They go by mysterious aliases such as “Cream Cheese,” “The Pizza Delivery Man” and the simple-but-eloquent “The Jaw.”

Are they porn stars, thugs or hitmen?

Actually, they’re none of the above. For being a non-contact sport, the Northwestern men’s ultimate frisbee team has acquired some tough nicknames.

“A lot of the nicknames are based off people’s looks,” said Mike Stukel, the team’s president. “We came up with Tony Dimarzio’s nickname because he looks like someone who would deliver a pizza.”

But while the team takes a light-hearted approach in doling out nicknames, the squad takes its frisbee very seriously.

To prepare for its upcoming tournament in San Diego, Calif., on Feb. 14-15, the team is practicing three times a week at Trienens Hall, the indoor facility that the football team uses.

“We get one night a week in the indoor turf facility,” Stukel said. “I basically put in constant calls to the people in charge until they agreed to let us practice there more.”

That type of persistence earned the players a 6-0 record in its final fall competition and the tournament championship at the University of Chicago. The team hopes to build on that success in the larger and more prestigious tournament in San Diego.

PLAYING SWORDS: More than 50 fencers attended the NU men’s fencing club’s first meeting this fall, president James Zirkle said. Some of the members looked seriously toward future tournaments, but in the end it was just a case of boys being boys.

“A lot of the guys thought it would be cool to fight with swords,” Zirkle quipped.

But as most of the fencing hopefuls found out, a great deal of preparation goes into a sport that many non-participants don’t understand. Men’s fencing was once a varsity sport at NU and the team won the national championship in the 1940’s — the school’s only national crown in any sport.

Of the 50-plus men who attended the first meeting, only 10 remain with the team.

“We practice about two and a half hours every weekday, ” Zirkle said. “We compete against varsity squads all the time, so we basically have to practice like one. It’s intense.”

Last weekend the team hosted a tournament featuring nine other area squads. Each team has three foilests, three sabreists and three ep