NexGen vs. SubZero on August 7th

Hurt'ems and Hertets (and curious parents),

Have you heard of the NexGen ultimate tour?

The tour's mission is to promote ultimate by providing access to elite level college players through youth workshops and showcase games with the best club teams in the world.

The last stop on to tour is Minneapolis and our very own Greg Arenson is hoping that we can help him promote both the workshop and the game versus Sub Zero.

The workshop is a really exciting opportunity for youth players to learn with someone like the current Callahan winner and other great college players like Greg. Check out http://www.nexgentour.com/work​shops/information. Players should register online.

Also, the game versus Sub Zero will be in the National Sports Center Stadium in Blaine, a great venue. Please check out the website www.nexgentour.com.

Feel free to forward this on to your other ultimate playing friends - watching the game will be an excellent RECRUITING opportunity (ahem, bring some new girls especially!).

As you all may know, Greg is a current Greyduck player and has played on SubZero in past years. There are other HUrt alums (like Klaney) who have made SubZero this year or who are playing with NexGen who will also be in attendance.

I'm sure they will put on quite a show!

U16 team needs more players!

All,

The Minnesota High school league is working to put together a U16 open squad for the Youth Club Championships in August (13-14).

They currently have 6 players on the roster and need more. To be eligible, a player must not have turned 16 before June 1, 2011.

Any players that are interested are welcome. Rosters are due in 3 weeks, so please respond ASAP.

The team will participate in the MUDI tournament in Maple Plain on July 23-24 and at YCC's August 13-14. Right now they practice twice a week, but you should still email the coach even if you can only participate at the tournaments.

If you have any questions, please email Johnsandahl@gmail.com.

All State team announced!

Congrats to several of our Hopkins players on making the all state teams:

http://www.usaultimate.org/news/2011-minnesota-hs-states-awards/

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CUB FOODS VOLUNTEERS

We are short volunteers for the next few weeks at the Cub Foods fundraiser. Please check the calendar by clicking on the link to the right of this post and help out if you're available!

YCC

Hurt'ems,

The summer is when you get better. Think about what kind of season you want to have next year, and use the opportunities you have to make it happen.

Play ultimate at the highest level you can as often as you can. The Youth Club Championship tryouts and summer league start next week and the sign ups are now open online:

http://www.mnhsultimate.org/summerleague.aspx
http://mnhsultimate.org/ycc.aspx

This is for everyone, there are u19 teams (open, mixed and womens) and a u16 open team - the more Hurtems we have on these teams, the better. Even if you're not sure you're going to be around this summer, please go to the tryouts just to see what it's like.

Remember to:
Heal.
Throw and catch often.
Get stronger (to prevent injury).
Get in shape.

If you need individual feedback about your game and what you need to do this summer, please ask one of your coaches.

Great season Hurt!
Erin

(erin.mirocha@gmail.com)

Ultimate Peace

Dear Hurt,

I've been speaking with many of you interested parents and players over the past few months about Ultimate Peace, so I wanted to share some information with the entire group. Ultimate Peace is a non-profit, youth-immersion, ultimate frisbee camp for Palestinian and Israeli kids. The week-long over-night summer camp in Akko, Israel unites these children, ages 11-15, teaching them the rules and values of ultimate. Intently apolitical, camp UP's mission is to "To build bridges of friendship, understanding and fun for youth from different social and cultural backgrounds around the world...Ultimate Peace projects will practice, model and convey our five core principles: mutual respect, friendship, non-violence, integrity, and fun."

The camp brings together around 45 American coaches and 30 local coaches/community organizers/translators with the 175 kids. Every team has a random mix of kids, drawing from three equal groups: Arab-Israeli, Jewish-Israeli, and Palestinian (West Bank), (at least) one Hebrew and one Arabic speaker, two American coaches, and two CITs. I am a counselor and it is the most amazing thing I have ever done.

I wanted to share this with Hurt because there are many opportunities for our players to get involved. The camp is always looking for youth counselors-in-training to participate. I think it would be really cool for a Hurtem to represent Hopkins Ultimate in Israel. I know the head coach and camp director very well; it would not be hard to get involved. Also, as a non-profit, much of the funding is from donations and fundraisers from teams like Hopkins. This is first time ultimate has been used primarily to promote peace and understanding.

