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Improving Player Services And Becoming More Efficient by Holly Larrison, Executive Director Sometimes the best gifts come in the smaJlest packages, solutions to the most complex problems lie in the simplest of suggestions, and truth can be found in the oldest of cliches. Such is the case of the Ultimate Players Association. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.... Anonymous When I first accepted the position as Executive Director, I thought I'd enjoy getting to know more about the way a non-profit organization worked while working for the sport I love so madly. What I found was a non-profit organization, like many non-profits, was working on all the right ideas and accomplishing many, but not all of them. In addition to suffering from the problems that plague many non-profits, our organization had essentially shaped itselffrom the inside out. The growth we've experienced over the last 5-7 years is phenomenal, and it seems that there is more on the way. The question arises, how can the UPA administration maintain its current player services, add programs that are needed, and still restructure for the future? The answer is by no means simple and, in fact, there is no single correct answer to this complex set of issues. At the 1995 Annual Meeting, the UPA Board and Coordinating Committee voted to restructure the organization along the lines of a more efficient non-profit with the specific purpose ofimproving its player services and using its resources more efficiently. I intend to help the UPA accomplish this so that the good intentions ofall can be translated into action. Sound ambitious? It is, but with the efforts of the excellent members of the CC and the Board this year, we WILL achieve the goals we have laid out for ourselves. You have to walk before you run.... - My mother? What can I say, she's always right. In order to accomplish such an ambitious agenda, a metamorphosis no less, we must
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prioritize so that we don't mislead ourselves or our ~mber ship about what we do and do not hope to accom~bsh. ~o guide our efforts, the 1994 Board developed a working uussion statement. This is intended to be the "why" ofeverythfug that we do. It states that the 'mission of the UPA is "to promote, maintain, and safeguard the sport of Ultimate and the Spirit ofthe Game, and to serve the needs of the players." The question of how to do this no doubt comes to mind. With the aid of a facilitator, the Board defined the following goals:
1. Have th UPA be a well-run organization 2. Improve player \member services 3. Establish a more sound fmancial footing • 4. Increase membership Increase exposure of the sport Ensure player control of the sport lncease the number of people playing Ultimate Promote the joy of Ultimate Maintain and ensure the quality of Ultimate So there you have them. Numbers 1-4 are prioritized, while the rest are in no particular order. This was done so that we would have a realistic workload and a feasible means for guiding us in providing those services most vital to the organization in the coming year. All of the goals will be used to flesh out a 3-5 year plan. This shift into long-term planning mode is an important one for us as an organization and should allow us to better manage the increasing growth and need for' player services for players of ALL kinds. With the forward-thinking approach that we are adopting, the organization will be able to sooner achieve the more elusive goals such as broad-based media exposure and sponsorship. Ifyou want to win the party, you gotta get naked.... -AlaCameli
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New Women's Director Sets Agenda by Kim Forsten, National Women 'II Director I am happy to be writing today as the new National Women's DirectDr. Let ine start by telling you a bit about ·myself. I currently live in Boston where I am doing research at Boston University School of Medicine. I will be moving to Blacksburg, Virginia (home ofV~rginia T~) in August. In 1988, I moved to Philadelphia for graduate school and met some folks who introduced me to ultimate. I really got hooked, though, after moving to Urbana, IL, where the friendly yet competitive ultimate scene offers everyone (who wants to) the opportunity to learn a lot. Since then I'v~ played in Philly and Boston and was Northeast WRC until December. I've played at all levels, ran quite a few tournaments, and taught a fair number of beginners how to play. As NWD my primary goal is to further the growth of ultimate atall levels and to increase exposure of the Women's Division in particular. My first "duty" as NWD was to attend the UPA's annual meetinginJanuary, which wasarealeye-opener. The UPA has-a lot ofprograms and committees that the typical player is probably not aware of. The organization is almost entirely volunteer based and these people really put a lot of time, thought, and energy into strengthening ultimate and increasing members benefits (hint: increasing the volunteer base would only make the organization stronger!). Probably the biggest decision reached at the meeting was the split of the West region into twQ separate regions. The large geographical area and density of teams de(mitely warranted the split and I think the Women's Divi~ion will ~nefit ~om the decision. It was also voted that a wlldcard b1d to Nationals would be maint.ained in order to encourage and motivate established teams to help out new teams. Growth of women's ultimate is the primary objective. I realize that this arrangement may not please all of us, but I really want to encourage us to get behind this and see what happens. This policy will be reviewed in 1996, so ifyou want to get involved in the process, now is the time to volunteer.Join the Women's Division Committee. Other changes in 1995 involve the WRCs. Linda Beach is the new interim NE WRC. An election will take place this spring and any interested individuals should contact me. In
the West, Diane Pagel will continue as WRC for the Northwest Region. The election for the Mountain Beach WRC will be in December ._1995 and an interim WRC is currently being sought. Lynne Nolan from Chicago is the new WRC in the Central Region and I'm confi~ent she'll do a great job. Kerry Ryter is the Southern ~gion WRC, stepping in this fall to finish up the tenn. I thmk we have an excellent group of women but the growth and strengthening ofwomen's ultimate can not rest on their shoulders alone. They need help. In particular, I'd like to see us focus this spring on the College Beries. Women's college ultimate is growing, but frankly, not as fast as we would like. In the West, 39 teams competed in Fall Sectionals while only 7 competed in the previous spring series. In the South, no college teams competed in the College Series. Nationwide, there were 120 women's teams competing in the fall but only 43 in the spring. There are several conclusions one could draw from this data: 1) ·T here are a significantly greater number of women club players than college-eligible players in the US; 2) A number of college women's teams choose not to participate in the College Series; or 3) Summer leagues and other new player recruiting pools have led to an increase in new non-college eligible players. With regard to the spring season, I'd like us to think that there are many college women who are or wh~ ~~t enjoy ultimate. What can WE do to increase participation and strengthen the quality of college ultimate?· 1) Get involved with or start a teaching clinic in your area (works for summer -league players!); 2) Volunteer to coach a local college team or volunteer as a WCRC or a WCSC; 3) Be a role model for new players (i.e. nurture don't demean .new pl_ayers); 4) Donate discs or funds to your local/alumm collegiate team; 5) Get involved with the UPA Women's Division Committee. C~ntly the West and the Central are the only regions with Women's College Regional Coordinators, Andrea Barrio and Julia North. I'm hoping to get volunteers from the other regions soon. College ultimate is, in a very real sense, the future of women's ultimate. Let's really get it going this season! . [Note: The Women's Division COmmittee is looking for members. Hyou are interested in joining or (mdingoutmore about it, please email me at kforsten@acs.bu.edu]
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NATIONAL DIRECTORS Executive Director
Director of Competition
Holly Larrison 831 Fontmore, Apt #C Colorado Springs, CO 80904 719-444-0638 75352.2544@compuserve.com
Eric Simon 2324 Riveria Drive Vie nna, VA 2222181-3118 703-242-4244 eric@access.digex.net
Managing Director
Director of Finance
Cindy Ftsher UPA Headquarters 719-591-1168 70744.1562@compuserve.com
CarneyFoy P.O. Box 2331 Silver City, NM 88062 505-388-3111 74151 .1326@compuserve.com
National Women's Director
National College Director
Kim Forsten 352 E. 8th St. Boston, MA 021 27 617-464-3756 kforsten@aca.bu.edu
Jay Cohen 812 S. Negley Ave., #2 Pittsburgh, PA 15232 4 12-362-o877 7 4404.753@compueerve.com
National Juniors Director Tim Ray
Director of Public Relations
3258 Hillmont Circle ()rtando, FL 32817 407-677-5005
J R Reynolda 320 E. 60th St. Savannah, GA 31405 912-356-1215 76105.3310Qcompuserve.com
Dir. of lntemational Affairs
UPA Archivist
Andy Borinstein 838 West End Ave., #11 D New York. NY 10025 212-666-3819 74151 .1330@compuserve.com
John Capora li Penn State University 147 Shenango Ave. Sharon, PA 16146
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Once Again, You Are Cordially Invited to Participate in the UPA by Eric Simon, Director of Competition There were a lot 'of changes made at the Annual the absolute best way to do it is to join a committee that deals with your issue. Meeting this past month. And although year after year we hear complaints that the fll'St issue of the year Getting "plugged in" is a frequent topic of my is filled with "boring administrative stuff," you might occasional "Information Highway" articles. The want to read through some of it, especially ifyou want dream is that every team will have at least one person to get involved in the future of the UPA connected to the national email list. The most dramatic change, to some, will be the And, finally, I want to remind everyone to send in creation of a new Region in the Club division. This college scores to the UPA (either by caUing the UPA truly is dramatic. It is the first major change in the 800 number and leaving your scores on the voice mail, regional system in the sixteen-year history of the or by emailing them to the following address: UPA Of course, such a move is not completely unconupa_top25@scilla.central.sun.com). t rover sial, either. The modifications to the wild card Meanwhile, sports fans, I look forward to watching system, embraced by-some, are criticized by others. A another great college season, one tha t will culminate complete explanation appears on page 11. at Univ. of illinois at Urbana-Champaign, marking Another dramatic change is the Board restructurthe third time that College Nationals has been in the ing. It is our hope that more people will run for the Central Region. (Trivia question: Can anyone name Board and get involved in policy issues, and at the the year and site of the other two? Email the answer same time, we hope to improve the Regional Coorto me.) Will anyone in the East challenge the dominadinator job by cutting down on some of the respontion of the North Carolina teams? Willi other western sibilities. Furthermore, all UPA members will have a teams challenge the domination of the California chance to vote for Board members. women's teams? Can any of the Central teams (CarSo once again·, you are cordially invited to take part leton?) break through to the fmals? Can UC Santa Cruz maintain? Can the Northeast rise again? in the UPA administration. If you want to see something happen or something changed within the UPA, Springtime... Ultimate... Life can be mighty fine.
REGIONAL REPORTS Mid-Atlantic Region - Open Division
REGIONAL COORDINATORS (RC) CentnaiRC
Central Women RC
Bob McSheffery 1497 W . 7th Ave. Columbus, OH 43212 614 -487-1174
Lynne Nolan 11 Aldon Ct. West Mont~ IL 60538 7 2148
Mid-Atlantic RC
Mid-Atlantic Women RC Melissa lwaszko
Chris Lehmann 132515th St NW, #204, Washington, DC 20005 202-797-1190 73762.1 1 03@compuserve.com
4650 N. Washington Blvd., #308, Arlington, VA 2220 1 703-528-3819 75057.256@compuaerve.com
Northeast RC
Northeast Women RC
Pablo Martinez 30 Walnut St. Belmont. MA 02178 617-489-2543 pablo@crd.lotus.com
linda Beach 185 Simpson Road Mar1boro, MA 01752-1581 76042.3617@compuserve.com
Sou1hRC
South Women RC
RexO'Quinn 997 Slaughter Rd. Madieon, AL 35758 205-837- 1662 jroqulnn0Jntg2.b29.ingr.com
KerryRyter 470 Page Ave. NE Atlanta, GA 30307 404-378-3581 k2ryterQaol.com
NorthwestRC Jack •poochle• Lynch 5675 Valley Oak Drive Los Angeles, CA 90068
Northwest Women RC Diane Pagel 1606 149th Pl. SE, #1 Bellevue, WA 98007
213-525-1740
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Mountain Beach Women RC
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WestCRC Skippy Jananer 408-459 4220
p>M)If@carleton.edu
Mid-Atlantic CRC Paul Sooolow
Central College Women's RC
908-247-9316 aocolowQmath.rutgera.edu
Julia North 608-257-6458 north@walsman.wiac.edu
Northeast CRC
West College Women'a RC
Ed Hwang 617-497-.4347
Andrea Barrio 4()8..425 4960
ehurangOinlt.edu SouthCRC John Malone 504-389 0898
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by Chris Lehmann Tempe, AZ - Players from the top five regional fmishers, and some scrubs like myself, joined together to form Mid-Section, th e greatest-hits team from the Mid-Atlantic. After sweeping pool play on Saturday, we stood poised to play Seat tle in the Sunday morning quarterfinals. Well, they saw through our "everybodyclog, throw-it-deep" pick-up style offense and sent us into th e next phase of the tournament, the legendary Mid-Atlantic h eckle game. _What's the point of t hat? For me, this tourney summed up a lot of what Ultimate is about. Players who, during the fall Season, competed against one another at the highest level ofcompetition, now played side by side. Yes, there was some slamming going on over the fmal scores of certain Regional games, but hey, that's part of the fun. It was high-level Ultimate played by a team of people who, more often than not, line up as opponents rather than teamm~tes. It was a lot of fun, and it was 85 degt ees in Arizona while back home the Mid-Atlantic was in the midst of a cold snap. What more could I want? Now the time for winter tourneys has wound down, and the spring season is upon us. By the time this newsletter reaches you, the East Coast Captains' Meeting will have occured, tourney~ates will be set, Eastems will have a site, and we all will be trying to get out of that winter malaise and play our way back into top form. A few changes for the spring season: Scott Sayers will be taking over for Brian Thomee in the NJ Section. Thanks to Brian for years of great service, and good luck with the new house. Scott plays for NPZ and is an experienced tourney director (and he throws a great party). His phone number is 908370-9642. The P AIDE Section is currently uncoordinated. Matt Weiss is abroad for the season, and we need someone to shepherd the section until his return. Interested parties should contact me at 202-797-1190. On the college scene, the Northern and Metro Sections are still the same, while Bill Hemberger has stepped down as Southern Sectional Coordinator. Potential replacements should contact Paul Socolow (908-247-9316) or myself. One last note: the Annual Meeting brought a lot of changes to the structure of the UPA this year. Please · take the time to read the articles in this' newsletter, call me with questions, talk to other Ultimate players about it, and make your voice known. We're charting
new territory n ow, and more than ever , player input is essential. Good luck to everyone this season, and, as always, I'll see you on the fields.
