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Ultimate Happenings: Issue 58 - July 28 1998

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

"Hang up and drive!"

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CONTENTS:

- Calling All Ultimate Players:
- 1998 Nationals Allotments:
- Ultimate Survey:
- Roommate Wanted (Non-smoking):
- Roommate Wanted ?:
- Foam Discs For Sale:

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CALLING ALL ULTIMATE PLAYERS:

Want to have a great time and support a good cause? On
September 12th the 2nd Annual Ultimate Corporate Challenge
will be held at the Manotick Sod Farms. This event will
benefit the Ottawa Carleton Ultimate Association and The Door
Youth Drop-In Centre. For teams entering before August 13th,
it's ONLY $150, and after the 13th it's still only $175.
Cisco Systems is sponsoring the event, and every player on
every team will receive a FREE Cisco disc. There'll be music
and a beer tent and a chance to win a Mountain Bike. So get
signed up and support a good cause and get yourself a free
disc and have an amazing time. For more info contact:

Stacey Nunes, tournament Director
 e: Stacey.Nunes@nrc.ca

Angela Thomson
 Registration
 Ultimate Corporate Challenge
 e: thomson@compmore.net

Thanks

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1998 NATIONALS ALLOTMENTS:

John Harris, Exec Dir

I just got off the phone with David Hoppenheim. He will be
sending more details to individual captains and will likely
post an updated info on the web page. This note is just to
try to get the highlights out as quickly as possible.

1. As of July 22, there were 43 teams that had registered for
the tourney and sent in their team fee: 21 open, 13 women's,
6 masters, and 3 juniors.

Spots have been reserved for ALL of these teams in the tourney
(I don't have the actual team list - I think Dave will put i
on the web page). However, the final payments (players fees)
are now overdue. Please get these to David as quickly as
possible. Teams will not be allowed to play any games at
Nationals until they have paid all their fees.

2. The original plan was to have two sites for Nationals - o e
with 10 fields, another with 6?. This would allow us to
accommodate up to 60 teams, hence the original allotments:
24, 16, 10, 10. It turns out the second site is not working
out as planned, so we feel that we need to decrease the total
number of teams, and to do this, based on the current response e
of teams, we have decided to decrease the final totals for t e
masters and juniors divisions. The new target numbers are as
follows:

24 open, 16 women's, 6 masters, 6 juniors.

(So we're hoping to get 3 more teams in open, women's, and
juniors divisions.)

Note that we will consider raising these numbers if more tea s
apply - by sending in their team fee $600 (e.g. open division
might go up to 28 teams if there is sufficient demand.)

3. There are currently 6-7 open teams, 2-3 women's teams, 1
masters team, and 1-2 juniors teams that have not registered
but have expressed interest in coming to the tournament.
These teams have a good shot at getting in if they get their
team fee in asap. All teams that send in their team fee will
be considered for spots in the tournament. (The teams will
NOT be picked via "first come, first served". Instead, if
there are more teams that register than we have space for,
then David and I will decide which of them gets in and which
don't.)

TEAMS THAT DO NOT PAY THEIR TEAM FEE WILL NOT *EVER* BE
GUARANTEED A SPOT. If you want to play, send in your money
($600).

4. We would like to strongly encourage the formation of
Juniors teams. If you have any chance of helping a juniors
team get to Nationals, please do try.

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ULTIMATE SURVEY:

I am doing a survey on injuries related to Ultimate Frisbee.
Ultimate is a unique sport with frequent flexions, pivotings
and collisions and has similar yet distinct patterns of
injuries to soccer and football.

If you have had an Ultimate elated injury please fill out
this questionnaire. I will organise the information and
make it available to the Manitoba Ultimate leagues and other
participating leagues.


1.
Name_________________
Phone number_________
E-mail_______________

May we please contact you?
Yes___
No___
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________

2. Age ___

3. Male___ Female____

4. How long have you played Ultimate ? ____

5. Junior or Adult league ___________

6. Have you injured yourself in Ultimate previously ? Have
these injuries healed?
What injuries have you had in Ultimate this calendar year?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

7. Have they been self treated? Yes___ No ___
Did you seek professional help? Yes___ No___
If yes, What treatment was given: medication, therapy, brace ,
surgery ?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

8. How long were you off from Ultimate? _________

9. How many hours/ times per week do you play or practice? _ ________

10. Do you usually warm up and then stretch before each game  ____________

11. Do you drink fluid before, during and after each game? _ _________

12. Do you wear protective equipment? _________
What type? _____________________________________________

13. Do you wear cleats? ___________________

14. Do you think your injury could have been prevented and i
so how?
__________
____________________________________________________________ _

15. Please describe your physical condition. (optional)
1) rarely or never exercise
2) exercise 2-3 times per month
3) exercise about once per month
4) exercise 2-3 times per week
5) exercise 4 or more times per week
If 5- do you rest at least 1 day per week?

16. Have you stopped playing ultimate? ________

17. Do you think your injury was a result of competing again t
a team / player who was more fit or skilled than you?
Yes___ No____
Please list additional comments or attach additional sheets.

If you are on one or more teams please list all of
them.________________________________



I hope that the information from this survey will help in
preventing or minimising many frequent injuries. Please fill
out all sections.

If you have further injuries please fill out another form an
indicate that this is a follow up.

Please send all completed forms to me by September 30th,1998

Gary Podolsky MD
75 Poseidon Bay
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3M 3E4

w: (204) 925 1550
h: (204)989 0643
e: podolsky@mb.sympatico.ca

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ROOMMATE WANTED (Non-smoking):

When:
 September 1, 1998

Location:
 Echo Drive (On the Canal, 5 minutes walking distance South
 of Pretoria Bridge).

Description:
 2 bedroom apartment, located on the first floor of a 2
 storey brick building. Hardwood floors throughout and
 washer and dryer.

Details:
 Rent is $450 per month plus heat and gas. Parking may be
 available.

Contact:
 Heather Grenier
 h: 234-9669
 w: 598-6822

The apartment is fully furnished, but we can find space for
more if necessary. You will be responsible for your own
bedroom furniture.

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ROOMMATE WANTED ?:

 Someone sent me an article about another roommate wanted. I
lost the article. Sent it to me again and I will be very
careful.

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FOAM DISCS FOR SALE:

Contact

Steve Ott
 e: otts@stentor.ca
 
Glenda Fulton
 e: smithgj@stentor.ca

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