UPA Newsletter: 2000 Spring by USA Ultimate

Vol. 20 No. 1 • Spring 2000 • $3.00 •

PLAYERS ASSOCIA110N

YEA 'S FEST 2000 Results and pictures from this year's Fest in Tempe, Arizona

ARC IVAl REVIVAl: Who was Henry Callahan?

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Competition, camaraderie and compassion

HIT I Enter the Ultimate story contest!

ZAG'I RAG:

One man's suggestions for a more outrageous game

Ill! The Ultimate Film Festival

I Minutes from the Dallas meeting

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Joey Gray

The UPA has seen big changes since your last newsletter. Thanks to a year-long effort by the Board's volunteer Executive Search Committee, I was hired as your new Executive Director. It's an honor and a challenge to have been chosen to run the UPA at this exdting time. I think most people who play Ultimate are aware of the potential for our sport to explode in local parks, in schools and on Tv, yet for Ultimate to maintain elements of uniqueness while doing so. Tom Kennedy, founder of the UPA, said recently, "The whole time [I was running the UPA], I had this feeling the sport was just about to make its big break." Whether our "big break" is around the comer right now or in 20 more years, it's exciting to be involved with players at every level who simply love to live, breathe and play Ultimate.

HUGE THANKS TO ... TI1e UPA accomplishes most of it's programs with a huge number of volunteers, supported by a small professional staff. These are people just like you and me - UPA members who care about Ultimate. First, many thanks to Bob Byrne, former Executive Director and Michael Guiietz, former Managing Director, for their hard work at UPA headquarters. In addition to Bob and Mike, there have been several Administrative Assistants over the last few years who also deserve thanks. The UPA can provide excellent service if we · ·maintairrcontinrrity tn----· -. phone, email and mail respon<ses, so everyone it's up to you to keep good reception staff around. Please, treat your HQ staff well! • Secondly, each sununer four Board Members are elected to the 12-member UPA Board of Directors, assuming offidal responsibility for all aspects of the organization. This does not mean each Board Member must be an expert in every aspect of the UPA - that's why a professional staff is hired (and why the staff depends on volunteer and player expertise). It does mean that Board Members put in countless hours for the UPA, guiding the organization and taking on much of the thankless, behind-the-scenes work. Your four outgoing Board Members are Kevin Hatch (Arizona), Pete Giusti (Georgia), former Secretary Paul Sorolow, (New York), and former Treasurer Dave Beller, (Washington DC). Besides these, all UPA Board members have, for the last 3-5 years, put an enormous effort into re-structuring this non-profit organization so it will be able to function more Sfi100thly and serve members better. Their project is now complete, but not yet fully realized. I am especially thankfuJ to be stepping in at time when their mostly intangible success is about to become visible, thanks especially for the vision of 'ftoy Frever and Eric Simon. Because of this work, I am confident that the UPA will be in excellent position to grow and that over the next three years I will be able to help you tum many of your ideas into reality. Thirdly, several key UPA volunteers have retired over the last year. These (and all current volunteers) deserve a huge round of applause for their dedication to the sport and

to theUPA. Dave "Mo'' Mosooe, outgoing Juniors Outreach & Championship Director, of Hats, Hops & Hucks fame, still organizing his dream events in Santa Cruz. Andy Borinstein, most recently Director of International Affairs. Founder of College Championship Division, appeared early on in Sports l/Justrated, and much much more. Rex O'Quinn- (Dallas) Retired Open Championship Director, Former Board Member and just about everything else, too. Even if he and Diane are busy with their new house, we hope he doesn't stray too far. Sarah King - (Washington DC) Fonner Dire<..tor of Public Relations, now working at the Smithsonian IMAXTheatre. Mike "Iron" K1awansky (Calitomia)- Former Webmaster, going for his millions in Sili~on Valley. All College and Club Sectional & Regional Coordinators who have moved away or moved on. We hope you'll stay in touch! And last but not 1~1:, the person I may have missed in my near-deadline writing frenzy. In addition to volunteers, Oaks Travel has been the tJPA's traveJ agent for several years. Oaks Travel and tl1e UPA have agreed to end their official relationship due to changes in the travel distribution system and growth in Oaks Travel's non-Ultimate business. I will put out a request for proposals for a new travel partner. If you, or someone

I think most people WhO play Ultimate are aware • 1 Of the POtentIa for our sport to you ~ow, is interested in • proVIding UPA travel, explode In local pte-ase send me email. parks; in schools =~~~~:~~w:~ and on TVt yet for Travel UPA and 0~ playe~. Oaks remams available at Ultimate to main- l-800-359-()()94. tain elements Of WELCOME NEW UPASTAFF& untqueness while voLuNTEERs Innovation Grants doing so. Director - Angelo

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Ultimate Players Association

Spring 2000

Executive Director

Artemakis, upa_grants@upa.org (Chicago) Co-ed Championship Director - Jen Christianson, upa_coed_champ_dir®upa.org (Atlanta) Celebration Series Co-Directors - Bill & Julie Capossere, upa_celeb_series@upa.org (Rochester, NY) juniors Director - Michael Baccarini, upa_njd@upa.org Open Championship Director - Dave Raflo, upa_nod@upa.org (Washington DC) Complaints & Rants Manager - Harvey J Kukuk, rants@upa.org Assistant Director -April Hoskins, april.hoskins@upa.org (Colorado Springs)

GOALS My initial term as Executive Director is for three years. While I, like many players, an1 impatient and want everything NOW, I realize there is an enormous amount of work to be done. None of it is going to happen overnight. A solid infrastructure must be in place first, so I can say "yes!" when you email or call me with a wonderful idea. To accomplish all those ideas, we need more staff, and to hire more staff, we need to attra<..'t all types of funding. Lastly, to attract and retain members it must be cool - whatever that means to you. And so, for the tl1ree years, I leave you with three words, all starting with "F" for "Frisbee [TM]":Foundation, Finances, Fun. Stay tuned!

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• • My teammate Kathryn recently asked, "So, what do you actually do?" To answer her question, here are a few of the glamorous and not-so-glamorous activities of my first official da.y as your Executive Director - January 3rd, 2000. • Discussed a reduction in rate and clarified our Internet service with one of our ISPs. • Called an original CHS player to thank him and his wife for their donation to the UPA. • Talked with a Colorado school teacher who wants to start a team. • Went to the post office to t1nd out whose signature was on our P.O. Box. (The box manager was out. We later closed the .. box...:-:- all mail now ·comes to HQ.) • Duct taped the checkbook together and ordered a new one. • Gave a league contact to some-_..~· one in LA who saw our number in Women's Sport &

Fitness. • Opened an account at an office supply store . • Called Bob to ask if new checks were ordered. (The answer was no, I ordered more.) • Played phone tag with Discraft. (The next week, we finalized our "Official Disc" sponsorship with Discraft for 2000 and 2001.) • Discussed regional boundaries. with a Salt Lake player. • Had long phone conversations with Jim Parinella, Cindy Fisher and others regarding history, volunteer roles, ideas and planning. • Sent and received email after fiddling with the network. • Discussed UPA event hosting for juniors, college, ch,tb and masters championships. • Began preparations for Annual Board Meeting (in two weeks!) • Called the moving company to learn when the personal stuff would be moved from Seattle to Colorado. • Interviewed HQ staff regarding their duties, projects and goals. • Wrote this list. • Wrote a much larger to-do list.

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Year's Fest 2000

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In Dallas

Board members, National Directors and a sing1e member meet.

Ultimate players meet and compete in Te1npe, Arizona.

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Everything you need to know Gear up for the College National Championships

33 Innovations Grants

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Grant • • recap tents • 24 hours for Andy •

Summer camp in Mexico

18 and 19

UFO Sightings

Yin and Yang of

Volunteer Spotlight

Archival Revival

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Jennifer Donne1ly Superfly's Super coach .

The answer to the common question: VVho was Henry Callahan?

The people in the Colo. neighborhood

What in the world?

Co-ed Keep up on the debate over Co-ed series' decision by the board.

OTHER

PADA letters

tourneys Recap of LeiO ut and Janus 2000 Toumaments

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Meet the the UPA staff, at homebase in Colorado Springs, CO .

STUFF

Calendar

Zag's Rag

Ask the Rules Guy

Table of Contents

Spring 2000

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Executive Director Joey Gray 3595 E. Fountain Blvd. J2 Colorado Springs, CO 80910 800-UPA GETH • 719-591-2431 • ed@upa.org Assistant Director April Hoskins 800-UPA GETH • 719-591-2431 • april.hoskins@upa.org Open Director David Ratto 703-807-1934 • upa_nod@upa.org Women's Director Cindy Fisher 512-418-4690 • upa_nwd@upa.org Co-ed Co-directors for Celebration Series Bill & Jute Capossere 716-224-1852 • upa_celeb_series@upa.org National Co-ed Director Jen Christianson 770-594-9562 • upa_coed_champ_dir@upa.org Masters Director Daine Pagel 425-7 47-1440 • upa_nmd@upa.org National College Director Kate Bergeron-Gull 650-330-7046 • upa_ncd@upa.org National Juniors Director Michael Baccarini 800-UPA GETH • upa_njd@upa.org Director of Marketing Frank DeFazio 703-394·9468 • upa_dom@upa.org Innovation Grants Director Angelo Artemakis 773-227-5583 • upa_grants@upa.org UPA Board Members: President Jim Parinella • jim.parinella@upa.org Vace Pres. Joe Studholmeojoe.studholme@upa.org Treasurer Matt Healey • matt.healey@upa.org Secretary Lynne Nolan • lynne.nolan@upa.org

MEMBERS: Jennifer Donnelly jennifer.donnelly@upa.org Mary Hagler mary.hagler@upa.org nm Murray tim.murray@upa.org Kurt Dahlenburg kurt.dahlenburg@upa.org Bill Layden bill.layden@upa.org Dave Rumucal dave.rumucal@upa.org Vinnie Shehon vinnie.shelton@upa.org Henry Thorne henry.thorne@upa.org

REGIONAL COORDINATORS: Central Open Mike LaScola 618-893-2712 • upa_central_rc@upa.org Central Women Deanna Ball 614-722-2842 • upa_central_wrc@upa.org Central Co-ed Chris Hung 216-754-3470 • upa_central_xrc@upa.org Mid-Atlantic Open OPEN upa_ma_rc@upa.org Mid-Atlantic Women Mefissa lwaszko 703-289-1793 • upa_ma_wrc@upa.org Mid-Atlantic Co-ed Gamal Sherif 215-382--()202 • upa_ma_xrc@upa.org Northeast Open Jason Baker 978-779-6635 • upa_ne_rc@upa.org Northeast Women Lori Parham 401-421-2548 • upa_ne_wrc@upa.org Northeast Co-ed Judd Gledhill 781-895-0000 • upa_ne_xrc@upa.org Northwest Open Chad"Walters 650-969-0868 • upa_nw_rc@upa.org Northwest Women Sandy Angelos 415-221-2014 • upa_nw_wrc@upa.org Northwest Co-ed Lois Maykut 206-362-2695 • upa_nw_xrc@upa.org South Open John Malone 225-346-3288 • upa_south_rc@upa.org South Women Susan Siegrist 352-371 -0314 • upa_south_wrc@upa.org South Co-ed Stu Downs 404-522·4874 • upa_south_xrc@upa.org Southwest Open Carlos Aguirre 303-733-2634 • upa_sw_rc@upa.org Southwest Women Rachel Nobel 213-740-5546 • upa_sw_crc@upa.org Southwest Co-ed Chuck Brunson 719-260-1232X151 • upa_sw_xrc@upa.org The UPA Newsletter, the official publication of the Ultlmate Players Association, is published four times per year and relies on member contributions for its content. Editorial and photographic contributions are welcome. Subscription lnfonnation The UPA Newsletter is free to all UPA members. Single copy cost is $3. Membership rates per year: $30 U.S. and $20 student. Send to UPA. 3595 E. Fountain Blvd.. Suite J2, Colorado Springs, CO 80910. Change of Addteu: The UPA Newsletter is mailed bulk rate and is not forwarded. To change your address email info@upa.org or mail: 3595 E. Fountain Blvd., Suite J2, Colorado Springs, CO 80910 or call HlOO-UPA-GetH. Editorial: All submissions must be typed double-space and/or on a 3-1/2" disk in a wordprocessing or ASCII format. Or email your submissions to upa_newstetter@upa.org The author must submit full name, address. and phone number. All editorial submissions become the property of the UPA. Photographs: Prints and/or digital scans, black and white or color photos are acceptable. Please include all information on the back of. each photo: Subject, event (ie Women's Nationals, Co-ed Sectionals, etc) and name of phOICJ9raher. To email photos contact the designer at upa_graph•c designer@upa.org for specifics. Published photos become the- property of the UPA and photographers receive $10 for each used photo. Unused photos will be returned only upon request and if accompanied with SASE.

Editor Carrie Si mison • upa_newsletter@upa.org Graphic Design Cathy Maykut upa_graphic_design@upa.org Deadline submissions for the next issue is May 12, 2000 Send submi. .iona to: UPA Newsletter. 3595 E. Fountain Blvd., Suite J2, Colorado Springs, CO 80910.

Ultimate Players Association

Spring 2000

ASSISTANT DIRECT The Ultimate Players Association (UPA} seeks qualified, effective and creative applicants for the fulltime staff position of Assistant Director. UPA Assistant Directors will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, basic or advanced Internet experience, excellent time-management skills and a proven record of growth-oriented project experience. Minimum Requin!ments: • Ultimate and/or sports industry experience • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience • Knowledge of non-profit organizations and/or business Responsibilities: Assistant Director duties include the full range of administrative tasks customary for a small office, including answering phones, email and mail; responding to a wide range of member and nonmember inquiries; and selected special projects such as: • Member and Affiliate Services • Outreach (youth, women, alumni, non-member players} • Championship Series Support • Player Support • League and Event Support • Publications (print, electronic) • Merchandising • Fund-raising • Technical support Assistant Directors will be individually responsible for ongoing and one-time projects as needed, as well responsible for sharing routine office duties. The long-term hope for this position is that Assistant Directors may spend an increasing percentage of time on project areas, as the UPA becomes ..... able to hire more staff.

Series any more? How can younger players benefit from your experience? How can the UPA serve your needs better? How can we develop local alumni contacts? Is there a way to provide professional support for UPA alumni? Answering these and other questions will be the first mission of our new Director of Alumni Relations. Interested? Write me!

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The UPA is collecting names of people willing and able to contribute to all parts of the UPA technical infrastructure. This is a huge area for improvement that will take longer than anyone would like. The jobs are being broken down into small enough parts that we are not dependent on any one volunteer who may or may not deliver. Duties cover the entire range from network architecture development, database design, e-commerce, intranet design, programming, Web design and ongoing maintenance of both the network and web content. If you would like to be part of this team, either for a short-term development project or longer term upkeep, please write webmaster@upa.org Our overall technical solution may include working with an outside partner. Upgrading UPA technology is one of the biggest short-term priorities.

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This is a fulltime (40 hrs/Wk) position located in beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado. There may be limited travel. Compensation: The starting salary will be $19-22K, with health care benefits.

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TIMING OF MAJOR EVERTS TASI: FORCE {TIME) MEJlBER There has always been considerable debate regarding the timing of UPA Championship Series events, each year for different reasons. Extreme weather differences from North to South, sunset field availability, timing of popular local & regional Ultimate events, holidays, school schedules, the addition of new divisions and great variation in player goals and habits all contribute to the need for comprehensive planning and compromise. On top of this, a handicap has been our inability to provide event information well in advance to players and organizers, let alone to potential event sponsors. With the recent addition of the rapidly expanding Juniors' and Co-ed Championship divisions, stagnation in the Open Masters division, the indefinite suspension of the ailing Womens' Masters division, and an overall slowdown in growth of UPA membership at a time when the sport is exploding at the pickup and local levels it is time to take a comprehensive look at UPA ev~nt scheduling. The TIME Task Force will be responsible for 1) soliciting player input; 2) evaluating player responses to aU timing issues, recent and historical (particularly the many messages ms.ulting from recent growth in the Co-ed Championship division); 3) providing members, the Board and me with a summary of all the issues and their pros & cons; 4) designing a decision making process to resolve these issues; s) developing a timeline to enact this decision making process in order to find short- and long-term solutions to the UPA event timing dilemma. TIME will help the UPA make some of its most important decisions. Players interested in participating on the TIME Task Force please-Wilte upa_time@upa.org. If you know someone who would make an excellent TIME member, please recruit them and let me know. If you are interested in these issues, but can not commit to the amount of time this task force will require, please know that your comments will be considered if you send them in during TIME's comment period.

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pirit of the Game is the ability to play fair, yet compete as hard as you can."

To Apply: Please send a cover letter and current resume via email to Joey Gray at upa_ed@upa.org before March 31, 2000. Your cover letter should include mention of the UPA projects you are most interested in working on (from the list above or other), as well as a brief description of your approach to developing those project areas. Receipt of applications will be acknowledged. This job announcement replaces the previously mentioned Administrative Assistant job opening. If you do not intend to apply for this position, but know someone who would contribute greatly to the UPA staff, please encourage that person to send a resume to the email address above. The UPA is a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of Colorado, serving as the governing body for the Sport of Ultimate in the USA. Our mission is to: • Promote and support the Sport of Ultimate; • Preserve the integrity of Ultimate, including Spirit of the Game; • SeJVe the needs of members; and • Provide a framework for organizing and conducting competitions and other activities related to Ultimate. The UPA utilizes national directors to oversee key divisional and program areas. Several of those positions are up for re-appointment, or will be vacant at the end of the year. They are listed below, along with a short description. Contact UPA headquarters at Boo-872-4384, or upa_hq@upa.org. for more information.

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As players become more settled, more obligated or more broken, many never lose their passion for Ultimate. So how do we keep UPA alumni involved if you aren't playing in the Championship

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NATIONAL J~NIORS' DIRECTOR {NJD) The National Juniors' Director is responsible for designing, developing and implementing the Annual UPA Juniors' Strategic Plan. The NJD is also the UPA's lead official in the area of recruiting and overseeing all Juniors' Volunteers (this includes certified coaches and state and ci coordinators). The

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OP\IPIOp and Implement the Annual UPA Juniors' Strategic Plan; Recruit and Oversee all UPA Juniors' Volunteers Nationwide; Maintain Database of Youth Program Contacts; Serve as Primary UPA Official on all Juniors' Related Matters; Serve as Chair of the Juniors' Committee.

SU14MER INTERlf '

If you are a college student interested in doing an internship at the UPA for credit, please send a packet to HQ containing: 1) a cover letter describing your area of interest, 2) your resume, 3) your college transcript, and 4) information from your school about what the UPA would need to do for you to receive college credit. Currently, there is no funding available for UPA Summer Interns - you would be expected to provide your own room, board, transportation and living expenses. You would gain sports industry experience, non-profit management experience. UPA summer internships are either half- or full-time. Due to the small size of the UPA, our interns have the opportunity to

COllDtJ;CT, R~ taES AND SPORTSMANSHIP COMMITTEE MEMBERS The Conduct and Spirit of the Game Committees may be combined. We are 10 years overdue for a 1oth edition of the rules. There -is so much work to be done in these areas and they are among the essential components of our sport, requiring thought, experience and expertise. Write upa-ed@upa.org if you want to get involved in any of these committees.

SELECTION COMMITTEES There are several ongoing and one-time UPA selection committees. This year, the National Juniors' Team, the College Eligibility Committee and the Innovation Grants Program may need additional help. Duties include reading and evaluating applications and making recommendations to the Committee Chair or Director. If you have professional experience in scholarships, grants, - college admissions or any championship sports selection committees you would be a valuable addition to the UPA in these areas.

SECTIOJlAL & REGIOlltAL COORDillATORS With eight College regions in two divisions and sex Club regions in four divisions, there is always a need for new sectional and regional coordinators. Contact your National Championship Director to learn if he or she has an opening in your area. Writers, Reporters, Artists and Photographers for the Newsletter and Web Page The more the better! Write upa_newsletter@upa.org!

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The UPA Annual Meeting was held in mid-January. A summary of the meeting can be found on page eleven of this issue. Sectionals, Regionals and National dates for all divisions should also b e listed. Some of the highlights for the women include: for college, the women's college division will now have a chance to choose whether or not they wane to play by the X-Rules. Concerning the club teams, the Co-ed division has been moved out of the Fall Series to its own Co-ed Series, to be held in mid-late summer. The Coed Nationals will be held on Labor Day along with the Co-ed Celebration event. This is a trial move, and it will be re-evaluated at the end of the year. Many women have emailed me over the past year about the Co-ed division having a negative impact on the women's teams in their area. The numbers have supported this as well. But we cannot (and do not) hlame all the women's division's problems on the Co-ed division. We have some inherent problems that need to be addressed in order for our division to grow and establish a stronger foundation. I firmly believe that in some areas it would have been impossible to address these problems and start rebuilding as long as the Co-ed division continued to compete with the women's division for players. There just aren't enough women playing Ultimate to support a 150 women 's teams and 120 Co-ed teams, let alone t'OOm for growth. Well, now we have at least one year to focus on this

omen's Ultimate without having such an obstacle. Let'~ use it well. We were at 150 teams in 1997, we're at 113 now. It's time to start bringing those numbers back up. Especially in the Northwest and Southwest regions. The single most important thing we can do is introduce more women to Ultimate. As a sport, women's Ultimate has a lot to offer, and I think many more women would p lay it if they just had the opportunity play a little and see what the sport is aJl about. There are several ways to get more women involved in o ur sport. The UPA has women's Ultimate posters to help with recruiting efforts. We also started the Women's Ultimate Events Program last year that provides posters and other materials for teaching clinics, women 's hat tournaments and other events aimed at promoting the sport to women. Call the UPA or email me if you would like to learn more about these programs. Below, I have listed some ideas and things to consider. In thinking about these things , keep in mind the characteristics and uniqueness of your area. What works for one region may not work for another, or even for another section within the same region. The key is to identify the strengths and weaknesses in your area and try to capitalize on the strengths. Here are some things to consider: \Vomen 's College Teams - is there a big women's college contingency in your area? A lot of college players keep playing the sport after they

graduate. They may not necessarily stay in your town, but they will end up somewhere looking for a club team. Supporting your women's college team and/or helping establish one is by far one of the best things we can do for the division as a whole. Support your local college women's team. If you don't have one, start one. If you already have a strong one, then help start a second one. They are our future. Geography - how spread out is your region? The South, Southwest and Northwest have this as an obstade while the dense Mid-Atlantic have it in its favor. Perhaps the MA region can host some women's tourneys or teaching clinics to take advantage of their close proximity. The more remote areas are going to have to do some major recruiting. Use your colleges. Get some women's posters from the UPA and start posting them. Big Ultimate Cities - cities with ·strong Ultimate communities and areas that are close to them tend to have at least two established women's club teams and could probably have more if additional effort was applied. Big cities are full of athletes. Turn them onto our sport. Put up some posters and organize women's pickup one night a week. Run some small local tourneys. Get women who are not playing with teams involved. Most big cities have spring, fall and summer leagues. Introduce these women to women 's Ultimate through women 's pickup night or a one-day women's hat tourney. '

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National Caliber Teams\Players you are a huge! You have influence, skill, and experience. Help out the less experienced teams. Help out with a clinic or hat tourney once a year and support women's Ultimate in your community. The Women's Ultimate Clinic in Seattle is the biggest and most successful women's clinic. The Women on the Verge players started it and host it every year. It 's not only great for the sport but it's a lot of fun as well. Talk to them and get some tips. Help out the sport you have gotten so much from. • Women's Pickup Night - th is is great for getting league players who have never p layed single-gender Ultimate before to try it out. It's great for the college players to get a chance to play with club players. It's great for inter-city team rapport. And it 's a lot fun. Organize a women's pickup night in your area . There are probably more things to consider and more things we can do. If you have any other ideas or thoughts, please send them to me. Send me your success stories. Ask me for help. The more we communicate about what is going on in our areas, the more we can help each other. One of my philosophies in life is this: sometimes you need to be a taker and other times you're in a position to be the giver. As lung as you're not selfish about it, it all comes out in the wash. Help when you can, lean when you need to. Let's all do what we can for OUR sport. Get involved locally. Promote women 's Ultimate.

by Jennifer Christianson

Third time's a charm As Co-ed enters its third year as a UPA Division, I'm proud to have been appointed as the Co-ed Championship Director. I still remember how intrigued I was when I first heard Co-ed would join the UPA ranks as a full-fledged division; as joey Gray said, it was something so revolutionary yet somehow completely normal at the same time. Co-ed is the way our sport is played more often than not. As a longtime Co-ed league organizer in Atlanta, the fact that Co-ed is now recognized at the highest levels of the UPA is indeed satisfying to me. I'm eager to see what our third year will bring us. The board has voted on a trial summer season for this year, culminating in a Labor Day finale, with the Co-ed Championships taking place right alongside the Co-ed Celebration. joey Gray and I have been working

together on new ideas to make this coming year the best yet. For starters, instead of the usual two weekends to choose from for Sectionals and Regionals, we will be offering three dates for the Co-ed Regional and Sectional Coordinators to choose from. The added flexibility should help ease scheduling conflicts with all those traditional Co-ed summer tournaments out there as well as all those league events. Those are an integral part of the summer for all of us , and we don't want to steal any of their special brand of fire. We also are concerned ahout possible conflicts with Canadian Nationals and with Worlds, so we will do our best to work around those events as well. The optimal date for Co-ed Sectionals is July 15-16, and Sectional Coordinators have the option of choosing either the weekend immediately before that or the one immediately

after that. The optimal date for Co-ed Regionals is August 5-6, and again Regional Coordinator:> can either go for one week before Lhat or one week after. One caveat: there must be a minimum of two weeks between Sectionals and Regionals, so if your Region is hosting its event on the earliest possible Regionals date, the latest possible Sectionals date is not a valid option. It will take a lot of coordination to pull this series off. Our RCs and SCs will be crucial to the success of this season. (Which reminds me, congratulations to Sean Phillips of Hamilton, Ontario for being named Co-ed Sectional Coordinator of the Year for 1999!) For the coming year, we do have a small number of Sectional & Regional Coordinator vacancies, so please check the Co-ed Web page for the latest on those. If your Section or Region is one of those in need of some leadership, please consider step-

ping up, or encourage somebody you know to do so. 1f you already have a Coordinator in your area, drop him or her a line and offer your assistance. Sharing the load makes it lighter. As for the Big Show itself, well , this year we're planning to make it bigger than ever: 24 teams will be competing in the Co-ed Championship division. The top three from each Region will earn spots, plus an additional six wildcards will be awarded. Details on the selection process will be announced on the Co-ed Web page. I'm very excited about the possibilities of bringing so many top teams together for one big weekend of Coed Championship play. Here's hoping the third year is a charm ... Jennifer Christianson 770-594-9562 upa_co-ed_champ_dir@upa.org

Directors

Spring 2000

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joey Gray, Executive Director

Wendy Jobin, Administration Assistant

April Hoskins, Assistant Director

YOU? (see page 4 for the Assistant Director opening.)

