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Cultimate will be sending initial offers to top College Open teams to join a new championship conference this week. If successful, Conference 1 will feature 25 of the country's top teams playing in season-long competition, culminating in a National Championship tournament for the top 14 teams.

The football and basketball teams failed to win titles, but there is still hope for Maryland sports fans looking for another national championship.

Twenty five years have passed after the first game of Ultimate Frisbee was played in South Africa, but the sport is definitely not getting old.

This was proved at the biggest tournament on the Ultimate Frisbee calendar, the South African National Championships, which was held over two days at Bergvliet High School.

Gerald Griggs, from the School of Sport, Performing Arts and Leisure, has played the sport for six years.

Dartmouth’s men’s ultimate frisbee team made history this season, winning the New England open regional tournament for the first time.

Aside from all the College Ultimate going on, there is this little tournament in Vancouver happening this August 2nd-9th, the WFDF (World Flying Disc Federation) World Ultimate and Guts Championships. In accordance with the WFDF rules, a team is invited to represent their country if they win their country’s National Championship the previous year.

Yes, lots on our plate these days. Club Nationals, a looming college season, but I want to talk about something else. The 2009 World Games are just around the corner and if the U.S. national team wants to improve the selection process from 2005 the time to start thinking about that is now (or, weeks & months ago really, but now will suffice).

Ultimate Frisbee and cheerleading were just two of the activities that hundreds of youngsters from across Swindon took part in as part of National School Sports Week earlier this month.

Outdated but quality piece on Superfly from the Worldwide Leader