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Ultimate Frisbee
If you want to explore a new sport, Ultimate Frisbee is the one to try! Ultimate involves a lot of cardio and can be quite intense, but it’s also very newcomer friendly.
Ultimate is an exciting, mixed gender, non-contact team sport, played by thousands all over the world in Open, Mixed and Women’s teams. Ultimate is a fast-paced game, demanding its players to develop razor-sharp throwing skills and immense stamina and agility. The sport is self-refereed and promotes Spirit Of The Game (SOTG); this means players know the game and rules inside out and understand the meaning of fair play. Being self refereed requires opposing teams to respect and listen to each other when a call is made.
Aye-Aye
Aye-Aye is our club name, after the nocturnal primate which is our mascot! Much mystery surrounds the origin of this choice by the founders of the club. We have all learned to love these strange creatures and are always looking forward to welcoming new aye-ayes into the family.
Aye-Aye is a unique club because there is something for everyone. If you are the competitive type, there are plenty of serious and fun tournaments, for all ability levels, as well as our frequent BUCS fixtures. If you just want to come along for the ride, we have plenty of (infamous) socials and relaxed chuck-abouts.
Social life
You will meet lots of amazing people in our continuously expanding club!
We are known for our inclusive, friendly atmosphere, exemplified by our (often themed) socials, allowing the newcomers to make friends with the existing members and become integrated into the large closely-knit family that is Aye-Aye. Our plan for socials throughout the year is extensive, so come along and participate!
Training
Competitions
We enter competitive indoor regional events which occur over weekends in the men's, women's and mixed divisions, which lead onto National events. In the year just gone, we had one of our most successful years, entering 6 teams total for the indoor regional events, a first for our women's team to have 2 teams going to an indoor regionals event, and 3 teams for nationals. We came 1st at Mixed Indoor Regionals, 2nd at Men's Indoor Nationals Division 2 and 11th at Mixed indoor Nationals Division 1.
We also play in an OPEN division outdoor BUCS fixtures on Wednesday afternoons, ALL players are invited to play (both men's and women's divisions).
Other tournaments we participate in are beginners tournaments, they're great for improving newcomer's frisbee skills (and partying prowess)!
Aye-Aye Open
Aye-Aye Open (AAO) is our very own fun tournament, normally organised in the Spring. Anyone can play in this tournament because we are the hosts! Teams from all over the country come to the Sports-Park for some top quality indoor Frisbee played in themed outfits followed by a big social.
Contact
Our Instagram page is our main public point of contact, where you can find out how to get involved and follow what is happening in the club (@ueaultimatefrisbee). As a member of the club you will be added to a Facebook Messenger group chat which is our more informal and internal way of communicating with everyone.
Also join our Facebook page for club news including training, tournaments, the social calendar, live-streaming of our competitive matches and more.
https://www.facebook.com/UEAUltimateFrisbee/ Promo page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ueaultimate Group page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1017040309312802/ Freshers Facebook Group 23-24
If you want to message us, you can email us or DM our Instagram page:
http://instagram.com/ueaultimatefrisbee?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
Committee
DM any one of us directly on Facebook -
- President - Beatrix Towers
- Vice President/Secretary - Conor Franks
- Treasurer - Will Martin
- Captains - Beatrix Towers & Sam Barrett
- Vice Captains - Seshadhri Subramanian & Abigail Hieatt
- Social Secretary - Rachel Plummer & Charles Gunn
- Publicity Secretary - Rachel Plummer
- Tournament Director - George Carter
- Health and Safety, Equality and Diversity Officer - Adam Karim
- Union Council Representative - George Carter
- Welfare Officer - Will Martin
Additional Cost of Sport Ranges
The additional cost of sport project, which was created by the Students’ Union, alongside uea+sport, is designed to give prospective members information on the range of costs they may face in joining their chosen sport.
This range should be taken as guidance. For compulsory costs, this price includes uea+sport membership which is £55, and you only need to pay once to join all of our clubs.
When considering additional costs, some clubs may have none and others may have further costs. This is often dependent on the level of competitiveness for the sport you get involved in, and so recreational or socially playing may be cheaper. You may also have equipment which can be used between multiple sports, for example shoes or gum shields.
For any questions, please ask the sport club for specific further information, or union.opportunities@uea.ac.uk for further information on the project.
Many thanks,
Luke Johnson
Your Activities & Opportunities Officer 23/24
AYE-AYE University Nationals Team 2023
