Berkeley 12
U.C.Berkeley 15 William and Mary 11
U.C.Berkeley 16 Oregon 15 (Quarters)
Stanford 17 U.C.Berkeley 15 (Semis)

DUI - Davis, CA Apr 5-6
U.C.Berkeley 13 U.C.Santa Barbara 4
Stanford 15 U.C.Berkeley 11

Sectionals - Pleasonton, CA Apr 13&19
U.C.Berkeley 11 Stanford-B 0
U.C.Berkeley 11 U.C.Berkeley-B 3
U.C.Davis 8 U.C.Berkeley 5
Stanford 15 U.C.Berkeley 6
U.C.Santa Cruz 15 U.C.Berkeley 12

Regionals - Vancouver, CAN May 3-4
U.C.Berkeley 15 Chico State 7
U.C.Berkeley 15 Stanford-B 4
U.C.Berkeley 15 Western Washington 5
U.C.Davis 11 U.C.Berkeley 6
Stanford 15 U.C.Berkeley 9 (Quarters)

Rankings

2003 UPA College Rankings - Top 25
1. Wisconsin 36-6
2. Stanford 30-2
3. Oregon 44-6
4. Illinois 39-8
5. U.C.Berkeley 31-10
6. Carleton 20-9
7. U.C.Davis 20-9
8. Oregon State 24-10
9. Texas 41-8
10. Brown 26-8
11. U.C.San Diego 36-12
12. Humboldt State 23-11
13. Colorado 33-13
14. Washington 28-13
15. N.C.State 40-4
16. William and Mary 29 - 16
17. Iowa 29 - 12
18. U.C.Santa Barbara 22 - 11
19. L.S.U. 28 - 5
20. Michigan State 33 - 10
21. Ohio State 42 - 19
22. Texas A & M 24 - 8
23. Kansas 22 - 13
24. Florida 31 - 11
25. Michigan 24 - 17