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WINTER YOUTHPROGRAMS

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This is the first edition of our new quarterly YouthPrograms Newsletter, featuring events from November2015 through February 2016. The goal of this newsletteris to highlight all of the youth programs offered byTriangle Ultimate each season of the year. Each editionwill include guest articles written by the youth in ourcommunity.  After all, they are the voices of our youthcommunity!

Triangle Ultimate offers numerous youth programsthroughout the year and this is our new way of tellingyou about them!

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4 M I D D L E S C H O O L H A TT O U R N A M E N T SStar Wars Middle School Hat Tournament

Carolina Friends Clinic and Hat Tournament

Middle School Girls Clinics

Middle School Girls Tournament

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Upcoming High School Season

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clinic from 2-4pm on Sundays. There wereparticipants from all of the area MiddleSchools: Phillips, Culbreth, Smith,McDougle, and even a few from CarolinaFriends. Each Sunday, a different women’sultimate team would come out and rundrills with us, and we would scrimmage too. The college teams that came out were:Duke, UNC, and NC State. The Phoenixteam also ran the clinic one week. Thesegirls were really great, and you coulddefinitely tell that they have had someexperience and were professional. I loveUltimate season! Thanks to all of the greatpeople who have given me the opportunityto play girls’ ultimate!

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"Thank you toALL of thewonderfulvolunteersfor providingthiswonderful,empoweringexperiencefor our girls.

In 6th grade you are not allowed to playsports on your middle school team. Butsince I go to Phillips Middle School, I got topractice with the East Chapel Hill HighSchool girls’ ultimate team this winter. Iinvited some of my friends, IsabelRockaway and Kate Johnson, who werealso in the 6th grade at Phillips to join me. We had a most wonderful experienceplaying with the older girls to help supportand coach us. The East Chapel Hill HighSchool ultimate coach is Coach Zog. Hewas a great coach and definitely helped toimprove my skill.

In the same winter season, Sara Summersalso organized a girls-only Middle School

By Joy Schwartz, 6th grade, Phillips MS, Youth Journalist

GIRLS ULTIMATE CLINICS

-JENNIFER COLE,MOTHER

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MIDDLE SCHOOLGIRLS TOURNAMENT

We played in a round-robin format, where weswitched teams until everyone played eachother. At the end, my team won every game, sowe got first place!

I would say that I loved playing with these girlsevery Sunday and then having a tournament wasjust very fun. Also, it was a wonderful time to playwith friends that were from different schools.The schools that were represented wereCarolina Friends, Smith, Culbreth, Phillips,Martin, Expedition, and McDougle. In conclusion,I felt like I became a better handler with mythrows to make me a better ultimate player.

By Janelle Schwartz, 8th grade, Culbreth MSYouth Journalist

On Sunday, January 17, 2016, there was a TU middleschool girls ultimate tournament. Meg Duffy, whodirected the afternoon’s activities, put everyone intoteams. We had 4 small teams and each team had 4-5girls. We played 4v4 on small fields. We would play 2halves with a halftime to talk with the coaches thatMeg assigned to each team.

My coaches were Rachel “RoJo” Johnson and highschool student, Ellie Cubrilovic. We talked aboutstaying on your person as your mark and who is goingto be handler for the rest of the game.

Photo credit: Brian Whittier

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WAKE COUNTY MIDDLESCHOOL LEAGUEby Dylan Youngberg, 7th grade, Apex MS, Guest Writer

Photo Credit: Todd Beaufort

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YEAR! I have played ultimate for 5 yearsbut the winter league at ApexMiddle School was one of myfavorite experiences with the sportso far. It is the first time WakeCounty has held winter league formiddle school and it was a big hit.It was so popular at Apex MiddleSchool that the coaches had tomake 2 teams. Everyone had agreat time playing 2 games a weekand at the end of the season wehad a huge tournament. The winterleague was developed just for kids 

to have fun playing Ultimate Frisbeeand that is exactly what happened.Everyone showed goodsportsmanship and it was anamazing thing to be a part of.

The coaches for winter league weregreat and helped us appreciate thegame even more. The tournament atthe end was wonderful and one of theApex teams won the Spirit award. Iam in 7th grade so I am lookingforward to playing again next year onthe team.

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DECEMBER 2016

"A big shout out to allthe coaches andorganizers for makingthis league possibleand for taking the timeand having thepatience to coach thesekids."- Karen Boshoff Taylor, mother

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Congratulations to Githens MS for winning

the Competitive Division and West Lake

Wildcats for finishing on top of the

Developmental Division! Carrboro Hydras

and Apex Equalizers/West Lake Wildcats

(tie) won the Team Spirit Awards for their

respective divisions!

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A record 17 teams from Orange, Durham,

and Wake Counties attended the Middle

School Championship Tournament on

Saturday, January 30th at Fleming Loop

Park in Fuquay Varina. Thanks to all the

coaches and volunteers who made this

tournament possible!

