our ultimate HOME clinic!

our ultimate HOME will be running a clinic on Saturday!

From Heather Ann Brauer:

Ultimate promotes itself as an inclusive progressive sport. Do you think it’s living up to that ideal? In what ways is ultimate doing a good job? Where does it need improvement?

Come talk about these things and more with our ultimate HOME on Saturday from 3:45pm to 4:30pm outside of tournament central. HOME is a grassroots organization that seeks to make Ultimate a true home for everyone, regardless of how they identify. Join us to explore issues of identity, intent vs. impact, and to learn more about HOME!

Ultimate Peace Spikeball Tournament Fundraiser!

This just in from Mary Andrews, Northampton HS ultimate player and Ultimate Peace LIT!

Hello everyone! There will be a spikeball tournament at the PVI diner at Northampton High Saturday night! To enter, choose a partner and sign up at the tourney central. (Look for the signs) This is an Ultimate Peace fundraiser run by Mary Andrews, and to enter its $10 ($5 per person). It will be bracket play, and games to 11.

Program! Text updates! NUTC!

The tournament program is now online! Please make sure you read it over in detail.

It’s important that every team have as many people as possible sign up to receive tournament updates via text. Anyone can sign up by texting @pvi2018 to 81010.

An now a message from Tiina Booth!

Hello PVI players and coaches!

My name is Tiina Booth and I am one of the coaches of the UMass men’s team, as well as the director of the National Ultimate Training Camp. Welcome to the Pioneer Valley Invitational and we hope you are ready for an amazing weekend of ultimate!

Your team will receive a NUTC disc on Saturday morning and each disc has our summer schedule written on it. Please use and share this disc with your team. We will also have a NUTC Hospitality Tent set up and please stop by to say hi, hang out with campers and counselors and enjoy some special gifts.

Please also share this link with your team and parents for more info about camp.

Best of luck this weekend and please stop by and say hi!

  • Tiina

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Looking for girls pickup players!

Montpelierhs14.jpgThis just in from Nolan, the Montpelier girls coach:

Hello fellow ultimate coaches!

The Montpelier girls ultimate program is really excited to have a JV and Varsity team for the first time this year! Unfortunately our JV team has had a few injuries this week and are close to savage for the Pioneer Valley Invitational. If you have any newer girls on your team that would like some extra playing time this weekend we would love to have them. Our team is a fun and welcoming bunch and would be psyched to have a couple extra subs.

Thank you!

You can contact Nolan at nolanbenoit12@gmail.com.

A note about the weather

As you may have noticed, there is some rain in the forecast this weekend.

We are keeping a very close eye on the forecast, for sure. We recommend you do the same.

Our fields drain exceptionally well and are in very solid condition, so unless the forecast gets much, much, much worse the event will not be impacted.

Teams may be wet during parts of the event, but the schedule will play out as planned.

What is forecast right now is not even remotely close to bad enough for us to cancel the event.

I will let you know via email/text the moment the weather even has any chance of impacting the schedule of the event. Right now it does not.

Also please note, there is no rain date. Well before we even get close to having to cancel the event, we’d modify the schedule.

It may be a wet weekend, but the event will happen.

See you soon!

Final Schedule & Food Info

The tournament schedule have now been finalized! Please look it over, in detail, and let Josh know ASAP if you have any questions. At this point the schedule will only be changed if MAJOR errors are found. Again, please make sure you look it over in detail!

The Saturday night dinner and social at Northampton HS is shaping up to be phenomenal! There will be fun and games outside, and a massive dinner and dance inside. Dinner is only for people that paid for a dinner ticket. That being said, anyone is welcome to join in on the social events!

The dinner is being made by The Black Sheep Deli and the menu is as follows:

  • Garden salad
  • Focaccia
  • Mac & cheese
  • Baked ziti with cheese
  • Baked ziti with chicken – No dairy
  • Mediterranean tofu
  • Cookie & brownies

On Saturday each team will receive a team box containing 6 apples, 8 bananas, loaf of bread, pound of peanut butter, pound of Nutella, clamshell of baked brownie bites, big bag of pretzels, and a bag of Twizzlers. Teams will not receive another team box on Sunday.

The following food items will be available, for free, at tourney central: Sandwiches (PBJ nutella), bagels & cream cheese, apples, bananas, watermelon slices, lemonade, and gatorade.

Unfortunately there will very few, if any, food trucks on site during the event.