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Weekend Warriors
By Ryan Catanese
Beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep.
It’s 7 a.m. on a Saturday. It will be at least another four hours until the average college student opens his groggy eyes and tries to rub the Friday night buzz from his bloodshot eyes.
Ryan Bleam, however, has beaten his cell phone alarm and is standing in the bread aisle of a supermarket. He is one of four customers in the store.
He smiles. “I always do that,” he says, reaching into his pocket and silencing his rumbling phone.
Bleam is not a construction worker getting a beat on the day nor is he a hunter beating the sun to his post. He is a student, a brother and a son, but above all, he is an Ultimate Frisbee player.
“Classes are just my excuse for being at college to play Ultimate,” he says only half jokingly.