The Ultimate Players Association headquarters are located in beautiful Colorado Springs, CO. The establishment of a permanent headquarters was accomplished in 1992, thanks to the dedication and financial support of many p layers. Colorado Springs was chosen as the home of the UPA because of its central location, its accessibility to 2 major airports (Colorado Springs and Denver) and the natural beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Last, but not least, Colorado Springs is the hub of the United States amateur sports industry. Olympic ath· letes from all sports come to tr.1in at the high altitude, while the United States Olympic Committee offers benefits such as grants and workshops to non-Olympic sports . When the UPA's move to Colorado Springs is explained as one important part of our gradual integration into tl)e sports industry, the next question people always ask is, "So, when is Ultimate going to be in the Olympics?" We have

a long way to go. One harrier to acceptance of new sports at that level is the sheer size of the Olympics. Host cities have to build huge, additional facilities, to accommodate the sports that are already included and must endure significant citizen protests against such construction - for example, the proposed Beach Volleyball site in Sydney, Australia. Fortunately, the World Flying Disc Federation has achieved an important step in the direction of Olympic acceptance by gaining medal status for Ultimate and Disc Golf at the World Games in 2001. Stay tuned! The 3-person UPA office. headed by Executive Director Joey Gray, provides sanctioning benefits for Ultimate leagues, tournaments, practices and other Ultimate events. We currently manage an evergrowing major Championship Series for Juniors Boys (Open) & Juniors Girls; College Women & College Men (Open); Club Co-ed, Club Men (Open) & Club Women; and Masters Open players, as

well as our alternative "Celebration Series" for the less competition-oriented players. The UPA provides merchandise to players through "Ultimate Stuff," such as discs, teaching kits, clothing, rule books, videos, supplies and Ultimate-relat· ed trinkets. Proceeds from Ultimate Stuff sales benefit all UPA programs. We offer a yearly Innovation Grant Program to support creativity and excellence in local Ultimate programs and projects throughout North America. In addition, the UPA is responsible for sending U.S. national teams to World-level competition. Congratulations to all the members of Team USA 2000! Membership services include the newsletter, the needs-to-beimproved \Veb site, a vast communication net work between players and organizers and more. There are many. many activities required for each of these major areascoordinated by your headquarters staff and in many cases accomplished with the help of e normous volunteer efforts, as well.

The UPA welcomes our first Assistant Director, April Hoskins, who started in December as the Administrative Assistant. As an MBA student interested and capable in many areas of UPA business, she was quickly promoted to take on more projects. Wendy Jobin, currently responsible for data entry and reception will unfortunately be moving with her family to New Mexico in March. A second Assistant Director position is open now. We are looking for a growth-minded person with Ultimate and/or sports industry experience, whose success as Assistant Director will enable the UPA to hire more staff with increasingly attractive benefits. If you love Ultimate, want to contribute to the future of the sport, like a fun-loving office epvironment and want to get in at the ground level of the UPA, consider a move to sunny Colorado. See the Assistant Director position announcement on page 4. Let your talented friends know about the job opening.

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Thank you, Rex The previous National Open Director, Rex O'Quinn, has decided to scale back his UPA commitments after many years of service as a Regional Coordinator, Board member, and Oirecror of Competition. This organization owes a great deal to Rex and I would be remiss not to mention that in this forum. Thank you, Rex . An introduction is in order. I am David Raflo, your UPA National Open Director for the ne.:xt two years. I am 29 years old and live in the Washington, DC area. 'through my fraternity, I started playing Ultimate intramurally at the University of Virginia.Wanting to learn and to play more competitively, I joined the tNA team in the spring of 1992. I was hooked. Washington Area Frisbee Club (\VAFC) leagues t1rst beckoned in 1993 and l

began playing club Ultimate that Fall. I played open division tntimate with (and occasionally co-captained) several DC teams, though never the top-tier squad. Most recently, I played with Blind Date, a Co-ed team from Baltimore/De. I have played throughout the Mid-Atlantic as well as in Florida, California, New York, Illinois, Georgia, Alabama, etc. I enjoyed playing the game so much, I wanted to give something back. I have heen able to serve the Ultimate community in a variety of capacities. When I first injured my knee during my second season at UVA, J hecame the club vice president. By volunteering for WAFC, I have gotten to work with newer players including introducing local childrtn to the game through the ··catch The Spirit" program. Servin~ a term on the Board of

Directors with great Ultimate thinkers like Eric Simon and Troy Frever taught me a great deal.And , until taking this position, I had been the Mid-Atlantic Open Regional Coordinator since the spring of 1995. During my tenure as RC, I had the pleasure of working with numerous sectional coordinators and fellow volunteers, none more instrumental in making my tenure successful than the Women's RC, Melissa lwaszko. Together, we worked through a number of challenges: the severe lack of spirit that plagued the region in the mid-'90s, a regional championship contested in conditions that T can only describe as monsoon-like and the unfortunate necessity of disqualifying a team during regional play for roster violations. During my tenure as National Open

Celebration Series Directors

Oirector, I hope to apply the lessons d1at experience has taught me, to the myriad of challenges that I will face. First among them is filling the vacant RC positions. Hopefully, that will be achieved by the time you read this. Major issues to be decided include wildcard criteria and the Open National Championships format. It is possible that the resolutions to some of these issues, as well as the schedule for the Fall season, can be found elsewhere in this issue; I cannot say for sure as I will be on my honeymoon when the newsletter goes to print. Signing off, let me say that my e-mail door is always open. Please feel free to write to me at upa_nod@upa.org. I look forward to hearing from members as well as getting advice and constructive criticism.

by Bill &

Julie Capossere

Experimental Celebration Series •

We've all been there, the postgame, what-could-we-have-done-differently-throw-by-throw analysis, while still walking off the field: "I should have laid out for that last toss into the zone." "We should have played a 2-4-1 instead of our 3-:3-1." "If only we could have completed the mid-air underwear exchange on that left-handed, cross-gendered hammer, "who knew they made sports bras with velcro?" "Who won again?" And thus , one enters the world of experimental co-ed. A land of bizarre twists and turns, where the discs are designed by Dali, the fields by Escher and the team shirts by, well, fill in the name of your own self-aggrandizing, chain-smoking "clothes are a metaphor" designer of ready-to-wear fashion, displayed by rail-thin mooels who walk and grimace like the fabric is actually eating into their skin. This year, as for

the past three, the experimental coed series culminates in the Co-ed Celt:bration held over Labor Day weekend. For the first time, however, the Celebration will be held sideby-side with its somewhat more competitive and slightly less wild cousin the Co-ed National Championships. Although the date is set, the location is still up in the air. (Perhaps literally - we hear Russia is desperate to have someone, anyone, find a use for the old Mir space station). We've heard from several places already about wanting to host the double event: Tulsa, Daytona Beach, Minnesota, Denver, Utah, and the list seems to grow almost daily. If you are interested in hosting the Celebration/ Championship, contact either the Celebration directors, Bill and Julie Capossere, or the Championship Director, )en Christianson, ASAP. While the two events are being held simultaneously, qualifiers will be

separate for each . The Experimental Series will continue the practice of taking "ambassador" teams from preliminary tournaments , from the last three years. (Can it still be experimental if it's been happening for three years?) Prelims can be held anytime between now and the end of July/beginning of August, with the usual requirements that the tourney he co-ed (go figure), and experiment in at least one of the following areas: Gender, Spirit of the Game, Community Service and that wonderful catch-all phrase"Other." Previous experiments include the aforementioned cross-gender underwear swap, combining game scores and cheer scores, points for amount of food given to charity and a host of other ideas of varying levels of shame and success (or excess). The idea is to be creative. Anyone interested in hosting a preliminary tournament should contact Bill and Julie as soon as possible to go over the details and possi-

bilities. Each preliminary will send at least one Ambassador Team to the Celebration and possibly several other alternates as well. Unlike the Championship Series where teams only advance by winning games, AmhassadorTeams might include the finals' winners, the SOTG team, the team that raises t)le most for charity or the team that played naked the longest. To be as vague as possible, Celebration spots are earned not necessarily by winning the tourney, but by "winning" the special rules that tourney has set up , and had approved hy Bill and Julie, whatever those rules might be. At this point, to continue being vague, there is no way to know how many prelims will happen or how many invitations we can send out to alternates. The UPA co-ed Web page, www.upa.org/coed, will be the best place to check for updates on site selection, qualifying tournies and individual team invites.

omen's Division grovvs First, I will recap the Annual Meeting. Quickly, the Women's Division has increased its number of teams at Nationals to 16. This will give us 32 total teams. Nationals will be held in Boise, Idaho from May 2~28. I know rhat some of you are wondering, "Why Boise?" Well, quite frankly, the quality of their bid was the best and they have a great facility. They city is really looking forward to

having us and I think we will have a great tournament. Good luck to all the teams that wilt be competing this year. Secondly, the Women's Division will be vo~g on using the XRules in this year's College Series. The details of the voting process will be announced shortly. Finally, exact method of wildcard selection will be announced. If you have an opinion, please get in touch with your

Regional Coordinator. We are staffed up with 16 Regional Coordinators for the upcoming Series. You can find their contact information in this issue or on the Web site. If you haven't been in touch with your CRC/WCRC, please do so. It is the best way to keep your team abreast of developments during the year. Tournament directors, if you want to

put recaps of your tournaments this spring on the Web site, please send them to me. Best of luck to everyone this year. It's going to be a great year for college Ultimate, make sure you are a part of it!

Directors

Kate Bergeron upa_ncd@upa.org

Spring 2000

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format), two proposals (4-day and 3-day) will be put out for an inform al vote to the captai ns of teams who attended in the past 2 years. Their recommendation will be taken into consideration for the final decision is made. • The number of masters teams at nationals will be determined by the number of masters teams participating in the Championship Series. Details will be available by April 30 at the latest. The intent of any changes would be to increase participation in the Masters divisron • Highlighted and un-highlighted rows indicate age group - Co-ed. Open & Women are "open-aged , i.e. no age or student status restrictions. '

Calendar 2000

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Tourn aments r eported to the UPA as of Feb 16, 2000-Send your tou r n ey info to: tourney_author @upa .or g Tourna ment Directors, contact Bill & Julie Caposser e at upa_cclcb_series@upa.or g if you ar e interested in j oining the alternative U PA Celebration Series. Contact info@upa.org if you would like your event to be UPA san ctioned .

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Brown, hale. hrown@retek.com http://W9.-w.afdc.com

Melissa@wafc .org http://www. wafc.org/fools

Mar 18·19, SPUD XII CSt. I Ullbftate Daze XIQ, ColuMbia. SC

$160/feam due Mar 1; ind dinner, party, funk band, 25 Open, 15 Women's Teams Jason Brown, jdh204@psu.edu, h:814-867-5582, w:814235-8026 Alison McKenzie, alm229@psu.edu Dave Muehl, dmm323@psu.edu http://www.personal.psu.edu/jdb204

$175/Team UPA Planned S Co-ed, 25 Open, 10 Womens Teams Trester Dyke, trester@m.indspting.com, h:(803)561-9648, w:(803)216-8467, fax:(803)561 -9648

AIN'21·23.

Mar 18-19, 2000

SleeDova. ( 40 minutes from Honolulu), HI $100/ Individual; Deposit:$300 per team due jan 15 Extras: Disc, Dinner, Breakfast 3M/4F; 20+ Co-ed Teams Scott Todd (Webmaster & Registr.tr), hawaii_coed@yahoo.com Helga Misspelhlumbier (Camping &. Breakfast). hawaii_coed@yahoo.com Corey Tyrrell (Tourney Director), hawaii_coed@yahoo.com This is a 3/4, 4/3 tourney Bring:a groovy theme, equ:1l numbers of hoy" & girb.

ADr 30-Mav 7, Singular Luxurw UltiMate tt. aub Mecl, sonora aav, NM Extr.t~:

Oisc. Shirt, Dinner, Breakfast H.at format,4M/3F: 6 Co-ed Teams Charles Schaffer, oakstravel@aol.com, w:(800)359-6694 Jesster, jesster@ na panet.net, http://www. napanet.netl-je:.ster/SLLfl".html Price inducles tourney fees, lodging, all fine meals, tequilla, activities, beer.

Mar 4-5, Frostllreaker,

$125(fe'..lm; Deposit:$50.00 due Feb 1; incl DiSc, Shin, Dinner Rated 4 Stars 10 Open, 16 Womerl.S, 16 College Only Teams Steven Johnson, sckool@afn.org, h:(352)337-6098 http://pla7.a.ufl.edu/msputin/FB2000/fb_index.html

Mar 4-S.IIM'CII Gru. LA ).0()/Tearn; Deposit:$1 '50.00 due Feb 15; ind 16 Open, 16 Womcns, 32 College Only Teams John Malone, malone@bigfoor.com, h :225-266-6473, w:225-346-3288 h ttp://www.turhodog.org/mardigras .,..._ 7

CA $200.00/Team; 24 Open, 16 Womens Teams Karen Hyun, khyun@stanford.edu Dan Madenberg, d amaids@stanford.edu http://www .stanford.edu/-jishVmain.html

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Hated 3 Stars Extras: Shirt, Dinner Other format,5M/5F; 3 Co-ed, 3 Open, 4 \'<'omens, 6 College Only Teams tim mackey, mackeytim@yahoo.com, h:320-25"i-0966, w:320468-6446 andy winey, winey1231 @hotmail.com chris siel>en, Csieben@cloudner com , w:320-2"'104325

Mar 18· 19, St. Pat's Mat. Los CA $20.00/Individual; Deposit:$20.00 due Feb 15 UPA Planned Extras: Shirt J fat fonnat,5M/2F; 12 C..o-ed Team<; Benjamin Pota~h. slpars@laout.org. h:626t445-7574 http://laout.org Accur:ICy throwing competition as well

Mar 18·19, St. Pall leks Ultimate Daze 12, Colulnbla, sc $175.00/Team; Overage to Oliver Gospel Mission of Columbia. SC UPA PlJnned; Rated 5 Stars 10 Co-ed, 20 Open, 10 Wome ns Teams Tim Ray, huck2me28@aol.cum, h :803-782-871l:l. w:803-737 -1889 Trevor Baker, Trevor@csaonline.com, w:803-765-1323

Mar 18·19, CINTEX. Austin, TX $100.00/Team; Dt:posit:$100.00 due :Mar 8 30 Open, 15 Womens, 15 College Only Teams Michael Bogomolny. bogo@bigfoot.com, h:512478-6791 Cindy Fisher, upa_nwd@upa.org http~//www .cs.utexas.edu/users/bogo/cenrex come early for SXSW film and music festival. Rockin' party Sat. $25 late reg fee

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MO $85.00/Team, incl Breakfast 10 Open, 5 Womens, 10 College Only Teams Viwk Chaturvedi, vchaturv@artsci.wustl.edu. h:(314)935-3354 WashU Ultimate, ultimate@rescomp. wustl.edu http://www. rescomp. ""vustl.edu/- ullimate/ In our 4th and best year yet!

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Mar 11·12. 1st Wave, GA

Mar Glib Atlanta,GA

$150.00/Team; Deposit:$150.00 due Mar I 24 College Only Teams Ed Pulkinen, dicophile@worldnet.att. net, h :912-232-6464, w:912-2:Y!-lll3 $10/player housing . HT teams get fir.>t priority. All college teams welcome!

42 Open, Womens, and Co-ed teams Jennifer Christianson, jennifer@extraplex.com, h:770-5949562 Hale Brown, hale.brown@retek.com http://www.afdc.com

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Savannaii.GA $125.00/lndividual; Deposit:$500.00 due Mar 1; Overage to Coastal Association for Retarded Citi7.ens of Savannah, GA UPA Planned Extras: Dinner, Breakfast 18 College Only Teams Ed Pulkinen, dic:ophi.le@worldnet.att.net, h:912-2341113, W:800 683 1633 PlN # 3482 http:/ / ruskcamp.cjb.net All inclusive college spring break tourney w/ all meals, lodging, and fees.

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42 Teams: College Open, College Womens, and Juniors Jennifer Christianson, jennifer@extraplex.com, h :770-594-9562 Hale

$225.00/feam; UPA Planned; Rated 4 Stars; inc! Dinner 4M/3F; 10 Co-ed Teams Stacy Hubbard, hubb3775@aol.com

Mar 27-31, llltllllkle

$160/Team due Mar 1; incl dinner, party, funk band 25 Open, 15 Womens Teams jason 13rown, jdb204@psu.edu, h:8I4-867-5582, w:R14-235-8026 Alison McKenzie, alm229@psu.edu Dave Mudli, dm.m323@psu.edu http://www.personal.psu.edu/jdb204

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$125.00/Inclividual; Deposit:$500 00 due Mar I; Overage to C<Yd.Stal Association for Retarded Citizens of Savannah, GA UPA Planned Extras: Dinner, Breakfast 18 College Only Teams Ed J>ulkinen, dicophile@worldnet.att.net, h:912-2341113, w:800 683 1633 PIN # 3482 http://tuskcamp.cjb.net All inclusive college spring break tourney w/ all meals, lodging, and fees.

16 Co-ed Teams Matt Gerega, ogre007_2002@yahoo.com Justin Gerboc, gerbocj@alleg.edu http://members.xoom.com/mgerega/BFK.html Costs will be forthcoming ASAP

AIH' 1·2. Mlalld's

$125.00/Individual; Deposit:$500.00 due Mar 1; Overage to Coastal Association for Retarded Citizeru.; of Savannah, GA UPA Planned Extras: Dinner, Breakfast 18 College Only Teams Ed Pulkinen, dicophile@worldnet.att.net, h:912-2341113, w:800 683 1633 PIN c~t 3482 http://tuskcamp.cjb.net All inclusive college spring break tourney w / all meals, lodging, and fees.

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savannatt.GA $125.00/Individual; Deposit:$500.00 due Mar 1; Overage to C<Yastal Association for Retarded Citizens of Savarmah, GA UPA Planned Extras: Dinner, Breakfa:.1. 18 College Only Teams Ed Pulkinen, dlcophile@worldnet.att.net, h:912-2341113, w:800 683 1633 PIN # 3482 http://ruskcamp.cjb.net All inclusive college ~;pring break toomey w/ all meals, lodging, and fees.

Fest VA $215/Team; Deposit:$215 due Feb 12 Overage to Therman Brisben Homeless Shelter, Fredericksburg PO of Fredericksburg, VA UPA Planned; Rated 5 Stars 32 Open, 16 Womens Teams Rod Druckemiller, IGoLong@aol.com, b:301-588-4905 Melissa Iwaszko,

$75/Team; Depo:;it:$75 due Mar 19 16 College Only Teams Matty Wasserman, Martywasse@aol.com, h:513-664-6492 Charlie Kroger. krogercj@muohio.edu http:// www.muohio.edu/ -dunbarbd/fools.htm Sectiona I tune up, get -;illy in Southwt>-;t Ohio

ADr 1·2. Ganclv Goose, OR $250.00/Team UPA Pbnned; Rare<! 4 ~tars Extras: Dinner, Bn.:akfast 4M/3F: 10 Co ed Teams Stacy Huhh.u-d. hubb.'377"i@aol.com, w·'i-i 1 382 093<~ there \\'ill be a ~ki/board race at Jvlt Bachelor on fri. for all interested players

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NC $125.00/Team; Deposit:$125.00 due Mur] 12 Womens, 16 College Only Teams Jeff Wilhelm, jdw0120@mail.ecu.edu, h:252-752-3492 Lindsey Kolconay. lovensoul@hotmail.com Colkge Easterns dim axe~ one week later ar F.O • this year, don't miss it!! t\0 CR

1-2. savage 7, Colletle Statton, TX

http://clubs.asua.arizona .edu/-ultimate/tournaments All fields at one site, party & dinner at the fields.

Apr8-9,DaVIa Invitational. DaVIs. CA $215.00/Team; Deposit:$215.00 due Mar 30 Extras: Dinner 4M/3f; 12 Co-ed, 20 Open, 12 Womens Teams Jose M. Laplaza, jmlaplaza@ucdavis.edu, h:(530)-759-9745 Dan Nice, dcnice@ucdavis.edu http: 'twwwcsif.cs.ucda,·is.edu/-smithc/ homepagel.html

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O~ten, Toledo, OM $150/l'eam: Deposit:$150 due Mar 16 20 Open, 12 Womens Teams Adam Zucker. ad.tm.zucker@oberlin.edu, h:( 440) 775-4653 http: W\\w.oherlin.edu -obult 1tournament C.tllahan rules for both open and. women'~ ponlo;;

ADr 8, PADA Mlkew's SIH'Ing Tiling, PA S12.00/Individual; Overage to Hucks County Yourh Center Art Program of Doylestown. PA Extras: Shirt, Dinner; Hat format Brian Bog~r. bboger@tradenet.ner, h 215-230-9186, w .215340-H317, fax:215-3'f0-8354 http://-;vw·w .tradenet.net/ bl>oger/

a. La Tlow, NY $75.00/Team 8-10 Womens Teams Laura Konieczny, konicl@rpi.edu, h:(518)273-9864 Fun, food , & great frisbee at one low. low ptice!!

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$70.00(feam, ind Breakfast Savage 7 format, 4M/3F Dan DiCamillo, goho@tamu.cdu, h:(409)846-4848 http:/ / recsports.tamu.edu/ frisbee

$175.00/Team; Deposit:$25.00 due Feb l Extras: Dinner 30 Open, 20 Womens Teams Alex Lehr, alehr@h.averford.edu, h:610-645-7969 Great in past years, even bigger and better this year. Gatorade&Clif bars incl.

1·2. CMIA 2000, Alnllent. MA

ADr 1S. WOMBABASM 2000,

$17S!feam; Deposit:$50 due Mar 6 Extras: Ditmer, Breakfast 1.2 Open Teams Justin Segool, frisbee@amher.>t.edu, h:(413) 542-3149 Moose, frisbee@amhersr.edu http://www.amherst.edu/ -frisbee Trophies for the winners.

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AIH'1•2. Lawrence, KS

$150.00/Team; Deposit:$150.00 due Mar 16 lO Open, 10 Womens, 10 College Only Teams Will Spotts, wspotts@fakon.cc.ukans.edu, h:(785) 841 0671 Kelley Kneib, bettyflygirl@hotmail.com AJ Delaney III, naowlord@eagle.cc.ukans.edu http:/ / raven.cc.ukans.edu-zomals Party rated 5 stars by UPA. $30 back to teams with captains on time to meetings

1, MaMDSIIIre Colletle SDI'Intl Alldlent. MA $100.00/feam 5W2F; 8 Co-ed Teams Dale, ultimate@stOU(.hampshire.edu, h:413-559-4881 C..oed College Tournament. Bagels, etc. BBQ? Spirit-filled for April Fool's Day!

cr $200.00/feam; Deposit:$200.00 due Mar 20 20 Open. 16 Womens Teams Josh Kaplowitz, jmk29@pantheon.yale.edu. h:203-436-29H5 James Click, jac76@pantheon.yale.edu Divya Rao, divya .rao@yalc.cdu http:// wv.rw.yale.edu/superfly

ADr 8-9, Onion Fest. Walla waua, WA $175.00/Team; Depo.'>it:$50.00 due Mar 12 Extras: Dinner 4M/3F; 1S Co-ed Teams Molly Gelber, gerbermb@whitman.edu, h:(509) 525-1355 hnp://v.TWW.whttman.cdu/ srudent_<>rgs/ ulrimate/

8-9, Nashville, TN

Bowl12.

$144.00/Team; Overage to Oasis Center of Nashville, TN UPA Planned; Rated 1 Star 20 Open, 10 Womens Teams Lynne Robinson, lynne@home.com, 11:615-228-6640, fax:615-2~0 http://wv..rw.members.home .netlsalsa/mb 12index. htm

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$90.00/Team 5MI2F; 8 Co-ed Teams Ethan Cole, ecole@skidmore.edu, h:(518) 583 9627 Erik Benson, ebenson@skidmore.edu Dave Polivy, d_polivy@skidmorc.edu You've heard ~f ir. You've dreamt of it. Now come and be a part of it!!!!!

ADr21·U. Wallldnalo C40

HI $100/Individual; Deposit:$300 due Jan 31 inc! Disc, Dinner, Breakfast Co-ed- 3MI4F Scott Todd (Rcgisrrar/Webmaster), hawaii_coed@yahoo.com .\tlicheal Constantinides (Treasurer). hawaii_coed@yahoo.com Corey Tyrrell (Tourney Director). hawaii_coed@yahoo.com http://www.hawaiic~d.com Camping is at the beach park (ve1y close),bring equal numbers of m en and women

cautncv,CA $1 SO./feam; Deposit:$75.00 due Mar 31 Rated 4 Srars; incl Dinner 4M/ 3F; 12 Open Teams Marc Eastman, meeast@hotmail.com, h:530 2R3 2387 Great Greens, Music, Food, Spirited Compition.It Keeps getting better

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Philly gears up for Junior Nationals Philly is gearing up to host the 2000 UPA National Juniors' Invitational Championship. The tourney will be held in suburban Philadelphia on Saturday, May 27 and Sunday, May 28, 2000 (Memorial Day weekend). The UPA will be granting bids for up to 16 Open/BOys teams and up to eight Girls teams. Last year, the UPA acceptt'd all teams that applied, so you are strongly encouraged to apply. Last year's Tournament Director Brian Canniff, will run the tournament with the assistance of hjs wife, Mary Canniff, the Assistant Tournament Director. The tournament will cost approximately $250 per team. In addition, each player will be required to be either a) a current member of the

UPA ($15) or b) pay a one-time $ 10 event fee for insurance purposes. Participants paying the $10 event fee will not be eligible to receive the UPA Newsletter and other UPA membership benefits. The following deadlines are in t"ffecl for this year's National Invitation~! Championship: • February 14, 2000: Design conrest submissions due. • March 24, 2000: Applications from teams due to HQ. • April 7, 2000: HQ sends out notice to teams invited to complete the appUcation process. • April 28, 2000: Applicant team mu. t return (i) completed rosters, (ii) signc:d parental waivers for each player, (iii) fi•tJ payment and ( iv) an}

additional paperwork required or the team may be eliminated from consideration for the Invitational Championship, and a replacement team may be taken from the waiting list. Insurance, liability and payment issues are important! Information regarding seeding and schedul· ing will be available o n the UPA junio r 's Web site. The Tournament Director will be consult· ing with UPA officials, ream contacts and other tournament directors for assistance with seed· ing and scheduling. 'nJe official ~i'b site nury be found al li'U'll!S(!rt'C'.COJI1/IIpu/jrS/2(X){)/ilt([<?X.blmJ

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Team USA vvill be selected for The UPA will be selecting its Juniors' National Team to compete with grace and excellence in the World Flying Disc Federation 's World Ultimate Championship. If you arc at aJJ ioterestt..'d in applying, please send your name, email address and mailing address to upa_juniors team@upa.org to get· on the mailing list for an application. If you don't have email, calll-800-UPA-GE'f-H to give us your name and mailing address. If you do this and do not gc:t your application by March 31, please call again. Worlds will be held Augu!)t 6-12, in Hc:Hbron.n.

