Ultimate Frisbee in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Nearby Regions

The Salt Lake County Ultimate Frisbee League is coming up. This is an excellent league for all skill levels, including first timers. Here are the Details:

Warm-Up Game
A warm-up game and orientation will be held at 6:00PM on June 5, 2008. This event is highly recommended for first-time league players. This will be held at the same location as the official league games (see below). Bring a white and dark colored shirt to the warm-up game.

Game Times and Location
All games will be held on Thursday nights at 6:00PM, beginning on June 19, 2008. Teams play 2 games each night.
Games are held at the County Ice Field at 5201 South Murray Park Lane (160 East).

Registration
You can register for league at the orientation night, or online at http://www.slcorecsports.com
Registration is due by June 5, 2008. Registrations after June 5 will be accepted only if space is available.

Contacts
For further information, please contact dabegglen@slco.org or q.atwood@us.army.mil. You can also call (801) 270-7260.

Fee
$25 per person if paid by March 20, 2008. $30 after the 20th. This fee includes a team T-shirt.

The 2008 High School Ultimate championship tournament is coming up! Here's the info.

May 31, 2008
10:00 am start time
Murray Athletic Fields (5300 S, East of County Ice Rink)

Participating Teams: Alta, Brighton, Hillcrest, Jordan, Park City, Rowland Hall
Possible Additional Teams: Cottonwood, Skyline, Highland, Olympus

Top 2 teams will be awarded trophies to take back to their schools for display and bragging rights!

Format: Open (7 on 7), Games to 13 with a 1.5 hour time cap, Round Robin with Finals and consolation round starting at 4:30.

Cost per player is $5 and all players need to turn in signed waivers on the day of the tourney. Please bring a list of your team's roster names (including age, year in school, and contact info for your school's rep next year) to the fields. All teams will need to have light and dark shirts for playing and all players are required to at least wear tennis/running shoes, cleats are recommended. No player will be allowed to play in the state tournament in sandals or barefoot. Food will be provided at the fields as well as extra water (no cups provided--so bring reusable containers!).

The Ski Town Classic is an Ultimate Frisbee tournament hosted near Park City, Utah. The fields are located high in the mountains, where the air is clean and the summer temperatures are perfect for ultimate. The fields are in great condition, and provide just the right cushion for laying out without slowing you down. We look forward to seeing you at this great tournament in the amazing mountains of the Wasatch Front!

Registration bids are due by July 1, 2008. Please see the tournament page for more details.

The Fairmont Pickup game that has been played for decades at Fairmont park has been relocated to the softball fields on the south end of Sugarhouse park. The Fairmont fields are in very poor condition, and the regular players thought it was time to get on some better fields. This change may only be temporary until the freeway exits near 2100 south are finished.

If in doubt, you should use the Fairmont email system to get a hold of other players.

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Now that the outdoor season is upon us, it’s time to get our competitive co-ed teams up and running again. We encourage everyone who has an interest in playing competitive co-ed ultimate this summer to come out for some casual pick-up and training. This will start Wednesday May 7th at 6pm at Sunnyside Park.

Last season Salt Lake City had two teams based on an A/B format that traveled and competed extensively. Golden Spike and Chasing Tail represented the valley well, with Golden Spike missing out on a trip to UPA Nationals by one game at NW Regionals....

The Big Sky College Ultimate Sectional tournament was held today in Pocatello, Idaho. BYU won the tournament by beating Utah in the finals 13-7, and earned a ticket to the Regional tournament that will be held in Davis, California later this month.

Congratulations to the BYU team, and good luck representing the Big Sky in Regionals! Forum thread here.

If you are a local ultimate player and would like to get on a team for Daweena 2008, you can do so by showing up to the Sugarhouse pickup this Saturday at 11:30AM. Teams will be organized and planned for the tournament at this time.

A map to Sugarhouse park can be found on the "Pickup" page.

Last Storm of The Winter

Daweena, Utah's premiere ultimate tournament, will be held this year on May 3rd and 4th, 2008. The deadline for registration is April 5th, 2008. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Daweena, it is one of Utah's longest traditions when it comes to Ultimate Frisbee. It started in 1987, and continues to be an event that local and national teams look forward to. Here's a blurb from the Daweena website:

"For over 20 years teams have been crossing the mountains, crossing the lake, crossing the border, fighting the winds, snows, and sunburns, hucking, hoing, and skying, and starting their long treck toward the UPA national championships. We have hosted national champions and pickup squads, from as close as Salt Lake City and as far as Georgia. We look forward to seeing the faces that have come to define the tournament and the faces of the next generation of ultimate players. Who will take the coveted crown this year? Can anyone stop Rare Air? Will Bravo come as Bravo this year? The best way to know is to be here. See you all in May."

If you are interested in registering your team for this event, or need other information, please visit the official Daweena page here. If you still have questions, please send email to: germain@cs.utah.edu.

Some traveling teams are in need of floor space for Daweena. If you are interested in providing space, please send email to the address above.