BUYA Board of Directors
President: Lindi Sabloff (she/her/hers)
Lindi was the Executive Director of PADA (Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance) from 2006 to 2009. She also served as President of the Philadelphia High School Ultimate Education League (PHUEL) Board, helping grow the organization to 32 teams.
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She began coaching youth ultimate in 2008 and founded the female-matching team at Radnor High School. Lindi moved to the Bay Area in 2013 and helped found Cali Roll; she was also on the coaching staff of Berkeley HS for several years. She has helped transform Cali Roll into a competitive traveling team while continuing to foster its inclusiveness. Her primary focus is building individual skills and sewing them into the fabric of a team.
During her tenure as a player she was D-line captain of Green Means Go and is a past Masters champion with Loose Cannon.
Secretary: Manisha 'Slap' Daryani (she/her/hers)
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Manisha ‘Slap’ Daryani has been deeply involved in ultimate organizing since 2011, and was one of the founding members of BUYA.
Prior to serving on the BUYA Board, Slap spent seven years on the Board of Directors for Bay Area Disc Association (2011-2018), then almost four years with USAU's Spirit of the Game Committee (2018-2021).
In addition to a being a long-time time elite club player and coach, Slap also helped form the Western Ultimate League (WUL) in 2020, where she currently serves on the Board of Directors as well. If that wasn’t enough, Slap also currently owns the local WUL women’s team — the Bay Area Falcons.
Treasurer: Anne Marie 'Puma' Gordon (she/her/hers)
Puma joined the Cali Roll coaching team in 2017 and is one of BUYA’s founding members. After a collegiate track career, she began playing ultimate frisbee while living and teaching in the Dominican Republic. Puma moved to the Bay Area to attend graduate school, where she won a college national championship as a member of Stanford Superfly. She currently plays on Nightlock in the Women’s Club Division, and has also played on Polar Bears and LOL.
Outside of ultimate frisbee, Puma works in K-12 education finance and administration. She is an avid soccer fan. She enjoys traveling, reading, and hanging out with her cat.
Abby Williams (she/her/hers)
Abby was exposed to ultimate in high school (back in the very early ‘80s!) but doesn’t have any memory of it. She does remember being introduced to ultimate and playing in the WAFC league in Washington, DC in the 1990s. After moving to California she joined a pick up game and the rest is history. Abby has since played in various BADA leagues over the years and is a member of the Mother Huckers. Her 16-year-old daughter plays on her high school team and with Belly of the Beast (BUYA’s U17 girls team) WHICH WON THEIR DIVISION AT YCCS IN 2024!!!!
In her non-frisbee time, Abby is a social worker in the Child Welfare field.
Elizabeth 'Wiz' Wells (she/her/hers)
Wiz’s Ultimate “career” consists primarily of being a volunteer and spectator. Both of her children started playing Ultimate in middle school. Wiz volunteered as a team manager for Berkeley High Coup over the course of the 7 years her kids played at BHS. She supported California Roll starting from its first year with management and fundraising, as her daughter was one of the two players who co-founded this team with Coach Lindi in 2014. Wiz volunteered as team registrar for the all the BADA YCC teams when her kids played Aftershock, Happy Cows, and Red Dawn, traveling to Blaine for 9 summers. After that, she was a spectator at college tournaments (Go Ewo and Mamabird!) and continues to travel to watch her son play club tournaments (Go Johnny Bravo!). Wiz did dabble at playing Ultimate with the Bay Area Mother Huckers for a few years until an injury sidelined her.
Outside of Ultimate, Wiz is a baker, runner, volunteer, traveller, and civil/environmental engineer.
Noemi Hollander (she/her/hers)
Noemi’s first real game of ultimate frisbee ended with bed rest and preterm labor. Today, she is primarily a spectator and cowbell ringer but is learning with the Mother Huckers as a practice player. Her son (who was born safely a few weeks later) would pick the disc back up a decade or so later and go on to play for Kore, EC-HUC, and Aftershock. Her daughter joined in the fun both as a player and a coach (Belly of the Beast) and has competed on EC-HUC, GO (State Champs!), Cali Roll, California Current, and is currently playing on Clearcut after winning both gold and spirit with Team USA (Mixed) at the World Junior Ultimate Championships.
Outside of frisbee, Noemi enjoys music, writing, and foraging for wild mushrooms. She volunteers for a few different educational organizations and her business card reads “Change Accelerator.”
Robert Clark (he/him/his)
Bio coming soon!
BUYA Staff Members
Bill Liu (he/him/his)
Bill handles all things financial for BUYA. He has many years of financial experience working at various companies and nonprofits. Prior to joining BUYA, Bill was also the treasurer at Bay Area Disc Association between 2014-2016.
Bill played for various club teams in the Bay Area club mixed scene and continues to have a passion for playing ultimate on the beach. He’s previously been a regular organizer of pick up games at Ocean Beach and Alameda Beach. He helped design the first Beach Series league, has played at the first three Beach Nationals and was one of the original organizers of the weeknight beach pick up games which still happens at Alameda Beach.
Chris Godek (he/him/his)
Chris Godek is the Program Manager for BUYA’s Fall/Winter Club Teams: California Roll, Gold Rush, and Dragon Roll. He handles all logistics for those fall and winter programs.
In the frisbee world, Godek has played since 2004 and has played, captained, and coached for many Bay Area teams. Currently he is the head coach of Berkeley High School’s Gx team (Hysteria), as well as the BUYA YCC Team California Current. In addition, Godek is also on the board of directors for the Bay Area Disc Association.
Off the field, Godek is a middle school science and engineering teacher in Alameda.
Veronica 'VRock' Cruz (she/her/hers)
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VRock is the Program Manager for BUYA’s summer YCC teams. She handles all the program-wide logistics of the season: hiring coaches, ordering jerseys, reserving fields, and making travel arrangements (meals/transportation/lodging/etc) for the YCC travel tournament.
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VRock started playing ultimate at Stanford, where she co-captained Superfly to a College National Championship. She has played women’s (Nightlock) and mixed (BW, Mischief) adult club, but currently only plays pickup and rec leagues. She has coached high school girls and college women, and is a tournament director.
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Off the field, VRock works in software and enjoys supporting rhino conservation and playing competitive darts.