N!!rtheast Region- Open Division by Pablo Martinez I am still recovering from the three-full-day UPA Annual Meeting held mid-Janu ary in DC. There was plenty of coffee but no donuts, Buffalo Wmgs, or television for viewing the Chargers' win (I did man age to s muggle in a Watchm an). The biggest news from the meeting, as you may know, is th at there are now six regions (this applies to the club division on,ly). How does this affect the Northeast? The immediate effect on the men's side is minimal, because the Northeast will still get the wild card, having the most teams of any region by far. On the women's side, the team counts are much closer, and with only one region getting the wildcard, it will be much more difficult for the Northeast women to get a, now "the" wildcard. I left the meeting realizing that a lot of work. has to be done in the UPA We need more volunteers: folks to help out on committees or at Nationals, or other sun,dry tasks. It might require just an hour a month, but current volunteers don't have that hour. To learn about volunteering, contact Eric Simon, UPA HQ or myself. Continuing with my begging tone, the region most importantly needs a College Regional Coordinator Judy Lee is filling in at the moment- and a Women's Sectional Coordinator for the Metro section. Andy Borinstein did a great job in the section - often perfonning duties for both divisions - but he has retired. Ifyou're interested in either of these, give me a holler. Ifyou are not on the Net and reading rec.sport.disc, do so el pronto! Granted, there will be things of little interest to you, such as discussions on the best brand of moleskin, a Frisbee golf course in the Gobi Desert, and postings from IRONHEAD, but there is also thoughtful commentary on rules, organization of the UPA, and spirit of the game (SOTG). I have watched the tape of the National semifinals game between DoG and Cojones numerous times; it is the most dramatic game I have ever seen. The play between DoG and Cojones was intense, but the spirit was excellent as well. Kenny Dobyns, Bob Lobel, and Cork were especially noticeable in their good spirit, high-fiving opponents after great plays.
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From now on, my articles will profile a player from the Northeast. This issue features James C. Parinella. Jimmy P. began playing pickup tntiinate in Pittsburgh in 1983. He kicked around in Pittsburgh for a while. When James arrived in Boston in 1989, he joined Earth Atomizer, a team that in 1992 went 3-2 at Nationals and made the semis at Worlds. He became a Tea Party member in 1990 and joined Titanic in 1993. Besides being a founding member of the Tea Party, his greatest achievement has been winning the National Championship with DoG this past fall. James, or T-Man, as he's known to friends and foes is virtually uncoverable, relying on great speed and ;ndurance to get open. He also has become a valuable thrower in DoG's Junk Weave, and popularized DoG's GoD (Goal on Demand) glory throw. This one's for you, James C. Parinella. You're a good little Frisbee player. Take care all. See you soon. Hey, James Sarvis, can you teach me that inside out forehand to break the mark?
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by Rex O'Quinn In January I attended the UPA Annual Meeting. During this meeting three major changes to the UPA took place. The first one was to have the membership select the Board of Directors: ,,_(See article on page 10 for details). The second was to split the West into two regions. Everyone at the meeting agreed that the West had grown enough to be split. The third was not to increase the number of teams at Nationals, but at the Rame time to keep a wildcard. The only way to achieve this was to penalize one region for having the fewest number of teams by giving them only one bid to Nationals, and to give an extra bid to the region with the most teams. The main reasons not to increase the number of teams were: 1) Unfairness to teams that had to play a tough game while their opponents had a bye before facing off in an important game. 2) Too much of a staffing burden to incorporate two more rounds of ffitimate during the three days. · This will have an immediate impact on the Southern region. Based on the number of players, we would only have had one women's team go to Nationals in 1994. We would have had two men's teams, but that is in jeopardy in the future. Ifyou do not like this, then make your voice heard. Remember: the UPA is a PLAYERS' organization. Please read the articles detailing these changes and fill out the questionnaire included in this issue ASAP. Ifyou have any questions on this issue please feel free to caJJ me or any other UPAofficiallisted on page three. Chris Lenzsch is stepping down from the Texas Sectional Coordinator position. He has done an outstanding job and leaves this section in great shape. If you are interested in this position please get in touch with me. Also ifyou are interested in hosting regionals this year please get in touch with me.
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by Kerry Ryter . There's .no place like the good ol' South for good Winter lntimate. As most of the country's Ultimate scene is hibernating, the South is busy organizing tourn~ents, .4;>n-4 beach Ultimate mini-tourneys, and high-participant winter leagues. All this before the popular spring series sees its flrBt pull. The first tournament of the year comes even before the Christmas tree is packed away. Hosted by the Tampa/Sarasota area Ultimate players, Janus Jubilee is held on the second weekend of the year at the University of South Florida in Tampa. This year's tournament attracted an exceptional number ofteams, mostly from Tampa, Sarasota, Orlando, and Clearwater, although some traveled from as far as Gainesville and West Palm Beach. Seven Little Idiots, hosted by Atlanta Flying Disc Club members, attracts players from a wider area of the South. lntimate players eager to start the season are drawn to this tournamentin ever-increasing numbers each year. Competing in this year's 7LI, in addition to the numerous Atlanta area teams, were teams from Alabama, North Carolina, and Athens, GA, as well as a strong showing from the Washington, D.C. area players. The weather was what Northern Ultimate players can only dream of and wait for. The Open Division fielded 22 teams, making for a long day of Ultimate. Pool play was evenly matched
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and fiercely fought. A comprehensive point spread calculation was necessary to determine advancement. Monastat 7 (Atlanta mix) fell to Wilmington and Zipper Head (Huntsville/Birmingham) fell to Bob Dylon (DO/Chesapeake Bay) in the semifinal round. The squad from Wilmington won the fmal, 11-5. The Women's Division fielded seven teams and PX:O!e_d to be just as evenly matched as the Open DIVISion. Pool play results forced a point spread calculation for the semi spots. This was primarily due to the bigupsetofthe weekend-Don Ho's (Atlanta/Dirt) pool play victory over Cape Fearless (North Carolina's Seaweed). This forced North Carolina's seven to face off with O-Zone's savage seven team, the Whities. However, due to an earlier loss to the Whities, Don Ho was no better off. They had to face Hot Box, a powerhouse team captained by one of O-Zone's strongest players and comprised mostly of DC dynamos. Hot Box and North Carolina advanced and commenced to play an intense, if not heated, fmal match with Hot Box emerging victorious. The final pre-spring series tournament is held in Orlando, FL. This savage seven tournament also gets more popular each year. You can almost always count on good ffitimate weather in Central Florida in February. The tournament is held at the fields of the University of Central Florida, the same place Sinkhole is held. Anyone familiar with that tournament knows what a frying pan it can be in the summer, but February temps are ~sually a balmy 60-70. For anyone interested, February means bike week as well as sp8ed week for Daytona Beach. So for anyone willing and able to retreat from the Arctic zone up north, this tournament could be the perfect springboard to a very interesting vacation.
Western Region- Womenlt Division by Diane Pagel
As y'all probably know the West has been divided into two new regions. I will stay on for the Northwest region, and unless someone comes forward soon I'll also be the interim Mountain Beach Women's Regional Coordinator until the end of this year. An election will be held for the 1996-97 WRC for the Mountain Beach Region. Each section ~be hosting some type of Women's tournament this year. The Washington section Women's tournament details haven't all been finalized yet, but if you are interested give me a call. Oregon will be hosting the 4th Women's tournaments this year (maybe coed) on April22-23. Contact Mere Rosenbaum for details. In addition, the Kleinman Eruption Tournament will be Aug. 19-20 for Open and Women's divisions. Oregon is going full blast with a coed winter league with more women on the field than the men. Northern California will be hosting a March Women's tournament that consists of a clinic in the morning and a Hat tournament in the afternoon, to be held at Stanford. Due to the nonstop rain their winter league has been shutdown for several weeks. For those of you who didn't get the word, Gloria Lust and Adam Phimps had twins (one girl, one boy) in December. Mada did the easy part. Colorado is a busy section with tons of stuff happening. First, the "Ultimate Newsletter'' for the Colorado section will soon be making an appearance. A Women's clinic/tournament will be held and you can contact the !lew Women's Sectional Coordinator, Julia Stevens, for Info. The July 4th tournament will have a B Division for both the Open ana-Women's divisions. Contact Julia on this as wellls. 1994NATIONALTROPHYTHIEFt Whodidthe dirty deed? Surely no Felix player would stoop so low. Stealing a trophy from Felix at Nationals is a major no-~o. Not leavi~g a kegofbeer in its place as compen~ation makes this even worse. Rumor and gossip has It perhaps a player who Moved Over from the Windy City region last year would stoop this low (not the fll'st time, ~ays the grapevine}. ?:Jot mentioning any names, he rmght have stuck It In a nameless California player's car, which then transported the wayward ' trophy back to its rightful owners. He was not Magnificently Overt about lifting the desired trophy. As always. here is your lineup of WSCs: WAMaria Langlais (206) 328-0442; OR - Merm Rosenbaum (503) 234-2588; Big Sky- Nancy King (801) 467-3906; North Cal. -Tina Lipscomb (408) 245-5643, South Cal.- Patty Montgomery (619) 492-1771· COJulia Stevens (303) 726-4314; HI- Chandra Brldges (808) 946-5713. The Desert section position is vacant call me if you are interested. '
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Central Region- Women~ Division by Kris Olsson This will be my last update to you all. I'm handing over the Central WRC laurels to Lynne Nolan. I figured it's been over five years, it's time to GET A LIFE! No, actually, I'll still be around, playing with SPIKE, showing up at tournaments freelance, doing the reunion team thang, etc. It's been a joy to get to know all the exceedingly committed women who have bravely started teams all over the vast midwest. I congratulate all of you who have gotten your young'uns to travel over hill and dale through the night for the pleasure of slogging around in mud and rain to play ultimate for two days, pile in the car and tarry back the way you came. I'm especially grateful to you Sectional Coordinators - you really did all the work. Thanks for making my job easy. You'll hardly notice my passing because Lynne is going to be a dynamite coordinator. She really put on a great couple of tournaments last year in Chicago. I look forward to working with her as a PLAYER. Good luck, everyone, and keep the spirit ofthe game in mind. Live long and prosper.
FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK [continued from page 2)
In other words, you gotta do what you gotta do to get what you want. I want it to be very clear that there are many ways this organization could approach the need to re-orient itself toward a player focus. There are things that I personally want for this organization that will not get much, if any, attention this year because of the more pressing need to restructure. In the long run, these good ideas and plans will be more efficiently put into place because of the improved administration strategies. ln all of the things that we do accomplish in 1995, I will personally see that, as much as possible, this organization remains membership-driven. What this translates into for you is that I need to know, from a variety of player perspectives, what is working, what isn't working, and what needs to be done. Because we ' will be shaping a long-term plan, a cross-section of all mtimate player perspectives will be represented. In the past, we have had a handful of people doing the work of this organization that benefits thousands. I believe that the low participation rate by members may be a result of the lack of understanding of how to get invGlved. One of the primary goals of our shifting approach to running this organization is to find ways to get you involved. The Board will be directly elected by the -membership. There will be a nominating committee whose sole task is to see that new Board members are actively recruited. Headquarters is constantly seeking ways to become a more efficiently run information hub. In fuany ways, the quality of the information you receive from headquarters is directly related to how well members keep headquarters informed of tournaments, team and league contacts. So if you want good information, you have to give us good information. My personal challenge to you, the membership, is to keep us informed and then see how accurate our information is! Come on, I dare you. For 1995, not only can you continue to get tournament, league and contact information, but you can call HQ and get a direct contact for a committee that represents your particular interest. You can also reach me at HQ. I want to be aware of your level of satisfaction with our services. I have relocated to Colorado Springs so that I can do my job more efficiently and be more in touch with the member perspective afforded by the central office. I can be contacted by phone: 1 (800) UPA-GETH or email: upa_ed@scilla.central.sun.com When you're on D, and you're in the endzone, and they score... it sucks! - Deb GutofT circa 1989 There is nothing more I could add to this 1Jltimate wisdom.
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by Carney Foy, UPA Financial Director The financial summary of the llltimate Players Association for the year ended December 31, 1994 shows a net profit of $29,468, on total revenues of $208,571. The net profit needs explaining. For most of the year 1994, the UPA was in a cash control situation which is similar to a spending freeze. Some budgeted'expenses were frozen during the two middle quarters of the year because we had limited cash flow during those six months. In fact, for the past four years, the UPA has had to take out short-term loans to get through the summer and early fall periods. After the Fall Series we would have cash flow again and pay back the lo~ by the end of the year. This is easy to understand when you realize that about half of our revenues over $100,000, was received in October 1994. Therefo~ the UPA runs throughout the year on hopes that the Fall Serie~ will be successful in bringing in a·large chunk of money, but we a-n not spend it until we have it. As it turned out in 1994 our budgeted expectations were realized. And, for the first time in four years be cause ofour spending freeze, we did not have to oorn:wmoney during the middle quarters in 1994. . Whatd~s this financial statement tell us. ComparIng 1994 With 1993, overall revenue increased by over $6,000. Membership revenues increased by $12 500 a 9% increase. Our to~ament fees were do~, by $1,400.. Our _sponsorship reven~es reflect our disc program With Discraft. Between disc sales and disc royaltie~ ~e UPA received close to $18,000 from Discraft. This IS down approximately $1,300 from the previous year. The remaining sponsorship revenues decline is attribu~ to th~ one. time $5,500 "Video Program Advertising" received m early 1993. This revenue was used to produce the video and get the production on TV. Merchandise sales declined $100 from the previous year. Other revenue of $10,502 consists of donations credit card revenue, interest revenue, travel f~ revenue, and newsletter advertising. This category increased by approximately $2,200. Therefore of the $6,000 overall increase in revenue, $12,500 is for memberships, $2,200 is other income, and the $5 500 decline in our one time advertising video, with the other revenue categories decreasing ~ppro:ximately $3,000. Our expenses are being more and more scrutinized We are making every effort to get as much for our doll~ as possible. C?ur newsletter expenses are increasing due to production, postage and other costs including a high increase in the rost of paper over th~ year. The n~mber o~ newsletu;rs and their quality remain very high and ts something the organization can be very proud of. Insurance cost was our shining light in 1994. We . w.ere able to decrease this expense by close to $14,000 while having the same coverage. The "Administr!ltion/Headquarters" expense reflects the demandmg n~ture of our members. Over the years this expense has tncreased as the demand for administra-
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UPA Gets New B••mper Sticker Design Adam Ford of Albuquerque, NM won the UPA!s bumper sticker con~t. Adam's design was one of 18 entries submitted by vanous pl~yers. Adam will receive 100 for his wining entry, 50 bumper stickers, and the joy of knowing his desip will be displayed on the cars of ultimate players across the rountry. The UPA will use the new design for its bumper stickers which are included in the membership packets sent out to ail UPA members. The stickers are also available through Ultimate Stuff for $1.50. Adam's winning design is shown below. Other rmalists were Melanie Fernez (top left and top right designs) and Neal Dambra (bottom right design).
