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USA Ultimate is very pleased to recognize the hard work and dedication of local USA Ultimate Affiliates in promoting the sport of ultimate to their constituent communities and for their outstanding performance in fulfilling USA Ultimate's mission to advance the sport across the nation.
Prior Year Recognition: 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 Jump down to: Individual Recognition (Most Valuable People)
2018 Organization Recognition
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Most Growth in Youth Players
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1st (568.3%)
41 (2017) - 274 (2018)
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2nd (125.5%)
51 (2017) - 115 (2018)
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3rd (40.6%)
229 (2017) - 322 (2018)
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Albany Ultimate Disc Association |
Connecticut Ultimate Club |
Columbus Ultimate Disc Association |
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Most Youth Competition Events
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1st (17) |
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2nd (8) |
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3rd (7) |
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Utah Ultimate Disc Association
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Triangle Ultimate |
AFDC Juniors |
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Most Female-Identifying Players
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Highest Female-Identifying Percentage of Players
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1st (42.71%)
41 of 96
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2nd (39.50%)
485 of 1228
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3rd (39.05%)
123 of 315
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Wisconsin Ultimate |
Valley Ultimate |
Tucson Ultimate |
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Most Overall Growth in Players
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Most Total Competition Events Offered
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1st (40) |
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Tie - 2nd (12) |
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3rd (10) |
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Indiana Ultimate Foundation
Utah Ultimate Disc Association
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Triangle Ultimate |
Albany Ultimate Disc Association
Maine Ultimate
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Highest Average Event Participation per Player
(Tournaments, Leagues & Other Training/Practices/Clinics/Etc)
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* Full Affiliate Recognition Summary
(Each organization's numbers for the above categories)
2018 Individual Recognition (Most Valuable People)
Each affiliate organization is given the opportunity to recognize their most outstanding individuals each year in 2 categories, event organizers and key contributors in any area.
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Albany Ultimate Disc Association
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Karoline Hart for creating and running our first Women's Winter League. |
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Erin McKinney, who helped start the Bethlehem HS ultimate club, which now has 3 teams, runs youth clinics, hosted HS States with us, and was our Women's League Spirit Champion, is organizing our 2019 YCC team, and too many other things to mention. |
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Altitude Youth Ultimate
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Jeff Berget runs some of the best tournaments in the country. He does a great job building good relationships with different field personnel, which helps with the business side of things too. Although he seems easy going (I've never actually seen him stressed!) and always has a smile, he is also incredibly detail oriented and a perfectionist. He is thoughtful in his communication, plans ahead, constantly looks for ways to grow, and is incredibly dependable. And he's a really good person. He is such an asset to Altitude! And a great person to work with! |
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Pogo (Anne Pogoriler) has created an incredible website and is always takes into consideration our needs and requests. She has put in a TON of time to give us an incredibly beautiful and functional website, while also giving the website the ability to be flexible and grow and change with us. She is also always reminding us to take pictures (which is something I always forget), but will make our events stand out that much more and be that much more memorable. She has also had the brilliant idea to hire a couple high school kids to take over our social media accounts- giving them important professional develop opportunities and gives us a way to reach the youth on their terms :) |
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Atlanta Flying Disc Club Juniors
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In the last three years, Denise Koo has served a number of volunteer roles: League Commissioner, YCC team manager, Outreach Coordinator, Executive Director mentor, and now Interim Juniors Director for AFDC. She is a behind the scenes problem-solver, who operates in a thoughtful and professional manner. Denise's gifts in recruiting and bridging communities explains her effectiveness in Outreach. She personally delivered dozens of starter kits to area schools, she recruited Ultimate-knowledgeable resources for new programs, and her (hard-won) success in achieving school PE exemptions in the Dekalb County school district has now been disseminated as a model for the entire country. |
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Besides completely owning and taking the middle school spring league to the next level in the last three years, Rachel Scales has served tirelessly on the AFDC Juniors Board, bringing both a player's perspective and an organizer's spin to all of our director discussions. Rachel has made the board so much more efficient by slowly introducing new technology to an initially resistant group! Rachel has coached several girls teams this year including a new middle school team, Atlanta's first U17 girls team, and the girls teams in Spring League. Her creativity and desire to fill gaps in the girls division has driven many of our 2018 organizational successes. |
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Capital Area Disc Association
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Patrick Abeli handled the day to day organization of the leagues, led league-wide communication and connection to promoting womens league play while setting the tone for promoting good spirit. |
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Lane Kaufman made super cool ceramic mugs as spirit prizes and really upped our swag game. Brought knowledge from previous leagues and clubs as well as from conferences that were attended this year. |
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Charlottesville Ultimate Disc Organization
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Kay Comer |
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Columbus Ultimate Disc Association
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Connecticut Ultimate Club
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Dan Griffiths orchestrated a number of CTUL events and was pivotal in getting our CUC Summer League off the ground from field reservations, draft preparation, and logistics throughout the season. Another nomination would be a co-recognition for Alex Morrone and Todd Larese, who coordinated our YCC efforts in 2018. |
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Holland Florian was a valuable contributor in terms of organizing leagues, volunteering with our CTUL and Summer League tournaments, and is a great ambassador for the sport in a variety of venues. |
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Detroit Ultimate Association
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Dina Tayim. As a new board member in 2018, Dina picked up field wrangling and summer league organizing with a calm, organized approach that made it look easy. Her no-nonsense approach is effective when it comes to supporting other volunteers and leading efforts. We are super glad to have her to help run/improve DUFL! |
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Zachary Farr. 2018 was Zach’s 2nd year with DUA. In addition to running the occasional league, Zach has improved our approach to creating balanced teams through an algorithm that takes captain feedback into account, and has worked hard to improve field conditions for DUA players. |
