Seattle Girls’ Ultimate Movement Clinic Garners 92 Participants
Posted: March 2, 2015 11:50 AM
Seattle, Wash. (March 2, 2015) – Yesterday afternoon, March 1, women’s club team Seattle Underground and U-16 girls’ club team Seattle Uprising co-hosted the nation’s largest Girls’ Ultimate Movement (GUM) clinic to date. Ninety-two girls and more than a dozen coaches from the Seattle area converged on Franklin High School for a three-hour clinic filled with fun, learning and mentorship.
Photos: Jim Gallagher
Team Nemo and Team Dory – participants ages seven to nine and 10-year olds completely new to the sport (Nemo) and those ages 10 to 13 (Dory) – overtook Franklin High School’s turf field with drills teaching throwing, marking and the rules of ultimate before moving to games of 5 v. 5 and 4 v. 4. To close out the clinic, participants lined up to get autographs from the Uprising and Underground athletes.
The event was spearheaded by Underground member and USA Ultimate National Girls’ Outreach Director Heather Ann Brauer, who enlisted the help of Seattle Uprising, last year’s winner of the U-16 girls’ division at the Youth Club Championships, several of her Underground teammates and strength and conditioning professional Ren Caldwell as coaches. Together, they advanced the sport among nearly 100 girls in the Seattle area and made strides in expanding a mentorship program so important in growing ultimate across all ages: club players mentoring college and youth players, U-16 girls mentoring elementary- and middle-school girls. That mentorship model will prove more and more important as we work to grow the ultimate community across the nation.
Always prepared: Heather Ann's clinic field diagram.
The Girls' Ultimate Movement is a community-wide outreach program designed to increase girls’ participation in the sport of ultimate. Through the Girls’ Ultimate Movement, USA Ultimate is collaborating with some of the nation’s most passionate and dedicated female and male leaders to generate new and innovative ideas for programming, infrastructure and policy that will facilitate development of the girls’ division - all as part of ongoing efforts to increase the number of youth and girls who play ultimate.
Photo: Jim Gallagher
Now you can show your support for the Girls' Ultimate Movement with a GUM headband from Five Ultimate!
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