Possibly the most exciting play in Ultimate is the Callahan. For every ultimate player, it’s a goal at some point in their career and when the opportunity arises, you have to capitalize. It’s equivalent is something like an inside the park home run, a kickoff return for a touchdown or even a four-point play in basketball.
Yes, the Callahan occurs probably as much as those events in other various sports. When you are playing at high levels of ultimate, the game is about separate offensive and defensive lines and the team that wins the flip at the beginning of the game more often than not wins because of the scarcity of turnovers, making the Callahan just that much more rare.
Essentially, the Callahan is when a defensive player intercepts the offensive team’s pass in their target endzone, resulting in a score. Sounds simple, but is so much more complicated than you think.
In fact, the Callahan is so difficult to achieve, they gave the same name to an award (named after ambassador to ultimate frisbee, Henry Callahan) for the most valuable collegiate player in men’s and women’s ultimate.
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