Germany. Currently, thert: is one junior ·· Division · "open" (mostly boys; girls aUow(;d). In addition, there is talk of pulling together a Girb Division. If at least 4 girl-;' teams come through, and if there arc enough U.S. girls who apply and can go, there is a chan<.:c that the US will be able to send two juniors teams! Worlds Tournament Director Mark Kt·ndaU wrote: "Junior Division (Male): Available to players who do not reach their 20th or ~ubsc:quent birthdays during the calendar ycar in which the tour· nament concludes.

Questionahle:junior Division (f'emale):Available to female players who do not reach their 20th or subsequent birthdays during the calendar year in which the tournament <.:oncludes." Worlds information can be found at www.wuc2000.org.TI'lc '65 OM team registration fees will be paid by the TJPA. Other teams represent· ing the U.S. will be: Co-<·d · Raleigh Llama (NC). Open - DOG (Boston), Open Ma~t<:r!) · Old and in the Way (Colorado), and Women· Fury (California).

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the to-be approved minutes Two of the many requirements for a non-profit organization are to maintain a Board of Directors and hold an annual meeting of the Board. The 12-member UPA board meets once a year, in person, for its Annual Meeting (plus many, many emails and at least several conference calls over the course of any year). The purpose of the annual meeting is to conduct the offidal, required business of a non-profit organization, as well as Ultimate-specific planning. National Directors and UPA Headquarters staff attend the meeting to work together making decisions for the year, to give reports on their projects or departments and to learn what different branches of the organization are working on in o rder to work better together. UPA members may also attend. This year's meeting was hdd January 15-17 in Dallas thanks to Rex O 'Quinn. It was attended by all Board members - eight returning and four and by Executive Director Joey Gray, Former Managing Director Michael Guiietz, Assistant Director April Hoskins, College Director Kate Bergeron, Marketing Director Frank DeFazio,Women's Director Cindy Fisher, Former Open Director Rex O 'Quinn, Open Director Dave Raflo, and P-arliamentarian & Chair of the Standing Rules Committee, Troy Frever. One UPA member, Barbara "Bubba" Dennison stopped by. After introductions, staff reports were given. Reports are mentioned elsewhere in the newsletter so won't be detailed here. (Juniors, College, Masters, Club Open, Club Women's, Club Co-ed, International, Marketing and Administration.) Staff reports were followed by Board Committee and Project reports. The Executive Committee (ExComm) is an elected subset of the board, which meets via phone once per month to maintain communication within th.e organization and to act on behalf of the board in certaiJl situations. The Nomina!!ng Commi~tee (NomComm) members search for new board candidates. 1999 NomComm goals were to recruit younger board members and college members, in which they were successful. The Executive Search Committee meets only when necessary to recruit and hire an Executive Director to run the organization.The Conduct Committee reported no official conduct committee cases in 1999, and that a woman in the Fall Championship Series was given a yellow card. Board projects for 1999 were: HQ Uaison - Bill Layden,Juniors Development and Educational Uterature - Lynne Nolan ,Afflliate and Grand Prix Series- HenryThome,Jockey

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Sponsorsrup Contract - .Matt Healey, Administration/Competition Liaison Jim Parinella, Conduct - Kevin Hatch , Club Rules - Pete Guisti,Treasurer Dave Beller. Each board member read and signed a Board Service Commitment Pledge. Next. elections were held for 2000 Board positions, with the results as follows: President:Jim Parinella Vice President: BiJJ Layden Treasurer: Matt Healey Secretary: Lynne Nolan Jim Parinella,Jennifer "JD" Donnelly, Bill Layden and Vin Sheldon were elected to serve on the Executive Committee. Board member projects and other duties were assigned including: Nominating committee -Tim Murray, Dave Remucol and Henry Thorne; Finance Committee - Joe Studholme, Matt Healey, Kurt DaWenburg; Ombudsman - Vin Sheldon; Conduct Committee - Bill Layden, Kurt Dahlenberg; Rules Committee - Tim Murray, Dave Remucol and Jennifer Donnelly. The June newsletter wilJ contain the Nominating Committee's announcement for upcoming board member elections. Lunch and dinner were all working meals, with time for attendees to discuss upcoming proposals, brainstorm, lobby and of course, to re-live the glory days. The traditional Sunday lunchtime game allowed participants to get some fresh air in preparation for the grueling proposal discussion~. The minutes of the Annual Meeting are expected to be approved at the next ExComm meeting. An official version of these minutes may be requested from HQ by members after adoption.

Proposals that Passed: • The Board directs that the adminis-tration in conjunction with counsel. assess and address organizational liability concerns, specifically to include, but in no way limited to, the rewrite of the waiver of liability form to be completed by March 3 1, 2000. -The UPA will employ the UPA College Series Experimental Rules or some variation thereof for some portion of the College National Series in 2000 for the Open and Women's divisions. Use in the Women's division will be subject to a membership approval process, to be determined by me administration. • Use of the College Experimental Rules in 2000 at any UPA College Series event shall furt}ler be subject to captains' approval prior ro the start of competition, in accordance with current UPA 9th Edition rule 1.3 (Captain's Clause). • The number ofWomen's division teams at Nationals in the UPA College Series shall be increased to 16. • The 2000 budget shall be provisionally adopted. (The budget was adopted provisionally rather than finally, due to the new Executive Director having only two weeks to prepare. The final 2000 final budget is expected to be passed at the March ExComm meeting.) • The appointment of Dave Raflo as

Open Division Championsrup Director shall be confirmed. • The board directs the Administration (HQ), utilizing the Standing Rules Conunittee, to develop a proposed lOth Edition Rules of Ultimate incorporating the following features: 1. Time limits between pulls; 2. Such other features of the UPA College Series Experimental Rules as seem desirable; 3. A specification of options for games to be played either with or without Observers wrule minimizing the difference between the two. • The Co-ed Championship shall be moved to Labor Day to be held with the Co-ed Celebr.ltion for a one-year trial period. • Players shall be allowed to play in both Co-ed Championship Series and 0/W1M Championship series.

Failed Proposals: • Increase ExComm to 5 members. • College Roster Limits. • Extension of Experimental Rules for College Ultimate. • Binding Petition for Approving Use of Experimental Rules for Women 's College Ultimate. • 2000 College Series for 0/W to be run under the 1999 UPA College Experimental Ru1es Proposal as they applied to the 1999 College series for the Open Division. • College Team Selection & Wildcards. • Bids to College Nationals to be determined bl' Regional Champs, histo. ~ ... " ry, SlZe. , • Bids to College NatiGnals to be determined by Regional Champs, history (av. rank from previous year) and size. • Two divisions in the Co-ed Championship Series reflecting different levels of play. • Move Masters Championship to Labor Day. • Move Masters to compete in Open division at Sectionals & Regionals. • Board directs Admin to minimize time between Sectionals & Regionals where possible. • Co-ed Championship shall be required to use same format as 0/W Championship

Other: The minutes show that the Board directs the Administration to cause Bylaws amendments to be drafted and submitted to the Board for approval as soon as possible, which shall reflect (at least) the following points: 1. Individual rule amendments shall be allowed following the same or similar procedures as currently in force for newly proposed editions; 2. The Board shall be allowed to designate different versions of Official Rules of Ultimate for different divisions of play, each of which shall be subject to membership approval in a manner similar to the current bylaws. The minutes show that Board members perform a service to the organization in (at least) one of the following ways: 1. Volunteering to work on an administrative project 2. Working on ·a non-administrative board project 3. Serving as an officer A proposal was tabled until further notice: the interim general policy for roster violation is that minor administrative violations be handled with adminis-trative penalties with the burden or proof to show effort (to comply with roster rules) was in good faith shall rest with the alleged offender. This policy will be revised as a new rostering process is implemented. A proposal was tabled until further notice:Tbe Club 0/W/M Championship wiH be a three-day tournament starting in 20&t. The UPA Policy guide should be updated (by HQ) to include aU policies within the organization. Joey Gray will present the Board with a draft of the UPA Business Plan for the March ExComm meeting. The minutes shall show that the Board awarded Bob Byrne a bonus for his dedication and service to the UPA. The Board will draft a letter of thanks. Finally, the minutes shall reflect an acknowledgement of indebtedness to our predecessors.The board will ask administration to recognize individuals who have given extraordinary service (to the UPA).

Annual Report

Spring 2000

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National College Director The College Championship Series is a series of tournaments leading up to the College National Championships.There are two divisions: Open College and Women's College (women may compete in only one division, but may compete in either the Open or Women's Division). The Series is in the Spring of each year. The UPA, in the college Division, is broken up into eight regions, and each region is further subdivided into sections. Any college teams, provided that all players meet the eligibility requirements, may compete at their Sectional tournament. (Note, some sections are so small that there is no Sectional tournament. In those areas. teams may compete at Regionals). Depending upon the number of teams competing, the top teams at Sectionals then qualify for their Regional Championships. A maximum of 16 teams (in each division) may play at the Regionals, except in those Regions that have a "wild card;' which are allowed 20 teams to compete.The top two (or three, for the Regions which have a wild card) qualify for the College National Championships, a three-day tournament usually held on or armmd Memorial Day weekend every year.

tionals, as well as the Top 25 are irrelevant, (except that «S~lake them into account when they are trying to seed the tourney) as fur as the Series goes. Any games between two college teams should be reported to upa_top25@upa.org, submitted via the score reporter on the Web site, or the UPA 800 number. The UPA compiles and

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before competing in Sectionals, to the College Sectional Coordinator. Fach player on that roster must be a UPA member. Players may sign up for the UPA via the roster, provided it is accompanied by the membership fee.The college rate is $20 per player. Each player must meet the UPA's collegiate eligibility requirements (which is, basically, t.h.1t each player be a fullillne ~1:Udent (i.e., greater than halftin1e), and less than five years of post-high school playing experience. Please note that the eligibility requirements are more complicated than that, and appear at UPA College Eligibility Rules. Fmally, the roster must be sealed by the school registrar, which certifies that each player meets the UPA Collegiate Eligibility requirements.

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Sixteen Open College Division team') compete at College Nationals, one from each region, plus a second or third team from regions that are awarded wildcard(s) Starting in 2000, sixteen Women's College Division teams will compete at College Nationals.There will be one team from each region, plus a second or third team from regions that are awarded wildcard(s).

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"light load" status was applied. 3. Graduate students engaged in research, teaching, or thesis production, who are registered as full-time students, qualify under this rule. C.The above ~tration requirements must be applicable throughout the entire spring semester at a school on a semester system, or throughout either the entire fall or winter quarter, plus the following spring quarter, at a school on a quarter system. D. Not more than five (5) years must have elapsed between the player's initial membership in a national Ultimate governing body or initial partidpation in a national Ultimate championship series, and 1 June of the current year. This excludes Juniors partidpation 1. If a player joined the UPA while in high school (or before), initial UPA membership/partidpation date is taken as 1 June of the year of nominal high school graduation. E. Each player must be a UPA member in good standing at all times during the Series. E Each player must produce a picture ID upon demand of the tournament director or UPA official in charge of a Series event. ill.TEAMS muc;t meet AlL of the following requirements: A. Each player's eligibility must apply at the same college or university (or the same UPA approved scholastic consortium). If the school has multiple branches or locations, all players must be attending the same branch or location. B. Each team must have a designated Spokesperson who will be responsible tor the integrity, completeness and timeliness of the team's Roster.

Eligibility Rules

Ultimate Players Association

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College Ultimate

C. Each team must submit a completed Official UPA College Roster form BEFORE playing in any Series event. The Roster must meet all of the following requirements: 1. It mru,'t be BOIH signed and sealed by the registrar of the school. 2. It must contain the name of the school and branch or location if applicable. 3. It must contain the team Spokesperson's mailing address, phone number and signantre. 4. Each player on the Roster must be a UPA member in good standing at all times during the Series. IY.Violation of these rules may result in disqualification from the current Series and/or disqualification from any or all UPA sanctioned events for up to one year. This penalty is applicable to any and all players on the violating team at the discretion of the Coordinating Committee and may include UPA events after the graduation of violating players. • V. Clarifications These rules are designed to be as fair as possible for the wide range of schools and players partidpating in the Series. Experience has shown that there can be cases where these rules do not detennine, absolutely, the eligibility of a particular player. The following procedure is available for players/teams for whom the rules are not clear: A The team Spokesperson or the player in question may obtain a Clarification Request Form byWRITING to UPA headquarters and asking for one. B.The Oarification Reque~1: Form must be filled out completely and rerumed to UPA headquarters, postmarked by the date specified in the UPA Newsletter. Late requests will require a fee and may not be considered at the discretion of the Coordinating Committee. C.The Form will be reviewed by the Coordinating Committee and responses mailed. D. This clarification procedure is NOT intended to allow exceptions to the eligibility rules. Rather, it allows accurate and consistent detennination of eligibility status WITHIN these rules. Kate Bergeron upa_ncd@upa.org

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If change iS good, then college Ultimate moves into this season in its beSt sha~ ever. Eight months after the University of California at Santa Barbara lost its three-year stranglehold on the national title, the open division has more teams with legitimate championship hopes than·ever, according to-college National Director Kate Bergeron. On the women's side Bergeron said Stanford, which boasts a ridiculous 105 game winning streak, may lose its lock on national dominance in the coming season. "I'm not sure the men's field has ever been so wide open or deep; said Charles Kerf, North Carolina State's former coach and a self-proclaimed college Ultimate junkie. He said any of nine open teams could win the open national championship. With college Ultimate growing rapidly, it's easier than ever for new teams to play against strong competition and improve. Salisbury State, in Maryland could play teams in the New York area and the ultimate-dense Carolinas. Bergeron said she remembers how Brown was the "doormat of the Northeast" four years ago. Now, they have dnahan winner Fortunat Mueller and one of the top teams in the nation. Rising teams like Michigan and North . Carolina-Chapel Hill in the open division, and Dlinois on the women's side will also add to the competition at the top after each reached nationals for the fitst time last year. "Making nationals makes a big difference for a yo\Ulger team ~use .. they know what they're up against across the country," Bergeron said, adding that serious contenders need to travel to play competition outside of their region. "That extra exposure could make all the difference." Here's a little early exposure to the top teams in the nation: Open 1. Stanfurd:A (jeep team with plenty ' of Nationals experifi!nce. They didn't lose many to graduation, and have an early Callahan favorite in Scott Johnston. Tough .competition at the President's Cup, Stanford Invite and College Eastern will give them the experience they need for a run at the national championship. 2. Brown: Kerr called Fortunat and Justin Safd.ie two of the five best players

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in college Ultimate, but questions their among the nation's best. . 7. North Carolina State:The defending depth in relation to other top teams. Bergeron said Brown should benefit from . national champs lost a number,of their best players to graduation including Brian freshmen and second year players who had high school experience, but will they Snyder, who finished fourth in last year's be enough to push the team beyond last Callahan voting. This year, they'll rely on year's semifinal finish? So far, so good, as Chris Hinkle, who Kerr called college Ultimate's best offensive player. Jinx has they won the University of Georgia's had a rough start, though, losing to a reviClassic City Classic in November. 3. Colorado:Th:is team just keeps com- talized North Carol.ina-Wtlmington team ing up with hot athletes. Despite losing in the semifinals of the CharlotteTun~Up to Brown in the Classic Oty finals, Kerr in February Hinkle will have to play huge bad them ranked ahead of Fortunat and for State to get back to the final four at company He said MamaBird's nationals. yo\Ulg players will keep improv8. North Carolina-chapel Hill: Led by big man Ray Parrish, this team ing as the year goes on - a comes into the season looking to scary thought. build on its eighth place finish 4. Carleton:They at nationals last year. "They earned this ranking on have the depth, size and tht history and retr utation of a team desire; said Kerr who thinks they could win that makes noise at nationals nearly the brutal Atlantic Coast every year. cur region this year. doesn't play much 9. Michigan: Another in the full, so they huge, deep team with Tun Murray providing remain a mystery until later in the star power.They won season but they the losers bracket at always seem to nationals last year, so have a stock of tall, they have an idea of athletic players. what it takes to sucBergeron and Kerr ceed, but they suffer from playing in a said they need to travel more to overweak region and not making the trip to come the terrible·weather and weak Georgia for the Classic Oty tourney reg.ion they play in. They will head to the Stanford Invite 5. UGSan Diego:-T heAir Squids may next month. 10. Kerr said this spot could belong to .finally reach nationals after years of fieldanyone, probably "some team no one's ing hot teams that came up just short in one of the country's toughest regions. ever heard of." Georgia and North (Last year they lost out to Santa Barbara Carolina-Wtlmington have each had some strong, early showings, although neither and Colorado, and before that they competed With the Black Tide, Stanford and has completely sold Kerr. He said the British Columbia.) They're deep, and open division is wide open for someone they already beat Santa Barbara. to step into the national picture. 6. UCSanta Barbara:The Black Tide Women lost their st:reak ofnational titles and now 1. Stanford:As always, Superlly comes in as the favorite to win the national title, they've lost their two top players, James Studarus and Greg "Hollywood" Husak. but Bergeron said this could be the year Bergeron said tbat combination probably they fall short.They've lost Andrea accounted for 45 to 50 percent of Santa Johnson, Mary Hunt Martin, and Joy Barbara's scores last year.They still have "Chewie" Chen, and are much younger tons of big game experience though, and than in the past. Camille Yu and Alicia led byTo.trun.y Burteind and Adam Mercer will have to make up for some of the losseS. . .. Glimme, the Black Tide should remain

2. San Diego: "They should, easily win their region and should be a favorite . going into nationals," Bergeron said.They gave Stanford a tough game at Santa Barbara's January tournament. 3. Georgia:The Ho-Dawgs made semifinals at nationals last year with a squad of just ten and didn't graduate anyone. Led by Melanie Byrd and coached by Will Deaver, they should be deeper and even better. · 4. Brown: Pauline Lauderbach and Kate Leslie head up a team that reached the semis at nationals last year and returns a large core of players. Coach Lori Parham of Godiva has helped tllis team improve recently. They beat Georgia to win the Classic City Classic this past fall. 5. Carieton:The Carleton women are always strong, reaching the national finals for the past two years and the semis the past four. "They typically have an anny of players," Bergeron said, as they rely on eight or nine solid players rather than one superstar fur their consistency. 6. British Columbia:"I wouldn't be surprised if they're in the h\Ult for the national title," Bergeron said. The team challenged Carleton and Brown in pool play at nationals last year, and reached the finals just three years ago. 7. UGDavis: Second year graduate students Melanie Carr and Kerry Delauw, who both started playing as undergrads at Cornell, highlight a team that boasts hcight-througbout. i~ _roster. -...."8. Oregon: Bergeron hasn't seen this year, but expects Oregon to stay strong after making nationals last year and reaching the semis in 1998. 9.lllinois:After seeing nationals competition for the first time last year, Bergeron said they should be more prepared to make a serious run. 10. As with the men, a number of other teams could make some noise this year. Thfts, led by Johanna Newman and Smith College could both field strong teams. North Carolina-Wtlmington made the semi-finals of the Classic City Classic and could be dangerous. Kerr said Wtlmington's Leah Rehill is one of college illtimate's best and most competitive women's players..

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The UPA offers a program that allows tw.o or more schools meeting certain requirements tG compete under singleteam status in the UPA College Series. The definition of single team status is:

All schools in the proposed consortium must: • Have a prior academic consortium with each other. • Have a history of athletic exchange at the varsity level. • Share the same athletic facilities. • Submit a single, unified consortium proposal in writing to the UPA National College Director by March 1st of the ye4;1t in which the schools wish to comptrte under single-team status.The pro-

posal must include: a letter of interest from a representative of each school in the proposal documentation, showing that all schools in the proposal meet the above criteria. • Contact infonnation for a single person representing the proposed consortium. NOTE: The UPA National College

Director may reject a consortium proposal for insufficient information and/or documentation. Single-team status for a consortium will be reviewed after four years, at which point it can be revoked by the UPA if: • Any of the schools in the consortium no longer meet the criteria above,

or the UPA deems it . beneficial to the growth of Ultimate. Ally school in a consortium may withllfaw from the consortium if: • They make such a request in writing to the UPA National College Director by. March 1st of the year in which they wish to' compete separately. The request includes the reason for wishing to withdraw and the UPA deems it beneficial to the growth of tntimate. Any school that withdraws from a consortium cannot re-apply for another consortium Wltil the following year. The withdrawal of one or more schools from a consortium does not dissolve the consortium of the 1ema.ining

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schools . Any school that is a member of a consortium and no longer meets all the criteria in Section 1 is automatically removed from a consortium. Without regard to the aforementioned rules, the status of any school, whether a member of a consortium or not, during their Sectional Tournament in the UPA College Series will remain the same throughout that year's UPA College Series. Please send all single team consortium proposals to: UPA Executive Director 3595 East Fountain Boulevard, SuiteJ-2 Colotado Springs, CO 80910

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Hi, I'm Jim Parinella, new President of the UPA ... Board of Directors. I'd like to thank you for being a member of the UPA, and I hope you're taking full advantage of the benefits available to you like disc discounts through Discraft, sanctioned tournament insurance, and the other programs offered. Let us welcome new Board members ]en "]D" Donnelly, Kurt Dahlenburg, Tim Murm.y, and Dave Remucal, as we extend our parting thanks to Dave Beller, Pete Giusti, Paul Socolow, and Kevin· Hatch. A list of the Board Members. and how to contact them (as well as other UPA officials) is on page four. I encourage any of you energetic doers out there to consider running for the Board this falL Please see the announcement below asking for candidate statements. A full report of the annual board meeting is on page 11. We are also very pleased to welcome Joey Gray as our new Executive Director, replacing Bob Byrne. Bob was the organization's first full-time ED, and many things were accomplished during his four-year tenure. joey brings with her a lot of enthusiasm and experience. She founded Disd\TW, an organization promoting disc sports in the Northwest, and was recently most instrumental as UPA National Coed Director, creating the Coed Division with the Coed Celebration Series in 1997 and the Coed Championship Series in 1998.

OVERVIEW The Board of D irectors sets policy for the UPA. The administrative staff, led by the Executive Director, implements that policy to run the organization. Everything done by the UPA should try to achieve one or more of the goals of our Mission Statement, which reads, "The UPA serves ~ the governing body of the sport of Ultimate in the USA. Our mission is: • to promote and support the sport of Ultimate; • to preserve the integrity of Ultimate, including the Spirit of the Game; • to serve the needs of the memhers; and • to provide ·a· framework for organ:izing and conducting competitions and other activities related to Ultimate." Please take another look at those. Although of course we are a players' organization, we are also charged with representing the sport itself. It's tricky enough representing just the players, as their needs and wants are varied. Think about the reasons a person might play the game: to relax, to compete, to win, to meet people, to spend time with friends, to get exercise, to be part of a team. The things you value might easily be different from another player's, as we can see from the rec.sport.disc newsgroup (rsd).

COMMUNICATION The UPA would like to continue improving the timeliness of our communication with the membership. A few short years ago, the Newsletter and word-ofmouth (such as the now-defunct East Coast Captains' Meeting) were the only ways that players got info. The web site and rsd are being used more regularly now, but not everyone accesses those, and so they can not be the only• official source for UPA news. The UPA alias system col,lld be immensely helpful here but it is currently underused. If you would like to be informed of late-breaking news, include yourself on tl1e upa all®1JW.org mailing list. To get your name on the upa_all list, just send yrour info to u ltimate alias owner®upa.org. Wo would include: Name. Team, Division, Region, Section, City

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ONTHEAELD The most visible action taken by the Board at the Annual Meeting in January was to change the timing of the Coed Championship Series so that Coed Nationals will be held Labor Day Weekend. The fourth Coed Celebration will also be held on Labor Day Weekend at the same site. The format of the Series is still to be determined by the ED and the new Coed Championship Director, Jen Christianson. Players will be permitted to play in both the Coed Series and one of the Open, Women's,-or Masters' Divisions. This was by no means a simple decision, just as the 1999 decision to leave_it in the fall was not a simple one. Strong emails, posts, and conversations representing all sides were flying around. There is no perfect solution, unfortunately, and so it was difficult to weigh the pros and cons. Briefly, here are some of the top reasons for the change. 1. Women's Ultimate in many areas is hurt because there aren't enough women players to fully support Coed and Women's play at the same time. A move of one of the Divisions will lessen the competition. Open has also been hurt, but the larger overall numbers meant fewer areas were hard-hit. 2. Players can now p lay in two series for the same membership fee. Over half of the teams in the Fall Series are knocked out at Sectionals. The Grand Prix was one way that we had hoped to give more benefit to that group of p layers, but we were unable to give it the energy it needed, and so it has been put on hold. 3. Coed ·is strong enough to suiVive and thrive on its own. When it was introduced in 1998, it needed to piggyback onto the other series. That is not the case now, and indeed, there are already some limits because of field space. Although this year's Nationals site is large enough, there are problems on lower levels, and future sites are limited if the Nationals are that big. 4. It's for one year and will be reevaluated at that point. The change in the timing will give us a gocxi comparison point to determine what the best long-term solution is. Although this may be the permanent time for it, it is for now just a temporary position. Many have already voiced their opinions on rsd, and it's good to see such lively debate. Some such as Jen Christianson· have stepped up to do something about it.as she has become the nc.'W Coed Championship Director. I am sure that this will spur others to run for the Board of Directors in the fall, when four seats will be up for grabs. Whate\!er you. do, please participate instead of just grumbling.