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Money, Travel and Adventure: Be a Juniors' Volunteer
THE ULTIMATE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION
Schools Believed To Be Playing Organized Ultimate ALAB'"A Alt8mont H.S. 8il11•wt-n. Al
by Tim Ray, National Juniors Director First of all let me thank everyone in the UPA for sponsoring the annual meeting. By attending this meeting I was able to decipher the innermost catacombs of the UPA hierarchy. Don't worry- there are few. In fact, I did learn that the people who have been and continue to be responsible for keeping this organization alive are committed to the Juniors' program and Ultimate as a whole. I was able to talk with the competition committee, the board and the other national directors about our efforts toward the continued growth of Ultimate. While many changes are forthcoming to the UPA, let me say that the Juniors' program has the support of the entire organization. While it is financially impossible to pump all of our monies into the Juniors' program, my job is to see that we recruit as many new players as possible. In accomplishing this goal I need the help of you, the players. I know I say this every time, but it's true. The Juniors' program begins with volunteers. It takes the participation of all of us to further our great sport. Ifyou are interested or just want to fmd out about the Juniors' program, drop me an line, an e-mail, or give me a caiJ. If you know of a teacher or school that is interested, contact your state coordinator or me. , The Juniors' program will be looking at the liability issue this year. It seems that sponsoring Juniors' events can adversely affect our insurance. At this time the UPA is not ready to sponsor Juniors' events. A committee has been formed to resolve this issue and answer other problems. I am looking for persons to join the committee. Ifyou are interested get in touch. Again, the Juniors' program is our most important asset for the future. I hope more players will join me and the others who are already committed to helping our sport grow. It's in your hands. Don't drop it!
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UPA Junior Volunteers: State and City Coordinators and Certified Coaches -States that have no Junior coordinefor8 or coeches Include: Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Idaho, Indiana. Kentucky, Louisiana, Missjssippi, Montana. Nebraska, Nevada, Nofth Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennesee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming. States that have coac:hes but no State Coordinators include Alabama. Ari<ansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa. Kan6as, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York. Oregon, Texas. Vermont Virginia and WISOOm>in. To become a Juntora volunteer- coordinator or ooach - call the UPA otrtoe at 80().872-4384 to request an application, or contact Jesee Weisz at (201) 762-8738. Alabama Certified Coactt Daphne, AL
ArbnMe City Coordinator. little Rock. AK
C.llfomla State Coordinator. Boulder Creek, CA. City Coordinator LosAngelea, CA. City CoordiiiMof San Mateo, CA Certified Coach:
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Chuck Fl&k
(205) 626-7453 Melinda Hancock (501) 565-9544
Mo Moscoe (408) 388 4003 Ben Shuldiner 31().398..2331 David Mayer 415-344Q34o
Eric Johi 1100 (408)978-9617 Willie llemdon
Certified Coach: Laguna Beach, CA (114) 494 4070 Cettlfled Coach: Jon Mendez Fremont, CA (510) 650-6323 Certified Coach: ·Bill Vletti'ti Qaldand, CA. (510) 420-8628 Certified Coach: Brad Norton Davis. CA. (916) 757-6528 Certified ec.ch: Chris Sctii'leidier
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Robert Gomez
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Eric McNeil
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(719) 200-7971
Monte Adler 305-353-2676 Monte Adler 3()5.353.2676
(404) 612-8248 Arwty Smith
(404) 971-0920 JR Reynolds (912) 356-1215
Certified Coach: Watertown, MA CertJ1ied Coach: Artingb:xl, MA
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Joe Giempino (617) 924-1523 Anne Murray (617) 643-6483 Jed Geary
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Pameta Martin
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Ralph Jerger
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Jon Gewirtz (914) 472-2622 TedNa'lton (716) 211-6382
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Volume 15 Number 1 • March 1995
THE ULTIMATE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION
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SECTIONAL COORDINATORS OF THE YEAR Chris O'Cieary, Women's SC of the Year
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wo years ago, Chris volunteered to be the Women's Sectional Coordinator for the newly created women's East Coast Section in the Southern Region. With the growth of women's ultimate in the South becoming more apparent, Chris helped create the new section to spur even more growth, increase the competition and decrease travelling time for teams. Since the inception of the new section in 1992, women's participation in Sectionals has almost doubled. The level of play has also increased as the number of Southern women's teams competing in various tournaments around the South (and in other regions) continues to rise. . Chris' commitment to women's ultimate played a significant role in the South's growth. She has been playing ultimate for 12
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years in the same southern city- Atlanta, GA - where she has helped spread ultimate and, at the same time, focused on strengthening her team and the overall level of play . She·was very supportive of the second women's team that formed in Atlanta, and as captain of her team, Ozone, she brought them to their first {and the South's first) finals of the UPA National Championships this past year. Chris is very supportive of her section and, along with her co-SC, JR Reynolds, they put on a great Sectionals. As she continues her third year as WSC, and with her goal of winning her first Nc;~tional Championships, we thank her for her oontributions to women's ultimate and hope h~r dream oneday comes true. Y-ou deserve it, Chris.
Tim Anderson, Open SC of the Vear
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im began playing "Frisbee Football" in 1978. In 1980 the team disbanded. For four years he played soccer, occasionally wondering -whatever happened to that game. Then in 1984, he saw the first members of the Hoosiermama? ultimate practicing, and immediately pulled his motorcycle over and started playing. The rest, as they say, is history. Tim has been the Sectional Coordinator for the Central Plains since 1992. He does an impeccable job administratively and has set a new standard for the SC position. During his three years as SC, the section has seen some significant growth. "I guess,· Tim says, •the reason I started being an SC is to keep the sport growing.! know what it is to have Ultimate disappear. As long as there are good tournaments run by good people, and hardworking UPA staff like
Cindy Fisher and Eric Simon, I believe there will be Ultimate.• Froll) being a very poor team to going to College Nationals in 1989, Tim is proud of his team's devoted honor to the Spirit of the Game. But what has given him the most pride is that last year there were ten ex-Hoosiermama?s playing at Nationals. No head-butting, no verbal abuse by the team captain, just good hard play by people who love the game. Tim would like to give special thanks to Dave Adam, w ho was SC before him and played with the Columbus Blues in 1978, Paul Wilson of Baton Rouge who played at Indiana U. in 1978·, and Dave Hasbrook, who has fostered the summer league program in Indianapolis, and all the players from Indiana past and present.
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iz started playing disc in the fall of 1990 at the University of Chicago. Two years later, she started a new team there, giving UC it's fir1?t all-year-round women's ultimate team. She also helped organize Chicago's first summer league. Liz dec.ided to get involved with the administration of the College Series last year because she felt that the women's teams were getting second class treatment. So called her CRC and volunteered as College Sectional Coordinator for the Central Plains Section. As CSC, Liz introduced some new standards for the position. She remembered what her first College Sectionals were like and was determined to change the downfalls -long distance travel and the cost of Sectionals.• So she he1d Sectionals at Ul that year, a central location for the section. She organized on email to keep down the cost of
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phone calls, and got a lot of praises for soliciting input from teams about seeding, format and other Sectional matters. She also talked with teams about on the COIWY Section issue-which was being _oonsidered at that time to be moved from the West to the Central region. Last fall, Liz moved to Iowa City and is currently playing her last college season with the University of Iowa. She decided to oontinue her involvement and to bring her standards to the Western Plains Section, where she is now the CSC there. •t think the College Sectional Coordinator position is really important because so many people start playing ultimate in oollege, and the only UPA official that a lot of them get to meet is their esc. So it's really important to go out and meet all the players in the section and let them know that they can make a difference, and that they have a voice in the big ultimate picture."
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orne players beoome Sectional Coordinators because of their oommitment to the sport. Others do it for fame and glory. Billy Layden did it because he lost a drunken Rochambeau with Poochie {West RC), and dragged his alter-ego, Tom ·worm• Glass, with him. Though Billy lost in Rochambeau, and Billy and Tom's team .(Double Happiness)_had trouble winning their final game of the year, there isn't much-else they don't win. This year, with help from Women's Sectional Coordinator, Tina Lipscomb they set records in the Northern California Section. Along with establ.ishing a 44 Open team Sectional database and helping Dave Mosooe to create a Juniors Oivision at Sectionals, Billy and Tom were the driving force in growing the section from 18 teams to a UPA record 27 teams.
Some say Billy did such a great job because he's anal. Others believe he was driven by fear that his oonference would not qualify for the Nationals wild card spot. Most add it was his chance to boss Tom around. Probably all are true, along with Billy's spirit and love for the game. At Sectionals, Tom and Billy ensured that all teams were guaranteed a at least six games, that trainers and massage therapists were available, and that everybody enjoyed a oomplimentary pasta dinner. Players danced and competed to win the party, and there was enough beer to keep everyone happy. The UPA was so impressed by Billy and Tom's acoomplishments that we created the new Rookie Sectional Coordinator of the Year award to honor them. Thanks guys!
Mary lowry Jorgenson, Juniorc Volunteer of the Year
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he UPA is proud to name Mary Lowry Jorgenson of Seattle the •Juniors Volunteer of the Year. • Thanks to Mary's efforts, mor.e than 200 youths ages 9-14 spent eight Sundays last spring playing Ultimate in what may be the nation's only pre-high-school league. Now entering its third year, the Puget Sound Juniors' League, founded and run by Mary, has grown from six to nine teams drawn from Seattle area schools, with some playel'$ travelling upwards of 30 miles to compete. Some of last year's kids found Ultimate so much to their liking thatthey now also _play in the local adult Ultimate league. Building on this foundation of young players, Mary plans to start Seattle's first high-school league this ooming spring.
Mary began playing Ultimate in 1976 in Tampa, Florida. In 1978 she moved to Seattle and wasoneofthefoundersofthefirstwomen'steam there, which she then co-captained for the next 10 years. Now playing with Seattle's Women On the Verge, she has attended three UPA National Championships. Also an avid all-around oompetitor since 1982, Mary holds world and national championship titles in Freestyle, Accuracy, Discathon, and Self-Caught Flight. In addition, she has co-roached Seattle area youngsters to six world titles in Juniors' all-around events. Happily, Mary reports that her Juniors oompetitors ·uke Ultimate best.· The UPA applauds Mary's hard work, and thanks her sincerely for all she has done to encourage Ultimate's ·youngest enthusiasts.
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From the College Director·~ Desk by Jay Cohen I'd like to begin by welcoming all the new and veteran College Coordinators to the 1995 UPA College Series, and thanks for all your time and work. This is shaping up to be a terrific season with all the changes we've made - some minor, some major, but all important. First, are the ch anges in the Eligibility Rules, which I hope by now you 're all fami1iar with. The intent is to make the rules a little clearer to both the players and the school registrars who have to seal them. In case you're unsure if you're eligible to compete in the series, we have the new and improved Clarification Process in place. As always, you can request a Clarification Request Form from HQ. But now, instead of waiting for a huge Coordinating Committee conference call to vote on the cases in April, we have established a smaller, streamlined Clarification Committee who will be examining the Clarifications Requests on a year-round rolling basis. So the sooner you get your request in, the sooner you'll know. Second, is the establishment of Single-Team Status Criteria, which can allow two schools to compete as one team. These are very strict standards, however, and are meant to discourage the combination of teams. They do not apply to situations where two schools just can't seem to get teams together so they'd like to combine. The two schools must in essence prove that they are one school, through various relationships. For the specifics, please see the article on Single-Team Status Criteria. One of my favorite new developments is the College Issues Meeting. It began last year at College Nationals in Baton Rouge as an informal meeting of all interested parties to discuss anything and everything relating to the College Division. The new Eligibility Rules actually came out of that meeting. Now, however, it will be an official meeting at every College Nationals, and hopefully all College Regional Coordinators will attend to represent their regions' interests. Speakiiig of College Nationals, the site for 1995 has been selected. The honor of hosting them has been awarded to Dianna Mines (Tournament Director) of the Univ. oflllinois at Urbana-Champaign. Look for further info and details from her and her staff soon. Just to remind anyone who may have forgotten, the two regions getting wildcards to this year's College Nationals are the Central and the Northeast. Congrats to both of you. A clarifying note, to avoid misunderstandings down the road: the creation of six regions and the redistribution of the National bids and wild cards only applies to the Open and Women's club divisions, not to the College Division. We still have only five regions, with a wildcard going to the two regions with the most valid rosters from Sectionals. Got it? Good. Now get out there and play some Ultimate!
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Clarification Reminder 9 Remeber, all Clarification Requests for Eligibility must be sent to the UPA Headquarters, posbnarked no later than March 15, 1995.
1995 Wild Cards The 1995 wild cards for Open College go to the Northeast and Central regions. The team counts for last year for the Open College were: Region Central
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by Jay Cohen, National College Director These are sample situations to be used in conjunction with the Eligibility Rules to help you figUre out whether you are eligible to compete in the UPA College Series. Ifyou are still unsure, write to the UPA HQ to request a Clarification Request Form. You must be a registered student at the school that the team represents - NO EXCEPTIONS. It doesn't matter if your school has no team, or if y9u've been practicing with that team all year. You cannot compete with that team in the College Series. You must be in a defined program. Taking additional classes that are not applied to a specific program, such as taking classes to assist in applying to a graduate program, does,not count. Co-op programs that are part of a degree program and are acknowledged by the school, while still considering the student matriculated, do make a player eligible. Correspondence courses DO NOT count. There are no exceptions - only clarifications - to the eligibility rules. In only two instances was a player granted an additional season of eligibility beyond the five-year cap. In the first case, th~layer was in jail for a period of time during his five years of eligibility. In the second case, the player was ca11ed away to active duty in the armed services during the five-year period. In both instances the Coominating Committee detennined that the player was placed in a situation not of his choosing, and in which he could not gain any significant Ultimate experience. Ninety-nine percent of the requests for an additional season of eligibility are denied on the basis that it is each player's choice to be in a situation where Ultimate is not an option. This includes, but is not limited to, going abroad or attending a school without a team .
