Creighton and UTSA win US Quadball Cup division titles

Creighton Quadball claimed Division 1 and UTSA Quadball won Division 2 in US Quadball’s current Cup cycle, with the organization framing the tournament window as July 7 through Aug. 25. The update also carried a “RECORD: 3-3” line, though it did not make clear whether that mark belonged to one of the champions or to a broader bracket context.

That matters because US Quadball does not run Cup like a one-weekend tournament. Its season play requirements say all USQ teams are invited into one of four divisions at US Quadball Cup, and the federation has built the event around a dedicated history page and a published season calendar. The bracket was already set in a separate Cup post, which also sent followers to the full schedule, underscoring how the championship unfolds in stages across the summer rather than in a single finish line.

For Creighton, the Division 1 title puts the program at the top of the highest tier in the sport’s national structure. In a Cup format built for sorting teams by level, a Division 1 run is as much a statement about roster depth and continuity as it is about one hot weekend, especially in a system where every team is trying to move through a bracket that US Quadball has turned into a recurring national property.

UTSA’s win points to a different kind of program strength. US Quadball’s archive already includes UTSA in the winners’ circle, with its 2023 Cup recap titled “UTSA and the Warriors Win USQ Cup 2023,” and a related Facebook post identifying UTSA as the Collegiate D1 champion after a final against Harvard. The same post from this cycle said Dylan Farrow scored the winning point needed for UTSA to take its division, adding a concrete game-turning moment to a title that extends the program’s Cup resume.

US Quadball also places the event inside a sport with longer roots, noting that quadball was founded in 2005 at Middlebury College by Xander Manshel and Alex Benepe. Against that backdrop, Creighton’s Division 1 breakthrough and UTSA’s repeated place in championship play show where the current competitive map has shifted: toward programs with enough continuity to survive a long summer bracket and enough depth to close when the season’s last games finally arrive.