This year, we were able to divide into two

divisions ­ a competitive division for more

experienced teams and a developmental

division for newer and younger teams. This

provided appropriate levels of competition

for all of the participating teams. For many

players, this was their first tournament ever!

MIDDLE SCHOOLWINTER SEASON

HIGH SCHOOL SEASON -SPRINGING INTO ACTIONHigh School Spring League takesplace in Spring every year. Thisyear's pre­season began inFebruary. Thirty­one teams arecompeting in five divisions this year.More information to come in theSpring Edition of this newsletter!

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Winter is the main Middle SchoolUltimate season in the Triangle withthree separate leagues. The OrangePearson Athletic Conference (OPAC)is self­run by the school system.Triangle Ultimate organizes theIndependent Middle School Leaguebased in Durham. This year we had10 participating teams, including twonew teams! This was also our firstseason of the Wake County MiddleSchool League. Players registered asindividuals and were placed on schoolbased teams. Twenty six middleschools were represented, and MartinMS and Apex MS has enough playersto form their own teams!

MIDDLE SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP

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undefeated, sneaking out a close winover Team Luke Sky in the first placegame. Darth Blader and Chewhuckabattled it out for third place with DarthBlader coming out on top.

Thanks to our coaches AbelMcLawhorn, Christoph Boshoff,Dwayne Purper, and Brent Russell andour Youth Ambassadors Matt Schinsky,Peter Engler, and Rachel Milkereit forhelping coach the teams!

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FOOD, FUN, ANDFRIENDS

A (not so) long, long time ago on afield (not so) far, far away, fortyyoung ultimate stars came togetherto experience the force within themat Triangle Ultimate’s STAR WARSthemed Middle School HatTournament.

After a four team round robin andgame of Galaxy Wars, the teamsbattled it out for first and thirdplace. Team Princess Leia-Out went

HATS OFFTO CFS!

STAR WARS MIDDLE SCHOOLHAT TOURNAMENT

Photo credit: Brian Whittier

Photo credit: Brent Russell

After the CFS Hat Tournament,everyone was invited to join theEast Chapel Hill HS teams at theirUltimate Food Truck Family FunDay.

An afternoon of delicious foodfrom local food trucks, rafflegiveaways, and fun games, a greattime was had by all!

On December 13th, 2015, CarolinaFriends School hosted a MiddleSchool clinic and hat tournamentopen to all middle school players.

Seventy-two players came out tolearn from current CFS HighSchool players and alumni. Themorning clinic turned into anafternoon hat tournament withteams coached by the olderleaders.

For a 'hat tournament,' teams are made randomly, like drawing names outof a hat. Players sign up as individuals and the Hat Committee createsequally-skilled teams based on players' experience levels.

hat tournament

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SNEAK PREVIEW: WHAT'S NEXT?

REGISTER NOW FOR OURSUMMER PROGRAMS!

SPRING PROGRAMS1 L E A R N T O P L A Y

There are 78 7-12 year old participants inour Spring Learn to Play clinics in Durham,Raleigh, and Carrboro. These clinics teachthe fundamentals of Ultimate.

2 L E A R N T O C O M P E T EFifty-eight youth players, ages 10-14, arecurrently learning advanced ultimate skillsat the Learn to Compete clinics in Raleighand Durham.

3 T A K E T H E F I E L DThe participants of Take the Field, a girlsleadership and ultimate skills developmentprogram, led a GUM clinic and U-16 HatTournament on March 5th.

4 H I G H S C H O O L S P R I N G L E A G U EThirty-one teams are competing in fivedivisions - East, West, East Developmental,West Developmental, and Girls, creating ourlargest HS Spring League ever!

For more information on any of our programs,visit triangleultimate.org or email youthprograms@triangleultimate.org

5 H I G H S C H O O L T O U R N A M E N T S> He4She Tournament

> Durham Nativity School Fundraiser Tournament

> High School States

The Spring is our main High School season, but we alsooffer programs for youth as young as seven years old!

Summer is our biggest season with THREE youth summerleagues and ELEVEN week-long youth summer camps!Registrations are currently open for all of theseprograms!

Y O U T H S U M M E R L E A G U EGames take place in June and July! There areseveral age divisions in each league.

Boys (Open) Summer LeagueAll Girls Summer LeagueU-19 Boys Competitive Summer League - NEW!

Register here!triangleultimate.org/club-leagues-hat-tournaments

S U M M E R C A M P SHalf-day, full day, overnight - we offer it all!Visit our website for more information and toregister today!

Register here!http://triangleultimate.org/summer-camps

Y O U T H C L U B C H A M P I O N S H I PT E A M T R Y - O U T S

Join the highest level of youth competition on one ofour SIX traveling youth teams! Try-outs are in May.

> U-19 Boys - TriForce and Carolina Sky> U-16 Boys - NC Hammer and Lucky Punk> U-19 Girls - Warhawks> U-16 Girls - Kitty Hawks

Register here!http://triangleultimate.org/ycc-summer-travel-teams

A great way to make new friends and develop yourUltimate skills! Join us this summer!

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