To be eligible in any event College National ChclfliPionship Series Regionals, and Nationals), a PLAYER must All of the following reg~iremen1s: · A. Slhe must . accepted and emoUeq in a regularly matriculated degree program at school for which eligibiljftj s to apply.
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2. Single-Team Status for a consortium will be reviewed after four (4) years, at which point it may "Single-Team Status» means that all schools listed be revoked by the Coordinating Committee if: in a particular consortium may compete together as a a. any of the schools in the consortium no longer combined team in the UPA College Series. meet the criteria above, or According to the UPA Coordinating Committee, the b. the Coordinating Committee deems it beneficial following criteria must be adhered to in establishing to the growth of Ultimate. and maintaining the Single-Team Status of two or 3. Any school in a consortium many withdraw from more schools: the consortium if: a. they make a request in writing to the National 1. All schools in the proposed consortium must: College Director by March 1 of the year in which a. have a prior academic consortium with each ·they wish to compete separately, other, b. this request includes the reasons for wishing to b. have a history of athletic exchange at the varsity withdraw, and level, c. the CooJ"dinating Committee deems it beneficial c. shm:e the SAIM athletic facilities, and to the growth of Ultimate. d. submit a single, unified Consortium Proposal in writing to the UPA National College Director by Any school that withdraws from a consortium cannot March 1 of the year in which the schools wish to reapply for another consortium until the following compete under Single-:Team Status. The proposal year. must include: The withdrawal of one or more schools from a consori. a letter of interest from a representative of tium does not dissolve theconsortiumoftheremaining each school in the proposal, schools. ii. documentation showing that all schools in 4. Any school that is a member of a consortium and the proposal meet the above criteria, and no longer meets all the criteria in Section 1 is autoiii. contact information for a single contact person representing the proposed consortium, to matically removed from the consortium. be selected by the schools in the proposal. 5. Without regard to the aforementioned rules, the status of any school (whether a member of a consorThe UPA National College Director may reject a Contium or not) at the time of their UPA College Series sortium Proposal for insufficient information and/or Sectional Tournament will remain the same documentation. throughout that year's UPA College Series.
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UPA College Series Coordinators Central Region Open Regional Women's Regional Michigan West Plains Mountain Northwest Plains Central Plains East Plains
Pat Wolf Julia North David Moran Liz Schmidt Kate Bergeron Lou Burruss Daxman Daron Byerly
507-645-47 43 608-257-6458 313-769-6378 319-339-4317 303-440-8331 507-645-5189 812-336-5085 614-594-7574
Paul Socolow Eric Cohen Farrel Sullivan Keith Lewis
908-247-9316 215--695-8148 301-583-2237 919-830-6710
Ed Hwang David Bailey Andrew Feller Aaron Craig MikeCaro Mary Liz
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John Malone
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Skippy Jammer Andrea Barrio JayJanin Kerry Kerter Dave Adelson
408-459-4220 408-425-4960 503-342-5421 510-443-6669 310-392-0459
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Northeast Region Open Regional EastNE West.NE Metro NY Upstate NY West NE Women's
Southern Region Open Regional
Western Region Open Regional Women's Regional Northwest North CA SouthCA
UPA College Series Dates for Sectionals, Regionals and Nationals All inquiries regarding College Sectional and Regional tournaments should be directed to your College Sectional Coordinator and College Regional Coordinator.
CENTRAL REGION Central Regionals, April 29-30, Madison, W I. Michigan Sectionals, April15, Ann Arbor, MI. East Plains Sectionals, April 22-23, Athens, OH. Northwest Plains Sectionals, Apr 15-16 , Northfield, MN. W Plains Sectionals , April 15-16 , Lawrence, KS . Central Plains Sectionals, April22-23, Indianapolis , IN. Rocky Mtn Sectionals, April22-23, Laramie, WY.
SOUTHERN REGION South Regionals, TBA.
MID-ATLANTIC REGION MA Regionals, May 6-7, Wilmington, NC. NJ/PA Sectionals, April22-23, Rutgers University. MDNAIOC Sectionals, TBA. North Carolina Sectionals, Apr 22-23, ECU.
WEST REGION West Regionals, May 6-7, Santa Cruz, CA. Northwest Sectionals, TBA. North CA, April 29-30, UC Davis. South CA, TBA.
NORTHEAST REGION Northeast Regionals, May 6-7, Yale or Williams. East New England Sectionals, April 29-30, site TBA. West New England Sectionals, April 29-30, Williams. Metro NY Sectionals, April 29-30, Wesleyan or Yale. Upstate NY Sectionals, TBA.
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UPA to Restructure Administration and Board of Directors .-
by Troy Frever In their reoont Annual Meeting (January 14-16) the tion elsewhere on this page.) The current hierarchy of UPA Board of Direcrors and Coordinating Committee Sectional Coordinators, Regional Coordinators, and approved an ''intent to proceed" with a comprehensive National Directors (including Director of Competition) organizational restructuring plan. Although the will remain in place and work under the Executive details have not been fully worked out, the extensive Director in the operation ofthe several UPA Series and outline adopted describes a year-long proooss resulting other existing projects, programs, and events. The in a significantly revamped UPA administration. The other new position will be that of Office Manager, goal is ro provide the membership with a simpler, more handling the daily affairs of Headquarters. responsive, and better working organization, which Under this plan the UPA Board of Directors will be embodies a clearer structure and well documented directly elected by the membership. The Board will policies and procedures. Following is a brief summary consist of 12 Direcrors, each serving a three-year term, of the plan. Future newsletter articles will describe it staggered so that four are elected each year. Each in more depth as the specifics are established. Region will elect one Director as a regional repreThe restructuring plan identifies and addresses six sentative; the remaining Directors will be elected by fundamental problem areas: the entire membership. The Board will elect a Chair, who will be the primary spokesperson for the UPA The • the current UPA structure reflects a poor Board of Directors will decide all policy matters set separation of policy and management concerns; before the organization. A number ofpolicy committees • the Executive Director (ED) workload is roo (including the already existing Coordinating Commithigh for a volunteer position; tee) will also be established to assist in the research • the role of the·ED is poorly defined; and development of proposals. • the ED is asked ro perform too wide a variety One of the features of this restructuring is a simpler · of duties; decision path for proposals. Any UPA member may • the Managing Director (MD) workload is roo submit a proposal on any topic. The Executive Direcror high; would be responsible for routing the proposal ap• the Regional Coordinaror positions are propriately (e.g. policy matters would be submitted to overburdened. the Board) and for keeping the proposer apprised of its The primary focus ofthe plan is to provide a distinct status in a timely manner. Committees and staffmemseparation of the administrative (management) and bers may also be assigned to work with the proposer policy making sides of the organization. It is felt that on ideas that need further research or development. It by improving the definition of tasks and roles, both is intended that the UPA become more directly responpaid and volunteer staff will have better direction and sive ro the player membership through this and other be more productive (hopefully with less effort!). This new mechanisms. type of structure is based on models used by other The time line for the implementation of this plan non-profit organizations (including other athletic includes: further examination and development to groups). The two major areas ofchange are the elimina- begin immediately; submission of new Bylaws for tion and creation of certain staff positions, and the membership approval in August 1995; new Executive direct election of the Board of Directors. Director Trainee to start late summer or early fall of The reorganization or'the UPA administration In- 1995; election of new Board of Directors to take office volves eliminating the Executive Direcror and Manag- in January of 1996; ED Trainee ro be promoted to ing Director positions. These will be replaced by-two Executive Director, and new Office Manager to be full time staff members at UPA Headquarters in hired in early 1996. Colorado Springs. One, still entitled "Executive DirecThe full text of the UPA Restructuring P!an Outline tor," will be the top administrative officer and highest is available by contacting UPA Headquarters, or online -paid staff position of the organization, responsible for through the prototype UPA WWW site at: the implementation of UPA policy. The salary will be http://komodo.hacks.arizona.edu/-hko/upa/home. html at a level similar ro the outgoing MD position. (Please Please relate any comments ro the UPA Executive see the employment announcement for this new posi- Direcror, Holly Larrison.
. Regional Coordinator Position Openings The following UPA Voluteer positions are open to · the membership. Regional Coordinator Mountain Beach Region- this two-year position for will be filled by an election this summer. We are looking for an interim coordinator immediately to fill the position in the meantime. (Interims may run for election if they desire.) For more information about the position, or to express interest in fiJJing the position, please contact Eric Simon at 703-242-4244 or erics@access.digex.net, or call the UPA Headqarters. The ·application dead1ine for the permanent position is May 1, 1995.
Women's Regional Coordinator Mountain Beach Region -we are looking to immediately appoint an interim coordinaror who will co:ntinue through the fall season. An election will be held after the fall for the following two-year term. DeadHne for the permanent position is October 1, 1995. Northeast Region- for the recently vacated position (the former WRC, Kim Forsten, is now the Women's National Direcror). This two-year position will be ruled by an election this summer. In the meantime, Linda Beach has volunteered ro take over as interim WRC until the election. (Interims will be able to run for election ifthey desire.) The application deadline for the permanent position is May 1, 1995. For more information about the position, or to express interest in filling the pos~tion, ·please contact Kim Forsten at 617-464-3756 or kforsten@acs.bu.edu. More information about what these jobs entail is contained in the UPA Staff Guide, accessible at the UP A Prototype Home Page, http://www.hacks.arizona.edu/-hko/upa/hom~.html under Administrative Documents. The staff gwde can also be retrieved via email by sending a message to listproc@www().cern.ch with the message of: send http://www.hacks.arizona.edu/-hkolupa/adminlstaff-gu ide.html
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UPA DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS POSITION The UPA is looking for a Director of Promotions (OOP) to help develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy for sponsorship opportunities.
RESPONSIBILITIES • Help develop a strategic marketing plan for the organization • Help design professional marketing package • Follow-up on current potential sponsorship opportunities • Develop potential sponsorship opport~nmes • Maintain complete records of all contacts • Be liaison between the UPA and sponsom • Coordinate necessary logistics for sponsol'ship programs ~ • Report to the Executive Director on marketing/sponsorship activities QUALIFICATIONS • Prior experienced in sponsorship and/or marketing . • Familiar with printing design and purchasing · • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Available during business hours for phone calls and have fax capabilities The OOP will receive a yearly stipend plus expenses, with a final compensation package to be determined. All interested applicants should call Holly Larrison at 800-872-4384 or send letter of interest and resume to: UPA, 3595 E. Fountain Blvd., Suite J2, Colorado Springs, CO 8091 0.
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UPA JOB OPENING FULL-TIME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The UPA will be hiring afull-time Executive Director (ED) for the UPA H~~dqu~rters in Colorad~ Springs. This new positaon will start as a full-tame trainee position in the fall of this year and develop into the Executive Director job in the spring of '96. The Executive Director is the top administrative offacer of the UPA, responsible for the implementation of Board policy and the overseeing of all UPA volunteers and staff. The Job: As a trainee, the job will entail learning the entire operations of the UPA Headquarters, including all UPA programs, bu~iness dealin~s, administrative oversight, the vanous staff duties, budget and accounti~g, ne~letter pu~lis~ing, membership processing, seraes coordination, desktop production and lots more. After approximately five months oftrai':l~ng, the. trainee will be promoted to the ED posit1on, wh~ will include overseeing the UPA Headquarters, its staff and all UPA volunteers around the country. The Job will entail budget wor~, business ~egotia tions, program development, 1~plemen~atJon and oversight, problem solving, varaous projects, coordinating newsletter production, maintaining sponsorship programs, and much more. Requirements: Applicants should have a college degree, be computer literate and kn~wledgeable in various applications, be familiar with the sport of Ultimate and the UPA organization, and willing to relocate to the·Colorado Springs area. We are looking for a responsible, dedicated individual who is organized and detail-oriented, likes to keep busy, is able to juggle numerous projects simultaneou~ly, is good at prob~m solving, gets along well with others, has a sense of humor' and cares a great deal for the sport of Ul. . timate and the Ultimate Players AssociatiOn. Salary and Benefits: The trainee salary will start at $18K. The ED salary will be in the mid to · upper $20K range. Health insUFance, holidays and vacation time are included. Interested applicants should send a resume ~d a cover letter that includes reasons for applyang for the job, qualifications, and ultimate ex- . . perience. Please include all software applicatiOns that you are familiar with. The deadline for submitting applications is June 15, 1995. The UPA will accept applications only through the mail or fax. Please no phone calls to express interest. Send to:
UPA HEADQUARTERS 3595 E. Fountain Blvd., SUite J2 Colorado Springs, CO 8091 0
ULTIMATE SUMMER LEAGUES Don't forget to call in the contact information for your summer league. The UPA gets over 100 calls during the spring and summer months from players wanting to l<now where they can join a league in their area. We can't give them info we don 't have! Also , do you have insurance for your league? Does your club want to earn a few extra dollars? Call the UP A to find out more about these and other benefits of UPA sanctioning.
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The West Splits Into Two Regions: Mountain Beach and the Northwest Effective February 1, the Western Region ceased to exist, and was replaced by two regions: the Mountain Beach Region and the Northwest Region (club division only - the College Division is unchanged). Those who have followed UPA doings for a while can appreciate how momentous this change is. Ever since the UPA was created (Dec 78/Jan 79), there have been five regions, with the boundaries pretty much the same as they are now. Mter 16 years the regional structure has finally changed. The biggest reason was the tremendous growth among open teams in the (formerly) Western region. The number of teams that oompeted during the Fall Series jumped from approximately 60 to the 80, and the number of sections was up to eight (nine, ifyou include Alaska). The West was becoming extremely difficult to manage well, and the density of teams and sections in each of the Western Conferences was enough to warrant them each their own region. The split was long in coming. As far back as the late '80s, some people in the West argued for a split of the region. Others argued vociferously that the West's numbers did not justify a split, while many in the West responded that the mere size of the region inhibited growth. The answer to that, some argued, was that more sections, which would be smaller, would help the problem. More sections were created, and then in 1993 the UPA passed a plan (authored by Mark Licata and myselO to create the Conference system in the West. Under this system, the West was still one region to the rest of the country, but qualifying tournaments to Nationals would be under a two-conference system. There was opposition to this plan in the West at f1rst, but due to the hard work of the Regional Coordinators at the time, Brent Russell and Diane Pagel, teams were successfully convinced that for the West to ever have a shot at splitting, the Coqference system was a necessary first step. In hindsight, this was 100% accurate. Not surprisingly, the most controversial part of the
Eric Simon, Director of Competition proposal involved wild cards and who would go to Nationals. The UPA accepted on principle that the wild card system based on numbers has been a key factor in its growth, and that it should be kept. The UPA also decided that expanding Nationals was not a wise course of action at this time. So, to keep the wild cards and still maintain 12 teams at Nationals, the following new system was adopted: The region that has the most teams competing (valid rosters) at Fall Sectionals will send three teams to Nationals,· the region that has the fewest will send one team to Nationals,· the other four regions will send two teams. Had this plan been in effect in 1993, the same teams would have gone to Nationals. Had this plan been in effect in 1994, the same teams would have gone to Nationals in the Open Division (although not necessarily in the Women's Division). In the Open Division, the Mountain Beach Region/Conference had the fewest teams, and would have sent one team, and the Northeast would have had the most and sent three. This is, indeed, what happened this year (with the remaining regions sending two teams to Nationals). In the Women's Division, however, there was a tie between the Mountain Beach and the South (both regions had 16 teams), which would have been decided by a player count, and one o( those regions would have sent only one team to Nationals. The women's numbers are, in fact, so close that there is a real chance that *ANY* of the six regions are in danger of losing a spot to Nationals - and that *ANY* of the six regions are in a position to win the wild card and send three teams. It is that close.
