Utah High School Ultimate Frisbee State Tournament

Hosted by UltimateSLC

Saturday, May 31, 2008
10:00 am
Location: TBA

All Utah high schools are encouraged to send a team to compete for the Ultimate Frisbee State Title! The championship team and runner-up will receive a trophy to display at their schools. Future championships will earn a bid to the Ultimate Players Association High School Western Regionals (http://hs-westerns2008.upa.org ).

Current schools attending the tournament:
Alta
Brighton
Jordan
Rowland-Hall

Principals, teachers and coaches: Please pass this along to your students and athletes!

For more information and location information, please visit www.ultimateSLC.org and click on “Utah Youth Ultimate”.
OR
Contact Tara Wion at twion.ames@gmail.com or 801.809.4006

HIGH SCHOOL ULTIMATE HAS THE MURRAY ATHLETIC FIELDS FROM 4-6:00 EVERY TUESDAY

...STARTING THIS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 THROUGH APRIL 8!!! FREE OF CHARGE!!!

REPS: GET YOUR TEAM TOGETHER AND HEAD TO MURRAY FIELDS THIS TUESDAY AT 4:00. BRING DISCS, LIGHTS AND DARKS, AND CLEATS! RAIN OR SHINE (UNLESS LIGHTNING).

Starting a new team
So you love Ultimate, but are scratching your head and wondering “why isn’t there a team at my high school?” Ultimate is cheap, fun to play, and growing fast at the high school level and, starting a team at your high school is incredibly rewarding. You will be introducing a brand new sport at your school. You’ll get to play on a team and know you’re the reason a new Ultimate team exists. And as long as recruiting efforts are made, the team will survive.

Youth Outreach Material
Plug information about your own organization into these documents and you are all set to print up great promotional Juniors material! Also includes a free UPA download for Middle/High School P.E. Curriculum! Print and hand out to your P.E. teachers!

Skills & Drills
There are many drills that have been created to improve your Ultimate skills. It is not important to know a lot of drills. What is important it to have a few drills that your team all knows and executes well. Drills should get everybody touching the disc as well as have everybody doing all aspects of the drill. Work on developing everybody as a complete player: defender, receiver, and thrower.

Instructional VideoPapers
These VideoPapers are designed to help coaches and players exchange ideas about various common skils and situations that teams and individuals encounter every time they compete. Use these as a "text" around which to have a conversation with your players, a video resource to review strategies, a point of departure for your own video analysis, or all three. The VideoPapers are divided thematically into 6 categories.

Present:
Tara Wion, coordinator/coach
Ed Tyner, U of U coach
Chris Watkins, U of U coach/Waterford coach
Josh Hanes, player/Alta rep
Jenette Briggs, club sponsor/Alta teacher
Seokhee, player/Brighton rep
Pace Ford, player/Olympus rep
James Judd, player/Skyline rep

1. Discussed UPA membership ($20 for high schoolers)
a. If you are a senior and continuing straight to college to potentially play ultimate, OK to become a UPA member (once you graduate, membership carries over to college and you have 5 years of eligibility)
b. If you are a high school senior and are not planning to go straight into college or are going on a mission, you should NOT become a UPA member (if you are a member at the time of graduation, it carries into college eligibility and you only get 5 continuous years once eligibility begins)

2. Pushing for APRIL 19, 2008 to be the date for the UTAH HIGH SCHOOL ULTIMATE FRISBEE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 2008. Minimum cost would be $5 per player. We would use UPA Rostering system.
a. Winning team will not be able to attend Western Regionals this year, but will be given a bid to Daweena 2008 (May 3-4 in Ogden).

3. We decided on TUESDAYS from 4-6PM for high school scrimmage/pick up day. I am currently trying to reserve Murray Athletic Fields, but am being given the run-around a bit. Stay tuned for location info...

4. Beyond Tuesdays, schools can organize pickup or scrimmages with each other--POST ON THE FORUM WHEN DATES HAVE BEEN ARRANGED!!!

5. Zion Curtain (U of U team) has offered to host a high school ultimate clinic within the next month. The clinic will be on U of U campus. Stay tuned for dates and times...

6. Organization of the state championship will be done by the Utah club players. It is the charge of those students playing the sport, to recruit new players and schools for the tournament. Please pass along contact info and/or get players/schools to post on the forum!

Meeting end time: 5:00PM