Ultimate Frisbee NSW

The NSWFDA Committee has recently created a new award named after Simon Farrow. The "Simon Farrow Award" has been created to recognise long service to Ultimate within NSW. The UFNSW Awards have been presented since 2003 but the committee felt that a new award was warranted which specifically recognised contributions over a long period of time. The inaugral recipient of the new award is its namesake, Simon Farrow.

The Annual General Meeting for UFNSW/NSWFDA is coming up on the 4th of September at the North Wollongong Hotel from 7pm.

This is a quick email to inform everyone about the upcoming Annual General Meeting for UFNSW/NSWFDA. The AGM is going to be held on the Saturday evening of the NSW Mixed Ultimate Championships on the 4th of September and will be in Wollongong.

I am pleased to announce that the 2010 New South Wales Mixed Ultimate Championships will be held...

The inaugural Western Sydney Gala Day was held June 9, 2010 in the West Domain of Parramatta Park. Ideal conditions of no wind and no rain on a winters day saw the 140 participants have a great day out of the classroom. The boys draw featured 8 teams and the girls 4 – besides Greystanes, all of these were schools participating at their first Ultimate Frisbee event.

The North Sydney Gala Day has been run on Wednesday 16th June. After being called off two weeks ago due to poor weather the participants were greeted with a sunny 20 degree day.

This years competition saw a rather small boys division of 6 teams and a large girls division including 10 teams from east and north Sydney as well as the Central Coast.

George Dyke has put in a number of hours putting together the Sydney Ultimate Map. The interactive map can be found at http://tinyurl.com/sydneyultimate.

A big thanks to George for putting in the time and effort and letting us share the map!

Pie Wagon, an Ultimate Frisbee team from Newcastle, has qualified to represent Australia in the mixed division at the World Club Championships in Prague this July. 45 teams from 25 countries will compete in the championships. Pie Wagon has managed to win one of only 3 berths for Australian teams, along with Canberra and Adelaide; the first time for a Newcastle team.

Ultimate Frisbee NSW is looking for a part time book keeper (this is a paid position). This role is responsible for accurate maintenance of UFNSW’s finances. Key activities include invoicing, receipt of payments, accounts payable and bank reconciliations.

The role is approximately 1 day a month with the possibility of expanded duties to other areas depending on the candidate. Pay rates will be negotiated based on candidate’s experience, flexibility etc. A laptop would be provided and location of work to be negotiated.

The annual Ultimate Stampede has been run and won in it’s 4th successive year.

11 teams descended upon a very warm and pleasant Bathurst to duke it out in the Saturday teams competitions in what could be described as perfect weather conditions as the fog lifted off of Morse Park to leave an absolutely glorious day!

Newcastle have secured their place in history taking out the Open Division National Championships in Adelaide (24-27 April). The Newcastle Open team "I-Beam" took the hard road to get to the final having to win a pre-semi against Heads of State (Melbourne) then a semi-final (15-14) against Colony Pillage (Sydney). This was followed up with another universe-point game against Colony Plunder (Sydney) to win the National Open Championship 14-13. It is the first time a Newcastle Open team has won the championships.

Jonathan Tatham captain of I-Beam was named the tournament MVP.