On Monday evenings we have court space available. From 9-10 pm. There are 4 courts. For $35/hour per court. Pick-up did not have enough numbers to continue. If you'd like to rent a court, please email the leagues coordinator. Thanks.
Need a Volunteer to participate in the Hutt City KiwiSport Primary School Sports Festival
Date: Tuesday 1 May 2012 (postponement date Tuesday 8 May)
Time: Start - 10am; finish - approx 2pm
Location: Fraser Park, Lower Hutt
Aim: To expose children to a variety of different sports, with the possibility that students find a sport they enjoy and want to continue with.
45 minute sessions, 5 groups of up to 30 10-12 year olds.
Everything is provided – an extra volunteer is needed to help them learn to throw, help with some simple disc skills games, and encourage them.
Lunch and transportation is provided.
If you are interested please contact:
Martin Wilson
www.capitalproductions.co.nz
021 641998
WDS is pleased to announce the return of regular outdoor pick-up. Pick-up will be held at 10AM -12 Noon on Sundays at Boyd-Wilson artificial turf. Games will be on regardless of weather.
To cover the costs of hiring the fields, WDS will be charging players $5 per game after their first game or $20 per season. To support youth ultimate development WDS will cover the costs for U19/juniors players attending.
Leagues are about to get underway.
The Thursday league starts this week (Thursday 19 April) with a grading round. Games will start at 6:15 pm. Captains, or a team representative if the captian isn't avialable, are meeting at 6 pm. Each team will play multiple short games. The last game should finish about 9:30 pm, if everything runs according to schedule. At the end of the evening, we will have a ranking of teams, that we will use to divide the league into pools of similarly strengthed teams.
Monday leagues will start on Monday 23rd April. I will be posting games for these leagues on the WDS website over the next couple days. There are 9 teams registered for B and 9 teams registered for C grade, so each of these leagues will have a bye each week. There will be 8 teams for the A Grade Draft league. Captains have met and we've done a premliminary draft of teams. The teams are now being reviewed to try to ensure that they are of close to similar strength and players will be notified of what team they are on later this week. All A Grade teams will play their first game on Monday 23 April.
There will also be 7 a side pick-up starting on Monday 23 April at 9:05 pm - 10:00 pm. Martin Wilson will be managing this league and collecting the $5 fee from each player.
If you have any questions about any of the leagues, please don't hesitate to contact Alaina at wgtn.ultimateleagues@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Alaina
This year we are using a new venue (ASB Sports Arena), and new format. It is hard to predict how many teams will enter in each league. If there is more demand for one or more leagues, we may need to change the starting times and/or length of games to accommodate all players. If there is any significant decrease in game time (due to more teams playing), we will reduce the league fees. What follows is based on the information we have at the moment.
League structures:
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C Grade
Mondays from 23 April - 25 June 18:15 -19:00 $350 per team Standard League -
B Grade
Mondays from 23 April - 25 June 19:05-20:05 $450 per team Standard League -
A Grade
Mondays from 23 April - 25 June 20:10- 21:10 $450 per team Draft League -
7 a Side
Mondays from 23 April - 25 June 21:15 -22:00 $5 per person, honesty box on the night Pick up -
B Grade
Thursdays from 19 April - 28 June Hour long games between 18:00-22:00 $450 per team Standard League
Note the first Thursday 19 April will be a mini tournament to sort teams into pools for that grade.
7 a Side is played on all four courts, using the outdoor rules.
League Rules:
- No restricted players but we advise captains to be sensible when putting together their teams and we will review them before acceptance. Unbalanced games are not fun for anyone.
- 1 woman minimum on the court per team, can be forced to 2 women by the offense.
- Boys under 14 count as men
- Only 1 pick up allowed per game, no pick ups can start in last 15 minutes of games
- 2 two minute timeouts per team, no timeouts in last five minutes.
- full rules and regulations.
Where: ASB Sports Arena, Cobham drive, Kilbrinie (yes - the brand new indoor sports venue)
Registrations will open on Monday 2 April and close on Wednesday 11 April.
To Register:
To register a team for the B grade Monday or Thursday or C grade Monday leagues you must have a team created on the website and there must be players on that team. Once the 12Q2 league has started the roster on the website will be considered the team roster. However, because teams with the same name will change rosters between seasons, please fill out the roster form for each team you wish to register and email it to Alaina O'Byrne, the Leagues Coordinator no later than 5 pm on Wednesday, 11 April 2012.
The roster must include contact details for the captain (the email and cellphone numbers will be shared with other captains, to allow for quicker contact in event of defaults).