·This is a one- to two-year trial plan, and the UPA is certain to revisit the issue. Perhaps in a few years there will be enough growth for another region and enough field sites and staff to expand Nationals. Jack "Poochie" Lynch and Diane Pagel will remain Regional Coordinators for the Northwest Region. Open and Women's Regional Coordinators are needed for the Mountain Beach Region. If you are interested in one of these positions, please contact the UPA Headquarters. The deadline for applying is May 1, 1995. If more than one individual applies for either position, a vote by the players in the region will decide the RCs. In the College Division, the current Western Region had the second lowest number of teams competing. For this reason, the new regional boundaries affect only the Club (Open, Open-Women, and Masters) teams, and NOT the College Division. The issue was tabled to the College Series Committee.
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2) Expand Nationals to a 16 team event. Pro: Each region would send at least two teams, and four wildcard spots would be created. Con: It is difficult to host Nationals as it is (note that we still have no bids for the 1995 Nationals). The site requires 18 fields. Expanding to 16 teams would make it even harder to host. In addition, a format of four pools of four would leave half of the teams with only three games over a four-day weekend. Vote: Although we discussed this option, no one formally introduced it. 3) Expand Nationals to a 14 team event. Pro: Regional representation and the wildcard system would remain the same - two teams from each region and two wild cards. Con: A 14-team Nationals would require the same number of fields as is currently required, but scheduling would beoome a sever problem. The preHminary round-robin, which now takes five rounds and fits neatly into two games per day, would take seven rounds. One, and exactly one, team would play three games on each of the f1rst two days. Teams that had a bye, and were rested, would always be playing a team that just fmished a game. And, fmally, a team in each pool would get a bye in the round immediately preceding the semifinals. The last thing we would want is for Nationals to be decided by who got a bye when. The Open Masters had seven teams, and most of them complained about their schedule. Furthermore, in- creasing the number of prelim games per day by 50% would be very difficult given the fact that all of the recent Nationals were understaffed, and there weren't even any bids for this year. (Staffing needs include more observers, scorekeepers, etc.) Vote: Open Division: 4-10, this option defeated. Women's Division: Although we discussed this option, no one fonnaUy introduced it. 4) Allow the region with the most number of teams to send three teams to Nationals, the regionwiththefewestnumberteamstosendone, and the other regions to send two. Pro: The wild card system would be preserved and so would the existing format and field requirements of Nationals. The incentive for growth is greater because in addition to a wild card, there would be competition from the bottom (to avoid having the fewest number of teams). All six regions could be involved in the race.
Con: The existing regional representation of two teams per region would be abolished. While one region would be awarded a bonus for a high number of teams, another region would be penalized for having a low number of teams. The wild card system would take priorit over the existing regional representation. The incentive for teams to continue on to Regionals for a spot at Nationals may be lost if the region has one dominant team. Vote: Open Division: (Note, at this point, #3 above had already been defeated. If this option had been defeated, and nothing else substituted in its place, the current "oonference system" method of wildcards would still have been in place). Passed 10-4. Women's Division: (Note, at this point, #1 above had already been defeated. If this option had been defeated, and nothing else substituted in its place, the current "conference system" method of wildcards would still have been in place). The Plan passed 8-4-2.
Regional Count for the 1994 Fall Series Region
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The 1995 UPA Board of Directors/Coordinating Committee Meeting was held January 14-16, 1995 in Washington, DC. The purpose of the annual meeting is to e:sJEI'Msh organizational goals, eled the Board of Directors, assign committees for Board management, review ongoing programs and procedures, approve new programs, approve a budget, discuss player/member input, and set a preliminary agenda for the year. In attendance at the meeting were: Holly Larrison, Executive Director and Board Member; Cindy Fisher, Managing Director and Board Member; Eric Simon, Director of Competition and Board Member; Andy Borinstein, International Di1ector and Board Member; Troy Frever, Board Member; Judy Lee, Board Member; Steve Courlang, Board Member; Rex O'Quinn, Southern Regional Coordinator and Board Member; Jay Cohen, National Director and Board Member; Kim Fo1sten, National Women's Director; Pabb Martinez, Northeastern Regional Coordinator; Chris Lehmann, Mid-AUantic Regional Coordinator; Bob McSheffery, Central Regional Coordinator; J.R. Reynolds, Director of Public Relations;-and Julia North, Secretary~ Jack Lynch, West Regional Coordinator, was u·nable to attend.
MISSION STATEMENT In the current UPA Bylaws, the purpose ofthe Ultimate Players Association is as follows: 1. To serve as the governing body of the sport of Ultimate, representing the interests of the sport and the interest& of all players worldwide; 2. To maintain the Spirit of the Game as the central governing principle of the sport; 3. To promote the growth and development ofthe sport of Ultimate throughout the world; and · 4. To act as the vehicle through which the ongoing activities of the sport are organized, including buf not limited to, overseeing national and international competition, developing and disseminating educational programs, maintaining a standardized body of rules and serving as a medium for the exchange of information. Our mission remains central to the focus of the UPA.
HOW THE UPA OPERATES The Ultimate Players Association is an organization funded and run by and for its members. It is a 501c(3) not-for-profit corporation in accordance with the state of Colorado rules and regulations for not-for-profit corporations. The UPA is governed by a set of membership-approved Bylaws. In 1994, the UPA grew to an active membership of over 8,300. In 1995, the UPA will operate with a budget of over $200,000. T/Jp Coordinating Committee (CC) The Coordinating Committee consis1s of the Regional Coordinator for each region, the National Women's Director and the Executive Director. The Regional Coordinators are voted in by the membership directly. They in turn appoint Women Regional Coordinators who elect a National Women's Director (NWD). The five Regional Coordinators and the National Women's Director-elect ·are responsible for electing the Executive Director (ED), who becomes the chair of the CC. The CC is the voting body on all matters related to Ultimate play such as rules, tournament protocol, seeding, competitive issues, scheduling and competition coordination. ·
The 1995 CC is made up of Kim Forsten, Holly Larrison, Chris Lehmann, Jack Lynch, Pablo Martinez, Bob McSheffery, Rex O'Quinn and Mountain Beach RC (TBA). Board of Directors The CC appoints a Board of Directors each year. The Board is responsible for overseeing non-play related matters. This year, the CC expanded the previous 7-member Board to a 9-member body. The Board, which is also chair~ by the ED, votes on issues such as promotion, growth, media, sponsorship, administration, and policyoriented matters. In order to efficiently deal with the day to day business of the UPA, the Board appoints a smaller subset of itself, the Executive Committee (ExComm), which has the authority to act as the full Board.
The 1995 Board of Directors is made up of Andy Borinstein, Jay Cohen, Steve Courlang, Cindy Fisher, Troy Frever, Holly Larrison, Judy Lee, Rex O'Quinn, and Eric Simon. The Executive Committee consists of Holly Larrison, Cindy Fisher, Troy Frever, and Rex O'Quinn. Committee Structure ' In 1994, the UPA developed a new committee structure in·order to create the infrastructure that was needed to give projects, programs and proposals the attention and re6earch they deserve. The oommittee structure falls into eight major areas called "Discs of Influence." Each Disc of Influence is overseen by one or more Board members. A complete list of committees and the Discs of Influence can be found on the next page. The Proposal Process Any individu~l may submit a proposal to the UPA. All proposals should be sent to the UPA Headquarters in Colorado Springs. From there, they are recorded and forwarded to the Executive Director, who is responsible for tracking all proposals and assigning them to the
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appropriate director, body or committe e. Most proposals are routed through the commiltl&e process where they are reviewed. After a oommcttee reviews a proposal, it is then forwarded, along with the commiU e's review and/or recommendation, to the director or voting body that has the authority to make the final decision.
ALONG-TERMFOCUSPLANFORTHEUPA T.he Board has developed a Long-Term Focus Plan (LTFP) for the UPA to guide the organization through the next three to five years. The LTFP is the offspring of a 15-page report submitted by Cindy Fisher, UPA Managing Director, in October 1994, which detailed the problems plaguing the organization, the fundamental causes of these problems, and a proposed focus for resolving them. A mission statement and goal hierarchy was created to lay the groundwork and to gauge the orientation of our efforts. The Operative Mission Statement is as follows: To promote, maintain, and safeguard the sport of Ultimate and the Spirit of the Game, and to serve the needs of the players. The intention of this statement is for it to be the "why" of everything we do. The following nine goals were established as part of the foundation of the larger plan. The first four goals have beeen prioritized, the rest are in no particular order: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Have the UPA will be a well-run organization. Improve player/member services. Find more sound financial footing. Increase membership. Promote the joy of Ultimate. Ensure the quality of the sport. Increase exposure of the sport. Ensure player control of the sport Increase the numer of people playing Ultimate
The objective of the LTFP is to reorient the UPA towards its mission and make better use of its resources to serve the current and future needs of the players and the sport.
ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING PLANS The LTFP goals are of paramount importance to the UPA. In working out the details of achieving these goals, the need to restructure the organization was recognized. The current structure was tailored specifically to fit the UPA at the time of its incorporation, and thus has become inadequate over the years due to an increase in membership, member programs and the growing needs of players. The decision-making process has become difficult and obscured with the dichotomy of play-related matters (voted by the CC) versus policy-related maters (voted by the Board). When the current structure was created in 1988, the CC was the decision-making body and the need for a Board of Directors was more legal than operational. Thus, CC members doubled as Board members to fill the vacancies. However, with the increasing growth of the UPA over the last 7 years, the need for a policy-making Board has become more apparent. The implementation and policy-making by the same individuals has become too entangled and too burdensome for a volunteer-based staff. Additionally, this,has somewhat stifled the staff base in the sense that some players may be unsure of how to get involved in the UPA. The Restructuring Plan In December 1994, the UPA's legal advisor, Brian Murphy, proposed a new structure that would organize the UPA like other non-profit organizations. The Board accepted the structure outline at the annual meeting, and will be focusing on the plan this year for 1996 implementation. The new structure offers a more efficient way of operating as a national organization, and is intended to remodel the UPA in such a way that it wUI accomplish more with its limited resources-and, at the same time, make the UPA Board and staff positions more accessible to volunteers. The plans for the organizational restructuring are laid out in_an article on page 10.
UPA FINANCES The operating expenses of the UPA are based almost entirely on membership dues. Our finances and membership processing is currently managed in Silver City, New Mexico by Carney Foy, the UPA Director of Finance. For a detailed summary of the UPA's 1994 fiscal year, see •Money Matters" on pag~ 5. It should be noted here that the number of bounced checks to the UPA is increasing, and although they account for a relatively small loss, they are nevertheless becoming a problem. The UPA will continue to suspend players from all UPA sanctioned events for non-sufficient fund status.
MEMBERSHIP SERVICES UPA Headquarters In February, the UPA Headquarters (HQ) moved to a bigger office. It is currently staffed by a full-time managing director and a part-time administrative assistant Under the new restructuring, another full-time staff person will be added to HQ by the end of the year. The Managing Director position wiD be eliminated and the two new full-time staff positions will be the Executive Director and an Operations Manager. A more detailed outline of this plan and the pb announcement for the Executive Director position·can be found on page 10.
HQ handles the daily operations of the organization, which includes overseeing all the UPA programs and the newsletter coordination and production, as well as handling membership inquiries and all (800) phone calls. HQ receives as many as 50 calls per day during peak times, and with a staff of.1.5, is very busy on a daily basis. HQ also disseminates information to its membership. Some ofthe information must come from outside sources, so it is the responsibility of members and staff to keep the UPA updated on information that is relevant to players. Any player can call in the date or results of a tournament or league, or any other relevant information. Public Relations The Director of Public Relations is responsible for contacting outside media for the purpose of exposing and advertising the sport in general as well as specific events. As a service tp players, the Director of PR will write press releases FREE for any tournament. For more information on this service, contact JR Reynolds, UPA Director of Public Relations, at 912-356-1215.
In 1994, PRsuccessesincluded press releases for five tournaments, live TV coverage for Fall Nationals, a short piece on ESPN, an hourly commercial at Sam's Club, and an eight minute segment on PBS. Articles are in the works for Sports Illustrated and Spin magazines. Early 1995 will see the completion of the media kit, which will be used to inform schools and the media about the UPA, and to excite sponsors about the sport. UPA Online The UPA will continue its move towards email access for all staff. The intention is to afford more efficient communication among staff, and ·make the administration more accessible to players. It is currently a requirement for Board members to have email access. Email accounts will be offered to WRCs and CRCs if they do not already have an account. The UPA alias system has been working well. For information on using the UPA aliases, see related article on page 17.
COMPETITIVE SERIES Easterns has been approved for the first or second weekend in June. Previous policy stipulated the second weekend in June, but because of potential conflict with the Poultry Days tournament, the date for Eastems has become more flexible. In the South, Southerns is celebrating its third year. Southems was started by Rex O'Quinn three years ago and has the potential to develop into a series, offering the club teams in the South a competitive spring series.
