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 March 20, 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).

Game Times
All games will be held on Thursday nights at 6:00PM, beginning on April 3, 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 March 20, 2008. Registrations after March 20 will be accepted only if space is available.

Contacts
For further information, please contact dabegglen@slco.org or q.atwood@us.army.mil

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

Congratulations to Zion Curtain (University of Utah men's ultimate team ) for going undefeated at the first annual Zion Curtain Classic!

The 1st Annual Zion Curtain Classic will be held March 8-9, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the University of Utah campus. The public is invited to come watch some great college ultimate frisbee and to cheer on your favorite teams. Frisbee Central will be at the Baliff Fields. All games will be played at Baliff, HPER West, and Ft. Douglas. Directions

Click here for more information about the 1st Annual Zion Curtain Classic.

Participating Teams: BYU, Colorado B, Colorado Mines, New Mexico, Reno, Southern Utah, Utah, Utah St., Wyoming

Come support local ultimate in Salt Lake City!

Dear Ultimate Community,

UltimateSLC is coming up on it's second anniversary. I am certain that your participation on this website has been a huge asset to the growth of ultimate in our city. I appreciate those of you who take the time to participate in the forum discussions and post events on the calendar.

This site needs your financial contribution to continue and grow. First of all, web hosting payments will be due in a few months. Secondly, I am hoping to generate enough donations to do some promotional activities. I would like to print some shirts, discs, and stickers with the UltimateSLC logo, as well as possibly hold a one-day local tournament this summer.

None of things will be possible without some funding, so I am asking all of you to consider making a donation. No amount is too big or too small. Your contribution will be used solely for UltimateSLC expenses. Administrators on UltimateSLC, including myself, do not "charge" for the time we spend updating and adding new features to the site. In other words, no one is going out to dinner on your donation.

Thank you all for your friendship and participation on UltimateSLC. Make a donation here!

-Joey Wilson

High school ultimate players listen up!

Salt Lake High school ultimate has reserved the Murray Athletic Fields from 4:00pm-6:00pm every Tuesday, from February 26th to April 8th, 2008 (see calendar). All high school representatives are encouraged get their teams together to participate in these scrimmages. Bring discs, light and dark shirts, and cleats. This scrimmage will be held rain or shine, unless lightning is a threat. A forum discussion on this topic is located here.

Community Players: If you are interested in helping out or coaching a team, please come to these scrimmages or contact Tara at twion.ames@gmail.com!

Click here for more information about Utah high school ultimate frisbee.

UltimateSLC has recently undergone some significant changes to both the underlying framework and design. These changes will allow UltimateSLC to be a huge resource to the ultimate Frisbee community in Salt Lake City and nearby regions. Here's what's new, and why it matters to the users of this site.

Community-Owned Content

The new changes to UltimateSLC will allow the community to host their own content here on the site. As part of it's mission to bring together local ultimate groups, UltimateSLC will provide the community a hassle-free way to publish their information online. For example:

• Teams can host their own pages containing contact information, schedules, rosters, or anything else that's relevant.
• Users can post their own announcements on the homepage.
• Organizers of salt lake city tournaments can create pages to publicize their event.
• Specialty groups like the SLC women's ultimate group can create content for their practices and teams.
• Individuals can keep ultimate-related blogs.
• Anything else related to ultimate Frisbee in Salt Lake City or nearby.

If you are interested in obtaining an account to create your own pages or blogs, click here.

UltimateSLC Search Feature

The UltimateSLC search feature has been around for a while, but few people realize how handy it can be. Need to search for an obscure rule in the official ultimate rulebook? The UltimateSLC search feature will find it. If you want to search past discussions that have occurred in the forums, it will do that too. It even searches other local sites like utah-ultimate.org. Try it out! Please be patient while Google re-indexes our new site structure. The search may return pages that have moved, but should correct itself after a few days.

Under the Hood: Drupal

UltimateSLC now uses an award winning "content management system" called Drupal. Drupal makes adding new content to a website and editing it extremely efficient and powerful. It manages the pages, menus, and content of the site, and allows the administrators to create accounts for users to add their own content.

Zion Curtain, the University of Utah men's ultimate team, just won the Vegas Qualifier tournament. The team went 6-0 over the weekend, defending their #1 seed. The games played out as follows.

Saturday
13-11, def. Westmont
def. UNLV
13-1, def. UCLA-B
13-9?, def. BYU

Sun
Semi: def. Chico St.
Final: def. USC

Congratulations on a great win! Forum thread here.

The 2008 women's indoor practices will be held every Monday from 8:00pm - 10:00pm in the University of Utah Eccles indoor football facility (click for a map) starting this week (January 7, 2007). The Eccles Field House is a state-of-the-art indoor facility, and the organizers of this practice have worked hard to secure a time to use it. This is an excellent chance for salt lake's women ultimate players to stay in shape and improve their game over the winter. All skill levels are welcome and encouraged to attend these practices.

For more information, please view the women's indoor practice thread in the forums, or contact bakeret@gmail.com. This event is also listed on the calendar.

The Murray players will be hosting a 2008 New Year's Game at 10:00AM on January 1, 2008. It will be held on the soccer fields of Murray Park, which can be located using the ultimate pickup map. Please see this thread for comments and questions. Come out for some good time winter ultimate!

Start off 2008 the right way by coming out to the "Hair of the Dog" Challenge Game at Sugarhouse park on January 1, 2008. This game is open to anyone interested. Open pickup will be played starting at 1:00PM, after which teams will be formed based on age ('Fogies' vs. 'Whippersnappers') for the Challenge Game.

Hair of The Dog New Years Game
January 1, 2008
1:00 PM
Sugarhouse Park (map here)
Cost: Free

See this thread for questions/comments.