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Ultimate Happenings: Issue 133 - April 25, 2000

OCUA Web site: http://www.ocua.ca

"Seen it all, done some of it, can't remember any of it"

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CONTENTS:

- The Last Reminder - Team Registration
- Team List Updates
- Thursday 4/3
- Cones
- Women'S Competitive Ultimate Tryouts
- Men'S Competitive Ultimate Tryouts
- Carpooling, Is There Any Interest?
- Calendar Of Events

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THE LAST REMINDER - TEAM REGISTRATION:

(Even I think this is getting tedious...)

Team registration - Saturday April 29th.
Duke of Somerset (downstairs)
10 am - 4 pm.

Each team is required to register and pay their team fees
on that day.

Bring:

- A cheque or money order for $750 for team fees
- Another separate cheque or money order for $25 for the
  refundable roster deposit

(All cheques/money orders should be made out to the
"Ottawa-Carleton Ultimate Association")

Save time write the following information on the back of
your cheque. [Print clearly please - do this ahead of time]
- Your name
- Your team name
- The night and division you are registering for
- Your night phone number
- Your e-mail address

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TEAM LIST UPDATES:

Hopefully everyone has received the list of teams for the
summer league that I sent out yesterday. Thanks for the
feedback that I have received today.

For those of you who may not have looked at this yet please
do so today. If there are any major problems we would like
to hear about them now to make registration and scheduling
as painless as possible.

Therefore, please e-mail me by Wednesday afternoon if:
- Your team was not on the list (but it should have)
- Your team received a spot but does not want it

Thanks
Mike
mharley@sympatico.ca

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THURSDAY 4/3:

We are starting a small (8 team Thursday 4/3 league) this
year. We are only accepting BRAND NEW teams (teams with a
vast majority of new players). We have room for 2 teams.
We would also like to accommodate teams of players that are
not already playing on another night if possible.

If you are interested and your team qualifies please send
me an email with:
- Team name (if possible)
- Your name
- Home phone
- Work phone
- E-mail address

The first game for this league will be on May 11th.

Due to the limited time until registration we do not expect
Thursday 4/3 teams to pay their team fees this Saturday.
If this is possible great. If not we can collect it on or
before May 11th.

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CONES:

We will have a limited number of cones available at
registration for NEW teams.

If you have a set or sets of cones from previous years
that you are not using please bring them to registration
and we will buy them back for $5 (for a set of 8).

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WOMEN'S COMPETITIVE ULTIMATE TRYOUTS:

Editors Note: As the first tryout was tonight you may have
missed it. I understand that is ok. If you are interested
try to make it Thursday.

If you've ever wanted to develop your ultimate skills and
experience tournament play, then you are invited to come to
the women's competitive tryouts. We will be putting together
a couple of different "touring/travelling" teams to compete
in tournaments in the summer and attend Canadian Nationals.

Everyone is welcome!! Bring a friend! All you need is your
cleats and desire to play ultimate!!

Tryouts for women's competitive ultimate will begin held at
Hillcrest High School (corner of Dauphin and Smyth Road):

Tuesday April 25th at 6pm
Thursday April 27th, 6pm;
Sunday April 30th at 12:30pm and,
if need be, Tuesday May 2 at 6pm.

For more info please contact:

Hali Gernon:
hali_gernon@cyberus.ca
p: 775-9936

Vicky Barnowski:
barnowski@sympatico.ca
w: 234-9235

If the weather is extraordinarily bad, please contact Hali
Gernon for alternative dates. Also, please call if you have
any other questions regarding competitive Ultimate or the
tryouts.

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MEN'S COMPETITIVE ULTIMATE TRYOUTS:

Editors Note: As the first tryout was tonight you may have
missed it. I understand that is ok. If you are interested
try to make it Thursday.

When:
April 25th, 27th, 29th

Where:
NoName fields at Fisher and Baseline

Contact:
Jamie Hoover (565-9804) or Chris Keith (725-2876)

Tryouts for men's competitive travelling teams will be held
on Tuesday April 25, Thursday April 27 at 6pm and Sunday April
30th at 10am at nonamed fields at the South East Corner of
Fisher and Baseline off Fisher behind the baseball diamonds.
(You will be able to see them from the road) If it rains
tryouts WILL BE postponed or relocated.

Anyone interested in playing competitive Ultimate is encouraged
to come out. Please note, these are tryouts for all the Ottawa
touring teams: Wax, Voodoo, and Mothra.

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CARPOOLING, IS THERE ANY INTEREST?:

Hello everyone, this was brought up at the general meeting on
the 19th, and here is the follow up:

I'm looking to see if there is any interest in organizing a
carpool to and from Manotick. The main purpose of the carpool
is, obviously, to help out your Ultimate brethren who do not
have access to a vehicle, but still like to use the Sod Farm
and South Park. The secondary purposes are to help with the
parking situation (less cars means more spots means less
parking on the streets means happier neighbors!) as well as
helping to control the amount of pollutants in the environment.

The carpool would be organized via database, and I would look
to have people drive out those who live or work near them, or
that can picked up en route to the field (so as to not
inconvenience the driver too much).

I suppose the service would be free, but if a rider were to
donate $2 (the approximate cost of a bus ride) to the driver
to cover gas, I'm sure it would be appreciated.

This is just to gauge interest, and, unless the response is
overwhelming, I doubt this would be ready in time to start the
season, but should be a go (with enough interest from riders
and drivers) by the middle of May.

So please contact Jeff at homrbush@sympatico.ca to make your
interest known, and also if you have any questions.

Thanks for your time,

Jeff Rathburn

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

  2000/04/29    : OCUA Registration
  2000/05/06-07 : TUT (Toronto, ON)
  2000/05/08    : OCUA season starts
  2000/05/20    : Deadline for player registration information
  2000/05/21-22 : Wax Clinic? - Info sketchy on this right now
  2000/05/27    : Layout For Life (Ottawa, ON)
  2000/05/30    : Catholic High School Tourney
  2000/06/03    : High School Tourney
  2000/06/03-04 : Gender Bender (Fergus, ON)
  2000/06/10    : Spring Tune-Up (Ottawa, ON)
  2000/06/10-11 : U.F.O. (Oromocto, NB)
  2000/06/17    : 9th Annual Ultimate Beach Tournament (Ottawa, ON)
  2000/06/17-18 : Black and Blue Co-ed Tourney (Ottawa, ON)
  2000/06/24-25 : Unknown Legends (Hamilton, ON)
  2000/06/30    : Pre-Canada Day Campout Party (Ottawa, ON)
  2000/07/01-02 : Montreal Jazz Tournament (Montreal, QC)
  2000/07/07    : UP Inc General Meeting
  2000/07/08-09 : No Borders (Ottawa, ON)
  2000/07/15-16 : Flatland Frenzy (Winnipeg, MB)
  2000/07/22-23 : Parlee Beach (Shediac, NB)
  2000/07/27-30 : Nationals (Vancouver, BC)
  2000/08/12-13 : Catch 'N' Release 2000 (Halifax, NS)
  2000/08/19-20 : OCUA playoffs (divisions to be announced)
  2000/08/26-27 : OCUA playoffs (divisions to be announced)
  2000/09/09    : OCUA end of summer party
  2000/09/23-24 : Fr'equinox (Co-ed, Ottawa ON)

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