RULES Several rules-related proposals came before the Board this year. 1. Bylaws changes. • A proposed. Board amendment is being prepared that would allow rules changes to be improved individually (perhaps by a ·supermajority) instead of requiring a full set of Rules to be voted on as a gro,up. • Work has begun on a proposed 10th Edition that could offer the Experimental Rules as an Official option, clear up current ambiguities and discrepancies, and incorporate changes that have already been made on the field (like with the new pull rule). It won't propose new rules on how the game SHOUlD be played. That job is for the tournaments out there. 2. Experimental Rules (X Rules) The following proposal was unanimously approved: ''The UPA will employ the UPA College Series Experimental Rules or some variation thereof for some portion of the College National Series in 2000 for the Open and Women's divisions. Use in the Women's division will be subject to a membership approval prcx::ess, to be determined by the administration." This is a gocxi example of the differentiation between Board responsibility and Aclrninistration responsibility. The Board sets policy. The policy deliberately avoids mentioning the details, like how much time between points to allow, which of the X Rules are included, o r how much of the series should use them. One of the joys of my position is getting the opportunity to talk with some of the people who have helped make Ultimate so great. This weekend I got with chat with Tom "TK" ~y! who founded the UPA over 20 years ago but is stHl. active in the sport. Our conversation evenrually turned to the rules and how they have changed over the years. There is currently a much greater demand for exact specifications, whereas in air · ~~ lier age Cad still so in some parts of1:he-wo.rki), a looser iqterpretation is adequate, w ith an understood clause "in unspecified cases~ Spirit of the Game shall prevail." Perhaps it's just American society today that refuses to accept unnecessary . : . ambiguity, especially when a few e~~d e liminate the ambiguity o r wh~n there is no clear ruling by th e SotG. I want the rules to be as bullet-proof as possible, but I don't want our narrow focus to blur the big picture, namely, that this is supposed to be a sport of honor a nd integrity. Players can legitimately have different interpretations of what constitutes incidental conduct or how much foot-dragging makes a travel, so long as they can accept that an alternate interpretation does not make the opponent a cheater. The way you play the game should NOT be affected by whether an Observer is present. This idea is crucial to keeping honesty in the game. •

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Proposals may be submitted to the Board of Directors at any time, not just for the Annual Meeting. The Board meets via conference call in June, and there is a monthly meeting of the Executive Committee (ExComm), a four person subset of the full Board, which meets to go over business that can't wair until the June call. Ex:Comm can vote on smaller matters, but important proposals must go before the f\111 Board. Thank you for your patience, and for helping us to further the sport we all love.

Candidates for the UPA Board of Directors

The UPA Board of Directors is a 12 member elected group- six regional representatives and six atlarge members. Terms are 3 years. Each year, four positions become open for re-election - two regional representatives and two at-large members.

-~te--~~: {if you want it listed) ·-Tiie:oupa,.3ill alias should be used sparingly. You should not use it to send out an announcement about your tournament, for example. An article about the alias system appeared in a past Newsletter. For information on how the system works, send an email to ultimate repc>It send@upa.oq~ with the word "help'' as the subject. In 1999, the UPA purchased a server to host our Web site, and this year there is money in the budget to pay for Web design and maintenance. The Board approved a provisional budget at the meeting thanks to the hard work of our Treasurer Matt "Mess" Healey, who spent several days at HQ in December. We expect to vote on the final budget by March. At that point, we will publish a financial statement, in accordance with the Bylaws.

From the Board

Oversee acl.ministrative operations Approve National Competition Directors Attend the Annual Meeting (Mid-Jan) Participate in Board e-mail discussion Participate in Board phone conferences If you are interested in running for the UPA Board of Directors, please submit a written application for consideration to upa ed@uDa.org or by mail to HQ. Your letter should include a brio/personal background statement (Ultimate, other sports and/or professional), an overview of why you would like to

become a UPA Board Member, and a concise deSCription of your capabilities that will make you a valued Board Member. Finally, please include a photo for the newsletter. Your application will be forwarded to the Nominating Committee. The Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regional positions and two ar-large positions will be voted on this year. The deadline for submitting board candidacy applications to HQ is May 1, 2000. Board members elected during 2000 will serve for the years 2001 through 2003.

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ectional Sectional Coordinators are the "front lines" of the UPA,responsible for recruiting teams and -players, scheduling and finding fields, putting on sectionals, answering all kinds otquestions, advancing their best team~ to Regionals and last, but not least, having fun while doing it well. Each year, UPA mempers, Regional Cootdinators and HQ put their heads together to recognize the stand. outs - SCs whose sections grow in number of teams, who handle crisis well and who tum in your team rosters neatly, accuratelY and on time. With so many divisions and sections now, it is impossible to recognize everyone in the newsletter. So, players, remember to thank your SC personally and to make Sectionals easy for him or her! OPEN- Open Championship Director DaVe Raflo is on his honeymoon, but I know be'llbe pleased to learn upon his return that his own SC, .AJ hvaSzko,fromArHngton.Vitgil)ia has won the 1999 SC of the Year Award. AJ has been a UPA vohmteer for years and does a lot of other work for the sport as well, according to former Executive Director Bob Byrne. He's heavily involved with WAFC (Washington Area Frisbee Club, the oldest Ultimate league) and can't even get away from Ultimate at home - his wife, M~lissa, is the MidAtlantic Women's J:_tegional Coordinator (deserving of recognition herself). Thanks to AJ for holdi.ilg sectionals ranging from seven to 17 teams over the years! WOMEN'S- In the Women's Division, we have two highly deserving nominees, Shar Stuht from San Diego . and Stacy Doyle from Durham, NC, whose recommendations below stand for themselves. Congratulations to both Shar and Stacy! . "I wouklltke to nominate Shar Stuht as lv.SC of the year. She sends out · all of tbe information about a month ahead of time and she bad all of her forms in order by the time I left sectionals! She handed them to me with a smile (after Safari beat us, so of course she was smiling). She also got two extremely large, young teams to make the trek from out tn the desert (loma Linda area) and all over the I.A area, to San Dtego and they bad the game of their lives. She let them play for three plus hours, and waited for them to finish, just to let them play tt out. I dont remember what exactly happened, but I think the final score

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was something like 1 7-15. Then to top it all off, she ran secttona/s without any extraneous fees whatsoever! She was super organized and deseroes to be recognizedfor it." - Rachel Noble

'1 recommend Sharfrom San Diego. I've beard good stories about her and Sectionalsfrom players as well as the RC Apparently, she went out ofher~ to get new teams to attend and make sure tbey bad a good ttme at SecttonaJs.» - Ctndy Fisher "During tbe hurricane, ECU was sbut down. Stacy bad to deal wtth everything. She dld.a great job and deserves recognition for pulling it offshe did a great job!" - BobByrne CO-ED- In Co-ed, it is often easier to re;cruit men than women. One often hears of teams looking for another woman, or more. Yet, that's not always the case in the Upstate NY section. In the first year of the trial Co-ed .Division, this SC from Hamilton, Ontario actually reported teams with too many women. He found himself in the nnlikely position of having to help women find teams! Sean Phillips is also becoming more involved with CUPA (the Canadian Ultimate Players Association). He happily reported that he was able to successfully call UPA HQ from Canada on the 1-80(} GET-H number, a l~ng standing wish of our Canadian members. When I talked with Sean, we had a long discussion about the benefits of UPA membership because it's been such a tough one to sell, especially in Canada. He said, "I know we need an advocacy body- that's why I worlc with the teams to get them to join. But how do you impress that?" It's a ~t question. What's your answer? Write Sean or Joey to let us know how the UPA can serve you better. COllEGE OPEN -This award could be given for either the College Open or Women's division. It goes to a highly deserving SC from Maryland, who goes far above and beyond the call of duty to bring players to the sport and to the UPA. Since he does double duty, and we .have an eqUally deserving nominee for the CoUege Women's division with no other nominees from College Open players, this year's award goes to Farrell Sullivan. Congratulations! "I would like to nominate Farrell Sullivan. He bas been both the UJOmen's and men's sectional coordinatorfor

what ts now the Colonial Section in the Metro-East region for at least the past few years (maybe longer). I can't speak much for the work be bas donefor the men - although I do know that be ts very organized and efficient However, for the UJOmen, I know that be bas been very dedicated to the growth and t of tbe college women's teams tn bis sectkm, and bas really· taken an active role in promoting womens Ultimate at the college level. He ts in constant contact wttb the teams and bas encouraged many new teams, whtcb I think is evidenced in tbe increased number of teams parttcipat· ing from ti.Jat section. He bas also run women's college dtnfcs tn the spring, thatfocus on sktlls, team organization, running practices, team dynamics, etc. In these cJtnfcs Farrell gets the locaJ

·womens club teams Involved and interactfng wttb the college women. I feel be really goes above and beyolrd" • · what anyone could hope to have in a sectional coorrJinator and would be very worthy of recognition.n - Chris Ctanjrani OOU.EGE WOMEN -This person is more than a Sectional Coordinator, she's a woman on a mission to make the . world a better place. As a teacher, a coach and a player of Ultimate, she's spread the sport to thousands of kids across Texas, the South and beyond. Bubba has a long list of accomplishments in the,sport and again, this player recommendation speaks for itself. Not only that, but she was the only UPA member to drop in on the Annual Board meeting this year. Thanks to Barbara Dennison for teaching valuable lessons about life. 'Td like to nominate Barbara Dennison (she goes by Bubba), T~ womens sectional coordinator. Besides rnnning Texas secttonals, she runs womens and college dinfcs, helpsput new teams together, finds teams for teamless women, encourages newcomers and promotes college and junior play. She sets a great example as an exp'€T'Uma~player who finds time to encourage growth in a section of the country that really needs it. I don't remember if she's won this recently, but even if sbe has, rd say, let her repeat." -Andrea Backsi:Jeider 1be National Championship Directors, Regional Coordinators & joey all contributed to this report.

Note to all Sectional Coordinators, Captains and any pJayer who want to comment about ROSTERS: You know probably better than anyone how our roster collection system could be improved. I talked to every captain at the 1bnpe New Year's Fest and woul9li.ke to develop those ideas into a more effident system.We would like to do as much online as possible. But how should that acrually work? What will cause the least hassle for you? What can be done to improve accuracy, if anything? Send your comments to: upa_rosters@upa.org.

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Okay, it's the finals of Nationals and Yeah sure, tJltimate's a pfedominantly Ambush badgirl Bronwyn Ryan throws white sport played by folks with mounthe game-winning hammer, 40 yards to tain bikes, professional degrees and a teammate Melanie Schoen, who lays ·o ut h.an4fJJl of Dead tapes~ but we can still and catches the disc by its trailing edge. keep··~ ~.You fed ~e? Some fulks on Both women rip off theirT·shirts in celemeriiilthg'edge Pager, Mak and .. bration, strategically revealing a little D'Arcy up in Seattle - need to get it . Swoosh in.the upper corner of their athgoing on with a few romrows, oversized . letic bra.You telling me the folks at Nike gold hOOps and Mao-nse-1\mg tattoos. A ~ headquarters iD Beaverton.~ ., would~!'ad~ gear 'f01¥dn:t . . tff want a .piece of that? burt either. They show up at the next 4. Spit .art Observer pittty with their posse and Ultimate has seen a few fistfights and Entertainment Tontgbt is ,dying to get in. even one reported incidence of a player 9. Get Rashier Vehicles (who shall remain nameless) spitting on Cherokees, Pathfinders and beat up an opponent. But what about taking it to old hippie vans will get you to the tourthe next level? Roberto Alomar did, and ney on time, but if you want to arrive in he didn't even miss his team's entire styie, nowadays you need a Benz, Range playoff series. In fact, he wound up on Rover or stretch lincoln Navigator the cover of Several national ma~nes preferably black, with Puffy cranked up and is now engaged to a temns star. So on the Bose and a .4 5 in the glove. go ahead somebody, hock up and loft Jennifer Lopez optional. one on an official. What 've you got to lose? 8. Publicize the Big Trades When Sean Federbusch was traded from Seattle to the Condors for two cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon and a rare Stones bootleg, hardly a sports writer in either town winced. Why? Because neither franchise publicized the move of one of the game's most likeable stars. No press conferences, no wrangling over salary and no tdk of Federbusch abandoning the town he helped build to be closer to loved ones. Compare that with the recent trade of Ken Griffey,Jr. from Seattle to smaller market Cincinnati and you11 see where llltimate needs to get on the ball.

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announced that it will launch the XFL in which football players will reportedly throw chairs and cause general mayhem, not to mention prance around with cheesecake like Sable. Maybe it's time to form the XUPA, in which bad guys and gals with nicknames like "Spike," "Hammer" and "Ho" get busy to the delight of white-trash trailer residents. Can't you just see Arnold Sanchez, known to his legion of .fans as "Banger," coming

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7. Boot Reporters from Locker rooms Having some sanctimonious God-fearing Christian say he doesn't want female reporters in the locker room sure did wonders for the NBA's publicity. Can you imagine the fireworks if Mike Gerics were to say the same when Cindy Fischer or Ttna Booth came calling for a post-game interview? Of course, those women don't really do post-game interviews, so he'd have to settle for kicking Tony Leonardo to the curb. Sorry Tony, somebody's gotta take it on the chin in

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2. Stage a Drive-by Okay, so Santa Barbara's Corey Sanford has just signed a 4-year, $32 million extension with the Condors when he and his posse rev up the stretch Lincoln Navigator, drive past some Jam dudes on the Los Angeles Expressway and open fire. Of course, for maximum publicity, it would be ideal if Sanford could be implicated in a double-murder that occurred outside a San Diego bar · the day after Nationals. Man, would Ultimate be niainstreain then.

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Florida's star handler Cutter Smith is • being interviewed by a local paper when all of a sudden he launches into a 20minute invective against all the do-gooding, tree-hugging,Teva-wearing women, minorities and foreigners ruining the sport of Ultimate. The wires catch a hold of it, ESPN hears word and before you know it, Smith is the topic on everyone's lips, from Algeria to Zaire. Pretty soon, the nation is engulfed in a raucous debate over political correctness, the place of role models and the very meaning of free speech. All because of an illtimate player. Now, you may be sitting there thinking these suggestions are too radical, dangerous or out of hand. But if we want to make it big, I mean real big, there are some sacrifices we'll aU have to make. The other sports did and look where it got them.

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The f"t.rSt Los Angeles co-ed beach Ultimate tournament, Lei-Out 2000, so successful th at it is certain to . become an annual tradition. 22 teams p ar ticipated Jan. 15-16, at Dockweiler State Beach in Playa del Rey, Calif. There were eight teams in the 2men/2-women division and 14 in the 3-men/1-woman division. People came from Germany, Georgia, Arizona, Texas, Missouri, and (of course) California to play on soft ~and in typical 60 degree, LA winter weather. The party was held at a bar a few miles from the fields and rocked from 6:00 p.m. until midnight, When the bar closed. At this point, the die-hards, mostly consisting of Atlanta-based Southern . . Comfortable, moved to a nearby playground on the beach. While watching the playoffs on Sunday, players munched on hot dogs and soda, served up at frisbee central for no extra cost. Local 2/2 Divisiop. team Beee-ach went undefeated the whole weekend, including their f 3-5 semifinal victory over Northern California team Pele Mana. The other 2/2 semis was much closer, bu_!_ ··local team Sweathogs was unable to stop Southern ~.-: ~" Comfortable from upset-

ting them 13-I 1, despite the Atlanta team's late night. Perhaps all their drinking and/or their shortage of subs fm ally caught up w ith them in the finals, .w hen Beee-ach beat them 15-8. In the 3/1 Division semis, local team Landsharks beat previously undefeated San Francisco's Sassafras Lollipop Experi~nce 11-8, and German team Woodies beat Santa Barbara based Gaviota Gulls 11-8. Going into the

flnals, the Landsharks were hungry to avenge their 7-5 loss in pool play against Woodies. But even with a beefed up team in comparison to Saturday, the locals p roved to be no match for the Germans. With an advantage in both height (no man on the team was under 6 '2") and beach tournament . experience, Woodies beat the Landsharks 13-9, ending their weekend undefeated. Participants · were full of praise for the outstanding organization of first-time tournament director ,~..,. Canada Gordon and her crew of LAOUT volunteers. Check out detailed results and photos on . www.laout.org and mark your calendars for Lei-Out 2001!

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JANUS 2000 -The MUJ.ennium is underway (but we will be doing it again next year for the chronically numerically uptight)! The .first international tournament of the Millennium rated 4 G's. Great ultimate, Great party, Great camaraderie, and Great weather in January.

Weather Tournament time weather was a balmy 70°-75° F (only the BlueArse Flies from England complained of the heat). A slight mist fell on Sunday for about 45 minutes just to make the English feel at home.

Camaraderie We boasted teams from the United Stares, Canada and England Both Venezuela's Yanomani and Finland's Uquktisk sent representatives, but not full squads. Representatives from seven Women's teams attended, but the Fnglish and the West Palm Beach Womens' teams filtered off onto other teams in what rumed into a relatively strong field.

Party .. What can I say, the weather at tho Gulf Front St. Pete Beach Undertow beach bar locatioo did not suck. The 12-te~m International Beach Flutter Guts champi-

onship was won by local favorites (Import Helen Myers, Rookie Keith Achuff, andlD Floyd Ro berts) .The party crown goes in the Open Division to The Blue Arse Flies from England. Since Guinness was the drink of the night we feel that they may have held an advantage. In the Women's Division, Florida's newest party contenders, Miami Rip Tide took honors in any of the party categories we could think of.

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stealing the show in the Molson Pool, with a one-point victory over Bay area favorite the Undenow. This renegade bunch of carpetbaggers led byTtm Webber was short and slow, but for a bunch of guys who had not seen green grass in two months, they were sw-prisingly fit. last year's winner, Miami, with a munerically challenged squad, managed to keep themselves in the running with a third place in the pool finish. In the Guinness Pool, no game was decided by more than 5 points. Gainesville's Vicious Cycle won the pool after a brutal pool game against Fngland's BlueArse Hies. A pick up from Finland, Liquidisks' Ville

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Haaramo, and BAF's Merrick "Mez" Cardew were virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately for The Blue Arse Flies, sb was the vidous quartet of Danimal, Milan Hooper, Sckool, and Chris "brick hands" P.uks':National finalists, the Miami Masters "herniated disks", displayed what consi£. tency masters are fu.mous for by fi.nishing all of their games at -a 1~10 margin, win or loose. The Women's Division opened Saturday in a round robin format. The Hucksters set out to defend their home turf by going unbeaten in round robin play. A strong Savannah team, and Orlando's Special sauce, have begun to develop a rivalry with back to back layout "d 's" in their game by Orlando's Suzie Mercer, and Savannah's Cathy Pulkinen. Orlando firmly established their third pole position in Florida Women's lntimate with a victory of Miami's Rip Tide. (Notably this may have something to do with Rip Tide's party victory?) Gainesvilles Diva, the Hucksters, Special Sauce and Savannah all quaHfied for Sunday's semi-finals. In the open Division, Sundays elimination play saw the Tampa Bay Undertow defeat the Blue Arse flies to face Gainesvilles Vicious Cycle in one semi and Miami defeat their own Masters' team to face Yankee Contraband in the other semi.The Miami team (less numerically challenged than Saturday) handed Yankee Contraband their first and only tournament loss with outstanding play by the Brown brothers (Woody and Butch),Jeff Shultz (will that guy EVER retire?) and Captain Kurt "If I have to show you guys how to do it you are gonna be sorry" Oahlenburg.The Tampa Bay Undertow facing a halftime &2 defidt came back to sweat Gainesville in a 15-13 Vidous Cycle victory. Finals were a Vidous Cycle vs. Miami showcase, with the legs and intensity of the Vidous Cycle proving more than what Miami came prepared for. In the Women's bracket, Sunday saw semi-finals wins of Diva over Special Sauce and the Hucksters beating Savannah. The Womens' final was an excellent game with Diva jumping out to an &2lead erasing Saturday's loss to the

photo by Floyd E. Roberts Hucksters.The Hucksters started to battle back in the second half with the quality of play of both teams rising dramatically. At the end, Diva managed to hold back the Hucksters to carry off the millennilun's .first victory, completing a Gainesville sweep of the tournament. janus 2001 will be heldJan.6-7 again, featuring an international field.The Web site for advance information is www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Pl.'essboxll 0 12/janu s200l.htm Hope to ~'you there.

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What more cab be said, btber tn~· the first New Year Fest the new millenniUm ( God, I hate that word!) was a rip-roaring ·success.The usual a_u ra was very present and the Ultimate karma flowed through all participants. Some of the flow was pretty and some was, well, ugly. No, I am kidding about the ugly flow, it was an beautiful, as was the weather. Lucky for those visitors from all over the nation, who got to frolic in the frigi?. winter sun! Oh, how frigid it was - high 70's,to low 80's. Damn these win,,. ters are ·hard to get used to. Eno.ugh'·of the teas~ Jng. We. were happy to have you afl here and can't wait until next year. Oh yeah, I was going to tell you about the NewYear Fest. Let's ' see ... With over 800 participants, this has to be considered one of the largest Ultimate tourneys · around. There were teams from 30 states, and one from Mexico (The Sluts!). Geez, at this rate this sport is going to make the Olympics! Altogether, there were 35 Open teams and 15 Women's teams. That is awesome! Open Division 1 pool play matchups of note included Terrapin beating KFC 13-11 , Dolemite MF beating Sportin' Wood 13-11 (a match of '97 and '98 champs), ZippO beating Frayed Knot 14-13, and in a remarkabte upset, CU Mama Bird beat Sockeye 12-11 . Open Division 2 had Tempus Fugit run its ·pool with relative ease, while the White Pool saw Sangre nip Hammer 13-12, Sluts slip by Tucson B 10-8, and Mac Daddy narrowly take the Sluts 12-11. In the Purple Pool~ Black & Gold was at the wrong end of a 10-11 clipping ·by Blade. Women's pool play had a few grinders also. School Girls edged Pure Cane 14-13, and in the next round were narrow victors over Jane Air 13-11 . Odin (cham ps in '97 and '98) showed signs of things to come in narrowly beating Clutch 13-10; and then subsequently were bested by the gelling BBRs 7-13 . In contrast, Lady Liquor ran their pool easily, with Ballroom Fever and Psychaughtit both posting 4 points in

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The Women's finalwere absolutely .awesome. As an Arizona boy, I could not have b~en happier to see a good se l~_ction of quasi-natives playing together and ending up in the finals. Lady Liquor, from Boulder Colo. was down early, but defeated our local .women in a hard fought battle , 15-11. Three cheers to the victors. To get to the Men's finals, m~,ch had to happened. Terrapin won..-a hotly contested battle over Sporti~'Wood in the quarterfinals, 15-14 and then lo~t ever-so-close a girpe to the eventual runner u ps, Sockeye, 12-15. KFC had and equally intense match vs.Tank in the quarters, finally winning 15-14. Dolemite cruised the Donkey Show 13-8 in quarters, but lost in the semis to KFC, 12-15. All this awesome competition led to the final between KFC and Sockeye. The Men's finals featured KFC Carlton Reunion against Sockeye, from damp Seattle. I say damp, because after aU these years in Arizona, it feels good to just say rain, damp and neat stuff like that!! Both finalists came in sporting pool play losses. K.FC fell to Terrapin and Sockeye beaten by CU's Mama Bird. Both teams also maneuvered through tough quarter- and semi-finals; both beating teams that won the NYF in recent years in tough semis. Further, neither KFC or Sockeye had p reviously advanced past the NYF •

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Sat. Pool Plav OIIMtn Yellow Pool - Div 1 4-0 Terrapin - Santa Barbara, CA 3-1 KFC - Carleton Reunion 2-2 Stanford - Palo Alto, CA 1-3 GUT - carleton Reunion o-4 Rusty - Chicago, IL . Blue Pool - Div 1 4-0 Dolemite MF - Bay Area, CA 3-1 Sportin' Wood - Northwest USA 2-2 Black Tide - . UCSB 1-3 RIOT - Los Angetes, CA o-4 Monsoon - Tucson, AZ Red Pool :- Diy t 4-0 TAMK..:- :~1and, OR 3~1. ZippO·- BoUlder, Colorado 2·2 · Frayed Knot - >Minnesota · 1:3.{'1r Squid -: · q~.tf"Anarchy ~ AtgU9uerque, NM

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A Division quarter-fmalS. This was a £mal featuring new faces, ~nd in particular for KFC., new tall fa~~~f."~~. '& • - ... ...... ·" .. . Props 'to-~keye for ge~···the fmal tbrou81.\,._~ ·.tough field, but the height~advihtage of KFC was too much .fetaiSties. KFC was just..R~~.5't-4 . place in ~he air that Sockeye celitd only see. Well, there was one nice Sockeye D 9{ a fl.oater in the end zone, unfortunately;ltPC's Nord layed out and snagged the tipped disc for the score. game was mercifully short due to

impending plane departures, but it was tad bit stiff and sore, but that is to be just as well since the end result never expected. Did I hear of a broken bone? seemed in doubt. KFC went up 5-1 and Maybe. Here's to hoping for a speedy snagged every moonball that was put recovery. up on their way to a 15-9 victory. A new touch this year was the musiIn the Open Division 2 playoffs (D cal deluge during the finals. The African DivisiQQ)~Tempus Fugit and Mac DaQdy qruw sound w~ ~oo cool. I sure hope both cruised to the final. Fugit came · that becomes a fixture at the NYF.. I out the winner 15-12. would be remiss to not mention how Fun stuff in the our local teams faired in the tourney. The other divisions .. . Harvard and Mama Bird question is, with met each other in the whom shall I start. The· party was OK, the UAA team, 0-5, Open B final, a rematch from pool ASU women's team, 0held at a local 5, Chungalooloo 0-5 , . play. This time, the result Was reversed. In watering hole, Phuong 0-5 ( ! ) , but I can say that the''Big "'!· .. pool pbY Harvara W9n ;_.-Boston's, and Butts Rule, a collec13-8, but in the fmal, tion of Phoenix, Mama Bird took the ' fro••• what I prize 15-10. In the Seattle and Philly Open E Division, Notre hear, there was ladies did .make it to Dame and Solo Lobos the finals. even so111e both entered the final So, in closing, the nudity on the Ultimate scene is having won tough growing in the Valley · semis 15-13. In the stage!! Yeah, final, Notre Dame polof the Sun, and will baby! I ished off their third continue to grow. This win of the day 11-7. In years' New Years Fest 1nissed that! the Women's B was fun for all, and I can not wait until Division, Flick Chicks and Chick Flicks both next year. succumbed to college Who ever was at teams to set up an all the Women's finats·; college final with Psychaughtit/UCSD had to acknowledge the awesome halftime demonstration of the Big Butts emer~ victorious over CU Kali A. Now for some of the miscellaneous Rule dance ensemble. They kicked some ass out there ..Although, they lost stuff that occurred during the fest. The party was held at a local watering hole, the in the finals , they rule on the dance Boston's; and from what I hear, there floor. How about the team of ladies was even some nudity on the stage!! dressed to the hilt. in the evening gowns! I know playing in a short-skirt Yeah, b~by! 1 missed that! The band Warsaw played and all were happy. is fun, but a dress?! More power to the During the few days of fun and frolic, ladies. As usual, I have not mentioned no major injuries occurred and I am some of the outfits either. Only picmore then bappy to report that. Sure, tures would justify some of the there were pulled muscles and nice rug Ultimate garb. Perhaps the photos will burns from the fine field conditions. soon follow. If I failed to leave out any Men's final. really pertinent information, all one has photo by Angello Marcen Besides those few little mishaps , all went home in one piece. Some were a to do is log on to www.vots.org _.

