Spring 2019 Scheduling Meeting & Annual Meeting!

The VU YCC girls team meets Manuela Cardenas, International all-star!

Come get your local team (college, high school, middle school) schedule set for the spring!

The meeting will take place on Sunday, January 27th from 11:30am to 1:30pm at Amherst Regional HS.

The meeting will start with Valley Ultimate’s Annual Meeting (11:30 to Noon) where we’ll:

  • Outline of the upcoming year of Valley Ultimate activity
  • Take input on what to work on
  • Breakout into groups to discuss specific topics like leagues, hat tournaments, governance, youth development, and communication
  • Lots more!

We’ll then move on to the scheduling fun! (Noon to 1:30pm)

Please note: No scheduling will be done from 11:30 to Noon.

If you plan on scheduling games at the meeting, please make sure you bring accurate information regarding when you can host games and when you can travel to games.

We are running the annual meeting first and shortening it to make it possible for more people to attend. That being said, if you’re only interested in scheduling, please just show up at Noon.

The entire event is open to all – Hope to see you there! Invite people through the Facebook event.

January 2019 Board Meeting

The next VU board meeting will take place on Tuesday, January 15th from 6 to 7pm at the Bluebonnet Diner in Northampton, MA. Anyone with any interest in growing ultimate in the Valley is encouraged to attend! At the meeting we will be discussing:

  • Outreach
  • Our 3rd annual Womens Ultimate Day!
  • Spring planning
  • Volunteer recruitment
  • Much more

Spread the word! The Facebook event for the meeting is online here.

NMH Girls Clinic a Success!

This just in from Dan Hartsoe @ NMH:

Thanks to all coaches and participants for making the U-20 Girls Ultimate Clinic at NMH a success! 

You can read more about the clinic right here. It’s looking like it’ll be a yearly event!

 

2018 Summer Youth Playing Options!

Valley Ultimate has two summer youth options:

  1. Youth Club Champs program. This program culminates in a trip to the 2018 Youth Club Championships. All YCC players also participate in the summer youth league. Tryouts are on Sunday, June 10th from 9am to Noon at the Oxbow in Northampton.
  2. Summer youth league. This program meets 8 times during the summer and is run as a coached youth league.

Please visit each program page for more information including how to register.