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A sixth region has been created -the West was split into two separate regions - which will affect the Fall Series competition and the wild card system. All changes in regard to the new regional structure can be found in a related article on page 11. The issues facing the Fall Series remain a priority. A Fall Series Committee is being formed. This body will consist of members willing to actively participate in the administration of the series as consultants. This committee falls under the "Competition Management," which the Board advisors for are Judy Lee and Eric Simon. If you are interested in participating on this committee, contact one of the advisors. UPA Fall Nationals Currently, there are no bids for hosting the 1995 Fall National Championships. We strongly encourage inter-. ested clubs or individuals to contact HQ for information regarding host requirements and for a copy of a bid outline. The Seeding Committee has successfully devised a mechanism for seeding teams in series tournaments that includes team captains in the process. See related on page 17. THE COLLEGE DMSION
The College Division is growing at a much faster rate in open competition than in \NOmen's. One of the goals of the College Division is to get more women's college teams involved. ~
Problems plaguing the administering of the College Division were discussed. Inadequate contact information makes it difficult to locate college teams to inform them of new information each year. College contacts change each season and updated information needs to be communicated within sections and regions. College Sectional Coordinators are difficult to recruit and their job of finding contacts for teams in their section is problematic. We urge players to call their CSC, RC, or the the UPA to update · their team contact information.
Nations/Intramural Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) National College Director Jay Cohen will be attending the NIRSA Conference in Albuquerque, NM this April to promote Ultimate at colleges and universities and to establish permanent contacts with recreational sports administrators. It is hoped that these contacts will allow the UPA to work with schools and ultimate· teams to ensure the long-term growth of college ultimate. College Eligibility There was a significant increase in the number of eligibility discrepancies in 1994. Players must be responsible for knowing if they are eligible in relation to the five-year rule and must abide by the Spirit of the rules. A preface has been added to the Eligibility Rules to emphasize the intentions and Spirit of the rules. THE JUNIORS DIVISION
The Juniors Division is a long-term project of the UPA. The primary priority for the division is to emphasize recruitment of volunteers so that the appropriate administrative infrastructure can be put into place when the time is right. Currently, we know of 100 schools in 36 states playing Ultimate on a regular basis. For information on volunteering, contact Tim Ray, National Juniors Director. Students interested in introducing Ultimate to their athletic director should also contact Tim.
UPA Discs of Influence and Committee List Following is a list ofthe UPA committees and the Disc of Influence that they fall under. Players interested in joining a commiittte should contact the Briard Advisor listed. All committees are considered important to the organization, but some naturally have less activity due to our limited staff. Policy-oriented committees that need approval from CC or Board of Directors include Nominating, Bylaws, Restructuring, Finance, and Conduct Committees. Comm.ittees with tasks assigned at the meeting include the Membership Feedback, Seeding, Fall Series, Juniors, College Series, Sectionals Improvement, MIS, Disc Standards, Sanctioning, Regional Redrawing, and Sponsorship committees. CORE COMMIITEES • Holly Larrison, Board
Advisor Conduct Resolution Committee Nominating Committee Annual Meeting Committee Finance Committee ADMINISTRATION- Cindy Fisher, Board Advisor Sectional Coordinator Committee HQ Administration Committee Bylaws Committee Restructuring Committee COMPETI110N MANAGEMENT- Eric Simon and Judy Lee, Board Advisors Fall Series Committee College Series Committee Sectional Improvement Committee Women's Division Committee Masters Division Committee Easterns Committee Regional Redrawing Committee Spirit of the Game Committee Seeding Committee
INTERNATIONAL ULTIMATE
World Club Championships The World Club Championships will be held near Bristol, England, July22-30, 1995. The U.S. was awarded four spots for the Women's Division, .four spots for the Masters Division, and eight spots for th~ Open Division. Team selection for U.S. representation at Worlds is based on National standings. See related article on page 17. Open Masters at Worlds Due to the growth of the Open Masters Division, the CC adopted a new policy regarding Masters representation at Worlds. The winner of the Open Masters Division in the UPA Fall Series in the odd years (1995, 1997, etc.) will be the official representative for the U.S. in the WFDF World Ultimate and Guts Championship. This team may add players to their roster if they so desire. If the wiMing team declines the invitation to compete at Worlds, the second place National team will receive the invitation. During the even years, masters teams representing the U.S. at the WFDF World Ultimate Club ChampionshipS 'will be based on national standing.
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Troy Frever, Board Advisor Approved Disc Standards Committee Certified Observer Pool Committee Standing Rules Committee 1Oth Edition Rules Committee MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS- Jay Cohen, Board Advisor Sanctioning Program Committee Club Affiliate Membership Committee Medical Program Committee Institutional Membership Committee · DEVELOPMENT- Steve Courlang, Board Advisor Juniors Committee: • International Development Committee COMMUNICATIONS- Rex O'Quinn, Board Advisor Publication Committee MIS Committee Membership Feedback Committee Archives Committee College Development Committee MARKETING- Andy Borinstein. Board_Advisor Sponsorship Committee Public Relation Committee
International Teams Competing in the UPASeries The current policy regarding non-U.S teams competing in the UPA Series remains unchanged. Non-U.S. teams are welcome to participate, but they cannot attend the National tournament ofthe series and they are not included in the regional wild card count. The directors who attended the annual meeting: (bottom row left to right} Pablo Martinez, Rex O'Quinn, Cindy Fisher, JR Reynolds; (middle row left to right) Kim Forsten, Andy Borinstein, Steve Courlang, Judy Lee, Holly Larrison, Eric Simon, Troy Frever, Tim Ray; (top row left to right) Bob McSheffery, Chris Lehmann, Jay Cohen.
Please address any questions or comments about the above issues to the overseeing director or Holly Larrison, Executive Director, at 800-8724384 or 75352.2544@compuserve.com.
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UPA Sanctioned Events March 31 -Aprll2. Fools Fest, Fredricksburg, VA. Bid deadline was February 15.703-528-3819. Aprll22-23. Swamp Thing II, Freehold, NJ. Scott 908370-9642. April\ May. UPA College Series Events. See page 9 for listing. May 20-21. Southerns, Mobile, Al. Open, women's, masters. Chuck Fisk 205-626-7453, 800-880-3032.
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May 20-21. NE Division I Regional& (Qualifers for Easterns) site TBA. Pablo Martinez 617489-2543 or Pablo@crd.lotus.oom. May 26-29. 1995 UPA College National Championships, Urbana, ll . Dianna Mines 217-359-7543 or Betsy Andravs 217-344-0434. • • • • • June 3-4. Easterns, site to be determined. Pablo Martinez 617489-2543, or pablo@crd.lotus.com. June 24-25. Strong Tournament (benefit for Childrens Med. Ctr.), Rochester, NY. Eric leinberg 716-6547984, or (w) 716-253-9468. Daniel8ell716-381-3336, or (w) 716-383-7579. July 1-3. Mars, Zelienpole, PA. Weasel412-681-4623 or (w) 412-268-1541. HHHH July 22-30. World Ultimate Club Championships, Millfaeld, England. U.S. team selection procedure determined by the UPA. For more info or call +44-121-4493382.
The Anchorage Ultimate Scene will be holding the 5th Annual Anchorage Ultimate Tournament July 29 and 30, 1995. Both teams and pick-up players will be welcome- make plans to attend now! The tnurnament has traditionally been coed. However, with the emergence in the past year of a formidable and dedicated Anchorage women's team, we would be open to the possibility of holding a separate Women's Division if enough interest is shown. Last year's eight team tournament included teams from Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Eugene, Oregon. Fairbanks narrowly defeated the small but impressive Oregon squad in the finals. Several pick-up players also journeyed up from the lower 48 for the tournament, including (to name drop for a moment) the talented and charming Kim Forsten - current UPA National Women's Directnr. We are more organized this year and would not be averse to playing host to more teams and folks from "outside."
Of course, the tournament ia ~et the iJ a t oliJYiny great ~"~eC~eational opportunities in AI• '• Co+•• up and travel for at least a week. See a .-•mn, a iJ 111r, a moose, the northern lights; catch an eDOr••••• lmcm and stay up way roo late because the sun won~ 10 down. Make plans EARLY. We will paObebly haw aome airfare wars over the course of the nut two !'YlDths that will significantly lower the C08t of flying to Anchorage. Round trip tickets from Seattle to Anchorage will hopefully dip below $200 dollars aome time in February or March, but when prices go beck up they can go way up. The truly courageous might •I so want tD consider driving the Alcan Highway- a very long but very worthwhile trip through some of the moat beautiful country in North America. For more info, caJJ Jim Adams at work (907) 2584800 or home (907) 243-1850 or email: jimad~gc.apc.org; or Tami Hamler at (907) 5634359. The Alaska women's team will be attending the Kaimana Klassic in Hawaii in February, and will be available for questioning regarding the tourney.
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Other Events CENTRAL REGION Apr118-9. Big 10 Open, Madison, WI. Ben Cohen 608-284-1434. April (mid-late TBA). 9th Annual Dennis J. Drazba Memorial Ultimate Tournament, Carbondale, ll.lan Weidner 618-457-0194. May 13-14. Central Ultimate Championships, Kalamazoo, MI. OrewDaniels810-541-8042. June10-11. Poultry Days, Versailles, OH. Dale Wilkers 513-298-9938. June 24-25. Reggae Ultimate, Tulsa, OK. Eddie Bryan 918-749-7412,
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New Mars Offers New Scramble Format by Henry F. Thorne
puter would have no basis on which to rank across pools. Making the web properly interconnected means ensuring that a path exists where team A plays team B who plays team C who plays team D, and so on, to reach every team in the tournament. What,s terrific is that it works really well. Imagine the worst case: you lose every game to teams that finish first through ruth. With the computer system you still make the playoffs seeded sixth because your margins losing to teams 1 through 5 were smaller than those of teams 'I and below. Those teams receive little credit for beating the weaker teams. Ranking by record, on the pther hand, would place you unfairly at the bottom. An exciting()utcome of this system will be the active result posting board. We will run the program after each round of play and post the results at the InformationBooth. Your team will start out unranked and after each round of play your calculated rank becomes more accurate. As each round is played your task is to dimb in the ranking on the '1eader board" into the top eight and get as high as you can to earn the best possible ... playoff match-ups. This is a first in Ultimate and should be pretty damn interesting. This new Competition format for New Mars makes this tournament exciting and unique. You'll want to be there.