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Orange Pool - Div 2 4-0 Tempus Fugjt - Burbank, CA 3·1 Old Growth - Flagstaff, AZ 2-2 Solo Lobos -All Over 1-3 OZ & The Wizards- Bay Area, CA o-4 Chungalooloo - Tempe, AZ Purple Pool - Div 2 4-0 Smoke- San Diego, CA 3-1 Blade - Boise, ID 2-2 Bla(k .& Gold - Pittsburgh, PA 1-3 Notre Dame Reunion 0-4 UAA- ~ Tempe, AZ White Pool - Div 2 4-0 Mae"tiaddy -~-Mfnnesota 3-1 Sangre del Disco - Albuquerque, NM 2-2 Hammer of the Gods - Clevelandish 1-3 SLUTS - Club Med Sonora Bay 0-4 Tucson B - Tucson, AZ

A Div Quarter-finals Sockeye 15, ZippO 11 Terrapin 15, Sportin' Wood 14 TANK 14, KFC 15 Dolemite MF 15, Donkey Show 8 A Div Semi-finals Sockeye 15, Terrapin 12 KFC 15, Dolemite MF 12 A Div Anal Sockeye 9, KFC 15 B Div Quarter-finals Stanford 15, RIOT 13 Harvard 15, A~r Squid 7 Frayed Knot 13, GUT 11 Black Tide 9, Mama Bird 13 B Div Semi-finals -: Stanford 13, H!lf.V~Fd 15 Frayed Knot 9, '·Mama Bird 15

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Hermosa Pool 4-0 BBRs - Phoenix/Philly/Seattle 3-1 Odin - Seattle, WA 2-2 Clutch -Ann Arbor, Ml 1-3 Flick Chicks - Tucson, AZ 0-4 CU Kali B - Boulder, CO

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Every time I pick up the sports section of the newspaper or a magazine dedicated ' to athletics, I hope that I will find an artide about a successful coach.What I'm looking for are the secrets.What do they do on a day-to-day basis to keep a team motivated? What do they say to individual players to inspire them? What ma.kes one great and the next only fAir? Once I find these rare gems, I try to apply them to Ultimate. • I remember reading about Bill Walton and Jolul Wooden. Bill was still in college at UClA It may have been his senior year - they may have already won a championship or two. Bill was definitely the man. At the end of one of those wonderfully long college summers where you go off to "find yourself," Mr.Walton returned to the team with a newly grown beard.There wdS a strict "no fadal hair rule" under Wooden. So in walks Bill, confidently strolling into the gym for the first practice wearing the beard. Wooden says, "Bill, what's that on your chin?" Bill, figuring he could change a few things now that he _ was a senior, replied:"It's a beard, coach." Wooden lost not a second in saying:"Bill, you know the rules. Head back into the locker room and shave it off."The players were all standing around anxiously waiting for the outcome as the coach and Walton squared off.Walton replied:"I'm keeping the beard, coach."Again, without missing a beat,WOOden said: "That's too bad Bill, we're ~-to _Qliss yot!_~~d here." At that moment Bill turned around, returned to the locker room and shaved off the beard.Wow! I love that story. It so clearly demonstrates the way good coaches keep players in line. They draw the line and then keep players from crossing it. Ultimate isn't quite the same. For one, we don't have many coaches, yet. Captains of Ultimate teams are usually players and peers. Hard and f.lst: rules Hke the one stated above would be folly. Nonetheless, there is an aspect of discipline in Ultimate. A team that allows players to do whatever they want, whenever they want, is not going to win a lot of games. Forget winning, a team with no rules will founder. Athletes crave structure. And then there's the infamous Ymce Lombardi. He's quoted as saying that he treated all players the same: like dogs. According to a number of his former players, this is· factually incorrect. His players recount that he treated each player differently. Lombardi had an instinctual sense of who responded to public berating, and who needed private encouragement. In one case, he rode a particular player mercilessly, until the point where that player wondered what he could do to please the coach.Just when the player thought that his frustration was going to get the best of him, Lombardi came up to him in the locker room and told him how great a player he was, and what great things he knew were in store for him.When the player asked him why was he riding him so in practice, Lombardi responded that he knew he could take it and that the other players needed to see how serious the coach was about performance. Genius, even if a bit manipulative. I wish I could find more stories about women coaches, but to be frank, very few good articles exist.last year, Sports

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illustrated wrote an extensive piece on Pat Summit, coach of the Lady Vols. Whoa! There's one tough coach. Some of the pictures of her looming over her practices were simply frightening. But the players love her, and look at the results: four or five championships in as many years. Am I saying that toughness equals success? Yes and no.There are plenty of tough coaches who don't win.You have to find the right mix. But we rarely see a completely loose coach win. Larry Bird is one who seems loose when you see him sitting on the sidelines during a ppme or being interviewed afterwards. Forget it.That man is tough as nails. The players love him because he's a winner who pushes his players and can articu.. late what it will take to lmcceed. I loved the way he confronted Reggie Miller last year. He told him point blank,"Reggie, great players want the ball at the end of big games.You have to demand the-bale He didn't say: "When I played and when we won in Boston, I always demanded the ball." He left it to Reggie to make the leap. Reggie fulled to step up. Look for a change in Indiana. I was reminded appin during this Women's World Cup tournament of something that I learned from Anson Dmance, the wildly successful women's soccer coach at the University of North CatPiinaWhen asked about the difference between coaching men and coaching women, he stated that men's egos were generally so inflated that he spent most of the time lancing them. With women, he said, it's all about building confidence. During the world cup tournament, I read every story I could get my hands on about the U.S. team, and the same kind of dynamic was present.The stu; Mia Hamm, after being selected to kick one of the penalty kicks, turned to the coach and said she didn't feel confident kicking. It was too late; the list had been submitted.The coach assured her that she'd nail it, and she did. There is one men's coach with deep concern for his players: Phil Jackson. He seemed so composed on the sidelines, so relaxed. I guess I would be too, if I had the player on my team whom all but guaranteed victory. One of the articles I read discussed how Jackson always looked for books to give to his players. If you have read any ofJackson's own writing, you know that he's not only into the Grateful Dead, but that he's into Zen spirituality as well. He believes in helping his players to find their center. He points them toward trying to find more than fame and money. Admirable.These are all interesting stories about different kinds of leadership, but they all apply to paid coaches who work within dear hierarchies. What can we apply to our situation in Ultimate where teams are comprised of players who are often friends, all giving up free time to play on a team? Is it worth reaming a friend in order to win a ppme? At the end of the day, aren't our teammates the people that we hang out with? Which of these stories about professional coaches applies to us as player/coaches and on-field cap-

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tains? There are as many different leadership styles as there are games to play. No ~ style is best.Yet, they all have some basic similarities. Here is a list of some tenets of leadership.ln the end, it will be up to you to choose how to apply them to your team. Listen first; act second. Create a forum for one voice. Don' t let ego win the day. Run a tight ship. Have fun. The art of listening. First and foremost, successful leadership depends on your ability to Usten.This is a greatly underrated skill. Hearing another player's complaint is one thing; listening to the root cause of the complaint, and not becoming defensive, is quite another. Too many times, we find ourselves unwilling to listen. Maybe we're tired after a .day or week of work. Maybe a particular player has been in your face about playing time. Maybe you si.o;lply don't agree with what that person.is saying. But, as the leader of the team, you have· to get past these barriers and remain open to input.You are at the center and others depend on you to hear them out. Captains have to set-up effective channels for input.The hud<lle during a ppme is generally Naf the time for players ,to give lots of input. And yet, that's when one thinks they should have the floor. Successful teams create alternate

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input consider Email, allow extra time before and after practice, sit together for a half-hour in the middle of a tournament. Once a year; take the time to sit in a circle with the sole purpose of hearing everyone out on a particular issue. Whatever the meanst it . then fulls on you to filter all of what you hear and forward the best of it back to the team. What we're talking about here is one voice.Too many times players assume that one voice means one person and a dictatorship. And it can if you let your ego get the best of you. But one voice need not be singu)ar. lt means that players aren't always competing for the floor and it means that the team is on the same page, trying to accomplish the same ~The best situation is one where the teams can affect change by CJiking to you, or a small group of you, with the knowledge mat their input might later be instituted. Your team might have a number of leaders who tan out and gather input from the larger group. The smaller group of cocaptains would then get together· and sift through all of the irlput to come up with a single plan. A leader is often a fudlitatory and not the idea person. Success is less dependent on you having all of the and more . dependent you making it possible for others with the ideas to get them sold into the team.You're the director: someone else wrote the script and the actors have to do the performance. Successful leaders create safe places for others to speak up. You may 4llready know the first tenet of effective brainstorming: no idea is a bad idea. You want to create an atmosphere where people feel that they can forward an idea without criticism.lbat's when that critical gem pops up from the m~1: unlikely

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Choose one plan and run_With .it.~ it comes to dreaming up st:rategies, dio.:.,e · · are a hundred ways to sltin the .cat. Ail ~ them can worlc if the entire team is on board.Too many teams suffer from trying to do too much, too quickly. Successful companies have business plans.What's your business plan? Can you articulate it in a paragraph? Can the rest of the team? Is it the result of input, or simply what you think needs to be done? Have you run it by a few others before trying to sell it to the team? Once you have some buy-in for your plan, run with it. Be aggressive. Be confident. Figure out ways to forward the p~ and make it happen.Try very .hard .not to change your plan before it has had time to gel. A new offense isn't going to 'WOrk in a single practice. A new line-up of players needs time to click. Inevitably, you will have naysayers all over you. Note their crf"'9uit·ic;tsrns. but try pot to change your course before it has~ a chance to take hold The orily way that your plan will succeed is if you make it work. The fustest way for you to lose your grip of the team is to run weak practices.Your tea• nmates are ttading valuable free time to be a part of the team. Reward them with structured practices. Have in mind a plan for the day/Week; tell the team at the outset what will be accomplished and then do it. Be direct, an<J don't tolerate people who don't toe the line. ~ • .,.. ' It has to be fun. Of course, using humor will gteatly improve your chances of getting poop.le"to ~ And playing on your team has to be ftm. If your idea of a winner is based on endless practice;~. turing tedious <ltJlls, you ~-~~·~,· appointed wlJ,e$t, at the'.entt%ftlie first • week, no one fs coming to practice any- .. · more. Drills are fine, taken in moderation. Players want to improve, but they also want to play. A simple rule is to design a practice where you build from individual skills at the outset, to skills aimed at groups of three and four and finish with team ~tegies geared to the entire side of seven. Players will learn to transition. from one exet'Cise to the next, carrying the tessons forwan:l until they are in a scri.t•toJa&e where they can put it all together. Let me forward something that I learned early on; resist using the wont·r· when talking to the team about the team. For example, when you say, "I want us to lOCus on marking, and I'm tired of all of these turnovers," the team's response is ·.o .ften,"Shut up, pal.Who died and made you king?" It's not about you; it's about the teJm.Your team is comprised of many individuals all working toward·the same goal. Thke the advice of successful Icings before us and say:"Wbat we need to do is focus on mad<ing, and we can't affurd all of these tumovers."1bese simple sen n~ . tics underscore the feeling of inclusion you hope to foster, rather than one of patronizationThere is a thin line between the two and DoG will surely attest that I · have too often crossed over it. For that matter, I half expect the players on DoG to read this and break out laughing, saying: "1bat's great that you can arti01late all of this to the world, now shut up and apply some of this thinking to our team!"

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The Seattle winter league is a fun (and often sopping wet) hybrid league - part pickup, part league. It's a chance for teams to tune up their teamwork and get .in shape before Spring league. It is a noncompetitive league with no playoffs, no league standings and no keeping score during games.The league is a unique solution to DiscNW's need to fit into the city's scheduling fonnat, where "leagues" were allowed to reserve fields but pickup groups had lower priority. Teams often decide to drill for the first hour, then play during the second hour. Games are coed and played on sand fields, under lights:

The Wmter League Journal

1. Winter Leag~ Blues by]P.]ones Saturday,January 22, 2000 Washington Park .

but notice a world of lights, bodies in multi-colored long-sleeve shirts and hats, and the beautiful sight of floating discs that all quickens the flow of your blood. A few enormous speed bumps and right turns later you find yourself walking onto the same field, another body moving under the lights amongst happy people and exdted dogs. You are struck by how big the fields are, their openness matched only by the black night sky yawning at you from between the light poles. Welcome to Georgetown. The untouched softness of the sand under your feet reminds you of a horse track. Maybe you want to run like a filly and kick marks into the surface with your cleats. One thing's for certain: If Wmter League has to be on sand, it should always be this forgiving. Your warm-up throws rise through the absolutely still air, lighter than vanity. It will be a good night for airbounces and hammers.

asks. , Kevin replies in his Canadian accent, "Maybe the lights go out."

Everybody is up on the sidelines and the game is surprisingly tied, ~3. Klaus hucks one into the endzone, which two Disc Guise players miss by a hair. illtimate is _a game of fingertips and inches. The more you play, the smaller the margin for error.What used to be a step behind for you is now an inch or ~ fraction thereof. Sometimes you can make up the difference through force of will. Usually, it's a matter of kicking yourself mentally after the tact for_not anticipating the play · . earlier. By the· time Gin kills the gam~ 5-3, ~e . night h~ all been ... worlh it. No injuries, lots of good play and spirit. Everything tonight is_summed . up in the iah't score - a huck to the end zone which the Gin player babies to the last moment before clamping the disc between two paws as·if to say,"It's all under control tonight.We can go home now." .

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I th<:?ught somebody had died.The scene at Wmter League on Saturday was about as lively as quilting hour up at Queen Anne Manor. It was as if some icy wind fropl back East had blown across the Wash Park fields and sucked the souls . : Thegame right out of each of player. Even Guy ~,Ifsthe,ba.fd Duryee, the -ever-cheery captain whose . oore Bathtub Gin ' . . .. team loves him so much they named : .. ;~~thesofk:ore themselves after him, was not his usual. ~~-GUise.~Eadl.:? self.The dogs looked gtum. team's got subs but Som~· just w.iSn't right. Disc Guise could Disc-Guise found themselv.es up 1,ISe some women. against Vince and this should've been the Gin scores easily first dile that things were badThen from the get-go. Vmce threw a zone on the first (pseudoThey make it look } point - ugly:It should've been even easy. A key player uglier since Vmce started the night savfot: Gin is Joe,with age, but Disc Guise struggled with the his precise throws dump-and-swing: (Eventually a couple of and intense demeanor. He's a natural stragglers wandered in to give VInce leader. Sherrie,is,~ther visible player some s\lb relief) Nevertheless, the game with consistently solid cuts. It looks at remained dominated by a dry, speechless first as if Gin might be toying with the boredom in which the players seemed Guy-toys, but then the twin towers John only to be going through the motions. and Alex each pull down scores for the The sidelines were no better.The mQSt: underdogs. exdting thing going on there were the Under the hum of 1000-watt bulbs attempts of a squirrely black dog to tanperched on eight 60-foot poles, Bathtub gle people up in his leash. Can you say Gin comes up with a quirky zone lame? defense. From the handler's perspective, Fmally, the reason for the doldrums it looks like a diamond designed to shut dawned on me. Disc Guise were missing down the poppers' lanes, with three their heart and soul, the ever-present other players playing deep- and wing-supjeckling heckler, Monsieur Klick-andport. Without a cup per se, Disc Guise Klack- the guy who put "diss"in ~. shreds it with short passes to the open the life of the party.The Commish was field. Obviously, the Diamond-Z needs on vacation. some more work. But that's what Wmter The Sasquatdl-Sneetches game looked League is all about. It's the die-hard slightly livelier. Or maybe it's just the .i lltimate players, gutting out usually-crapimpression left by the Sneetches' eternalpy conditions, to work on their skills and ly-hip red shirts. At least I had time to maybe gain an edge during the regular clip my fingernails.Twice. Many more season.Tonight, though, the conditions games like this one a~d I won't have any are so sweet nobody seems to be gutting fingernails left. Conunish, come back! out anything. An airliner roars overhead and a few 2. Another Body Moving Under the minutes later a yellow-and-black locomotive chugs by on the nearby tracks. This is Ughts industrial Ultimate. Sideline players yell over the noise as steam rises off their byJP.]QneS skin and out of their mouths. Guy pulls Thursday,January 27' 2000 the disc a whopping ten feet and raises Georgetown his arms in mock victory; Dave makes several killer one-hand grabs; Betsy also Rolling down the 1-5 off-ramp at 8:30 pulls some plastic down - she wears a p.m. onto Corson Avenue, you can't help

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single black glove that makes her look like some sort of Bizarro Michael Jackson;Adam on Gin cuts like a maniac as does Beth;Jane has finally learned the long cut, now if somebody would just throw her the disk! About 10:15, a game to .five is agreed upon. "What happens at 10:30?" somebody

Instead to run around a dirt field . and ·aet :sweatv _-. cttasltl't~a:fFtfSbeel

3. Heckling the Hecklers byJP]ones Friday, February 11, 2000 Hiawatha · What makes a person forego plans with a sweetheart on a Friday night before Valentine's Day and choose instead to run around a dirt field and get sweaty chasing a Frisbee? What is this compulsion illtimate players have with this sport? Is it treatable? At the regular starting-time of 6:30 p .m ., there's all of three players at the Hiawatha fields in West Seattle.That's two more than usual for illtimate time; Before long, though, players wander in and Disc Guise starts a three-in-the-hole zone drill. The Sneetches take a· team wann-up lap (those are always so special), and the shredding begins. Sneetches do the shredding, Disc Guise are happy to sit back and be shredded. Like mozzarella. "Where's our D!!!" yells Guy from the sideline.

The first eight or so scores are snatched by the Sneetches. DG's get within spitting distance of the end zone

four or five times but can't punch it in. For the first thirty minutes, Klaus compJains,.he hasn't even touched 'the disc. Then he gets a large hand-block right outside the Disc Guise end zone. DG's still express their scoring anxiety but at least Klaus touched the disc. After a couple more easy sco_res for the Sneetches,.Alex finally pulls a floater down for a DG score. .DG's then throw a zone but the sneaky Star-bellies see it coming.They immediately punt and throw_a zone back in DG's flee. It works- they score. Finally, Disc Guise throws a zone that is marginally more effective but at this point, the margin is about the size of that found on ~ three-by-five index carcl. In other words, nil. A sure touchdown goes right through the hands of a Sneetch. Dave, a Disc Guise player, yells from the sideline,"You hit him in the hands.That's all you could ask for." "Yeah, but I was trying to hit him in the back of the head," Mike ~· The heckling is fierce, especially the Sneetch-on-sneetch variety. One of them says,"We don't have anything to do over here. All we can do is heckle." Though it might be the Tequila talking, I have to a~. Hedding is a key ingredient to an enjoyable game of Ultim;lte.Ule earliest illtimate players discovered this quickly, I'm sure.The game ,, ~mr),~.~~itJ~·~ " ~pje ~a fltece a· field.They're ·runniitg;jumping,_cuttlng and .fulli.ng all over themselves jl,lst to get their fingers on it. It's funny. "PICK!!" a DG player yells. A sideline Sneetch comments,"That wasn't even close to the play." The discussion on the field carries on as another adds, "Hey, we've got our attorney here if you really want to talk about it;." · Hecklers.The game is the better for them. I know the Commish agrees with me. · One of the highlights of the game is seeing Dave layout on an already-bloody elbow. Who could ask for more? You can't get stuff this good on ER or even The X-Files anymore. • At 8:30, the official quitting time, a game to seven is agreed upon. After being tied at two, the Sneetches dominate the next four points. It looks like the night is almost over when Eric's superkiller energy infuses the DG's for on:e last push and they bring it up to six-four. As the two teams line up for a dedsive point, what else happens but the lights go out. At 9 p.m. sharp. Apparently, Seattle City Light doesn't operate according to Ultimate time.That's too bad. About ten minutes before that, though, a funny thing happened. A random guy driving by on California Avenue yells from his car,"Haven't you got anything better to do on a Friday night?!" He is, for all intents and purposes, heckling the hecklers. Yeah, we've got better things to do. But there's something about this game that makes -i t all worthwhile.1bere's just something about it.

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some players will not play both.Thus we ~ve extra. .flexibility for scheduling sectionals and regtonals.This can be very important to the players as ~gs lik~ cost and location can play a much bigger role m location selection.

There has been great debate on the impact of the bOard's decision to move the Co-ed series into the summer on a trial basis.This discussion has occurred on the newsgroup rec.sport.disc and by email, phone and _actual face-to-face contact. I have attempted to summanze both sides of the issue. However, I have a strong bias for keeping it in the fall so I may not have been successful.

Member opinion

The issues: ·Effect on women's teams (Summer) The women's division has been in existence for a long time now. It seems clear that Co-ed has reduced the size of the women's division. By any reasonable metric this is a bad thing. Moving Co-ed by 6 to 8 weeks would allow women to play in both divisions thus helping to keep the women's division strong while allowing Co-ed to continue to exist. (Fall) Firstly will significant numbers of women "seriously" compete in both the Co-ed and women's division? If not, will the division that they don't take seriously (i.e. a pick-up team) be better off for having them in it? Do we want our national series to contain a large number of pick-up teams in any division_? Secondly, who cares? Certa.in.ly we would like to see the growth of the sport. But why does the growth the women's division matter more than the Co-e<!- divtsion? Especially if Co-ed draws in more women than the women's division does? (Summer) There may well be a significant number of women, likely the more skilled, who will play seriously in both Co-ed and women's. If that doesn't actually happen we will discover this during this ~t;': To address the second .point, there are people playing m th~ women's division today whO wish to play on a sitlglesex team for any number of good and valid reasons. If Co-ed and women's can better co-exist by moving one, we should do so. Co-ed should be the one to move because it is the newest and because of the large number of couples that play in Open/Women's.They ~vel together.to sectionals, regionals, and hopefully nattonals. Co-ed couples tend to play together on the same team. So moving.them has the least impact. Lastly there is nothing wrong with playing with a pickup team.

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Ringers (Fall) We may well see ringer teams put together • that really don't care about Co-ed per se. In the worst possible scenario, some of these "ringer" teams will qualify for nationals but not be able to send th~ team. After all the cost is fairly high and some of thetr team members may hold serious hopes of making open/women's nationals and not be able to take that much vacation time and/or time away from home & kids. This would .greatly cheapen the national Co-ed championships.Who wants to be the "national champion" of a division some of the real competitors didn't feel like showing up to? (Summer) Firstly, the above scenario, while possible; hasn't.happened yet. If it does happen, one would expect the board would take this into account when looking at next year. Secondly, an honest look at Co-ed shows it is a B-division already. If it weren't, there would be no worries about these ringers anyway. Nothing is taken away from those players by having such ringer teams drop out. It is certainly in poor taste, but no worse than when they weren't even in the running. (Fall) Is. it worth trashing the national championship in Co-ed for a year to find out if it will happen? If there is a reasonable likelihood that it will happen, that should be good enough reason to leave it in the fall. The second argument doesn't take into account the human spirit. Yes, winning a tourney "the best" didn't enter ~ better than winl'ling one where "the best" drop out m the last round.The issue that ringers might prevent "real" Co-ed teams from doing well is NOf the point. Rather that they may not be able to actually send their team to nationals...

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Shortened season (Fall) A move into summer would seriously shorten the season for the Co-ed division. The loss would be 6 to 8 weeks, about 1/3 of the total season in most places. Further, important tournaments like "tune-up" would be after the season ends. (Summer) Nothing says the season has to end when the national series ends. College and Juniors manage to play the whole summer after their national se~es. . Further Co-ed has traditionally been played mainly m the summer.This just codifies that fact. (Fall) Firstly, the spring is the end of the season for the college teams.They usually breakup for the summer and don't reform until the fall and many of their folks graduate by the end of spring. Secondly, the national series is the goal most teams shoot for. Perhaps not to make it to nationals or even regionals, but rather to test themselves and see the results of their hard work. for the season. After national series things calm down. Practices mellow, and "fun" tourneys again start to exist. Not only will this be hard to do when the open and · women's teams are going into the most .intense part of their season but those Co-ed teams will likely be stripped of players by the other divisions for this time period. For any player who doesn't want to play open or women's, this will end the season for them.