To register for the A grade draft league please fill out the survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JMYQFXQ Please remember to include your contact details. It is very difficult to let you know which team you will be playing on, if we do not have a valid email address or phone number.
Teams with outstanding league fees from previous leagues won't be accepted into the next league. Individuals with outstanding fees wilsl not be accepted into the A grade draft until their fees have been paid.
Once I have finalised teams, team Captains will receive an invoice. Payment will be due within two weeks of receiving the invoice. After this two week period there will be a $50 penalty fee for teams with unpaid fees.
All registrations close on Wednesday 11 April, 2012 at 5 pm.
WDS Awards 2012 - The Winners Gallery
You Voted. We counted. And the winners on the night were...
Award |
Nominee |
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Best U19 |
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Liam Haberfield |
An asset to the U19 squad and has awesome throws Liam has consistently shown his ability throughout the past year. As a strong player from the VUWFDC, he has helped them to many victories in both indoor and outdoor leagues, not to mention tournaments. Having only just finished high school at the end of 2011, he is an outstanding junior player. His greatest achievement in the past year is probably the selection into and subsequently becoming one of the key members of the NZ U19 Team which beat Australia last October. |
Best New Female |
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Tamsin Fitzgerald | |
Best New Male |
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Matt Richardson |
Matt has gone from a new player to someone who can help against the best of teams and has already made the U19's. His throws are amazing for a new player. Matt is the perfect example of how far a little determination and hard work will get you. He first stepped onto a field at the Super City Uni Games in April last year having never played a game of outdoor frisbee before. He has continued to improve steadily, and his hard work paid off when only a few months later he was selected as part of the NZ U19 squad to play and beat Australia in a white wash. Victoria University has recognised Matt's efforts also- awarding him a University Blues award in 2011 which recognises sporting excellence. Matt is a player who has come out of nowhere in the last year to become a skilled young player with a great future ahead of him. |
Most Improved |
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Tara Beathem | |
Most Spirited |
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Mike Bogacki | |
Best Administrator |
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Vic Johns | Vic's very organised and the leagues are running pretty smoothly. Has stepped up as Leagues Coordinator and done fantastically well. Hooray for Vic! |
Club of the Year |
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VUWFDC |
Consistently plays in finals in wellington leagues and competes at the top level against other cities at nationals. Second at Nationals, did pretty well at Mixed and has 7 players selected to go to Worlds in Japan. Continually tops the leagues and has a graet club environment. VUWFDC has had a fantastic year. Apart from winning Gold at University Games in a well-fought battle against Canterbury in the final, VUWFDC's Open Team managed a very respectable 2nd place at WaM last year. As a university club, the VUWFDC recruits a large number of new players to the sport each year and some of the new recruits last year went on to represent NZ in the U19 teams. VUWFDC also offers a great amount to the development of Wellington Ultimate, in that it is one of the few clubs to offer regular weekly training to help both members and other Wellington players improve. |
Best Mentor |
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Cedric Horner | Injury has laid him out for much of this year, but that hasn't stopped Cedric from supporting and coaching new players. He's been a really great coach all year, and has been really patient with all of the junior teams in helping them improve. He's also being finding and encouraging all sorts of Ultimate opportunities for the juniors. |
Best Female |
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Nobi | Quite simply, Nobbi is just a beast. |
Best Male |
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Andrew Neal |
Andy is awesome without trying. Super awesome when the trousers come off. Made the NZ men's team and is one of thier good handlers. Consistently plays well in wellington leagues. General all round rockstar and nice guy. Destroys on field when he puts his mind to it and even when he doesn't |
The WDS Schools are pleased to announce they are running a competition in patnership with CAYAD* Hutt Valley for young people to design the first Youth Ultimate Disc in Wellington.
Designs are due with CAYAD by 22 April. Download the design form for more details.
Congratulations to the 12Q1 winners
Monday 5-a-side
Main final: Massive V
Plate: Penultimate Warriors (Monday Night Macho)
Spirit: Penultimate Warriors (Monday Night Mysterio)
Male MVP: Karl, Massive V
Female MVP: Cindy, Multiple Scorgasms
MSP: Nick from Snuffelupadisc
Tuesday 7-a-side
Main final: Senor Bojangles
Plate: Sex Panther
Spirit: Ruskus Mungus
Male MVP: Tim, NGA
Female MVP: Niki Botes, Senor Bojangles
MSP: Craig, Tues Crew (1)
Hi,
Lots of you are interested in how the indoor leagues will work. We are finalising a couple of details but can tell you that we will be running Monday (three grades) and Thursday (one big grade) nights, starting Thursday 19 April with a grading round. Further details will be available by Friday.
Thanks
Sam
WDS President
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