What made Mars a special tnurnament was format. No pools, no double elimination. These formats don't let everyone play the teams they want to play. Mars was a free-for-all. Ken Scott would create a grid. Along the top he would-list the teams and along the side he'd list the game starting times for the first two days of the tourney. Then he'd fill in the grid with field numbers. Ifyour team had a field number at a spot on the grid, that meant you played on that field at the time shown to the left. Your opponent was the other team with the same field number and starting time. No field number for your team at a start time meant a bye. Ken put teams together based on geography, requests, and whatever else he dreamed up that worked. Result: you played five games against an interesting mix of teams over two days. The third day (this was July 4th, a long weekend) was devoted to playoffs in a standard single elimination format. New Mars will continue to follow this format, but it will be bigger: 20 teams, and two consolation brackets of eight and four teams each. Figuring standings after the first two days was always a chore. Wm-losa record was the f~.rst factor; if you had a tough schedule, roo bad. Then there was always a group of teams with similar recorda straddling the tnp eight cut-off. Figuring out who ' Zelienople, PA ( 40 miles north of Pittsburgh) qualified was a nightmare, with all kinds of tie-break rules and possible injustices. • In one case a smaU team from Madison, WISCOnsin barely lost to three top teams but won its other games, one against another top-eight team who qualified with an easier schedule. According to the rules, Madison failed to qualify, while the team they beat did. Miraculously, the team with rights to the playoffs agreed to an intermediate playoff to five. They won, and went on to win it all. Gotta love Mars. PEANUTS © United Features Syndicate, Inc. New Mars will avoid this fiasco with the help ofa portable computer (gotta love the '90s). New Scramble Format Eric Simon's College Top 20 Camping nearby and showers at the field s rating software will replace the list of tie-break rules tD deterSpace for 20 teams; first come first serve mine team rank throughout the f1rst two days of play. The comFor more information contact puter calculates team ratings Steve: ( 412) 661-3938 based on record, including who or Weasel (412} 681 -4623(h); (412) 268-1541 (w) beat whom, by how much, and or email dl39@andrew.cmu.edu what their rating was. This calculation is iterated until the result is stable (each iteration Deadline for bids: May 30, 1995 causes changes in ratings that Send checks for $1 00 ($25 returned at captains meeting) affect the next iteration). It's made out to Steven Paul Sports Promotions to the same system that ranks colNew Mars Ultimate Tournament lege basketball teams. There is 5232 Forbes Ave no bias; it's completely fair so long as the web linking teams is Pittsburgh Pa 15217 completely connected. With separations in the web, as in separate pool play, the com-
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M.OTHRA BEATS NICE GUYS, SUCK -N- BLOW OUTLASTS MIA ., Kawia Hat•• Fifteen "WOmen's teams gave us the opportunity to follow the open format for round robin play and seeding Sunday's A and B divisions. Mothra destroy the Nice Guys, but 1995 turned out to be a much tighter contest One obvious differenoe was that Nice The Women's A Division quarters went as follows: #1 availed themselves of the services of Dennis ·cribber" WarSuck -N- Blow (LA area) over #8 Terrible Thunder Lizards sen. Nice Guys. sporting a fearsome long game with Pat (IL & TX) 13-8; #2 MIA (Bay Area, CA) over #7 WOW (MN) •eagger" Lee, who played with them at last year's NYF (and 13-4; #3 Say Ow! (San Diego, CA) lost to#6 No'Resolutions last fall), and Cribber were able to go toe to toe and huck for (Philadelphia, PA) 13-8; #4 Solar Sisters (Tempe, AZ) over huck with the big bad insect of destruction. And huck for huck #5 Chicks and Salsa, (Albuquerque). 13-4. it was. An apology to Say Owl and No Resolutions for having to re-play a round robin game in the quarters. In hindsight the seeding should have been dlanged to disa/ICM for rematches ofround robin play. Though this rematch did give No ResolutiOns the opportunity to live up to their'NYF declaration to "...show you who can play the best... " and to "..• score, score. score. • The Women's B Division went as follows: #1 Fat Chance (Bay Area, CA) had a bye; #2 Violet Femmes (Boulder, CO) overtfl The Max (UCSD) 13-0; #3 Lost Baggage(DC)over#6Avalanche(Univ. of CO) 11-8; #4 ET AL (Pasadena, CA) lost to #5 Towanda (Tucson, AZ) 3-13. The "WOmen's A semifinals had Suck -N- Blow defeat Solar Sisters 15-11 and MIA defeat No Resolutions 15-6. Suck -N- Blow met MIA in the women's A final. They traded points early to 2-2, but SNB went on a run and went up 7-3. MIA narrowed SNB's lead to 8-5 at the half. MIA came to life after half, closing to within one at 9-8. SNB met the challenge and went up 12-8. MIA closed again to 12-10. On that point SNB turned the disc over, but SNB's Denise Fitch registered a great D that SNB capitalized on to go up 13-10. From there MIA's 9 players seemed to run out of gas and SNB took the championship 15-11. MIA's offensive MVPs were Molly Goodwin and Anni Kreml, while the MIA D MVP was Tina Lipscomb. SNB had a lot more bodies with 16 players, and this seemed to be a big factor late in the game. SNB MVPs were Katie Mares and Chris Wagner on 0 and Katy Carman and Denise Fitch on D. The women's A final was also videotaped with the 3-camera set-up. The Women's B Division semifinals saw-Fat Charlotte Delatte Chance defeat Towanda 15-9 and Violet Femmes take Lost Baggage 8-2. In the Women's B Division The final played out with many long hucks and hammers. final Fat Chance bowled over Violet Femmes 15-4. Both teams repeatedly threw for the end zone as soon as a The party was at Hollywood Alley again this year. Bar thrower was within about 50 yards of the goal line. Nice Guys parties don't really stand up to the long tradition of NYF, but showed early that last year's debacle was behind them, Hollywood Alley makes it so easy for us we can't say no. taking early leads. With Nice Guys leading 4-3, they threw Reports say that the party was fun and greatly helped by the the only zone of the game, starting it off with a hammer pull abundance of women. Though the first two bands weren'ttoo that Cribber unleashed after some encouragement from the impressive, the last band finished off the night in good form. peanut gallery. Mothra sliced the zone in calm air to even Also, the party provided an opportunity for Suck -N- Blow to the score at 4s. Nice Guys went up 5-4, but Mothra then demonstrate the real meaning behind their seemingly scored 6 of the next 8 points to go up 10..7. Mothra then obscene moniker. It has to do with a card game wherein the maintained a 3 to 4 point lead for several points. Memorable card is passed from person to person by sucking and blowho D was registered by Cribber and Steve Ferguson as Nice ing. .Possession of the card is achieved by sucking on the Guys tried to turn things around. A spectacular frozen-rope card to hold it against one's mouth. The card is passed by hammer from Jim •Daddy" lngebritsen to Cribber pulled Nice going mouth to card to mouth with someone else and so on. Guys to 14-13. Mothra stretched the lead to 16-13. Nice OVerall, the 13th NYF was a success. The weather was closed to. 16-14. The winning point was a long floating / great, the competition was superb, Spirit was abundant and backhand from Seth Blacher thrown way out in front of Brian as the sun set on the open final and the field lights came on, ·Biscuit" MOrris. Cribber had a great angle on the disc and the whole place had a pretty fine buzz going. As usual, it looked to have the D well in hand, but Biscuit made a was a blast beautifully timed leap and took the game winner out of what had to be 12 feet of air. Spectacular! Mothra won 17-14. There was a 3-camera video made of the final. On a down note, Mothra's Mike O'Oowd panicked and called a foul late in the game, I putting an end to Mothra's bid for a call-free February. The B Division semifinals saw the Houndz, with Neal Dambra showing off his innovative reverse pivot foot block style (it didn't work, but it is inventive), nip GUT 15-14; and Boulder outhuck Dynamo Humm 15-13. Houston's Houndz won the open B final over Boulder in a close contest 11-9. The C Division semifinals had LA's Huckaholics take cross-town rivals Full Boar 15-11 and Nemeth's Lounge outhustle Full Service Attendants 15-9. Nemeth's Lounge won the open C final over LA's Huckaholics 13-8. The Women's Division was the largest ever at the NYF. We hadn't had more than 10 women's teams previously. .The teams coming from the midwest and east really added a new dimension to the women's tournament. Hopefully the competition was worth the travel; we know the sunshine was! The Open Division A final was a rematch from last year, Mothra vs. Nice Guys Off the Field. The 1994 final &aN
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Eight Open, Four Women's, Four Masters Teams Invited to Worlds from U.S. '
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by Andy &rinstein, International Director The U.S. has received a total of 16 slots fo~ teams to roster and must be countersigned by Andy Borinstein compete at the World Club Championships this sum- Director of International Affairs. No players may b~ mer (July 22-30) at the Millfield School in Streete, added to the roster in the final14 days before the start England. Eight Open invites were allocated to DoG, of the tourney nor during the course of the tournament. Double Happiness, Cojones, Chesapeake, Z, Ring of All captains will be notified about any roster Fire, Big River, and Boulder. The four Women's spots problems/issues immediately upon receipt of the have been offered to Felix, Ozone, Women on the Verge, rosters. and Lady Godiva. Seven Sages, US, Slack, and the WFDF rules specify that a "Club" team is: ''A team Beyondors have been invited to compete in the Masters comprised of players who have not, for the last three Division. months prior to the World Ultimate Club ChampionInvited teams wishing to lock up a spot at the ship (April 20th) tournament, played, comJ)eted and tourney must send in their 80 pound (about $120) team entered into competitive tournaments ·with any other fee to tournament director Charlie Mead by March team who reside in the same geographic locality." 1st. Any teems faHing to do so will lose their place in "A sports club that is a legally recognized entity the tourney and teams on the waiting list will be operating in one geographic location and has a large invited to participate. It is also possible that the U.S. enough regul~membership base to support more than will receive additional team allocations ifother fo;reign a single competing team may enter into the tournateams do not wish to attend. ment with a single team comprised of players selected A 25% deposit on all player tournament and accom- from any regularly competing team of the club." modation fees (ranging from 80 to 2M pounds or $120 "All exceptions to the club team defmitions shall be to $410 depending on the accommodation package approved by the National Disc Association of the chosen) is due on April 20th. The balance of these country that the team represents [sic. UPA] and, in the payments is due June 20th. care that the exception is requested later than three Teams on the waiting list in the Open Division (3) months prior to the fU'Bt day of play at the tournainclude: Miami, Chain - Lightning, Rhino, Cornell, ment, by the WFDF Team Disc Sports Committee. Seattle, Rage, Hucking Foosiers, Condors, Madison, These exceptions will be considered on a case by case Binge·, and Denver. basis, and could, for example, include the case of a Wait listed Women's Division teams include: player who currently resides in a different geographic Nemesis, Hucksters, Lucy, Spike, DV8, Grits, Soho, area but has historically played with the club." Twisters, and Wahines. Thus, don't plan on using "ringers" for your club Masters Division teams on the waiting list are: Good team. Ifyou have a question about this rule, or feel that on Paper, Old Bay, Bayou Boys, Voodoo, Princeton you may have a player or two on your roster who could ·Alumni, Ether Bunnies, Hapa Houli, New York be questioned by another team, you should definitely contact me by June 20th. The UPA does not want any Masters, Chowderheads, and Miami. Other teems wishing to join the U.S. waiting list U.S. teams to travel to England and then face the should contact me. My infonnation is on the masthead. problem of roster violations. It could be quite costly to Please include a brief description of your team's the team, ·both monetarily and competitively. Individuals could travel all the way to Europe only to find · qualifications for playing at Club Worlds. that they are not allowed to play. Worse, teams could The UPA Coordinating Committee will rank all wait-listed teams based on team strength and will be disqualified from the tourney by using 'illegal" award teams a position in the tournament if they players. Please check it out before you travel. Finally, all teams competing at the World Club happen to open up after March 20th. All players competing in the World Club Champion- Championships must have two team uniforms, light ships must be UPA members in good standing. Copies and dark, each of which consists of matching shirts. All of all rosters will be due ~ me by June 20th. Tourna- shirts must be numbered individually. All shorts must ment rules specify that final roster changes may be be matching. Matching socks will be mandJLtory for the , submitted by fax or email ~ the tourney director no Finals. There is a strong possibility that the BBC will later than July 6th. This roster may include the names fllm all the final games for inclusion in a TV program of up to five (5) players not specified in the preliminary about the tournament.
Hungary Is Hungry for Discs The Hungarian Flying Disc Association (HFDA) was formed this year to help spread Ultimate in Hungary. Vice president I .aszlo Lopcsak, a phys-ed teacher in a town near Budapest, did his thesis in Ultimate a few months after he was turned onto the sport in Washington D.C. His thesis got rave reviews from his teachers and Laszlo got the newly created job of Ul-
tim ate coach at his university. The HFDA is organizing its firSt national tournament, but there is a sever shortage ofgood quality discs (and cash) among many new Hungarian players. Ifyou can spare a disc and you know someone flying to Budapest, please contact Laszlo through email at ultimaste@bdtd.j.bdtf.hu, or call Armand Lione in D.C. at 202-244-1384. I
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Future Masters' Winners To Represent U.S. at the WFDF World Championships by Andy Borinstein, International Director The UPA Coordinating Committee, made up of the five Regional Coordinators, the Executive Director and the Women's National Director, voted 7-0 at the UPA annual meeting to accept a proposal mandating that the winner of the Open Masters Division in the odd years of competitive play represent the U.S. in the World Championships. Thus, the winner of the 1995 Masters Division will earn the right to travel to Sweden and play for the World titJe. This change brings the Masters Division in line with both the Open and Women's Divisions, which have always sent their National Champions overseas to represent the U.S. at the World Championships. In the past the U.S. Masters team was chosen by open application. This selection change was made for two reasons. First, it rewards the accomplishment of the top team in the growing and more competitive Masters Division for its fine play. Second, it will free the UPA from having to devote a great deal of time and effort to coordinate and administrate a team made up of20+ individuals from different parts of the country. The proposal alSo enables the Master's team representing the U.S. at the World Championships to add players, who meet the WFDF Masters age requirements, to its roster if they wish. If the winning teem declines to compete at the Worlds, the runner-up at the Nationals would be the team chosen to represent the U.S. (and so on, if they decline, until a U.S. representative is picked).
Ultimate In Asia: From the Taipei Desk by Brian Sheehan Taipei: Since the last report things have progressed tremendously. The Taipei scene now has twice a week Ultimate, with th~ addition of Thursday nights, 8-10 p.m. under the lights at the Taipei American School, 800 Chungshan North Road, Tienmou. Our first night featured a full moon to go along with a sweet, well-lit soccer field. Big thanks to Cara for arranging this. An Ultimate hotline now exists. Phone: 885-2249. If no answer try 873-5014. We have increased the active player list from around 20 to 40 and new players are showing each week. Early in January to satiate the demand we played eight on eight at 9:30 p.m., a new record for quantity of players this late at night in Asia. Friday night featured sevens with subs for two hours, followed by an all-night party on my rooftop where we barbecued and drank some cold Taiwan pints. We are now ready for the Singapore Sling. We plan to host our own Taipei tourney sometime late in May. It will be coed with a minimum of two women on the field at all times. Any interested teams and/or players please let us know so we can include you in the planning. Fax to our new fax number, 8862-546-6659, or call one of the above numbers. Singapore: Bryan also has Ultimate going twice a week, Tue. and Thu. The fields are ever-changing due to temporary constructio,n for the Chinese New Year festivities. We are close to fmalizing the Singapore Sling. Expect more info in the next update but please call the Taipei hotline or fax Taipei and we'll put you on the Sing. Sling list. Japan: Akihiko Yoshida of the JFDA informs me that his team, the Bombers, took 3rd in the JFDA Ultimate Championships held Nov. 17-20. I will keep in touch with him to establish further contacts for ,spring tournaments. Hong Kong: Still struggling with space constraint and lack of fields. There is interest but weekly play is still not a reality. Hong Kong will just have to show and play the Taipei tourney- it's only an hour flight. Anyone with further contacts there, please tell them to call Doug. We still need responses from Japan and Australia for any upcoming spring and summer tournaments. Please call and send us any info. Mailing address is: In USA: Brian Sheehan, c/o GTECH Corp., 55 Technology Way, West Greenwich, RI 02817. In Taipei: Brian Sheehan, c/o GTECH Corp., Global Executive Office, 4th floor, No. 200, Section 1, Keelaung Rd., Taipei, Taiwan.
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An Update on Carmen Upoma
Nationals Seeding Committee Update: The New System and Questionnaire Results
by Ru O'Quinn On April 10, 1994, lightning struck during an Ultimate game, killing Shawn Adams and placing Carmen Lipoma into a coma. The following is an update on Carmen's condition.
by Andy Borinstein New seeding systems were implemented at both the 5) Without the help ofthe captains, the program will College and Open National Championships. All 24 fail. They have to be on board and more involved in Open and Women's teams competing in the Fall Na- 1995. tional Championships sent in ballots so we achieved a 6) Despite all these shortcomings, we implemented participatory goal of getting everyone involved And this program sooner than anyone expected. Also, the thanks to Loring Holden and Josh Adler we were able team spokespeople appeared pleased with the proto accumulate results from key Fall tourneys and send gram. It seemed to make them feel more apart of the the information off to the participating teams. decision making process. This new seeding system, which replaced an antiThere is room for improving the program and that quated and formulaic method used for the past several is what we will be working on in the months ahead. A years based on the previous year's results at Nationals, questionnaire was developed by Rex O'Quinn and sent was put into place a year ahead of schedule. to all team spokespeople. Preliminary results indicate However, there were a few shortcomings: that the captains would like to see a quartenmal round added to the Nationals schedule even if it means playl)Not all teams sent in the results of their season's games. The teams that did not comply included: Open ing shorter games (to 15 or 17) or playing three games in a day. -Double Happiness, Rhino, Stains, Miami, and Ring. Women- Godiva, Soho, Twister, Ozone, Hucksters, How about expanding the size of the tournament? Felix, and DV8. This ~nnot happen again. We need Women captains rejected the notion of adding more total crimplianoe or the system won't work. Now that teams to the tournament. Men split 5-5 on this idea. the captains are familiar with the system, perhaps they There were significant gender differences on the will keep a record of all games played in the fall and question of Regional representation for the make-up of will forward the information along to UPA HQ when the pools. Male captains voted unanimously in favor of asked. l~he current format of regional representation. Female 2)We need to get every team on email so they can captains voted 6-3 in favor of straight seeding. Women, send these scores to a clearinghouse. Perhaps we can by the same 6-3 margin, also voted to eliminate the implement a Top 25 Club Team ranking like we do for seeding caveat that places the number one teams in the the colleges. East and West in separate pools. Open captains supported the current seeding caveat by an 8 to 2 tally. 8) A place for team contact information was inadvertently left off the seeding ballot. Future seeding ballots Attempts are being made to query the three Women and two Open captains who had not responded to the will have a space for team name and other contact survey by press time. information. Not all teams signed their ballots and this caused a bit of confusion when it came time to tally the In the coming months, the Seeding Committee, curballots. rently made up of Andy Borinstein (Chair), Kim Forsten (WND), Jay Cohen (NCD) and Eric Simon 4)Timing. Because everyone is not on email and (DOC), will make a formal recommendation to the because teams did not send in their scores, we mailed Coordinating Committee and the Board of Directors things out via Fed Ex, which cost the UPA over $800. about the implementation of a quarterfmal round to In the future we need to be more efficient and keep an eye on the costs of this project. Nationals and the elimination of Regional representation in the pools.
