Ultimate Newfoundland and Labrador

Ultimate NL is looking forward to organizing another set of spring School Tournaments!  This year the Senior High School Tournament will be held at the Technip Indoor Turf on May 25th from 6pm to 10pm.  For more information on this tournament, please click here.

The Junior High Ultimate Tournament will take place at the Powerplex May 26th from 9:30am to 6pm.  For more information on this tournament, please click here.

We look forward to seeing even more teams this year and watching some great ultimate.  Spectators are encouraged to come out and watch the next generation of Ultimate athletes.

Ultimate NL is putting on a beginners clinic for both men and women that would like to learn more about throwing the disc, some game strategy and improve their understanding of the game.  This is a great chance to practice your ultimate skills outside of the game setting.  Here are the particulars:

Where: Sport NL Powerplex gym on Crosby Road

When: Saturday, February 18th from 6pm to 8pm

What you need: Indoor sneakers (they are very strict about no outside shoes), water bottle (there are no water fountains but there is a sink), long sleeve shirt in case you get cold.

Cost: FREE for UNL members (if you have played in any league in the last year- MZU, SWURL, MAUL- then you are a member), $5 for non-members

While it is not mandatory, please e-mail Suzy at president@ultimatenl.ca if you are interested in attending OR if you have any questions at all.

UPDATED – THE CHRISTMAS TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED. THE NEW DATE IS DECEMBER 28TH. PLEASE READ BELOW FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

The holiday season tournament is back. This year’s tournament will be held Dec 28th.
For more information and to register, click here

Tim Put on a fantastic set of clinics- thank you so much for coming Tim!  Hopefully we will be seeing Tim in Newfoundland again in the future.

Tim Morrill, Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach, will be coming to St. John’s November 12th and 13th.

There will be 3 clinics offered: November 12th evening we will be having a speed and agility session. This will take place at the NL Sport Center gym. The second and third are November 13th 9am-11am and 2pm-4pm and will be in the weight room at the Sport NL Centre.  There will be a limit to the number of people in each clinic so sign up early.

For more information and to register, click here.

Sport NL is partnering with Coaching NL to offer Coaching Education Night every Wednesday starting in October.

Click here for more details

We did what?! UNL board members Suzy Stever & Greer Hunt (with the help of Nick Delaney) attended the 2011 Physical Education Special Interest Council (PESIC) conference to promote and explain Ultimate to the physical education teachers of Newfoundland.

So what does this mean?

30+ gym teachers have learned a greater knowledge about Ultimate and therefore will be able to teach their students how to better understand the spirit and competitiveness of Ultimate!

Each teacher will approximately have atleast 3 different gym classes of 30 or so youth, which, pretty much means that Ultimate will be taught to around 3000 kids this school year. Not to shabby UltimateNL.

Thanks to all the teachers for coming out at 9:00am and we hope to see you next year!

Any questions or comments please email youth@ultimatenl.ca!

-Greer

We still have some Great Canadian Ultimate Discs for Sale.  They are $15 each with $7 from each sale going to charity.  If you would like a disc, contact president@UltimateNL.ca

Thanks to everyone that came out for a fantastic day of Ultimate.  Toilet Bowl went off without a hitch, and good times were had by all.  There was a lot of really good ultimate being played and the heckling was supurb!

Congratulations to team Sparse who went undefeated for the tournament.  As their name indicates, they were short a couple of players and this was the first tournament where the team with the most players did not win.  Team Sparse was made up of Kevin Schmidt, Shervin Azad, Ange Learning, Erin Daly, Jess Wade, Craig Stoyles and Rob King.  Way to take one for the team, Erin.

Good job Throne for making them work for it!

Photos to come.

Ultimate NL was involved with the Tely 10 again this year. A group of fantastic volunteers got together in the wee hours of Sunday morning to man the first water station of the Tely-10. Thank you so much for all of those that came out!
For all of the ultimate players that ran the race-good job!