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December 2008 news highlights
Mixed Nats
The New Zealand Ultimate Mixed Nationals 2008-09, held at Nunweek Park, Christchurch this past weekend saw ten teams from around New Zealand (and some Australian imports) battle it out for the title of New Zealand Ultimate Mixed Nationals Champions >>>
October 2008 news highlights
NZU Strategic Planning is underway - See what the board are up too and have your say >>>
Any further information or suggestions please contact the Board.
New Zealand Ultimate Ultimate has been sent an invitation to attend the 1st Asian Championships Beach Ultimate (ACBU) as well as the bid outline if NZ would like to host it.
The invitation can be found here and the bid document here.
If anyone in the NZ ultimate community would like to take on the project of bidding as host for the ACBU, or if anyone is interested in putting together an NZ team to attend this tournament, please contact Iain Stewart of the NZU board for further discussion.
Regards,
NZU Board
It's that time of the year again, time to hop on a plane down to Christchurch and challenge Credo, the reigning NZ Mixed National champions, to see if it's your team that can carry away that title.
Registrations are now open for teams for the New Zealand Mixed Nationals Tournament >>>
June 2008 news highlights
Indoorpendance day tourney entries open >>>
Sunday 27 July, 9:30am-5pm
TSB Arena, Jervois Quay, Wellington
Limited Entry - Get in quick or miss out!
April 2008 news highlights
Nationals Results >>>
Remember Saturday ?
NZU Awards 2007-8
Nominations for the NZU Awards 2007-8 are in, so now it's time to Vote >>>
NB: Voting closes Friday @ 5pm.
March 2008 news highlights
Notice
is hereby issued of the Annual General Meeting of New Ultimate Incorporated.
Date: Saturday 5 April, 2008
Venue: Rongotai College, Wellington (Venue for 2008 Nationals)
Time: 6.00pm (NB: this may be delayed slightly depending on the draw for Nationals. The AGM will be held after the last game has finished). Details >>>
Primary School Ultimate in Wellington
VUWFDC provided coaches to today's school sports day the Wgtn Stadium. WDS funded their time through VUWFDC. More >>>
2008 Women's and Mens Nationals
This event is coordinated annually, each year in a different location somewhere in New Zealand. This year the event will be held at Rongotai College, Kilbirnie, Wellington and will comprise two divisions – Open and Womens. With support from the national ultimate governing body, New Zealand Ultimate (NZU), the tournament will be facilitated by volunteers from Wellington Disc Sports (the local governing body). The winning teams emerging from this event will boast the title of national outdoor open and women’s champions for the 2007/2008 season.
In addition Gaia & Active Sportz will be sponsoring the event with the supply of MVP prizes. Full Details...
Ultimate in the media
22 February: Adam Lothian Prepares for Worlds: Video Clip C/- Meesh Simpson for a Millennium Institute sports showcase.
February 2008 news highlights
Here now is the latest article which covers the Ocean Beach Hat Tournament.
In preparation for the upcoming Ocean Beach Tournament, the Northern Advocate ran a piece on Ultimate up here.
Cheers
Jordan Walker
January 2008 news highlights
NZFDA Inc AGM to be held Sunday 10th February 2008, Auckland. More>>>
Open & Women's teams named for Worlds Championships 2008 More >>>
December 2007 news highlights
21 December : BSport Radio - Post tourney interview with Michael Connolly (5:28 mins)
The 2007 NZU Mixed Nats held in Christchurch 8-9 Dec 2007
Hi All,
Here are the results from this seasons Mixed National Ultimate Champs help over the weekend.
October 2007 news highlights
Central Region Development Tournament, Sun 25 November 2 December, Palmerston North
Palmy's annual Outdoor Development Tourney is on again. This year's version has a dual focus;
1) To encourage newer (indoor/social) players to play outdoors; and
2) Preparation for the National Mixed Tour. More >>>
2007 Australian University Games
The Victoria University of Wellington Flying Disc Club (VUWFDC) sent a team to this year's AUG, held in Surfer's Paradise in late September '07... Ultimate was held at Southport School, one of Queensland's most prestigious private schools, and it was truly a beautiful environment to spend the competetitive part of our visit. There were 20 teams in the draw, competing in 2 pools to reach the 1/4 finals. More >>>
NZU Mixed Nats will be held in Christchurch 8-9 Dec 2007
See the attached document (.pdf 528 kb) for more detail. As a minimum for the early bird entry discount, I'll be happy to accept payment and a list of names of the people in your team by 15 November 07. Please book your flights asap, there are still many cheap flights out there, but these won't last long. Also, book your accommodation now... you can always cancel if you can't put a team together. More >>>
September 2007 news highlights
Taupo Hat tourney site launched >>>
August 2007 news highlights
Tourney Calendar updates
- Mixed Nationals will be held 8-9 December in Christchurch. Details to follow.
- Women's and Men's Nationals will be held in Wellington on either Mar 29-30 or Apr 5-6 date TBC by end of August.
- 2007 WICD! (Wn Indoor Champs) August 19 >>>
July 2007 news highlights
World Ultimate and Guts Championships 2008
The Board of New Zealand Ultimate are pleased to announce the selectors for the teams to be sent to the World Ultimate and Guts Championships in Vancouver, August 2008 More>>>
June 2007 news highlights
Ultimate in Schools
At the most recent NZU Board meeting, the board identified the Juniors/Schools area as a key focus for the next couple of years. Well run schools programmes will see the growth of our player base as they filter through universities and begin playing in our regional and national competitions/events. This is likely to be the most robust way to steadily grow the number of people involved in our sport.
As a start to this process, Jacob Tapiata has kindly volunteered to lead a project to look into some ideas and plans in the schools/juniors area, with a view to trying to pool together knowledge and initiatives that have been tried or are successful all around the country. There are a lot of separate things happening in this area, and a lot to be gained by pooling and refining this knowledge.