On Saturday, April 9, 1994 I was throwing the disc with Carmen at the Monkey Bowl tournament in Nashville, TN. We had just finished our games for the day, but we stayed behind to work on our throws. Carmen really wanted to work on her high-release backlum.d. The very next day, a few millionths of a second would forever change her life on that~ spot ofgrass where we had been throwing. - David Goode After spending seven weeks in a Nashville hospital gradually coming out of a coma and stabilizing, Carmen was transported to Atlanta where she was admitted to a rehabilitation center. After nine weeks in patient rehab and 110 days sleeping in hospital beds, she moved in with her family and began nine weeks of outpatient rehab. At this time she is living with her family and continues outpatient therapy. It is an understatement to say that Carmen has come a long way. Although time bas been standing still for those closest to Carmen, the miracle ofber recovery continues. Her progress is often subtle and at times sporadic. She bas gone from no breathing and no heartbeat to literally dancing at a party; from an inability to speak for at least nine weeks to ordering pizza on the phone; from needing a wheelchair to virtually walking on her own. These smaJl steps that we take for granted are big leaps in her recovery. More than nine months later I had the privilege to spend some time with her at a savage seven tournament in Athens. It was great to have her at the tournament socializing with her friends and watching a game that she truly loves. While she was practicing her throws, several of us witnessed Carmen, smiling profusely, reach over David's shoulder, catch a disc and immediately show it to him Carmen has made major improvements over the past nine months but still has a long way to go. Her spirit is great and you can tell that she has the determination to continue getting better. With the help of her family, close friends, and those of you who only know of her as being part of your tntimate family, she will continue improving. She has received cards, donations, thoughts and most of all your prayers. Her family would like to thank everyone for everything that they have done. Your signs of caring have really helped them get through these tough times. Her family hopes that all players have learned from this tragedy and will not make this mistake â&#x20AC;˘ agam. If anyone would like to drop her a note to say Hi, her address is provided below. At the time of the accident Carmen had no insurance and a fund was started to defray some of the medical cost. If you or your team would like to make a contribution, please send it to the address below. This fund has provided opportunities for care that she would not otherwise have received. Send cards to: Carmen Lipoma, 2507 Lake Capri Road, Conyers, GA 30207. Send donations to: The Carmen Lipoma Fund, c/o Joey Reiman Agency, 3060 Peachtree Road, Penthouse, Atlanta, GA 30305.
The UPA Continues to Travel On the Information Highway by Eric Simon, UPA Director of Competition
THE UPA ALIAS SYSTEM Last year the UPA (primarily Chuck Brunson with help from Loring Holden and myself) set up a national team email list and an alias system. This system enable anyone to send a single message to entire groups of people or teams, for example, every team in the South Region, or every college team in a particular section. Not only do UPA officials use this to help communicate with all teams in their region or section, but other players use it in order to contact specific teams, or groups of UPA Officials (e.g., the entire Board, or all members of a committee). If you or anyone on your team has access to email, I urge you to try this stuff out, and to get your team signed up. Your team, of course, will not be receiving any of this email unless it's signed up. You do this by sending your info (name, email address, phone num-
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her, team, division, section, and region) to: ultimate_alias_owner@scilla.csntral.sun.com. For detailed information on how to use the system, send a message to: ultimate_report_send@scilla.central.sun.com with "help" on the subject line (don't include the quotation marks).
questions, and debates over hot topics. You can access this not only from the Internet, but from services such as America On-Line and Compuserve. If you have only email capabilities, you can still take part by subscribing to the list. Simply send a message to: ultimate-request@doe.carleton.ca with "subscribe" on the subject line (no quotes). To post to the newsgroup via e-ail, send a message to: uftimate-list@doe.carleton.ca.
TOP 25 GOES ON-LINE You can submit your Top 25 fJC()res in two ways: by UPA ON WORLD WIDE WEB calling the UPA 800 number, or by sending them via email (emai1 is preferred.) to: This is perhaps the most exciting part of the UPNs upa_top25@scilla.csntraf.sun.com involvement with the Internet. Under the direction of Additionally, you can retrieve the latest rankings, Hilarie Orman and her committee, the UPA has set even individual teams' scores, via email. Information up a WWW site. From this site a user can get access on how to do this is included in the alias system help to the rules, latest up-to-the-minute tournament listdescribed in the preceding paragraph. ings, Top25rankings, Nationals results, Official UPA policy statements (including, e.g., the collegiate REC.SPORT.DISC eligibility rules), pictures, articles, texts of UPA pubThere is a Usenet Newsgroup that is devoted to lications, and, hopefully in the future, part of the UPA disc sports. You'll find lots of action here, including, Newsletter. If you have a browser,.check this out at: for example, announcements of tournaments, rules http://www.hacks.arizona.edul-hko/upalhome.html.
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Young Swede Seeks To Pursue Ultimate Dream in USA Hello! My name is Par Mattsson. I am 20 years old and I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. I have just finished my secondary school education and now I have been called up for military services. After that I wll go on with my studies. But before that I have a dream to come to USA and play Ultimate. My interests are golf, athletics, soccer, chess and of course Ultimate. I have played Ultimate for five years in Skogshadden (my club team) and three years with the Swedish team. In the World Championship in England we came in second place after New York, New York, USA May 25, 1995 I will fmish mymi1itary services. Mter that I am very interested in playing Ultimate in USA I have no special wishes about team or city but it must be a serious team. I am very flexible for how long a time I can stay, maybe four to eight months. The only problem is that I have no money to pay my stay in USA. Maybe someone can frx me a job. I can also be au pair. It doesn't matter. The most important is that I have somewhere to live and food to eat. I look forward to playing Ultimate in USA and I hope someone will make my dream real. -Par Mattsson Sagspansg. 10 41680 GBG Sweden
Why Compare ffitimate to Other Sports? We Play Because It's Different Mter reading Toad's letter from Dec. '94, I just had to write. Toad is a victim. Aside from his obviously jaded outlook on life, he makes some valid points. Imagine a pitcher calling his own strikes and a batter contesting it, he writes. If that were to happen, maybe baseball would be an exciting game again, maybe there wouldn't have even been a player's strike. No, Todd Stuart, this ain't no hippie sport anymore, but the need for refs to make the sport more readily acceptable to the rest of the country is a joke. I've even heard you yourself ta1k about a band you liked, until the rest of the country started liking them and the radio ended up playing them to death, and it's just that death that would happen to Ultimate. Our forefathers - or were there five fathers, I always forget- anyhow, they saw fit to include a method ofofficiating that may not be to your liking, but has made the sport what it is today. Why do you have to continue comparing it to other sports? If I wanted to, I'd play those other sports. Instead, I chose Ultimate Jor the very reason that it's different from the others. The reason Ultimate isn't broadcast-friendly is the same reason aoocer is having a tough time being accepted. There aren't enough time-outs to make the sponsors happy about it being on TV. Read that sentence again. Toad seems to think that fmancial success equals real success. He makes several references to "paid more" and "salary caps" (and one beautifully sexist remark about "dancing girls"). If he's playing Ultimate in hopes that someday it will make him rich,
then I understand his letter much in the same way I understand that Reagan has Alzbeimet"'s. Now, on the other hand, I agreed with all his other comments on roster caps, making the West intn two regions, catering to the Northeast and the UPA being scared of change. "...for the commercials that make money for the sponsors." He's just a victim. I just wish he had started with that and saved the misplaced rantings for the Larry King show on Ultimate and The People Who Once Played It. -Jared Rothman Eugene, OR
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Other Sports, I Wouldn't Play Recently I have seen a sad trend develop, and I'm begirming to get worried. More and more, I've seen people write in about adding referees. It seems to me that Spirit of the Game, which to me defmes illtimate, covers this. People should have the scruples to call a foul when they see one, and let play continue when they don't. Hone person sees a foul and the other doesn't, the foul call is contested, and the disc goes back to the thrower. or course, there will always be some jerk who calls fouls in direct violation of the SOTG, but hey, that type of person will be there, refs or no refs. If you can't win a game on ability alone, and resort to calling people for non-existent travels; you shouldn't be playing. SOTG is an essential part of illtimate, and if you can't play by those rules, you shouldn't be playing at all. SOTG is why I play Ultimate. If Ultimate had "refs, big name sponsors, salary caps ... and dancing girls" as Toad from NC mentioned, I wouldn't be playing. Sure, some public acknowledgment would be nice, but not to the extent that we need outside interference in ca11ing our fouls. The UPA isn't scared of change. It's just perfectly happy with what we have. -Moses Rifkin Atlanta, GA
Ulti Vets: Come Play With the Younger Crowd In the newsletter we constantly see encouraging articles about Ultimate in high schools across the country. These articles recognize the people who devote their time to teaching the sport, and tell of the successes of the high school teams. Happily, it seems that most Ultimate players are willing to help in the Juniors' division, most think it's a great idea to encourage the young, and most appear to have a genuine interest in imparting their knowledge to fledgling participants. Juniors' tournaments are now reported in the newsletter, as are the names of certified coaches and team contacts (sadly both are outdated). In the articles on Worlds, I was happy to see much better coverage of the Juniors' division in_the Americans' most successful appearance yet. All very pleasing signs for the Juniors.
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In particular, the succe s of high achoola in N.w York City has always been a paraaon of Junion' Ultimate. Bronx Science, Stuyvesant, end BroOklyn TeCh (also, with recent triumphs, Cardozo) have dominated the high school division, and have even pnlled off victories against some of the weaker college and dub teams. At these high schools illtimate is often the biggest sport. At last count Bronx Science had seven (I) teama inclusive of both sexes. Ultimate is played all the time and is also a major social event at school (sort of a dating service), probably as good an incentive as any to attend practices. The hierarchy of illtimate at these schools is well-developed so that older and more experienced players captain and coach the more novice teams. In this manner Ultimate has been passed down from class to class with good results for about 20 years. Now for the main point of my letter. I have described how the sport is attended to within the school, but have not talked about the contribution of those very experienced players who might really help high school Ultimate. The reason for this is that for all intents and purposes their contribution is nil. There have been occasional "coaches," college students going to school in NYC, but not many who could really raise Ultimate to a new level in the area high schools. The place where this deficiency is most notable is in the NYC summer league. Once a place where every level ofplayer could be found on a team, it is now almost totally.devoid of club-level players. The NYC summer league has over 200 high school players aching to learn Ultimate. Unfortunately only a handful of experienced college players attend this summer league and they are definitely not of sufficient number or knowledge to boost the play ofyounger players. There are on average two college players per team, one of whom is usually a college team captain and is acting as summer league captain (most of these captains have probably attended one of these schools). This number is extremely low and should not occur in a big city like New York. Even more unfortunate is the paucity of female college players, numbering downwards of the heads on Mt. Rushmore. Other summer leagues, such as the one at SUNY Purchase, are making great strides teaching Ultimate with high-level players as quasi-instructors. Jon Gewirtz would always encourage the kids he coached to come out and play in the league. Who knows what the deterrent is leading to the low turnout of players willing to teach at the NYC summer league? I can certainly understand the desire to play in a league that will help hone one's skills, and can also see that fatigue may stop some from playing almost daily. With all the people who are constantly lauding the growth of our sport and its expansion to younger people, I suppose I could only have hoped for more of them to come out and spend their time playing Ultimate with the younger crowd. I know I'll be out there. -Matthew Hahn New York, New York
The Ultimate West Women's Nickname Contest by Diane ·pagan• Pagel OK, time to test your mental awareness. Here are a bunch of women's nicknames gathered from the West Coast See if you can match them.
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_A. Kajsa Johnson (Swarm) _B. Lisa Dabney (Fiygirls) _C. Laura lngebritsen (SafarQ _D. Chris Jewell (SafarQ _E. Pam Martin (HawaiQ _F. Kathy Viskocil (Shadow) _G. Carolyn Skolnick (Verge) _H. Cathleen Denton (Swarm) _I. Chris Wagner (Fiygirls) _J. Jan Crosby (DV8)
MENTAL TWISTER, MIND BENDER SECTION _K. Greta Bart (Sin Miedo) 11. •RAGER" _L. Heidi Pomfret (DV8) 12. •PEARANNOYED" _M. Roberta Porter (Wild Hairs) 13. ·soOTS" 14. •sPIKE" _N. Janet Marta (SafarQ _ 0. Renee Lambo-Barnes (Shadow) 15. •aoOTIE BUTI" _P. Andrea Kelly (Santa Barbara) 16. •RAD" _ Q. Tricia Meyer (Santa Barbara) 17. •JJ" 18. •KITTY" _R. Sara McKenzie (Verge) _ S. Lori VanHolmes (Verge) 19. -pEARADOX" _ T. Joann starek (Shadow) 20.-c>LIVA" _ U. Karen Slabaugh (Swarm) 21. -sHREDDA" 22. •JOWANDA" _v. Jen Sonderby (Sin Miedo) 23. •SAM" _w. Janine Marr (Safari) •
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