Boys’ ultimate head coach Spencer Hagen said he is ready to teach an almost completely new team because he loves spreading his fondness of the sport.

“The reason I’m a coach is because I love ultimate, and I love spreading the passion that I have for ultimate,” Hagen said. “I’m really excited to teach a lot of new kids and really get that passion for ultimate going in St. Louis Park.”

According to Hagen, before the snow melts, the team spends time inside working on conditioning and teaching new players the basics of the game.

“Indoor it’s really all about learning fundamentals, and once we get outside on the actual field is when the actual game setting starts coming into play,” Hagen said. “It’s a lot more exciting once we get outside.”

Junior Ethan Hoeschen said practices are often open to new participants and interested people can attend if they want to join.

“We have (practices) usually Saturdays at the middle school. If you feel like you might be interested, show up to a practice and then you can cat around with some of us, it’ll be pretty fun,” Hoeschen said.

According to Hoeschen, the majority of the team last year were seniors who have since graduated, posing a challenge for the team.

“We lost our whole starting line, we lost all the seniors, 14 I think,” Hoeschen said. “We’re happy for them, but we still have a decent team I think with our recruits. That should help.”

Hagen said he was concerned about losing so many experienced players, and the biggest struggle this season so far has been recruitment.

“(The graduated players) really took a lot of skill, a lot of knowledge and just a lot of numbers from our team,” Hagen said. “Our core is there, but we need more numbers for me to feel really confident about the program itself, moving forward.”

Hoeschen said the team is open to new members of all abilities.

“We’re really looking for lanky fellas, so if you’re tall and lanky and you want to join and you’re pretty fast, go ahead. Or if you just want to join, you don’t have to be any of those, it’s not a prerequisite,” Hoeschen said.

Hagen said recruiting is a matter of getting people to show up to practices, and they usually stick with it after that.

“Once they come, they usually come back. People tend to enjoy it once they learn how to throw a frisbee,” Hagen said. “I don’t know that there’s a more fun thing to play catch with.”

According to Hagen, the team usually practices on Saturdays at the middle school, and he encourages interested athletes to attend.