The Portland Rising is a professional ultimate team based in Portland, Maine, which competes in the Premier Ultimate League. It plays at Fitzpatrick Stadium. The team is currently on hiatus, choosing not to participate in the 2025 PUL season.
The club's stated mission is to "dream big and work in partnership with our community to RISE together."
Franchise history Portland Rising formed for the 2020 season as part of a four-team expansion to the PUL. The team is owned by Chloë Rowse and is the first professional sports team to feature women, non-binary, trans, and genderfluid athletes in Maine. The team held tryouts with over 100 attendees in January 2020 and announced its roster for the inaugural season in March 2020.
The team would have played its first season in 2020 (as part of PUL's second season of play), but the PUL cancelled the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the cancellation, Rowse stated, "Regardless of what happens here in Portland and around the world over the next weeks and months, Rising is already so much more than this season's schedule. The Rising community and Rising energy that has been created over the past three months aren't going anywhere."
in August of 2021 Rising hosted one of the three regional competitions that made up the 2021 PUL Championship Series, which served as an abbreviated competition season in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Rising was defeated by the Austin Torch and Medellin Revolution to finish 3rd in the International competition.
During the 2022 regular reason Rising compiled a 5-1 record, finishing second in the East Division. Multiple milestones were achieved for the franchise, including the first victory, as well as the first home win.
Schedule 2022 Regular season schedule. DateOpponentScoreResultApril 16Austin Torch17-14 (OT)WinApril 23Atlanta Soul16-11WinMay 14Columbus Pride17-11WinMay 28Nashville Nightshade23-14WinJune 4NY Gridlock20-15WinJune 5DC Shadow6-22Loss
Record YearReg. seasonPlayoffsFinish2021Cancelled0-23rd International20225-11st Round 2nd East20232-44th East20242-44th East2025Hiatus Total
Current staff
Coach - Ryan Cardinal (he/him) Coach - Eva Fury (they/them) Coach - Ethan Fortin (he/him)
GM - Mohdis Baker (she/her)
Roster The team's 2022 roster is as follows: 2022 Portland Rising#NamePronounsNicknameCollegeClub Team2Emily DeckerTuftsBrute Squad3Kate PowersKPowBowdoin CollegeFrolic4Makk KMIT5Laura BIttermanUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison6Chloe RowseColorado CollegeSlow7Alex OdeUniversity of OregonBrute Squad9Lisa LiuMITChaotic Good10Lauren BaecherBaeUniversity of VermontSlow White11Josie GillettFutureBates CollegeFrolic13Samantha MunsonSouthern Maine Community CollegeSunken Circus14Hannah BaranesDartmouth UniversitySlow White15Caitlin FitzgeraldFitzUniversity of KansasSlow White16Erin ReaMiddlebury CollegeBrute Squad17Kelsey DevlinUniversity of Delaware19Olivia HamptonBoston CollegeSlow White23Colette PellegriniCocoWorcester Polytechnic InstituteSprocket25Sophie ShenNortheastern University26Rachael WestgateUniversity of WisconsinSlow White27Sarah JuddSJHarvard UniversityWild Card30Jean HuangUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignSprocket31Bethany EldridgeUniversity of Vermont32Megan WilsonMooseTufts UniversityBrute Squad33Yuge XiaoColumbia UniversityBrute Squad37Hannah HenkinHankUniversity of MichiganBrute Squad55Sophie KnowlesCase Western Reserve UniversityBrute Squad60Caitlin GoStanford UniversitySprocket76Emma PalacioNortheastern UniversityGreen Means Go83Zoe HechtOberlin College
References
External links Official website: https://www.portlandrising.me/