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DiscNY
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Khunsa Amin - setting up the summer camp, social media prowess, equity committee chair, Pro Champs chaperone (enabling youth volunteers) & volunteer, key womxns outreach event organizer, "Food, Frisbee, Feminism" organizer, and so SO much more. The reach of Khunsa's support for all events she is involved in - and certainly all DiscNY events in general through her SM & equity positions - is invaluable. |
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Travis McGrath - for everything he's done for DNY these past 4+ years; to name a few things from 2018: - leading the drive to hire a full-time employee - revising how our books track UC finances (to help solve their accounting issues) - establishing & helping to grow NY Warm-Up as a 30+ team staple club season kickoff/tryout (but still highly competitive) tournament - key point of communication between DiscNY and other local organizers across the country -> valuable insights relevant to all programming |
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Illinois Youth Ultimate
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Joseph Schoen - Director of Leagues - is the master of putting together spring leagues and with funky weather, his communication was great! And a successful season was had. |
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Rob Berg - not only did he serve as president, web coordinator, President of IYU, but he also started a new girls team at his school! |
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Indiana Ultimate Foundation
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Zakk Mabrey for his assistance with pre-event tournament planning. |
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Blake & Lauren Vanderbush for their help with advancing our financial systems. |
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Jacksonville Ultimate League
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Stephen Grondin continually steps up to commission essentially all of our events, sometimes without compensation, and does it happily while supporting our players. |
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Daniel Heser helped with a variety of tasks the organization needed and transitioned into an outreach and social role that significantly improved player communication and feedback collection. |
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Kalamazoo United Youth Ultimate
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Lindsay Winsborrow has stepped up as a force on our board of directors. She was able to keep the organization focused and consistent. |
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Bruce Johnson has contributed by being the face of our organization in our community over the past two years. He has been able to get local news coverage to several of our events and gotten us needed publicity. |
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Maine Ultimate
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Missoula Ultimate
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Kevin Ryder, for creating the Big Sky Gunshow and making it one of the pre-eminent tournaments of the Northern Rockies region. |
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Tyler Albrethsen, for his work as our youth coordinator and tireless dedication to growing high school programs, a mission he assumed without being asked. He saw a need and decided to fill it. His is the type of spirit that allows Missoula Ultimate to continue to thrive. |
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Montpelier Ultimate
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Anne Watson is the creator of Montpelier Ultimate and the driving force behind all of our programming since the beginning. We would not be what we are today without her. |
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Again, up until very recently Anne was doing the vast majority of the work for the organization. |
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Neuqua Valley Ultimate
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Shelly Cinnamon does most of the behind the scenes work to make Neuqua Knockout happen. You won't believe how much work goes into planning an event for 86 teams. |
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Beth Figge stepped and took over club financial role when no one else would. She doesn't have any background in this area but has done a great job. Our books and balance are both looking much better than a year ago. |
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Nickel City Ultimate
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Mike Kanaby, our Director of Player Engagement. He's done an outstanding job at coordinating all of our meetings and keeping projects on schedule. |
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Tyler Davis, our Youth Director. He's been at every learn-to-play clinic put on by NCU, and he's been dedicating additional time to applying for grants for the organization. |
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St Louis Ultimate Association
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Darrin Speegle |
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Tim Duggan for implementing policies and procedures and organizational charts. |
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Triangle Ultimate
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Somer Shively has been a long time volunteer in TU and nonTU sponsored Ultimate events as well as captaining league teams. Somer also joined the board of directors couple of years ago heading our adult programs committee and other committees and now serves as our vice Chair. |
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Stéphane Daniels has been a member of the TU community and has been a member of the board and executive committee in the last few years. His contributions have been significant in the update and maintenance of our bylaws as well as acting as our secretary, governance committee member, executive committee member and now our finance committee chair. |
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Tucson Ultimate
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Nicole Garners was our 2018 league director as well as serving on our board (still is). She did a huge amount of work and has continues to build up our league programs. Our league directors by far do the most work in our organization and hold together our biggest and ongoing events, and Nicole did an awesome job! Her passion for the game is evident and invaluable to our organization. |
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Tim Wood served on our board, and was our fields director (still is both). In 2018 he did a great job of organizing our field reservations process. Additionally, Tim was a part of the league leadership committee, captained Instant Karma, and helped host sectionals. His role in our organization was and continues to be invaluable. |
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Ultimate Players League of Austin
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Jonathan Lemieux ran multiple tournaments successfully including Club Centex, Celebration, and Sectionals. |
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Lydia Rudy helped us secure 501(c)(3) status. As our recent president, she's established sustainable leadership positions and built best practices for UPLA's continued development. |
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Utah Ultimate Disc Association
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Jenni Ladutko helped secure and organize the TCT tourney we hosted last summer. |
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Sean Graff - HS coach (West High Krakens) who continues to keep us on our toes and challenges us to be more organized than we are! |
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Valley Ultimate
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Joe Costello carried so many programs on his back, from youth coaching, to league management, to board activities. |
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Jim Pistrang stepped up and helped out with youth outreach. |
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Zig Zag Ultimate
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Matt Silverhart |
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Sydney Aldrich |
Prior Year Recognition: 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013