Ultimate Canada
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| Sport | Ultimate (sport) |
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| Jurisdiction | National |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Affiliation | World Flying Disc Federation |
| Chief Exec | Danny Saunders |
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Ultimate Canada is a not-for-profit organization that serves as the governing body of the sport of Ultimate (also known as "Ultimate Frisbee") in Canada. It runs the Canadian Ultimate Championships (CUC) and Canadian University Ultimate Championship (CUUC) series.
Canadian Ultimate Championships (CUC)
Each August, teams from across the country travel to the Canadian Ultimate Championships (CUC) to compete for the national title in 7 different divisions: mixed, open, women's, junior open, junior women, masters open and masters women. Teams compete at this seven-day tournament not only to determine the national champion, but also to determine who will represent Canada at the next world championships.
Canadian University Ultimate Championships (CUUC)
The CUUC started in 1995 and brings university teams from across the country to compete in the open & the women's division. Each fall Ultimate Canada operates two competitions for university Ultimate teams in Canada: the Canadian University Ultimate Championships (CUUC) and the Canadian Eastern University Ultimate Championships (CEUUC). The CEUUC began in 1998 and brings university teams primarily from Ontario and Quebec together to compete in the open & the women's division.
In 2010, the Toronto Ultimate Club released a documentary film, 30 years in 30 minutes, that traces the club's history as well as the history of disc ultimate in Canada. Not far removed from the invention of Ultimate in the late 1960s, Ken Westerfield and Jim Kenner (the founder and CEO of Discraft) ran the Canadian Open Frisbee Championships (guts, distance and later disc golf, disc freestyle and individual field events) in the early 1970s at the Canadian National Exhibition and then later on Toronto Islands. They also participated in several Frisbee show tours across Canada for Irwin Toy (Wham-O licensee and Frisbee distributor for Canada). Each year their show tours would end in Vancouver where they would set up the Vancouver Open Frisbee Championships on Kitsilano Beach and Stanley Park (1974-1976). This is where Jim Brown, Bill King and John Anthony of freestyle fame made their first competitive appearances. From these championships and the presence of these touring professional Frisbee players (Westerfield, Kenner, and Bob Blakely of Irwin Toy), Toronto became the hub of Frisbee activity in Canada. In the 1970s, Ken Westerfield introduced disc ultimate north of the 49th parallel at the Canadian Open Frisbee Championships in Toronto and by creating the Toronto Ultimate League (Club).
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