The Exiles, What's Behind the Name

When you hear the word exiles, what do you normally think of? Loners and outcasts perhaps? Well I know for me I thought this same thing. I wondered why do we have this name? I never understood this name for our team until we were kicked off the turf field due to "sports teams". Coaches and athletic trainers would sort of scoff at us, whenever we said "we need to practice". They would make sly remarks like, "we pay for this field", etc. They were very rude and did not hold us to the same standard as their particular sport. We truly felt in the moment exiled from even our school, the place that was supposed to accept us. As a club sport we are often behind all other "real" sports. We are not looked at twice. This is hard for us, we work so hard on a weekly basis training and playing our hearts out and sometimes we are just tossed aside with no place to practice. We often times have to practice on Doane hill, Doane hill is great in that it gives us an alternative place to play. However, there are a lot more injuries involved sadly. I actually personally pulled my hamstring because of playing in such an awkward non-leveled playing ground; this was challenging.
Even when we did have ownership to the turf soccer players would encroach on the playing area we had access to. They triumphed us in everything. Don't get me wrong, I love Eastern sports, but I still feel like when we are on the turf and you as a sports team are not scheduled to be on it, get off, it is our turn with it now. This is a little bit of behind the scenes, this is how I feel we have gained this name of "the exiles", and as a team we wear our jerseys proudly saying, "we are the exiles".

*For anyone who thinks ultimate Frisbee is not a sport, check out this video!! And I urge you to reconsider!