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(Summer) Co-ed has created larger tournaments. This restricts the possible sites for holding sectionals, regionals, and nationals. Moving Co-ed will eliminate this problem. (Fall) Finr,t of all, you cannot consider sectionals as an issue. If the number of open or women's teams increase then site problems will also exist. Sectionals, by their nature need to be able to accommodate all comers. If this is' a problem, the correct response is to split the sections, not split the divisions. Secondly, nationals are not a valid argument for this year. The director of nationals has room this year and in fact would prefer to have Co-ed at nationals because of the extra money involved.Thus the issue is Regionals. How many of the 5 regions had problems accommodating the fields needed for Co-ed? There did not appear to be a lot of problems last year. Lastly, at the sectional level, if those players who played Co-ed really do show up to . open/women's nothing will be saved at the sectJ.onals level anyway. (Summer) certainly scheduling smaller numbe~ of teams at a given site increases the number of posstble sites. This is good and makes finding a site easier. And yes, moving Co-ed will reduce the size of sectionals -

(Fal.Vsumm.er) My view seems to be supported by the majority of the folks I've talked to ... ·(Fall) The ONLY survey of the membership done, indicated strong support for leav~ it in the fall. And looking at rsd, that support seems t<;> also exist. (Summer) The survey and rsd partidpation is self-. . selecting and biased. It represents nothing. (Fall) But what little data there is supports keeping it in the fall. If there were a strong desire by the membership for the move these results would be very unlikely. Conflict with other events . (Fall) lots of events, which traditionally occur m . August, are going to have real problems due to a ~n overlapping with them. Pretty much all events scheduled in August may be impacted either because Qf c~ flict with sectional or regionals, or because people will not want to play sectionals, some other event and then regionals in three back-to-back weekends. Further, many summer leagues are still going at this time. Those people Co-ed is trying to dra:W into the UPA, th~ ~ummer league players, are going to have to make a deaston. P.tay co.ed in the UPA or their summer league that weekend. We are growing Co-ed the wrong way - targeting curre"nt ~'· members over summer league players. · (Summer) First, it is unclear if Co-ed will really impact these events. At tb.e .~lld otJP.JS. ~~ have a better id~. As .tar ~· · .... during the week, not on the weekend. Mo~ do . . . on a weekend, but it should be easy to avotd havmg the Co-ed series overlapping the summer league. And again, if it doesn't work out, we can change it ~ext ~ Only a very small portion of summer league will be impacted. (Fall) We cannot know how this imFct tho~ other August events. But it seems likely tt will be a senous impact if 1/3 to 1/2 of the UPA members are playing C?ed. As far as summer league goes, are people really going to show up to summer league the Monday orTuesday after sectionats and/or regionals? What about the Thursday or Friday beforehand? And if the summer teague finals are during the weekend in_A~gust~ a lot of the best players of the league will be .m.tSSmg etth~ from the league or from the Co-ed series. Not a good.thing.To summarize schedule for Ultimate events assumes that the series s~ in the fall.This includes tourney-S 'and summer leagu~. Messing with this radically changes the nature of things for everyone·during August.

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SHORT: (Summer) Spreads out the load on the UPA.They will get rosters at two different times. (Fall) Gives them two tourneys to deal with AND assuming overlap of Co-ed with the others gives more total rosters to look at. . (Fall) Hosts the Co-ed national champions due to conflict with worlds. · (Summer) Firstly, it is only· one team. Seco~dly the UPA is working on .finding a fl.X for them. (Fall) Many teams rely on their college stud~nts fo~ Co-ed. Especially for their women. At open seroonals m MIJOH/KY, 112 the teams were college teams. And all of the teams (I believe) had college students on them. It will really hurt those teams to lose those folks. (Summer) Those folks can play at home rather than with their college towns. It will help encourage them to find other teams to play on closer to home.

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I was watching a game recently at a tournament. One player bucked the disc the length of the field, or close to it, starting from· .t he sideline. Like most sideline .bucks,. the path of flight was outside of the sideline, curving back in towards the sideline at the far side of the field. His teammate ran the disc down and caught it, but was just out. People on the other team started saying, "never in," and expected to get the disc near the first team's goal line. But the guy who caught the disc said that, since he was in bounds when he jumped to catch it, although he landed out of bounds, his starting in bounds meant the disc started at the other team's goal line. (He'd caught it past the end line}. Reviewing the rules on OB, I didn't see anything that supported tJlis position, at least not directly. The only thing I did see was IX.4, which says that while he was in the air, he was in bounds, since the last place he touched the grQund was in bounds. What would be the proper ruling on this? Noah, . UC Berkeley. You 've hit upon one of the current problem areas in the rules. Actually, the Standin_g Rules Committee (SRC) has just finished rewording the entire "Out of Bounds" section (IX) to address this and some other small points, but the new text hasn't been released yet. The SRC was in agreement that the disc ought to be played where the m receiver contacted the disc, even if that receiver subsequently landed OB. The new version of Section IX makes this clear. Under the current wording it is a bit ambiguous. As you noted , the airborne receiver was clearly IB due to the last point of contact being lB. <::onsidering then:

IX.9. If a pass does not come in bounds the a handler can come get it to put opposing team gains possession of the disc where it left the field of ptay only if the defense in play. Did he have possession, did not contact the disc. and was it a turnover? Or One question is, did the disc "come in b h 1 d f bounds" by virtue of the IB player touching it? ecause e WaS a rea Y OUt 0 The disc certainly "became" m, and this seems bounds was the disc out of play? close enough tp serve, although the use of the . The second case is what hap"come in bounds" phrase might imply otherwise to some: In my:opinion, it is simply a poor choice pened, but there was a lengthy of wording. : · discussion first. ,' However, qven given that the disc became IB! . Thanks, Dave. it . subsequent!~ became OB when the receiver , .. 1. 'landed out. No}v we consider: , ·. · . ., . :· ... . , . , , . . IX.7. To s~art or .restart play after the disc ...Tll.~re ~re ,~ n~~r of fachas gQne,;3~ut-of-bc;>l,tnds, .a member of the team tQf~ . irp;;~!v;~d.here. First, did g~inin~ ..P.?~se~~ion:.·<:>f the;: di~c must\ f=¥~~ ~e . he_J')ave possession? Yes, disc<ta the potpt on J~e playmg fiel4.proper nearupless. h,e a~cj.dentally est where-the tllisc last crossed the perimeter dropped ·it due to the ground line, and put tjle disc into play at that point. contact related to the catch Unfortuna~ely, this is pretty clear.The disc (an example would be: he last cross~ th~ perimeter line back where it first was still trying to slow down or stop, and accidentalflew OB: So untler the current wording, one can ly hit the disc on his leg, causing the drop.) make a :pretty ~trong case for sending the disc Possession does not relate to whether the person is back. ~ in or out of bounds: Why did tile. SRC decide that it should be II.l.F. Possession of the disc: Sustained contact played t~ oth.r way? Firstly, the basic concept is with, and control of, 14~ qan,-sp~ elise., · ~ simple: if the disc comes back IB or is touched by a. To ~ch a pass is equiv3lent to establishing possession of that pass. a defender thep you play it from there . So the IB receiver is enough for the disc to become m , ~nd ~ b. ~,of control (lue:to ground contact related it should be played from there. Again, poor word- . to a pass reception negat-es that rediver's possesing causes the ·current text to imply otherwise. !\ sion up.to that point. ' Secondly, the "send it back" interpretation ·. · You ~an read the definition of"8found contact" allows for the following silly (although unlikely} __ elsewhere.The-..following is also rele~t: scenario: XII.2. A pass is.c~nsidered intercepted if a The disc is thrown righty backhand by player defensive player catches a pass. H a defensive player A and immediately crosses the perimeter to OB. catches a pass and accidentally loses possession of it Receiver B stands IB and leans out to make the _ ·:: before or during.ground contact related to that · catch. With hand still reaching over the line OB · ···"-· catch (II.l.F.b), the defender is C<?nsidered to have and without any windup, B flicks another b~ck. -blocked rather than intercepted, th.~ pass. hand further up the line-the disc never crosses No:te: the presence Of the word "accidentally." Sp the perimeter back in! The disc eventually lands if this is what happened, then it is just like the divOB. Under the interpretation given above, the ing defender who intercepts the disc in the air but disc would go all the way back to where it fust ·coughs it up on landing: that player's team retains flew out near A. Clearly this is not the intent of possession. the rules, but .rather a matter of poor wording. From your description it's difficult to be sure, but So there you have it. The UPA Standing Rules it sounds instead like the defender caught the disc, all Committee agrees that it "should" be at the ground contact related to that catch was completed, receiver, and we hope to put the new rules out to and then at some time later the player intentionally the public before Spring of 2000. Since one can dropped it. All this happened while the player was make a case for sending it back under the current out-of-bounds (OB). rules, players are for the moment left to their In this case the defender did obtain possession own designs for resolving this issue on the field . of the disc. It doesn't matter that S/he was out-ofRemember, play hard, play fair. bounds. Now, is it a turnover? There woUld undoubtHere's a s·tuaedly be s~me. ~ent on this, but I would say, I "yes." My JUStification follows. tion that arose at 1. At the moment the defender caught the disc, Sinkhole that 1 s/he ~came the "thrower": XIII.7. A defensive player who establishes pos• can't recall seeing session of the disc becomes the thrower, but may before. A big huck not throw the disc before s/he establishes a legal pivot foot. To do so is a traveling violation. downfield goes The situation is now identical to that in which out, never comes the disc was lying OB and subsequently picked up in, and a defensive player catches by an offensive player.That player becomes the thrower and proceeds to carry the disc to the line. it out of bounds. He runs a few What if that person drops the disc while carrying it to the line? steps with it, then drops it so

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The Ultimate Sp.orts Camp (TUSK) Spring and what comes with it (birds, bees-that's fris bees-and beer) ,just around the corner, Savannah, GA braces herself for an onslaught of Ultimate. After five years of planning and two years of market testing, I am finally opening my own Ultimate Camp. TUSK, The Ultimate Sports Kamp, is a 180-bed lodging facility and cafeteria, located within walking distance of 20 fields. TUSK will host 4 weeks of High Tide College tournaments and 2 weekend tournaments , all in the month of March (yes, that's my soup all over the tourney page and RSD). I estimate about 600 players attending some event that month in Savannah. While my prim~ interest is Ultimate , man can not pay the loan by disc alone , so the camp will cater to many other sports. These other sports will pay premium fees (about $15-20/night) so that Ultimate players can stay for cost (about $1 0/night). In the initial phase of the camp, I am renovating and leasing an unused 5000 sq. ft building, owned by the Chatham Association for Retarded Citizens (CARC). This building along with the another 3000 sq. ft building will house most of the High Tide participants. I have locker rooms/showers and a lounge, complete with pool tables, stage and dance floor. Full meal plans are available from $1215/day with al1 profits from meals going to the CARC.

SUDS,. .the local club team known for their hospitable and frequent events, will be working closely with TUSK to provide housing and party space for their annual gigs. Some future events where you will be able to utilize TUSK include: UPA College South Atlantic Sectionals 4/8&9, SUDS Coed Affair in April, SUDS Hat Tourney & Beach Party Memorial weekend,TUSK Juniors' Trials in June and SUDS Toss in the Moss in August. I am also negotiating with Sports Camps USA, the marketing firm for NIKE Sports Camps, to promote national and international events here.Two events that I am extremely interested in hosting are the 2000 National Discard, a conciliation tournament for teams that qualified for the UPA Fall series Regionals, but came up short for Nationals and the 2001 World University Ultimate Championships. If anyone has any ideas on how I can facilitate such competition, I'm all ears. If you are passing through Savannah, please stop in for a pick up game with SUDS and the Savage Sisters, and a nights rest at TUSK. Play with Spirit of the Game and live·with the Spirit of God. -Ed Pulkinen Director of TUSK P.S. By the ttme you read this, the new web site will he posted on RSD.

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Most days, a pool play Victory against l-ean pull 42 drills J:i.W1t off.fue top of my around those values: confidence and coheyour school's B team is at best anttcliniachead. But that year, I had to look them up sion? What else do you strive for? tic, maybe even a bit uncomfortable. But or make them up. I still make .up drills, but Fundamentals. Especially coaching the this time,The Stanford Superfly players not nearly as much. Also, the on-field college division. If we can catch, throw and their coach, Jennifer "JD" Donnelly, had coaching has .c hanged a lot for me. The and run faster and better than ever}rbody a legitimate reason to get exdted when compo~~e - I used to get really nervous, - else, wen. that's :what the game;s abOut they knocked off their sister team at the and I used to have a hard time makin~ the fundamentals. We do a few fancy Santa Barbara Classic.The win was decisions_Now,.I have experience to draw offenses, an4 we understand the game, but Superfly's 1OOth in a row, a remarkable upon and it helps a lot. laho found out I still stress fundamentals. streak that dates back to June 2, 1996. that getting nervous doesn't help. Since losing their only game of the §Cason How do you motivak- players? Are you a and the national championship to UNG.· . Who are your role models? Has·aayone in yeller or do you stay positive no matter what? Wtlmington in 1996, Superfly has been · particular influenced your .approach to ooadl- .. I do what's required. I think that every invincible, closing out three undefeated ing? player is different, and every team has its ~asons with three straight national titles. There are aspects of different coaches own little personality. I have to get to This year's captain, Camille Yu, has never that I like. Tara VanDerveer (Stanford bas-. know the players personally to understand lost a collegiate Ultimate game. The secret ketball) for sure, Pat Swnmitt (Teflnessee what motivates them. I had these two playof Stanford's success is obvious: Donnelly's basketball)- I've read her books, Anson ers last year: for one, positive wasn't dedication to the team, knowledge of the Dorrance (UNC Soccer), you know, all the enough because she heard it all the time . game, and ability to get the best out of her classics.John Wooden. I could give you a So, if I yelled at her or doubted her, it realplayers, has pushed college women's long list! Right nowTm reading the Vince ly motivated her because she wanted to Ultimate to a level few opponents can . Lombardi biography. prove me wrong. But then, I had another match, let alone top. Donnelly's record.of player who just soake~ up the positiy,e 105-6, since signing on as coach in 1995, , , ·Have you met VanDerveer? : attention and really~ 1;-ea,Uy lov~d it..It 1 was .have redefined what it takes to win in tlie-'- .-·: ,¥eah,-actually I have.-1 talked to her. a -:_;, .'ever negative to her, she 'd . disappear~The .. college women's division.With the first bit about some problems we had on our ·. real challenge is to motivate the_ .t~am five victories of 2000 'on record,JD spoke 'team. ' . . <t when you're ta.lking to.everybody, when to UPANL·about the program, her-.coach· . ·· you've got all these heads in{)~ eifd:e. I ing philosophy, the streak and die seasOn· ~ · That's a good resource to have! only yell two or three times a year. ahead. '·', ;·Yeah, it's not bad. Hook up with Tara, ·' . . . .. : ._ · .:.f . have lunch (laughs). Really, we're not that How do you build team unity1· . . ·. How did you get started in Ultimate? personal. Well, when we work out, we do:it .as a · team_When we do sprints, we do them as ..-. I went to Stanford for my Master's , egree. I've always been involved in team · How about within Ultimate? a team. We stretch together, we coot down sports and I needed a team. I found the Within Ult~te, Peter Ritson. He together. All of th~ _ij_ttJ.e-eyents at pracUltimate team at an activity fair. It was a coached the Santa Cruz women. ·my flfst . tice lead toward a ~ -t¥ifij.f~~(:;~ . _. · .. 'Je . 4~""--r··: •JD,.· o· ~nri.:al~(v ·club sport you could participate in as a -· year of coaching (1995), and it was his:sec- Everyone's runni.flg~1>ti6fs.:~~~~fi · ? •n•JJ" ,;:~.~·;_.·~~,.D~f "'~ grad student. I liked the running, the outond year of coaching. We met in the finals all cheering for eac!lo~, tfutt -~0£ . ·, _ . ,, '.-,;~· _;>~:·t;., side aspect. I played basketball before I got of Nationals that year.They crushed us the thing.Then, off the think it's really team is unique. ks·-~ it( say easier or into Ultimate and the feeling was similar. other three times we met that season, but important that they ~;f.riends with each_ harder. It's different. in some ways it's easiThe skying, defense-like fronting handlers. we gave 'em a run for their money in the other, that they suppotf::each other in their er because 1 have more experience to fmal5.We were up 8-2·, but couldn't hold personal lives. I guess I, just like to take a draw on as a coach, but in other ways it's When you started playing did you have a on and lost 19-15. He also coached my personal il!terest in tlif!.n:1.and they spread harder because. teams are better. Every coach or did you just learn the game with .club team one year. I just like his style. that around among the team members. team goes for us, you know,"let's beat other players? He's a smart guy and he knows how to They take a· personal interest in each Stanford!" But then, it can be easier, too, My .first year Peggy Hollinger coathed talk to women players. other. I don't know that I do that, per se, because they think "oh, it's Stanford," and us and the second year ~ruth (John Knuth) it's just like a feeling that's been on the they can be a little intimidated. So it's What's your approach to coaching women? ~oached us. team forever. both. But I think any team can beat us any Is that something you've though about much? time. When did you decide to coach? Was it a Coaching women, I think, can be a lot Has the game changed In your coaching different than coaching men. just theoreticonscious decision or did the role just develyears? Before the_l995- season, Stanford was not a cally, I think it would be.The thing I like to Oh, significantly! First of all, the level of national power. Since then, you've been in 1he op over time? I had only been playing for tfuee years, focus on, coaching my women's team is women's college Ultimate is drastically difchampionship game e'•ery year. What hapso my fourth year playing was my ft.rst year just to make sure that they have confiferent. It's so much better. Pretty much pened? Can yon identify the turning point in dence. I think it's a really big deal . every team on the West Coast has a coach. . coaching. In 1995, the team asked me to the Stanford program? coach, so yes, it was a conscious decision. It's understood that you need a coach to Especially young collegiate players.They Yeah, I remember those earlier times_ In Stanford had two coaches previously and can gain a lot of confidence on the field be successful, whereas four to five years 1993, we went into Regionals, ranked 5th · the team thought I'd be a good coach, I and then take it to the rest of their life, ago, there were only three to four coaches or 6th and we ended up 3rd and we were which is pretty cool. Also, 1 think it's really in the whole country. I think that's really guess. [At that point] I'd been away from so happy. The program has been growing the Stanford team for a year, playing with important - and 'I don't know if this is a brought the level up, just through the since 1992, I think. More and more athwomen's team or men's team or every transferring of knowledge, the organizathe Maineiacs. letes were coming out: It just took a little team - just to have a really good interper- tional help·, subbing-wise. bit of time to grow.The reputation on cam...._ How many hours a week do you devote to sonal bond. It's really important that the pus grew that Ultimate is a tough, compet' -coaching the team? players will do 3l;lything for each other. Is it getting harder to win? Are more and itive, athletic sport, and once that happens, Twenty hours, approximately. That comes socially and in other ways. We more teams challenging you? the athletes will start coming out. And hang out a lot, and everybody is really Is it getting harder to win?! That's a that's all you need. tight. I think ~t's really important. crazy question - I have to think ~bout it. How has your coaching evolved over the . :;years? You .know, every game is unique, it's hard Over the years you've helped bring some _ The first year it was a lot of work to compare one against the other. Every So your coaching philosophy is built great athletes into dle game. ~w do you ' the planning, the practices. Now I feel like

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r«ruit? Bribing and begging (laughs). Seriously, when we get a bunch of new players in the fall and we're teaching them the game, we like to make sure we s tress the athletic intensity and challenge of the sport and make sure we do sprints at the end and sit-ups and push-ups. It's a way to say, "hey, this is a sport that will keep you in shape, this is going to challenge you, you're going to go home sore at night."We're not nice to them in the beginning.lbat usually attracts the athlttes and interests.them more, rather than scaring them away, so it turns out to be a good tactic. What do you look for when you're evaluat-

ing people who have never played the game before? Definitely athleticism.Tilrows are stupid human tricks that we can teach. Sometimes even catching is a learned thing. Speed, quickness, how their body moves athletically-that's most important for beginners.

Does the team think about the streak? (laughs) I didn't think so, but damn they bad the champagne bottles out when we got 100! I was surprised - I didn't even think they knew or cared. It was pretty funny.

Does the streak add pressure or is it generally a positive motivator? We don't talk about it. I don't think you can set out to have an Wldefeated season, which is a crazy thing to say after I've had three. But you can't really say ..hey, we're gonna go undefeated." I think the team this year is like the teams last year and the year before, where we just say "hey, we're gonna go out and do our best every time and play competitive and play hard." It's not really about winning, it's about playing your best, and so I don't think [the winning streak) adds ~ extra P£eSSU!le·-. because it's kind of unimportant. ·

During the streak, what was the team's most i:.mpressive comeback? It wasn't even at a tournament. We were at Eastern retreat in 1998. So, basically we'd gone to Eastern, played three days of double-sessions, then played Carleton

the next day. Carleton had us down 10-4 and 8-2, I think. It was like our ftfth day of playing Ultimate, and half our team was injured. So, you know, a lot of sore bodies and we were down 10-4. Carleton was on fire. Then I dunno - the team got it together! We came back, but Carleton had the D. It was 14-13 for them, and they had it right on our goal line. It was crazy - I'll never forget this. We put a clam on. We got the D - Camille [Yu} got the D, then ran all 70 yards downfield while Mary Hunt [Martin] pumped her this long forehand bomb. So they're right at the door to win the game and boom! D, score. It was like, 3 seconds. Tie game 14s. It was exciting. We went on to win 17-15 or something like that. But they really had us up against the wall there.

What was your best experience as a coach? The most satisfying thing is being with players for all four years and watching them grow from insecure, scared, Wlconftdent freshmen, to more adult, confident players and also just wonderful people off the field. You know, from 18 to 22 {years old] is a big step, and they grow as players and they grow as people.That's definitely the most satisfying thing.

How is it working with the College Administration? They're very receptive. Our success has helped our standing with the schooLThe more success we have the more they treat us like a "real sport," so it's nice. Our men's team is also successful and we can go to them jointly and ask for fields, more money, etc. We defm.itely have a good relationship with the school administration right now.

Do you get most of your money from the school or does it come from other soun:es? One-third is from the school, one-third from fun<kaising, one third from the players' pockets. Maybe more from fund-raising than from their pockets.

What kind of tlmd-raising does the team do? Stanford has a number of things to help out club sports, like the Stanford Fund. The team writes letters to alumni thanking them for their donations. Part of their

JD keeps time. donations then go to the club as a payment for writing the thank you letters. The letters are pretty elaborate and detailed. They're personal, handwritten and not soliciting at all, just thanking them. We usher basketball games and other eyents. My company, 3dFX, sponsored the team for two years, but I quit and the guy who was sponsoring us quit, so we don't have that anymore. Finding sponsors takes a Jot of energy and I haven't been looking much lately.

You've been a big proponent of bringing the Xrules to the women's division. Why do you think the Xrules are important? I think it's important that the men's and women's divisions are on the same page and that we're not playing different games. I think it's important that some of these time restriction rules get implemented so the game's easier to watch, more fun to play and more challenging to the athletes. I think overall, the Xrules are going to push the women's division to take the next step organizationally and physically. It's going to be a big challenge and yeah, it's not going to be easy and yeah, probably some teams aren 't really ready for it, but I have faith. I've seen this division

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What else can be done to strengthen and promote college Ultimate in general and the women's division in particular? Coaching. More coaches would be great. I'm thinking about having a coaching forum for new coaches, to help them get started. We all deal with the same issues, and it would just help to be able to share ideas. It would also help if more teams could figure out how to strengthen themselves internally and financially, so that everybody's got what we've got. We've got 20 college players and a budget, so we can travel. If we could get more college teams out there with those same beneftts, it would be great.

Women's wm spons have really come into their own in the last few years. Can Ultimate take advantage of this boom in player and media interest? If so, how? What should players and coaches be doing to promote the sport? 0~

God- if I could answer that question, I'd be doing it. The "how" part - I'd love to figure that ·OUt. As a starting point, clinics are a good idea. Summer clinics for kids. It's also a good way for teams to make a bit of money for the season. There are a ton of things that could be done to promote the sport. It's a matter of where you choose to focus your energy.

How is SOTG alive in College Ultimate? The way the rules are, even with the Xrules, we call our own fouls, and we're held to a high level of sportsmanship just by the nature of the game. I think colle\e players tend to be a little more idealistic, maybe because of their age, so they're excellent role models for SOTG.

Who are you watching out for this year? Any teams in particular caught your attention? Oh, of course! Those Georgia teams are getting really good. The Carolina schools might be strong.There's Brown and the whole Northeast region looks good Tufts is returning a lot of players. Moving West, Carleton will always be a factor, and I'm assuming UBC and Oregon because they're strong programs. UC-Davis, and of course, UC-San Diego nearly beat us at the Santa Barbara Classic in]anuary.They had us down 2-5, but we came back to win it 10-9. A bamburner for sure. Very fun game to coach, we had to figure out some new things to get our offense rolling. They are a great team, I expect to see more from them come springtime.

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After.a recent pick-up game, one of our most experienced playerS~ Sandy (a.k.a. math Prof. Koonce at University of Redlands) and I were talking about how to keep playing while getting older. Seems as we get older, our speed is down, it takes longer to recover after a hard game, and we get injured more easily. When I asked him·if he was doing any kind of strength training, he admitted that he wasn't.lbis is not surprising, since most people aren't doing it either, • thinking that it is something only body builders do. · However, if r.ou w~t to keep playing Ultimate at your highest level possible and at the same time, keep your injuries down to a minimum, you must do some form of strength training. Why? The body follows tJtat wellknown adage,"Ifyou don't use it, you lose it." Even someone who stays relatively activ~ or does aerobic/cardiovascular type of activity will still lose muscle over time. Just ask any astronaut or NASA

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able to travel into peep space, like on TY, is that it would be a suidde mission. The astronauts would turn into a bag of mush before they could make it back to earth! Sure, they can exercise oil'a stationary bike or be strapped to a treadmill, but they can't lift weights in zero gravity. Even using elastic bands or a machine like the SoJaJfex; for strength training is not enough to compensat~ for zero gravity. The same muscle deterioration • which takes weeks to happen in outerspace takes Years to happen here on planet Earth, thanks to gravity. But it happens, nevertheless. The only way to slow, stop, or reverse this muscle loss is through one form of exercise: strength or resi~'tance training. Cardiovascular activity is not enough. If you're not lifting free weights, using the machines, stretching an elastic band, or doing simple calisthenics, you are losing muscle. There are many fuctors that will dictate the speed of this muscle loss (gene(4cs, lifestyle, environment, etc.), but the bottom line is that you are losing muscle. Does this mean that you have to go to a gym and work out for hours every day? No! The good news is that you can gain all the benefits of slowing muscle loss (and even gaining lost muscle mass) with as little as two twenty-minute workouts a week For that minimal time investment, you will gain tremendous benefit to your health, quality of life, and best of all, your U1timate game. There are numerous programs out there, but the one I recommend to patients is a fifteen-minute, seven-exercise workout program that they do twice a

Catching the disc and a great sunset at Solana Beach during the Jockey UPA National Championships.

