Regional Update - Spring 2015 Mars Attaque By the Numbers
1090 registered athletes 448 games 115 teams
30+ volunteers and employees 22 hours of competition
3 indoor multisport complexes 1 Mars Attaque, l’unique!
It has also helped us teach and develop a relationship with newcomers from other sports and help them understand what spirit is all about. We think it’s an important step to go through, because bad habits from other sports easily come up when you’re jump straight away into a more competitive tournament.
Ultimate Newfoundland and Labrador made a decisive and bold move to foster its youth development program; establishing its first 11-week fall program with the support of the Art Hawkins Fund and now confirmed that four junior teams will attend out-of- province tournaments between May and August.
Rock Ultimate, the junior mixed team hailing from St. John’s NL, is the most recently formed team headed off “The Rock” for competition. The team received conglomerate status from Ultimate Canada to assist in capturing enough interest to sustain such a feat. This team has its eyes on the Canadian High School Ultimate Championships (CHSUC) in Burnaby, B.C. where they will meet and play against some of the best junior players in the country.
Junior development on “The Rock”
Atlantic By: Callista Coldwell
This past summer brought about a new achievement for Newfoundland. The province quickly established a junior travel program and saw its first ever junior open and junior mixed teams attend the Canadian Ultimate Championships (CUC) and Jeux de la Francophonie respectively. Beast, the junior open team, was comprised mostly of Newfoundlanders but was joined with amazing up-and-coming male athletes from Nova Scotia and Alberta. Alternatively the team that attended Jeux de la Francophonie was comprised of all Newfoundland athletes found throughout the Avalon Peninsula.
With over 35 players trying out for Rock Ultimate the excitement and spirit of the game is high and 2015 is anticipated to be the best season for youth Ultimate to date. The attending team’s open contingent includes players from the junior open team, Beast. Since no junior women team was sent abroad last summer, the CHSUC will no doubt be an opportunity for the girls to see the country’s skills outside of the Atlantic region. The kids are looking forward to what could be a once in a lifetime experience. Similarly to their athletes, several coaches will get the opportunity to see Ultimate programs from across the country. To fly from the Eastern tip of the country, all the way to the shores of the Pacific Ocean all in the name of Ultimate is new to many in the province, but is an experience this team is excited to partake in.
With summer youth Ultimate plans already established for many, Ultimate Newfoundland and Labrador is excited to encourage and see this fast growing sport take ahold of the youth in this province. For many years, families, teachers, parents and youth alike have asked, “what is Ultimate?” And now they are asking, “how can I play Ultimate?” Music to our ears!
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