BananaCut

This site was created to educate Ultimate players about common injuries and medical issues that stem from playing our incredible sport. Inside IT, you'll find papers written by health care professionals for Ultimate players on all sorts of topics, from prevention of common injuries to ankle wrapping to how to build a first aid kit for yourself or your team.

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From the OpenUltimate FAQ:

Every team in a Region gets to vote for the seven players that make it on to the All-Region teams, so everyone knows that if a player is on an All-Region team, she commanded the attention and respect of her regional rivals. For the 2008 season, there are 18 players across the country that have been recognized as All-Region caliber (some more than once!).

The UPA is not planning on building an ultimate-specific field site. Good for them.

Here's a great quote: "what a coach knows but his players don't is irrelevant when it comes to winning games". This I interpret, as a coach, is your goal is to convey information about the game, the situation, and the skill to your players. This passing of information is done at practice and in games.

This sport is growing exponentially in high school. Being a player on a good YCC team no longer translates into immediate success in college. The level of play jumps dramatically, and without knowledgeable and experience leaders, players are left stunted in their ability to grow their skills.

The Pittsburgh High School Ultimate League is about halfway to its goal of setting up a $100,000 endowment to annually fund a $4,000 scholarship for its outstanding players, organizers said Sunday.

Brad Jones, a graduate student and coach of Mississippi State's Ultimate club team, was among those observing the team's final point in the Bama Open Sectionals tournament in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Apri

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.