. week. I have a handout that utilizes 6. As with all exercise recommenda- ' dumbbells so you can work out at home tions, check with your doctor first to and another handout that shows a gym make sure you're deared to do this kind workout using their .machines. If you'r e of exercise, especially if you have any questiOrls'. · · ' · ·· · · interested in either of these handouts, . , . .. feel free to contact me and I'll mail it to you. • No matter what program you follow, · here are some key prindples to keep in mind: • 1.Thke a rest day be~een exercises. The muscles need at least forty-eight hours between workouts to recover and re-build.Th.is rest period is just as important (if not more so) than, the workout itself. You can work out every day as long • as you follow a program where you alternate muscle groups. .2. Emphasize. control and form over amount of weight lifted. Don't sacrifice proper and safe form by lifting too-heavy of a ~t in ·onJer to impress that person working out next to you. · 3. Breathe! Don't hold your breath, and be sure to exhale on exertion. 4. If you're new to this form of exercise and are unsure about how to per- · form the exercises safely and properly, hire a certified personal trainer to teach you. 5. If you experience any sharp pains 7. Unless you're working on being a while doing an exercise, STOP! Your musbody builder, you don't have to spend .des will have a nice "burn" but you hours in the gym. Did you know that you can achieve all the above.mentioned benshould not feel any sharp pain. Get efits in as little as tWenty minute sessions, checked out. Have someone check your technique. lift less weight. But whatever two times a week? More is not necessariyou do, don't just work through this kind ly better. Studies and presentations at the of pain. latest American College of Sports ·.

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Medidne conference validated the 1-2 setworkout was effective. Quality of workout is more important than quantity. There are many more good tips and instruction ·that }'Ou shoUld tbllow.1bat's why I. recommentt any of the following books·if you wantlindepth infonnation on this topic: · · Strong Women Stay Young & Strong Women Stay Slim, by Miriam Nelson. Every woman needs to read this book, especially if they?te over thirty years old! Body for Life, by Bill Phillips. Neefl motivation to workout? This book will do it for you. Unique pyramiding approach to strength training in minimal time, complete with training logs. (I'm currently using this program.) Strength training past 50, by Wayne Westcott and Thomas Baechle. For those in the Masters 'levd and beyond, this is one of the best written books for strength training effectively and safely. All of these books are available from your local books stores or online, such as Amazon.com. If you can't find the Past 50 one, you can call Human Kinetics at 180().7474457 and order it directly from them. If you want to keep p~ well into the new millennium, add strength traifr ing into your total wellness program. For without it, all the healthy food, nutritional supplements, and cardiovascular/aerobic activity won't stop you from turning into a bag of mush. · Just ask the astronauts. SOTG!

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our ours Andy Starinchak lived and breathed Ultimate. One of his most pri:led possessions was the trophy he won as MVP at Poultry Days: a quart can of diced chicken. Andy's mother has a story about that treasured trophy and how it almost became a victim of, shall we say, fowl play.The story begins, rather ominou.o;;ly, in the kitchen. Mom was fixin' dinner one night when she suddenly realized she was running low on ingredients. She rummaged through empty drawers and cupboards lUltil she remembered the can of chicken. Mixed with everything else, she thought, it might not taste so bad. So she tetched the trophy from its makeshift display case in Andy's room. The can was on the kitchen counter and mom was just about to open it when she heard a voice from behind. "Drop the can opener;路 it said. Andy was in the doorway and, continuing in his best movie cop voice, he added, "Now slowly step away from the chicken." Unfortunately Andy's mother told that story at Andy's funeral. While riding his bike in the late summer of 1998,Andy was killed by a hit and nm driver. His grieving friends and teanunates felt there would be no better way to remember Andy than by hosting a tournament in his name. The first Andrew]. Starinchak Memorial 24-Hour Charity Ultimate Event was played in C'..olumbus, Ohio on June 25-26, 1999.The event, one on-going 24hour game, benefited the Salesian Boys and Girls Club and was sponsored by Discraft, McDonald's, Devine Brokerage, Great Harvest Breads and Walkers. Over 125 players from around the country signed up for as many one-hour time slots as they wanted and the mishmash of players kept one game going around the clock. It all started at 7pm on Friday night. Hour 1: Organizers Paul Devine and Robin Cammarota start the 24-hour game while the Starinchak family-Elaine, Andrew and daughter Betsy-register, greet, chat and reminisce about Andy

with the players. Hour 3:Just before sunset, around 9:30 Friday night, Carmon Rinehart shows up: "Chilling from a knee injury but jonesing to play, I biked over to the field where I made the acquaintance ofAndy's morn. She recognized my name and she said, "Andy's told me all about you." I was blown away. Touched and thinking about that and basking in the warm feelings, I watched the game thinking, 'this is a major cool event.' Hour 4: It's 10 p.m. and the first of many TV news crews stops by. Hour 5: It's sometime after 11 p.m. and Carey"Ringo" Arnold, who'd committed to playing at least one point every hour and drinking one beer every hour, discovers a major t1aw in his plan and abandons the whole beer-an-hour idea. Hour 6: It's midnight and it's theArlington hour, reserved for players from a local norules-rule of play, pickup game that is truly grassroots. This hour pitted wily veterans against rookies. Howard Wood, one of the victorious veterans, says: "The Arlington hour was unbelievable fun, as evidenced by the smiles on everyone's fuces (plus looks of astonishment from sideline spectators). It reminded me that while Andrew was an upper echelon player, his initial look of bewilderment at the Arlington game soon eroded when he experienced the true fun of it all. He was the best of two worlds: the ability to compete at a national level, with dubs such as Lemon, and the ability to experience the pure joy of throwing and catching a 175 gram piece of plastic." Hour 8: It's 2 a.m. and as water begins to fountain out of the ground, we all immediately realize that the University failed to turn off the automatic sprinkler system. Drinks and showers for all. Hour 9: It is 3 a.m. and Michael Ho, who stopped by on his way to Shampoo Banana, was in his sixth hour of play. His team, down by five, agreed to play all lefty (except lefties) and scored-on a lefty

Players take a break during the 24-hours for Andy memorial tournament in June of 1999. This year's tournament is scheduled in Columbus, Ohio on june 23 and 24. hammer. Hour 10: Its 4 a.m. and cars are still driving by honking and screaming: "\Vhat the .... are you doing?! " Hour 11: Incredibly spirited play. Players are laying out, running hard and playing tough, defense and all. It's as if they don't even know that they really should be sleeping. Hour 12: Half-way there. Waiting for a pull on the endzone line the flexible Amy Myerson casually bent into one of her minutes-long handstands elidting much applause from the masses. Hour 13: Swuise. Sponsor Great Harvest drops by boxes of fresh muffins and bread and makes lots of people happy. Hour 14: Ringo exclaims: "Thank God you see it too! " A squareish shaped dirigible flew directly over the field. Ringo noticed it but sure he was hallucinating, he didn't say a word until someone else finally offered, "Urn, do you see that thing too?" Hour 18:About twenty kids from the Salesian Bo)'S and Girls Oub partidpate in an Ultimate teaching clinic, while on the adjacent field the 24-hour game continues. Hour 19: It's 1 p.m. and a sweltering, humid 90+ degrees. It is also the allwomen hour and the we-have-no-subs hour.To fulfill their commitment to play part of each hour, Paul Zaleski and Ringo

are made honorary women for one point.

Hour 21 :Things are getting goofy. Four hours left and the disc goes out of bounds and comes back as a 30-inch bright yellow serving tray.A.fter about a half hour and some dose calls involving spectators heads, one team actually sends the technicolor tray into the endzone for a score. Hour 23:After 6 hours of play on Friday night and 7 hours of play on Saturday, Uz lim, wiped out but still having a blast, expetienced her highlight of the weekend, "Mrs. Starinchak made me this awesome sandwich that was as big as my head." Hour 24:The final hour and it's an allskate. Everyone (60+ people) left takes to the field with three discs, induding a return of the large yellow tray, and friendly mayhem ensues. Some final thoughts: From Ringo Arnold,"Sappy, yes, but one of the "best parts of the event was spending time sitting on the hill and just talking with old friends." From HowardWood,"It was a very important event for me. I was comforted to meet Mr. and Mrs. S, even if it brought some tears to us both." From Amy Myerson, "It was a great feeling to push myself. Although I didn't know Andy 1 think I tmderstood what he stood for and the type of person he was." And, from Michael Ho,"Great tournament, we plan to attend next year."

The Y2K SecondAnnualAndrew/. Starinchak Memoriai24-Hour Charity Ultimate Event will be in Columbus, Ohio on june 23 and 24. Contact Paul Devine for info: (ph: 614-2945499, email: laundryboy@columbus.rr.com) Web site: jwww.osu.edu/students/udc/andy Innovation Grant Recipient

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was a heroic Eugene Dark Star player, a much beloved teammate and tireless ambassador for flying disc sports during the early 1980's. The College 1WVP trophy is named for him, so one often bears tbe question, "W'ho was Henry Callahan?" These three articles speak for themselves ...

by Henry Callahan

Flying disc sportS have come of age! More and more people are being introduced to the variety of creative and challenging disc sports. Remember the eye opening impact of your flrst exposure to freestyle or Ultimate.You too can have the same impact on a new generation of disc enthusiasts. Individuals and communities are ready for you to share your insights and knowledge of disc sports. It is now up to you to bring a "disc awareness" to the various groups seeking information because often these groups don't know who to turn to for help. You may be asking, "What can I do and what types of groups desire information about disc sports?" The best place to start is within already existing systems. The public education systems and the parks and recreation systems provide an ideal forum for exposure. Grade schools, high schools and universities are all receptive to demonstrations, intramurals, club sports and physical education classes. Two years ago, a group of Ultimate disc players at the University of Oregon approached the Club Sport program about receiving affiliate dub status. The players told them about the International Frisbee Assodation and its 100,000 members. They told them about the 100 registered West Coast clubs and the eight Pac-10 universities with teams.They demonstrated their level of active participation amongst 20-25 dents. Today Club Sport Ultimate receives motor pool access and campus wide iftffio,n new members join, the dub con You can do the same with Schools at alJ levels physical education '"-'"'" District lists Ultim:a~ classes for the The accreditedR,.,· .... ~...,. has grown tr" ~b three classes with a UT,;a for a spot. People ,;arp starting a class, the puts out an outstandand teachers. to help.

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"Play Catch, backhanded. Flat flip experiment." These simple rnsu the imagination of .. .._..... .._"' from all walks of life just._.._. to do just that - experiment. A disc will land at th e feet of an .._..... child in the park. Invariably they pick it interrogate it and send it into some sort of tlig;ht. course, many errant throws have led to ruder introductions to the disc, yet an inherent curiosity seems to travel with the disc. Since their introduction to the public, flying discs h ave been a source of ·oy and excitement for the user

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and the observer. The informality implidt in a game that you and your friend just invented cannot be dismissed. People participating merely for the challenge and pleasure associated with a disc game is no small wonder. As the popularity of the disc grows, standardized disc sports evolve and are met with mixed reactions. Many people feel that standardization infringes upon the freedom and informality of our developing recreational pastime. Why try to create a packaged sport out of frisbee games? However, many others ask, "Why not bring the shared cooperation and trust of an informal activity into the challenge of a standardized disc sport?"This is the attitude carried into a competitive event by the bulk of disc athletes today. Our goal as disc enthusiasts is to share our desire for continued growth in our sports, yet furthering the atmosphere of competing WllH one another and not AGAINST one another. This is paramount to the nature of disc related sports. like all sports, the sheer athletic ability and devotion of some competitors is almost intimidating. Fortunately, there are enough disc sports to challenge all of us in a variety of ways. From the intense, focused concentration of a disc golf putt to the explosion of a distance attempt, the new found thrill is there if you wish. The grace, style, beauty and dynamics of a perfectly executed freestyle routine can le-ave spectators what they just saw. The accelerand drama of an Ultimate !\.!U and are pleasing to be of accuracy most casual

campus, Henry then put it in the classroom. He taught courses in l Jltimate (and other disc sports) during the 1981-82 academic year. By the end of 19tH , there were eight teams in the intramw-alleague he helped create. Today, Ultimate is still alive and well at the University of Oregon, largely because of his efforts. His sense of purpose, his pursuit of excellence and his devotion to the social ideas of our sport made him one of its natural spokesmen. In addition to his accomplishments at the Universi{l of Oregon, Henry was instmmental in the growth of Dark Star Ultimate. After just missing a bid do defeat the Dark Star and secure a berth at the Spring 1979 Western Regionals, a lot of the Low Flying Ducks put

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killed in a rnh restaurant in Krn june. Great is our and great is our SOITl Henry gave all to give to lot of people along because I them, I feel comt=,euea behalf. There is no single thing, change the fact that -a,... to wear out on this we live, though, sustain eac:n spirits for all of tinl When people share ter, tears, inspiration of <~: there IS nanten<:e. Our lives Henry's case, the tricXJ a flood. It that almost all. · 111 be telling the new if I say Henry was . taiJ[l(y he was one· of the ess can opposite ..~... field

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to the e-ctJton of his almost single.,;,, of Oregon in 1978.ln less than two · a school-sponsored team with a traveling and playing budget.The Low Flying Ducks (now the Mojo Flyers) became the largest and most productive branch of the Dark Star family tree - their appearance enhanced the level of Ultimate competition in Eugene significantly. After putting Ultimate on

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Dark Star jerseys for the trip south. Hen ry anchored line-up ever since. His stature as a player is almost ;oollp~lralble and his fleld presence was overwhelmHe was the kind of player who single-handedly make things happen, rising to the occasion and maJ Lu 5 the big plays again and again. His endurance h( to conditioning and running; whose of us who wem up to hitting the trail with him got a good idea of the back of his t-shirts looked like (before they p eare:a . His "participatory zeal" was contagious, taw~ what the forum - you could find yourself to stay up with Henry, beer and the Blues tjl then frnd yourself hard-pressed to keep up with ~ on a long point or hill later that day. He simply u.........'t give Jess than his all, and we are fortunate that chose Ultimate as his athletic outlet. Spealiing a little closer to home, for all of us in . ~ttgerte, we -f eel blesse44jpat Henry chose to give so _, and freely of hiplself in order to light the ftre of inspiration within each of us. Henry knew that we all have to be examples for each other in some way, we are sources of life for one another. He was relentless, always reminding one that we could give a little more, try a little harder and make oneself a stronger person in the process. Henry did - his life is a statement that cannot be denied. It's up to the rest of us now. Dare to press your limits, let the wheel cover a little more ground, and frnd a way to tap the Ultimate Spirit that Henry embodied . It's a good way to stay in touch with a loyal friend whc won't be playing with us anymore.

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Thanks to joe Millon and Becky Watkins Millon of the Dark Star Alltance for their gracious assistance.

by Richard Franck

Scanning the rec:sport.disc newsgroup for juicy gossip about Dobyns' date or Nesbitt's sister (Oogboy is alive!), I came across the subject: "Volunteers needed to teach Ultimate in Mexico." After twenty tournaments in the first half of this year, the thought of a few weeks in Mexico sounded very relaxing to this Ultimate gypsy. Fe rnando Najera, the WFDF representative for Mexico and the driving force behind this camp, was willing to be my host during the two weeks that I would spend Grant teaching UJtimate (He also set me up with friends as 1 traveled across Mexico ... whitewater rafting, rappelling, bungee jumping, scuba diving). Heading to Mexico City I didn't know what to expect. Would the kids enjoy playing Ultimate? Would the kids understand English? Would the Tequila have a worm in the bottle? Would I have access to my rec .sport. disc fix? The first shock was the temperature (lows in the 50s and highs in the 70s). The 7500 foot elevation made the weather more enjoyable than the sweltering eastern United States. The next shock was the number of children at the camp. Some days had 500 boys and girls at the camp with ages from six to fifteen. Luckily for me , Lori Nelson was teaching the first two weeks of the camp. In addition to being a great coach, Lori is also fluent in Spanish. She did a great job of introducing the children (and adult moderators) to our fine sport. The "How To Play Ultimate" video in Spanish was a godsend, since almost none of the children had ever seen the game before the start of the camp. The four week camp (sponsored by the Delegation of Benito Juarez) opened each day around 9 a.m. and the last of the kids would leave around 3 p.m. (most Mexicans are on Ultimate-time). The kids were placed in groups of 30-40 by age. Throughout the day, each group rotated to different areas of sports ... soc-

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cer, flag football , basketball and Ultimate. There was even an area reserved for water fights ... balloons, hoses, buckets , etc. The lawyers haven ' t reached Mexico and taken away the freedom to hurt oneself. Remarkably, the largest area in the camp was reserved for Ultimate. This area was a dusty, dirt soccer field without a single blade of grass (probably because it was the best field in that area of the city). I was told that the field had grass at one time, but grass doesn 't live long when there are 24 million people nearby who love to play soccer. .............._ The younger children played simple games, such as handing the disc to the child standing right next to the m . After each successful series of passes, I had the children get further apart to sharpen their throwing skiJls. They also invented games of their own. The day after a HUGE upset of Mexico over the Brazilian soccer team, the children celebrated the victory by having their own soccer shoot-out using a disc . The "Mexican" side just edged out the "Brazilian" side 10-9. Do you think this shoot-out was ftXed? The older kids were much more eager to play an organized game of Ultimate. They weren't the most talented teenagers to ever play the game, but they had a natural understanding of Spirit of the Game. They were much more interested in having a good time with their friends than competing to win. At first when a foul occurred, they looked for a referee to make the call. It was a pleasure to watch the transformation. At first a few, and then the rest of the children began the mental switch to self-officiating. Younger or o lder, the result was the same. The kids loved playing with the discs. The kids ofte n left other sport areas to come back and play more disc . (Amazingly, I finished the camp with all fifteen discs that I started with). On the last day of the camp the kids competed in a contest of throwing accuracy, throwing distance and catching . Thanks to the generosity of the UPA and Gaia, I had discs, T-shirts and even clears to g ive away as prizes to the children.

Definitely a Strip by the feathered serpent at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl (Teotihuacan) Rich Franck shown in the picture. The spark has been lit. Each Saturday since the camp, a group of kids have returned to the Delegation of Benito Juarez to play more Ultimate (there has been an adult team in Mexico City for several years). Next year Fernando is planning to add fuel to the fire. Fernando is looking for ten volunteers to participate in next year's expanded Clinic. If you think you have the "Right Stuff'' ... err, uhmm .. .if you love Ultimate and want to have a great time, then join me in Mexico next summer. Contact Fernando via email: foojera@comversens.com or IUchFranck@aol.com Richard Franck coaches high school Ultimate in Winston-Salem, NC. For more information about high school Ouniors) Ultimate, join the official email list by sending a blank email to: Ultimatesubscribe@egroups.com To order an unofficial paper copy of the roles in Spanish, contact UPA headquarters. We are working quickly to get them on-line. Gracias to fernando for the translation!

If you think you have the "Right Stuff"... err, uhmm... if you love Ultimate and want . to have a great time, then join me in Mexico next summer. Innovation Grant Recipient

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The UPA's Ultimate Innovation Grant program is again looking for creative ideas and programs to help promote the sport, offering funds of up to $500 per project. The UPA Board has allocated $1500 for this year's program, with additional funding being sought from sponsors. Last year's grant program supported eight outstanding projects with cash awards. Many grant recipients focused on increasing Ultimate's reach into new

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demographics, including projects targeted at kids, women and inner city populations, while other interesting proposals have added new twists on projects such as instructional videos, tournament formats, cleat recycling, disc production, community outreach and research projects. So what's your idea for improving or expanding Ultimate? This year's grant application deadline is April 1. Applicant winners will be announced

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in early May. Goals of the Ultimate Innovation Grants Program are to promote growth in Ultimate and Ultimate Spirit in North America, to create links between the UPA and local organizers, to serve members' needs and to create documentation that will inspire others to further innovation and excellence. For information on how to apply, as well as descriptions of previously funded projects, visit the UPA Web site at

rant www.upa.org/grants or contact Angelo Artemakis at (773) 227-5583. Provide your name and address to receive an application packet. The UPA accepts tax-deductible cash contributions in support of the grants program. Contributions may be sent to UPA-Grants, 3595 Fountain Blvd, Suite )2, Colorado Springs, CO 80910. For inkind donations to the UPA Innovation Grants program, please contact Angelo at the number above.

A Launcher for frisbees, flying saucers, discs, fliers and other objects Frisbees, flying saucers and discs are often thrown and caught by hand as captivating entertainment.Yet, the energy, impact, torque and momentum rendered by the hand to a disc does not, to the slightest degree, exhaust the aerodynamic and mechanical potential of a plastic disc.A simple launcher has to be conceived to make a disc fly longer distances, greater heights and display new aerodynamic properties and interesting trajectories. Several modifications of such a launcher are shown in Fig. 1-2.

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Fork Launcher: (Fig. 1a and 1b) The launcher consists of a two-prong alwninum or bamboo fork, each branch of which serves as a support from which a thin elongated bag hangs. The bag is made of a plastic (e.g. nylon) fabric with wide meshes or aluminum net.The bag functions as a frisbee holder. On the bottom of the bag lies a high-friction ribbon (for example, a rubberlike fabric called "grip" (trade name).) The ribbon is sewn or stapled to the bottom of the bag. With both hands, the player holds the handle of the fork in a position close to horizontal and makes a vigorous wave, similar to the movement of a baseball bat.The disc moves from its starting position near the handle, accelerates on the runway of ribbon, catapults out of the launcher and soars into the sky.The launcher thus functions as a" d.iscodrome:' Another variety of a fork launcher consists of two sticks and a wooden handle (fig. 1b

Launcher as a single rod supporting sleeve: The launcher (Ftg. 2a) consists of a bamboo or metal rod, a thicker pan of which is used as a handle, and a longer tapering pan is attached to a sleeve. The bottom is covered with a high-friction ribbon tape or a thin lightweight aluminum strip. A "grip" ribbon was used in most cases.The proximal end of the sleeve is sewn and closed; the distal end is open.The flying disc is introduced into the sleeve from the open end. A second version of a one-rod launcher consists of two guides cut of thin aluminum sheet and wide-net fabric connecting hem (Fig. 2a).The upper guide is firmly and rigidly attached to the bamboo or metal rod.The lower guide, also made of a thin aluminum sheet, carries about 20 to 30 small holes on its bottom.The holes have their sharp edges protruding into the lumen of the guide to increase the friction between the disc and the runway surface. A similar, or even better result, can be achieved with the "grip" material covering the bottom of the guide. There is no connection between both guides when the launcher is empty. After the frisbee is inserted into

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the launcher, the disc connects both guides. Both guides can also be connected by two thin aluminum planks (Fig. 2b).This rigid connection (versus flacdd connection through the fabric) keeps the launcher and the disc in horizontal plane, as shown in Fig. 2b. This alleviates targeting the disc and reduces the acceleration friction. The length of the launcher is between three and .five feet. The longer the nmway, (i.e. the longer the launcher) the greater the initial velocity of the disc and, thus, the length of its flight. However, a launcher exceeding seven ,. feet becomes inconvenient in operation.The longest dis2 tance achieved so far with commercial frisbees and smaller discs is about 300 feet. No doubt it will grow longer as the design and the skUJs of the player get better.The weight of the launcher is about one pound. Due to the high-friction runway, the disc acquires considerable speed of rotation. The high line-ar (translational) velocity is just a result of high angular velocity under the conditions of high friction, in complete analogy with the wheels of a car路or a bicycle. Furthermore, like in a bicycle, the high speed of rotation contributes to the gyroscopic stability of a flying disc. The rotation tends to return the disc to the point of its launch (i.e. creates the boomerang effect), which may be an undesirable coru;equence of imperfect launching. It may also be a benefit, if one wants to have a disc boomerang. (Often, hovering the disc at a considerable height is a very impressive feature.) Appropriate technique allows for a straight, long flight trajectory. There is the same dualism with the frisbee launcher, as with the frisbee itself. If used bv children, the frisbee ' is a toy; if used by adults it is a sports tool. The same is true for a frisbee launcher. In the process of development, I aimed at achieving the highest possible flight distances and aerodynamic parameters, which automatically turned the launcher into a piece of sports equipment. However, it is easy to make a smaller, one or two piece, inexpensive launcher out of plastic for absolute safety. It could then be used with smaller frisbees. The launcher accords to frisbee not only a longer trajectory, but also a different one with controllable hovering and, if desired, with a boomerang-like return. I have five or six different launcher models. The disc can either be directed to a target or be caught, if one wants to accomplish a game. In the present version the channel of the launcher is too narrow to ~asily catch an oncoming disc, but the design can readily be modifies to instantly, by means of a special lever, open the channel tO catcl1 the disc and close the channel for launching.

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Recent Magazine Articles:

does ride a bike," Seattle Times, Monday Nov. 29, 1999. Author &

"Disc Drive," by Ann Marsh. Forbes, December 13, 1999. "Tf you

Ultimate Player John Ryan received a fullpage article for writing, Seven Wonders a book about seven common objects people can · Sightings - Flying use to improve the environment. Reporter Scott McCredie says, ·'when (John] gets home at night he usually doesn 't feel like reading. So he doesn't huy many books or often use the public library (wonder No. 6; recirculating books lo wers the need for paper and, h en ce, logging). Instead he enjoys

want to connect with the digital crowd over sports, put away those videos on how to improve your golf swing. Work on perfecting your ''huck" and your "scoober. '' Impress a venture capitalist with your Spirit of the Game.

'·Disc Jockeys," by Sarah Bowen Shea . Sports Illustratedfor Women, Fall 1999. Featuring Nicole Crncich, Chris Browning, Sa ra Gerste n -Rothenberg, Pam Kraus and Susan Redding.

