Profile - David Perry (Captain)

• Name: David Perry
• Age: 25
• Years Playing: 5 
• Current team(s): Ranelagh, Broc 
• Position: Perpetual identity crisis. I'm either a cutter, handler or both.
• Favourite Ultimate Moment: Playing Tour with Dublin Ultimate in 2010 was excellent -- it was my first real exposure to high-level ultimate and I really enjoyed it. Playing for Ireland with the U23 Mixed team in Florence in 2010 and the Open World Beach team in 2011 were hugely significant for me too. 
• What are you enjoying most/most looking forward to in the ECBU campaign: I'm really looking forward to that moment just before our first game in ECBU. Work has been underway towards ECBU since November of last year; after all that effort, having our full squad there and getting ready to step onto the pitch is going to be pretty exciting (even if preceded by a horribly off-key rendition of Ireland's Call). But I'm also looking forward to ECBU generally. The squad has developed a huge amount through training weekends and our trip to Nantes, and it certainly has the ability to compete and take a few scalps. It's going to be a very tough tournament, but I have confidence that every person on this team will fight his heart out every step of the way and that we'll grind out some excellent results. I can't wait to be part of that. 
• Anyone you're particularly excited to play alongside: Always fun to play with Gearóid, who has the uncanny ability to read my mind on the pitch and throw accordingly. 
• Personal Paragraph: Started playing a little bit in Trinity towards the end of 2007 as a way to try to get friends in my class (in particular frisbee nobodies such as Ian French, Daragh Gleeson) to stop bothering me about "going for a throw" and hammers and Whacking Day and other nonsensical concepts.It was fun, surprisingly enough, but I then attempted to set a record for obtaining the most frisbee-related injuries imaginable. This was less fun and eventually put me out of action for the guts of a year (but thought me the valuable if seemingly self-evident lesson that you shouldn't run on a broken leg). I drank lots of milk and fixed my leg, just in time to start playing with Dublin Ultimate in 2010. This was a bit of a shock to system because everyone could throw hucks and ran quite fast, which were up until now quite rare attributes and neither of which I could do. I went to A Tour for the first time that year and followed it up by playing on Florence's finest horsetrack with the Ireland U23 Mixed team where we won all of our games without incident. I started playing with Broc in 2011 which caused everyone else to leave the club, then played with the Ireland Open team at WCBU where I forgot what it was like to feel cool and hydrated. Enticed by the club's rhetoric about household plumbing, I joined Ranelagh in 2012 and played lots more Tour. I never travel with the disc and I shower before games because it wakes me up.