If you are interested at all the subject of juniors ultimate or ultimate in schools, whether you are a younger player, teacher, sports coordinator, or just want to help out, get yourself signed up to NZU's 'schools' ultimate list, where any further discussion of this subject will be carried on. You can do so by visiting this website and inputting your email address:
http://lists.ultimate.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/nzu_schools
The general plan is for a general discussion about ideas. From there Jacob will liaise with a more focused group, and the report back to the list for further discussion. Some kind of forum or discussion will also be organised to occur at Indoor Nationals, to allow a more face-to-face discussion, but more on this will be sorted out over the coming weeks/months.
NZU owes a huge thank you to Jacob for assisting in this process, and hopefully we can move forward soon with a strategy to promote juniors ultimate in NZ.
Reminder - if you wish to be further involved in the discussion on this subject, sign up to the 'schools' list.
Thanks and regards,
Iain Stewart
Chairman
New Zealand Ultimate
June 2007 new highlights
Board report
NZ Board Report for June 2007. More >>
Indoorpendance day
Details for the 2007 Indoorpendance day tournament are now available. More >>
Brass Monkey
Final details posted >>
Vancouver 2008 WUGC - NZU Site posted >>
Please check this site for updates and information regarding selections, training camps and other information re Worlds 2008. You can also register and check out the proposed timeline.
WUCC 2007 - Perth debriefing survey results (WUCC07survey.pdf 124 k)
Here is a copy of the results of the player survey I did as follow up to the NZ Squad going to Perth. Basically I think the results showed that the administrators and leaders did some fantastic stuff in preparation for Perth and during the tournament . People could really see the need to support the leaders more and want to help out more next time to spread the workload. Those who had a non-playing coach really appreciated it and those who didn't would have really valued having one, particularly those on inexperienced teams.
I hope the points can be used to assist in future Worlds preparation.
Cheers
Karyn Burgess
April 2007 news highlights
2007-8 Season planning - survey
The new board is seeking your input on the National and International ultimate competeition for next season. More >>
University games results
Victoria Uni won it after a very close final against Auckland Uni. Canterbury came 3rd.
Here's a couple snippets from a reporter at the games (from the Games website). More >>
Mike Connelly (Competition Manager)
The Games have started!
Christchurch reporter Jack Tame went to Canterbury University, to try his hand at Ultimate Frisbee, and speak to the organiser of the 2007 University Games.
Check out the TV clip >>
 Mixed Tour event in Wellington (Groundhog Day 1)!After a season out in the wilderness - SPY are back with a vengeance! More>>> March 2007 news highlights2007 NZU AwardsMixed Tour event in Wellington (Groundhog Day 1)There's still space for one more team - but you'll need to be in fast... more>>> |
2007 NZU Awards
It's that time of year when you get a chance to recognise outstanding achievements of your fellow members. We are calling for nominations (closed) for the 2007 NZU Awards until Thursday 22 March after which time you will be able to place your votes. The awards will be announced in Wellington at the final Tour for the season on Sunday 1 April.
NZU 2007 AGM
This is your chance as an ultimate player to come along and hear what the NZU Board has and has not achieved over the past year and voice any thoughts, opinions, praise and or criticism (constructive) you may have... MORE>>>
February 2007 news highlights
WaM Tour 2 - Christchurch 4-March Results: more>>>
WaM Tour 2 - Christchurch 4-March Action:
Check out more of Neil's pics from the weekend.
Canterbury had a good day, with local teams winning both the Women's and Open divisions... The open final was very close, with Chch digging really deep to take out the final. After pulling out a good lead early on, Bluefish came back and BF finally took the lead just into cap, going ahead and actually having game point with the disc in their possession 5 metres from their zone, with the wind at their backs.
But a clean handblock (sorry I missed the hero) by Chch and a quick upwind point brought Chch level to the jubilation of the crowd.
The pressure then showed and Bluefish coughed up the disc on their own line through a simple error and Chch pounced - making a short simple pass for victory.
Both teams played great and it was a joy to watch.
Cheers - N
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WaM Tour 2 - Christchurch 3-4 March :
This event is the national outdoor ultimate frisbee championships held annually. This year it will be held at Nunweek park in Christchurch. It is an open mens/womens team event that is supported by the national ultimate frisbee governing body – the NZU. The winning men’s and women’s teams at this event can boast that they are the current 2007 Ultimate Outdoor Champions. This years event is being run by the Canterbury Frisbee Flyers Club (CFFC). more >>>
January 2007 news highlights
Summer is hear at last and that mean the tours are just around the corner and Ultimate will be hitting a beach near you too!
More beach action in the news 23 January : Dominion Post "Flying Sorcerer " >>>
Check out the tourney calendar for details >>>
Boutique Beach Hat Tourney - Hawkes Bay 10/11 Feb more >>>
"Wgtn Wild Wind" beach tournament, 3,4 Feb, at Otaki Beach. more >>>
Uni games needs you! >>
The 2007 Uni Games will be held Christchurch from Tuesday 10 – Friday 13 April and of course Ultimate will be one of the 28 Sports. We are keen to see the continued development of the Ultimate competition more >>>
Tour 1 2007 results >>>
Kia Ora Everyone
I hope you all had a nice Chirstmas break and will have a good new years.
In all the hussle and bussle of the silly season don’t forget that the Auckland tour event is coming up on the 20th and 21st of January. Entries close Friday 12th Jan! Likely cost is $225 per team as well $10 NZU levy per player.
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to sort out accommodation at the AUT hostel (just across the road from the fields) yet but I am hopeful of having it sorted out in the first week of the new year.
Thanks, look forward to hearing from you,
- Sherif