Recent Newspaper Articles: "Yes, the author of 'Wonders'

p laying Ullimate Frisbee, an aerobic ream sport w here peo ple pass Frisbees to each other." .... ....•.,

'"After Breaking the Mold in

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Business, the EWealthy Dolt Again in Giving," New York Times,

Feb. 10, 2000. Our own Niko Lovejoy & Barbara Gordon made it to the front page of the NYT for being in the right place at the right time - amazon.com, even if it did get hi.m off the fields for a while. "I'm not a person who necessarily tends to bal-

an ce to begin with, and I w as just giving u p o n everything else," he said. "I mean, all the other things in m y life -keeping track of family, keeping in shap e. Even playin g Ultimate Frisbee, which is a big love of ours and how we met," he said, looking at Ms. Gordon and breaking into a laugh. "I mean, all those things just didn't matter." Thanks for the mention and glad you're back!

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Ultimate po\Ner lunch High-tech recruiting w as tied to recreation by USA Today in an article by Stephanie Armour called, "Recntiters w ork hard to showcase the fun side of jobs" (Dec . 29, 1997, p. 5B).The featured photo w as of Cognex employees playing llltimate with their Boston office building in the background. Below is a letter from an Ultimate player to the Seattle Oty Council describing h ow recreation oppor~ tunities benefit the high-tech industry and the economy. Dear Council Members,

Although I was not able to attend the public meeting regarding your proposed budget, 1 would like to expand on one of the issues brought up during that meeting

- the need for quality, accessible athletic fields. \Ve need more fields! 1 have w orked for 5 years at Tera Computer Company, a high-tech company of over 100 people here in Seattle. My coworkers and I have been playing Utimate Frisbee once a wee~ during lunch time, typically at Montlake Playground.We really enjoy getting outside and running around like kids again! I also think that we have become a more satisfied and closer knit group because of it. It makes us healthier, too. We enjoyed playing so much that we decided to sign up for the Ultimate League this fall; while it was a lot of fun, we had a bit of tro uble with fields, since half of the fields that our league had

reserved at Sandpoint were taken away from us and given to children's soccer, a week before our league started. While I think that it is very important that kids get space for sports, we were left setting up some of o ur field at the marshy fringes of Magnuson Park, wherever we could find space to play. As Ultimate players, we don 't n eed much! We don't need baseball diamonds or soccer goals; we don't even need lined fields. But we do need somewhere to go , and it sure does help if it's not in a marsh. As a member of the high-tech industry, I sit in front of a computer most of the day, but I could do that in any city; I came to Seattle to work precisely because of the outdoors and all of the outdoor recreational opportunities. These opportuni-

ties are w hat keep me most satisfied; this is how I stay healthy; this is how I make my friends and contacts, and this is h ow I form closer bonds with my coworkers. Seattle has a burgeoning high-tech industry, and there are a Jot of others like me who w ould like to see both new an d improved multi-use athle tic fields in and around the Seattle area. It's good for us, it's good for the kids and it's good for you . Please make it a priority to provide funds for multi-use athletic fields. Thanks!

Miles Ohlrich (speaktngfor myself and 18 others who played with the Tera Computer Company Ultimate team.)

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in ant I never thought T'd get involved in gras~roots activism when I signed up for summer league. But Philadelphia. has its share of field space problems and well-kept fields are precious. With 20,000 empty lots in the city and the largest municipal park system in the country, our problem is not fmding enough fields - its finding usable ones. The Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance (PADA) luckily uses and maintains a field (Edgely) large enough for 6 games in the city park. We hold spring, summer and fall league games at Edgely along with club practices, tournaments and pick-up. PADA maintains the fields each year through seeding, liming, weed and brush clearing, etc. PADA shares Edgely with a cricket dub, lacrosse team, touch football team and others. When Edgely was threatened by an aggressive polo club, PADA's Board of Directors (spear-headed by then President Sam Spofforth and carried on by now-President Paul Bonfanti) took action. The polo club had begun using Edgely carelessly, causing intense field damage and leaving a lot of suspicious piles behind. Clearly this is not a healthy environment for laying out, among many other things. Then PADA Board member, Bill Burnett, summed up our consistent message," Polo + Cricket

+ Ultimate = Disaster." The letter to the City Council President below explains the situation. To stop the polo dub's push to completely take over Edgely and destroy the fields, PADA initiated an advocacy campaign. Over 70 members wrote letters to the mayor; board members wrote the park commissioner and park advocacy groups; and paid visits to City Council members to engender support. Our members' passion for the;e fields articulated to decisionmakers was the most compelling and effective part of our effort. As part of a hotly contested mayoral race, almost 100 frisbee-toting PADA members show~d 1Support for the park at mayoral forums. Based on PADA's letters, their documentation of field damage, a well-articulated argument against polo's use of the fields and the Park Commissioner's own reasoning, that he dedded to severely limir the polo dub's use of Edgely. He cited this evidence when he announced his decision at a meeting with all stakeholder~ at the table (cricket, polo,

roun Ultimate). All of PADA's efforts had paid off big. Some of the key strategies we followed were: Stick to the facts. It was very important to present the facts of the situation based on each group's responsibility and avoid any personal attacks of the polo club. For example, the polo club had agreed ro repair their damage and clean up after their hor~. They didn't, and we used that fact to support our case. Oocumenr the problem. Since the club did not follow through on their promise, we documented this damage through photos of the fields after polo matches, along with monitoring reports of the abuses provided in letters to the park commission. Recognize your allies. In our situation, the Park Commissioner is an environmentalist who believes horses and human field sports do not belong together. We were as supportive of the Commissioner as possible by keeping him informed of our work and addressing our issues to him. Focus on your strengths. With over

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800 members, we are a much larger constituency than most groups. We emphasized our numbers and our history maintaining the fields. Members gave personal accounts of the fields' import. These were significant points r.o the decision-makers. Think broadly about who the stakeholders are. Since we are one of many groups interested in keeping these fields free from horse-based sports, we contacted other groups with the same interest like park advocacy groups, neighborhood o rganizations, etc. Keep members involved through education, continual information and appreciation. An informed core group can take quick and effective action when the need arises. Re proactive about preserving field space. Even though the Park Commissioner's decision was a major windfall for us. we do not expect we have seen the last of the polo club or other threats to the field space we use and maintain. The current board continues to maintain good relationships with hoth park and city officials, keeping them informed of our care and feeding of Edgely field. Philadelphia Area Disc A lliance laura@pada. org

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ention Dear PADA Member, If you live in the City of Philadelphia, PADA needs your help now. If you read your newsletter, you know that PADA is waging a battle against the Philadelphia Polo Club over access to Edgely Field for Summer League this year. Recently, this battle has escalated. The Polo Club .is trying to get a permit for over 50 weekday evenings between May and October. During these days, PADA would be completely blocked from using Edgely Field for Summer League. Polo also wants 12 weekend dates for tournaments. It goes without saying that, if agreed to by the Park, this would severely impact our Summer League. Park staff is mostly sympathetic to us, but the Polo Club has engaged Mayor Rendell and is attempting to use a few wealthy members to pressure him. For this reason, we need as many Philadelphia members as possible to . write a letter to the Mayor. If the Mayor and Park Director William Mifflin receive many letters - at least 100 individually written and addressed - this will make a strong impact. Our numbers do count! But you must write now. Decisions about this issue will be made soon, as summer is approaching fast. IF YOU HAVE VERY LIMITED TIME, PLEASE WRJTE"A SHORT LEITER. The PADA Board has spent a lot of effort pursuing a strategy of dialogue with Park staff and lobbying the Mayor and some members of City Council. But we've reached the point where your letters are urgently needed. The voices of PADA's members (please ONLY members who reside in the City) must be heard now. Sum mer League as we know it is as stake so please take time to write. If you live in the suburbs, the best way for you to help is tO call members from the city to make sure they write. â&#x20AC;˘

Specifically: 1) Write a letter to the Mayor.

2) Copy or "cc'' the letter to William Mifflin, Executive Director of Fairmount Park Commission 3) Email me at sambetsy@juno.com to confirm you wrote the letter so we can keep count. If you like, I will add your name to a mail list and keep you updated as the situation continues to develop. (If you tell someone without email to write, ask them to caU 735-9845 and leave me a message.) 4) Mail me a copy of your letter if you get a chance. My address is 1905 Waverly Street, Phila, PA 19146.

To make it easier I have included: Addresses of the Mayor and Mifflin,

guidance to help you write the letter, extra facts and background, plus an update on the current status. For more information you also may refer to the newsletter article. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this. Your letter, along with those from other members, will make a big difference! Together, I believe we will prevail. Yours Truly, Sam Spofforth PADA President

Addresses: Honorable Edward G. Rendell, Mayor Room 215, City Hall Philadelphia, PA 19107 William Mifflin, Executive Director Fairmount Park Commission Memorial Hall, West Park P.O. Box 2 1601 Philadelphia, PA 19131

Suggested Points for Your Letter: Your salutation should be "Dear

sport, because T don't think Rendell really knows what Ultimate is. Of course, he's not alone. 4. If you've ever volunteered for PADA, especially at a work day or youth clinic, include that. 5. Be sure to provide your address (city only) and politely ask for a response to your letter. Additional Facts (feel free to incorporate in your letter): PADA has over 700 total members and 36 teams. Even the loss of one day during the Summer means that about 120 Ultimate players are cheated out of a chance to play a competitive league gam e just so a small number of polo players can have a pr-actice. The Park has permitted PADA for Summer League at Edgely every weekday during the summer for 15 years. PADA is composed entirely of volunteers. We run our leagues, youth programs and more without any staff support or money from the Park or Recreation Department.

Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance Mayor Rendell:". If your time is very limited, just write a very short letter. The basic information in point one is ftne. Please keep your letter positive. 1. Begin by saying that you are a member of the Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance (PADA). Say that you are writing to encourage the Mayor to support PADA's permit request for 1998, especially the request for all weekdays from late May though mid-August at Edgely Field. Add that you oppose the Park granting a permit for any polo matches because the horses may damage the ftelds. In addition. divots and torn turf could lead to physical injury. Ask the Mayor to m eet with P...WA representatives. 2.\X'rite a bit about what Summer League, Edgely Field, PADA, playing Ultimate and so forth means to you. 3. You might talk about how many years you've been playing in Summer League. (One year is as impressive as 15-a variety in the letters will impress the most.) You also might m ention things you like about the

PADA has spent thousands of volunteer h ours and dollars caring for Edgely Field. Through our liming and seeding, brush cutting, trash collection and other efforts, we have kept the ftelds in decent shape. If we were to stop these efforts, the fields would go downhill. PADA has raised over $6.000 to begin restoration work at the Edgely Clubhouse. Polo play would damage the fields, by compacting the turf and possibly tearing it and creating divots. Last year, the Polo Club failed to clean up horse manure after matches. PADA members (including our current pres!) have had to scoop up horse manure left by the Polo Club. A Bit About What's Been Happening and Current Status: As written in the newsletter, several PADA members, Prior Cricket Club and Polo Club representatives attended a series of meetings at Fairmount Park offices during the winter. These meetings resulted in the Park staff issuing a

''compromise" permit providJng eight Wednesdays during Summer League for Polo plus several weekend dates. We felt we had no choice in the matter. About 2 weeks ago we were informed that members of the Polo Club met with Mayor Rendell. Park staff who attended the meeting told us that this was highly unusual for permit issues. PADA immediately drafted and faxed a letter and fact sheet to the Mayor and two Council members. During the past 10 days we have lobbied Park staff, the Mayor's staff and have enlisted support from Council members. Park staff have told us that this is the biggest p e rmit controversy that they can ever recall. Literally all divisions of the Park are involved. Last Thursday, Mayor Rendell met with Bill Mifflin, Park Executive Director. Park staff reported to us that the Mayor "told Mifflin to find somewhere else for Polo to practice during the week." Over the last week, Park staff have been trying to do this. However, the Polo Club has refused to consider locations other than Edgely, even though, as we've been informed , the Park is willing to spend several thousand dollars to ftx up new grounds rather than put them at Edgely during the week. (They still propose siting them at Edgely for tournaments.) Now we have heard that wealthy Polo C lub members may b e entering the picture. We are not sure whether the Mayor has delegated this decision to Park Director Mifflin , or whether the Mayor is still engaged. The original meeting with the Mayor and presence of other, supposedly well connected Polo members , clouds this picture. Compared w ith other Park users, PADA has a giant membership. TI1e Park understands our history at Edgely and our efforts t.o care for it. Bill Mifflin reportedly said we were a "sleeping giant." We're told that the Mayor respects this as well. This is our greatest strength, and it's why we believe now is the time for letters from members. Our immediate goal is to get our own meeting with the Mayor. Our short-term goal is to prevent the Polo Club from obtaining permits for any weekdays at all during the summer at Edgely. We would prefer to keep Polo from playing at Edgely entirely (weekend tournaments included) because of almost certain damage to the facility. PLEASE DON"T BE DISCOURAGED ABOUT POLO'S SUPPOSED POLITICAL CONTACTS. OUR SIZE, STRENGTH, AND HISTORY AT EDGELY COUNT MORE. YOUR LE1TERS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

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Ultimate Film Festival 2000 Submit your video clip, Ultimate highlights, teaching video, movie, documentary or any other multimedia piece to for inclusion in the Second Ultimate Film Festival. The deadline for submitting material to th e UPA for the 2DOO Film Festival is May 1. The date(s) and location(s) will be announced in April. The purpose of the Film Festival is to bring the best Ultimate documentation together - so players can see what exists and so amateur producers can enjoy a few moments of fame for their efforts. How many of you hav路e long-unwatched videos, movies or school projects sitting in your basement? Send a copy to the UPA for inclusion in this year's Ultimate Film Festival! Below is the 1999 Ultimate Film Festival invitation and the program, to show what it's all about. Many thanks to the Northwest Ultimate Association (DiscNW) fo r making thi.s fledgling project a success in 1999!

1999 UltiMate Flllft Festival Invitation to Non-Piawers Have you heard about the Sport of Ultimate and wondered, "What the heck is that?" Have you learned just a little about this flying disc game and thought, "But, but ... can a competitive team sport reallv' work . without referees?" The Northwest Ultimate association invites you to find out - at our first and very informal ULTIMATE FILM FESTIVAL. We threw this together on short notice, to coincide with Spring League Playoffs and heartily Lhank the Seattle Parks Department for the_ir flexibility and willingness to accommodate this experiment. We hope many of our friends from Friends of Athletic Fields will attend.

Tile Firat Ultimate filM Festival - PrograM 1999 A Saturday in June All day the park is available for 路 team BRQs, swimming, etc. 4:00 - 8 :00 pm Fields available for pickup. 8:00 - 8:30 p m Find "seating" in the

hanga r - picnic style! Intro performance by Shazam, the Hula Hoop King 8: 30pm Screenings begin. Eat popcorn. 1. What is Ultimate, a Hammer Throw Video by Timothy Kremer (Kansas City) - The introduction for Tim's Ultimate Fundamentals and Coaching Guide for the sport of Ultimate. (1994, 3 min.) 2. Play Ultimate, Women, a Rad j ake Production by Pamela Jacohsen and Dave Radomski (Seattle) - Originally intended as a commercial for public access TV to draw more women to the sport of Ultimate, this video highlights Seattle FARM players. Produced while Pam and Dave studied videography at Seattle Central Community College. Music by L7 and Beck. 0996, 2 min.) 3. Various Clips, including Howard Cosell. 4. H ow to Play Ultimate by Craig Davidiuk of Tidepool Media (Vancouver) - An overview of the sport and spirit of Ultimate, produced for new League teams. Winner of a 1998 UPA Ultimate Innovation Grant. 0999, 10. min.) 5. 1997 World Ultimate Club Cha mpions hip by Danyl Hardman (Vancouver) Pro.motional video prior to Worlds in Vancouver. (1996, 3 min.) 6. Summer's En d by the Vancouver Ultimate League - End of the year league celebration set to music. 0998, 10 min.) 7. Potla tc h 1997 by Angela Castaneda (Seattle) - This video collage was the centerpiece of OiscNW's application to the King . County Event Producer Awards CKEPA). The result: 1997 finalist in the events under $25,000 category and the 1998 President's Award for the largest Co-ed Ultimate tournament in the world. "Potlatch" is a native NW word, meaning "feast'' and "giving路'. 0997, 4 min.)

8. Quest to b e Best - A student film hosted by George Plimpton, featuring UPA Nationals highlights. (1980s) 9. The Game with Dogs? by Steve Moonee of Death or Glory, a.k.a. DOG (Boston) - Features highlights from the 1995 U.S. National Championship between Seattle Sockeye and DOG. 0996, 3 min.) 10. Ultimate by Northrop Davis (Los Ang~les) - Produced by screenwriter Northrup Da~is when he studied film at Duke University, this movie features a jazz band creating a song. The aria] angles of Ultimate were actually shot by Northrup, hanging from an airplane! (10 min.) 11. Floating Free -A short documentary of the 1977 World Frisbee Championships held in the Rose Bowl before 50,000 fans. Nominated for an Academy Award (documentaries). (15 min.)

MAINF.ATURE "Every Sociology class should see this film! " -Bernie DeKoven, Co-founder of the New Games movement and former Mattei executive

"This is the best thing I've seen on video for Ultimate ... hands down." -Peter McCarthy, Midwest Disc Sports Archive Spirit of the Game by William Herndon (Los Angeles) - Willie quit his joh as a teacher to make this movie, which features the first Ultimate interview with mega-producer Joel Silver, Columbia High School (NJ) graduate and co-founder of Ultimate. Willie followed world and national champions Lady Godiva (Boston) for rwo seasons, capturing amazing play and the essence of that balance between c<X)peration and competition we call "Spirit of the Game". 0998, 46 min.) 10:30pm: A post-movie discussion with the director, facilitated by Tom George. l l :OOpm: If you packed it in, pack it out. Drive safely!

DETAILS FOR PRODUCERS -.

- If you have a 2-15 minute edited video or film about any aspect of Flying Disc Sports to submit for thlli year's Ultimate Film Festival, please send it ASAP to: Ultimate Film Festival, 3595 E Fountain Blvd, Suite J2, Colorado Springs, CO 80910. We will do our best to add your creation to the program. We can't guarantee that every piece will be included. Submitted pieces will be remrned if you include return postage and address. - High quality VHS, 16mm and Beta formats accepted - If you have a different format, we will attempt to find the required equipment. - Please let us know if you would like to sell copies of your video or film through the UPA.

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DIV. San Francis.c o- Fury Santa Barbara- Condors Cathy Erickson - Captain Rachel Noble Captain Dominque Fontenette Margaret Thomas jennifer Donnelly Danielle Zacher! Andrea Johnson Jill Van Wie Maya Conrad Jamie Peters Amy Jean Little Carrie Berlogar Stacey Scheomehl Deganit Shechter. Port1and - Dawts Atlanta - Sol Tray C Satterfield - Captain Mary O'Neill- Captain Deana McMurrer Angela Lin Dara Bailey lisa Kotora Sarah Welsh Eileen Murray linda Scheffler jennifer Christianson Jody Dozono Susan Lansdell Sharleen Kamin Michelle Chabot. Pool 2: ~_g_n Diego - Arch Rivals Seattle - Riot Shar Stuht - Captain Rene' Alexander - Captain Wende Pinz Pam Kraus Amy Duggan Vida Towne Jennifer Scott Mary Jorgenson Beth Thomas Michelle Burley Laura lngebritsen Kathy Porter Kara Ferguson Deb Cussen. Beaston- Rumble Strips GainesviUeSpinsters Shana Cook - Captain Kellie Diehl Captain Christine Dunlap Deanna King Vicky Chow Susan Bridges Ellen Taggart Clea Lauriault Christine Parisi Marta Puyana Jackie Bourgeois Tanya Lopez Molly Goodwin Mellissa Warren San Diego - Ground Ze~o Boston - 21St Cenb.uy DoG Mike Boisvert - Captain Nathan Wicks Captain Steve Ferguson Tom Matthews Jim lngebritsen Lyn Debevoise Mike Blackard Fortunat Mueller Greg Pinz Douglas Moore Cliff Smith Brian Cameros john Cione Justin Safdie: Atlanta - Bounty Chicago - 2nd City z Greg Allpow - Captain Michael Glass - Captain Brian Cornelison Rich Hollingsworth Nathan Wright Eric Zaslow Robbye Brooks Steve Whitehead Adam Smeltzer John Conway Ricky McClellen Joe Cesario John Hammond lrv Gilner. Pool 2; Wellestey - founders Miami - Team Aorida Paul Sackley - Captain Kevin Bogusky Scott Hollinger Steve Fowler Gary Lippman Butch Brown Stu Downs Kristien Shallan jordan Haskell Milan Hooper Jeremy Seeger Steven Johnson Jim Parinella Dan DePaul. Seattle - FtatbaU Madison - G-Men Jonathan Gewirtz - Captain Simon MacNair - Captain Greg Shiring Todd Eisenberg Chris Page David Markwardt Barney Ahouse Brendan Sylvander Rick Meiner Charlie Reznikoff Darryl Nounnan Will Henry Chris Hayden Jeff Hirsch. Pool 3: Santa Barbara- Condors Brooklyn- l(jngs Jay Higgins - captain Marty Brutvan - Captain Andy Crews Dave Babkow Greg Husak Joe McHugh james Studarus Eric Olson Rick Martz Arnold Sanchez jason Seidler Walter VanderSchraaf Mario Viani Orion Lillyreed. Vancouver - Evil Genius Denver - Double Diamonds Kirk Savage - Captain Tim Wachuta - Captain Jeff Cruickshank Randy Ricks Andrew Lugsdin Bob Pease Evan Wood Buzz Ellsworth Mike Grant Jim Glynn Khai Foo Curtis Manning Mark Seraglia David Remucat. Pool 4= San Francisco Bigack Minneapolis - Sub-zero Scott Lipscomb - captain Eric Lonsdorf - captain Brian Morris Josh Quaas ldris Nolan Alex Nord Seth Blacher Jon Remucal Edward Coyne Eric Carr Jeff Williams Sam O'Brien Dennis Warsen Mike Lawye. Houston - Hammers Sydney - Australian Rebellion Scott Buchanan - Captain Will Mitchell - Captain John Gryzwinski lain Ferguson Sean McCall Angus Keenan Jason Calvi Duncan Keenan Steve Quach Colin Wagstaff Sandy Ganzel! Piers Truter Damian Scott Steve Antonopolis. OFFICIALS: Donny Wallace Jim Herrick Tom Kennedy Steve Mooney Archie Neilson AI Peterson Dee Carey Dave Danks Dean Civille Trey Paulison Mark Lafoon David Becker Brett Evans Peter Schmalenberger David Ray Bob Pallares plus 8 from Florida area

The people who sat. down to see the new sport of Goaltimate were treated to a batch of classic games on Sunday. In the Men's semi-fmals, Santa Barbara was smooth as silk and tromped a solid DoG team 3 ly challenged all weekend and an games to 0. The young Bostonians upset seemed likely. were consummate sportsmen However, Ground Zero quickly took throughout the tourney and if this is control of the series, winning the what the future of Goaltimate looks first two games and breaking out to like, the sport will definitely be in a 4 - 1 lead in the third game. The good hand~. In the other Men's crowd was partial to the Condors, action, San Diego overcame another rebelliously hooting at all calls that young side of athletes from went against SB. At this point, on a Vancouver. Evil Genius worked a Condor possession in from of the give and go post-up game to great goal, an errant throw was hit in advantage over the shorter Ground Zero team, and looked to be on their rapid succession by Mike Blackard of way to a possible upset before a flur- GZ, bounced off Dugan, swatted partially by GZ's Jim Ingebritsen and ry of quick give and go strikes handthen was gathered into the goal by ed the victory to GZ, 3 games to I. The Women's fmals looked like last year's Men 's final, with tournament favorite San Diego hoping to emuLate the San Diego victory of last vear. The Arch Rivals • came out strong, winning the first game, but like their Saturday match, Boston responded with a win of their own in the second game. Game three found •..•.. . ....... Boston marking hard and running harder, taking advantage of their speed and utilizing a clever set screen play at the goalposts to win the crucial third game, 5 - 4. San Diego put up a game fight in the fourth, but the Boston Rumble Strips prevailed to become the first Women's Goaltimate Champs! The Men's tlnals were the most hotly contested and exciting series of the tourTop, men•s Goaltimate. Bottom, San ney. Throughout the weekFrancisco Fury's Stacey Scheomehllooks end, San Diego looked beatable, losing several games in past Atlanta•s Eileen Murray for a goal pool play while displaying opportunity. some fraying of team cohesion in the process. like any big family of brothers might, GZ fights itself as much as its opponents, as they try to cajole and nudge e ach other to a higher level of play. Santa Barbara, by contrast, seems to be a tightly knit group, led by their·universally respected team captain, Steve Dugan. The Condors were not real'

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SB's james Stadarous. GZ argued the call, and as they did, they lost focus and within seconds allowed the Condors to tie the game with a twopoint goal. The Condors, after failing to convert, fought off a GZ match point attempt and scored to narrow the series 2 games to I . Ground Zero looked tired and the Condors were re-invigorated with their close escape. The fourth game was not nearly as close, as the Condors rode MO to a fourth-game win tying the series and leaving GZ looking lost. After the break, the Condors scored first and GZ was walking on defense for the first time in the match. In the course of 30 seconds, San Diego scored four of the most amazing and improbable goals, to turn what looked like certain defeat, into their second Championship. Mike Blackard, standing way behind the two-point line (30 plus yards from the goal), started the rally with a beautiful hammer shot that barely beat Stadaroust, who then tipped the shot into the hands of GZ's Steve Ferguson. The Condors had been pushing out more and more, challenging every Ground Zero throw and thus leaving the goal open to longer shots.The two-pointer seemed to momentarily stun the Condors and in two quick throws, Blackard again had the disc behind the two-point clear line, even farther away than the previous throw. Ferguson moved briefly away from the goal and then turned back as Blackard launched another rainbow. Stadaroust was in position to defend this time, but unfortunately tripped as he was backpedaling, a victim of leg cramps that left him screaming at the goalmouth. The damage was done. Ground Zero had gone from one goal down to three goals up in the course of four throws, and soon Ingebritsen delivered the coup de grace scoring an easy goal, ending Santa Barbara's brHliant rally.

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UPA Rules Booklet The official rules of Ultimate in a small pocket-sized handbook. Perfect to keep handy in your field bag RUlES-P, $3 • UPA MEMBERS, $2.50

Ultimate Guide to injuty prevention & fitness Written by sorts injury specialists & geared for Ultimate. this book offers great tips & exel'cises fur injury prevention & fitness improvement INJRPV-P, $6 • UPA MEMBERS. $5.00

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VOLUME 20 • NUMBER 1 • Spring 2000

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