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2004 CUPA Innovation Grant Winners The following proposals are recipients of a 2004 CUPA Innovation Grant of $250 CDN. Congratulations! Click here read a summary of what happened at their event. Durham | Britannia | UltimAction
Durham Elementary Ultimate Tournament (CUPA-VC Ultimate Junior Innovation Grant) Teachers in the Durham District School Board are organizing an Ultimate tournament for elementary students. Students in grades 6, 7, and 8 from 12 different schools will participate in an Ultimate Tournament on June 17, 2004. This will be the first time that elementary students will be given the opportunity to participate in this most worthwhile sport in the Durham Region. Tournament organizers are expecting 120 - 150 students at the one day tournament. It is hoped that this tournament will become an annual event. Jason Mottershead (jmottershead AT powergate DOT ca) Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside – A Haven for a New Kind of Trip Drugs, prostitution, violence, prostitution, broken dreams – these are things one instantly thinks of when talking about Vancouver’s downtown eastside. For a group of students at Britannia Secondary, these issues have taken a back seat to the joy and action that only Ultimate Frisbee can offer. Every day at lunch and after school, these students run onto the field, excited by a sport that offers something that no other team sport did. Ultimate is not played in the parks around their homes – none had ever seen an actual game being played prior to joining the team. They learned the sport honestly, one student acquiring a new skill and then sharing his or her knowledge to the rest. Before we knew it – there were 24 kids throwing forehands, backhands, scoobers, hammers and even the occasional push pass (though, no coach worth his weight would ever admit to teaching that much bemoaned pass). Through the tutelage of a few local players, soon this rag-tag collection of individuals was ready to start a team and compete in Vancouver’s highly competitive High School league. The only problem was that no student had a pair of cleats and we only had 4 discs. Through the generosity of many in Vancouver’s Ultimate community, we were able to find over 20 pairs of used cleats and over 15 discs. We were closing in on looking like we could actually play. When we lined up for our first game versus the mighty Windermere Secondary squad, I had to laugh. Not at the incredible lack of height on our team (that’s another issue) but at our pitiful attempt to collectively either wear a light or a dark. We started off with white and those damn grey t-shirts showed up. We quickly switched to dark and again the grey reared its ugly head. I found out later, that finding both a white and dark t-shirt was difficult for some, so being the ingenious lot they are, they split the difference and all showed up with grey. Shirts and skins was becoming a real possibility. Through NASA like coordination, we were able to field a team of 7 darks. The game started and so did the laughs, camaraderie and enthusiasm that can only come when people are enjoying themselves. While playing, the world of these students was as rosy and filled with promise as any private school kid’s. I know Ultimate won’t save these kids – but it will buy them peace of mind and happiness whenever they have an opportunity to play. The sport of Ultimate is breaking free from its Westside stranglehold of Vancouver. Britannia Secondary, the most inner-city of all Vancouver Schools Trevor Stokes – Teacher – Britannia Secondary, Vancouver, BC (stokestrevor AT yahoo DOT ca) UltimAction is a non-profit organization that promotes a healthier way of life through the practice of Ultimate in Quebec City among teenagers. UltimAction wishes to encourage physical education teachers as well as teenagers to play Ultimate. We plan to directly reach 200 teenagers and more
than 3000 indirectly, through 40 expected exhibition games in secondary
schools and various clinics and participation to sports events.
We hope to recruit enough players to set up 4 teams that will form
Quebec City’s first junior league. We finally expect to train
a competitve junior team with the objective to participate in the
new junior section of Frog 2004, Quebec City’s annual summer
tournament. These objectives are for this year, but we plan to continue
our activities for many years. Julien Chapdelaine (ultimaction AT yahoo DOT ca) UltimAction est né du désir de 3 passionnés de Ultimate de Québec de populariser ce sport auprès des jeunes. « Nous souhaitons offrir aux jeunes, mais aussi aux éducateurs physiques, le goût et les outils pédagogiques nécessaires pour jouer et enseigner le Ultimate. UltimAction veut créer un mouvement avec les acteurs des milieux scolaires. » L’un des moyens d’accrocher les jeunes à la pratique du Ultimate, c’est voir jouer les adeptes du sport. Voilà pourquoi l’équipe d’UltimAction, accompagné du Mauvaises Herbes Ultimate Club, entame actuellement un tournée d’une vingtaine d’écoles et encourage les jeunes filles et garçons à à pratiquer le Ultimate. Cette tournée nous permettra d’amasser suffisamment d’inscriptions pour former une ligue junior et éventuellement former l’équipe de compétition de Québec. L’équipe junior de Québec aura l’occasion de prendre part au tournoi provincial de Québec, le FROG, auquel l’Équipe d’UltimAction travaille présentement à ajouter une section junior. Profitant de la saison estivale pour mettre à jour ses outils pédagogiques, UltimAction poursuivra ses activités en septembre en offrant encore 20 démonstrations et 3 séances de formations pour les éducateurs. Julien Chapdelaine (ultimaction AT yahoo DOT ca)
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