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Welcome to USA Ultimate Weekly, where we'll provide you with brief, weekly updates on happenings at USA Ultimate!

April 4, 2016:

• Help the U.S. National Teams on their journeys to the World Ultimate and Guts Championships in London and the World Junior Ultimate Championships in Poland! Plus, get some cool swag as a thank you.  
  
  
   

  USA Ultimate has joined forces with RallyMe to serve as the Official Fundraising Partner for the U.S. National...

  Posted by USA Ultimate on Monday, April 4, 2016

• The mixed and women's WUGC national teams had their first practices together last weekend in the Bay Area. Countdown to London: 74 days. #oosa 
  

  Offensive chalk talk. Much knowledge pic.twitter.com/vnRf99dLAI

  — 2016 USAU XNT (@usau_xnt) April 2, 2016

  
  

   

  Bay Area practice weekend 1 ?? #uswnt #womeninultimate #donuts

  A photo posted by USAU Women's National Team (@usau_wnt) on Apr 4, 2016 at 9:20am PDT

  
  
  
• Last week, with North Carolina set to host next month's D-I and D-III College Championships, USA Ultimate released a statement regarding House Bill 2 which was recently passed by the state legislature. 
  
  
   

  USA Ultimate strongly opposes discrimination and other hateful actions that are inconsistent with the mission of our...

  Posted by USA Ultimate on Thursday, March 31, 2016

  
  
  
  
• The top teams in both D-I and D-III held their spots in the fourth iteration of this year's college rankings, released last Wednesday.
  
  A preliminary set of final rankings will be released mid week. Teams will have 24 hours after they are released to locate and notify us of any inaccuracies in scores or removed games.
  
  We hope to release the final edition of this year's rankings, with final bid allocations for regionals and the College Championships, late Thursday evening. 
  
  

.@UMassUltimate #1, top7 unchanged in D-I #MEN #CollegeUltimate rankings. Bids: SC+1, SW-1. https://t.co/J1d2JCAuG5 pic.twitter.com/hMmNw3iCuV — USA Ultimate (@USAUltimate) March 30, 2016	.@OregonFugue jumps to #2 in D-I #WMN #CollegeUltimate rankings. Bid watch unchanged. https://t.co/F3oAjLJbqH pic.twitter.com/KY8nT3X7MR — USA Ultimate (@USAUltimate) March 30, 2016
.@JBUIronfist remains #1 D-III #MEN #CollegeUltimate team this week. Bid watch unchanged. https://t.co/O2TuyOicuz pic.twitter.com/corDeO3Iyk — USA Ultimate (@USAUltimate) March 30, 2016	Mount Holyoke enters the D-III #WMN #CollegeUltimate rankings at #2. NE +1 bid, OV -1. https://t.co/uj6rkr5wz1 pic.twitter.com/pjbc2KUpJz — USA Ultimate (@USAUltimate) March 30, 2016




• The 2016 college regular season is officially in the books. The season's final 18 events took place around the country last weekend. Check out results of all the regular season's events at usaultimate.org/college.
   
• Logos for the the D-I and D-III College Championships have been posted:
  

  800 teams. 103 conference championships. 33 regional tournaments. #roadtoraleigh & #winstonisforwinners is up next. pic.twitter.com/wxdHMfHPcF

  — USA Ultimate (@USAUltimate) April 4, 2016

  
  
  
• USA Ultimate recently launched the ACE Program, which will help recognize and incentivize growth and sustainability of college ultimate programs based on team development and alignment with the three Cs of USA Ultimate’s mission: Character, Community and Competition. 
  
  

  We've launched the Achieving College Excellence (ACE) Program, presented by @breakmarkulti https://t.co/ZX6t2y2Qw4 pic.twitter.com/Qz1PojM6Ll

  — USA Ultimate (@USAUltimate) March 29, 2016

  
  
  
• Competition fields for this year's 2016 Triple Crown Tour events are starting to come together. Check out the mixed field for the U.S. Open and the women's fields for the Pro-Elite Challenge and Pro Flight Finale.
  
  
  

   

  Phenomenal field of 12 mixed division teams heading to Rhode Island, July 1-4. #USOpenRI Drag'n Thrust, Mixtape, Polar Bears, Slow White, Metro North, NOISE, AMP, Ambiguous Grey, Wild Card, Union, Voltage (Colombia), and Panama.

  A photo posted by USA Ultimate (@usaultimate) on Mar 30, 2016 at 4:11pm PDT

  
  

   

  The women's division field at the 2016 TCT Pro-Elite Challenge will have 14 Nationals qualifiers. #TCTPEC Check it out July 30-31, in Aurora, Colo.

  A photo posted by USA Ultimate (@usaultimate) on Mar 31, 2016 at 1:01pm PDT

  
  

   

  The women's division field for the 2016 TCT Pro Flight Finale (#TCTPFF), Aug 20-21, in Vancouver, WA.

  A photo posted by USA Ultimate (@usaultimate) on Apr 4, 2016 at 10:22am PDT

  
  
  
  

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