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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).

If you heard about a team that took their region three times in the last four years, made Nationals every year since 2002 and while there, made Quarters three times in the last six years, and the Final Four in 2006 - you'd likely say they were a contender for that elusive Sarasota Gold.

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.

"Sam Terry was hired to help kids with conflict resolution and other life skills at Mercer Middle School. Today, he tells us how he found an unlikely path to those skills through ultimate frisbee."

With the 2008 World Championships coming up in August, it's a good time to make sure you understand the rules used in international play.

Roaring through Boulder and cementing their legacy as the top program in the sport, Wisconsin polished off the only thorn in its side in the last three seasons, and claimed the first back-to-back Nati

For Greater Ontario And Toronto, 2007 was definitely a Cinderella Season marked by fortuitous power shifts among elite ultimate programs, Sarasota drama and World tournament scheduling. Beginning in June of last year, GOAT was handed the top seed in the Northeast due to a massive rearrangement of Boston talent.

One of the challenges of coaching is having young players as well as older players understand the difference in the window of opportunity of i/o throws and o/i throws. Especially break throws.

No matter what level of team here in the northeast, at least once a game, there is always the dreaded i/o break turnover to someone making a cone cut from the back of the stack.

With the World Championships mere weeks away, the Seattle Sockeye are training hard to represent the United States well.