Anyway, I just wanted to give you a little information. Please visit Ultimatepeace.org for more. Leave a comment or question and I'll get back to you, or e-mail me directly at daniel.curme@gmail.com.

Best,
-Curme

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Pictures

There are new pictures from the first day of State on our Shutterfly site . I know I haven't gotten Westerns up yet, but I'll try to get those done soon! If anyone has other pictures to share, let me know, and we can post them on the site as well.

Varsity State Carpool

Boys, Meet at lindbergh at 7:10. You know the drill
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Hopkins State Schedule

Team schedules have been posted online at:

http://scores.usaultimate.org/scores/#youth-open/tournament/8789

Parents can follow scores online as games are completed, but really, wouldn't you rather be there?

Erin's note: Hurtems! home tournaments still require full KITS - learn from the tournaments you attended this year and get better. This time of year, your cleats are probably either busted or brand new - please be smart: bring a back up pair, or tools to keep your cleats together.

As Chandler said, be at the fields at 8:15 at the latest.

More Banquet information

We are looking for 15 families to provide 2 dozen cookies or bars for our banquet. The team will provide beverages. If you'd like to bring sweets, please click on this sweets link, which will bring you to a sign up sheet. If you are bringing sweets please plan on arriving a few minutes early or make arrangements to drop your food off to Sara earlier in the day.

I understand there has been much frustration with the lack of a "plan" for the banquet. I did ask for volunteers to plan it at the spring meeting, and had no takers. My first (Ultimate) priority for the past month and a half has been travel and tournaments, oh yeah, and Cub...Please know that even though it may look like nothing is being done, behind the scenes a lot of things are happening.We have picked and had to cancel more days than I can count, along with locations that were only available on certain days. It's an extremely busy time of year, and we'll never be able to pick a date that works for everyone. We're hopeful that a majority of the players and parents are able to attend Monday night.

Parents, please think about how you would like to be involved in HURT next season as we will spend a couple minutes talking about volunteer opportunities. And bring your calendars~we will have the Cub calendar out for everyone to sign up!

Looking forward to seeing all of you Monday night!

Banquet - Monday June 6th at 7:30pm

Dear Family,

After much hunting for a venue and an available date, we have decided to have the Banquet on Monday June 6th at 7:30pm at the Brookview Park picnic structure.

We tried really hard to find a date/time that didn't directly interfere with graduation parties, confirmations, graduations, etc. This was the best option we were able to get.

More details will be posted, but we wanted everyone to be able to get this into their calendar.

Thanks,

JV State Carpool Sat/Sun

- The carpool will depart from Lindbergh at 7:30 a.m. each day.
- Parents and players: please post in the comments if you (1) need a ride, or (2) can drive and have room for X additional players in your vehicle (which day, which way).
- If you are not participating in the carpool, please arrive at the fields and be ready by 8:15 for warmups (Captains' meeting at 8:00).

JV Game @ Edina-B

Hey JV -

We were able to arrange a final Thursday game for you. The game will be at Edina-B. The field is different than the one on the league website. It is at the high school. Parking is available on top of the hill (to the West of the fields on the map).

The carpool will meet at Lindbergh at 5:20 for departure at 5:30. Please plan to arrive at the fields by 5:45. As usual, please post intentions to play, requests for rides, and offers to drive in the comments.

Update 6/1: We will have a short roster due to graduation, so Varsity boys and girls are welcome too! We need more firm commitments on drivers. Please post if you can drive and how many you can take.

Banquet

Due to lots of conflicts, we're still looking for a good day to schedule the banquet.

It will be next week sometime, after State.

Summer Opportunities

We are starting to get questions about summer ultimate opportunities. I'll outline a few here, but feel free to add more info or ask questions in the comments:

YCC

The Youth Club Championships is a summer club team preparing for a tournament on August 13-14 in Blaine. This year, in addition to the U-19 division, there is also a U-16 division, so JV players should seriously consider trying out if they will be around for the summer. Tryouts are a great opportunity to play ultimate and get better, so please consider trying out regardless of whether you think you will make the team.

Tryout details are not posted yet, but will go up at mnhsultimate.org/ycc.aspx. There will also be flyers at State.

Luther

This summer, Luther College will host its third annual Ultimate Frisbee Training Camp, June 23-26. We invite your high school teams, youth clubs and individuals ages 14-19 to join us to learn the skills and spirit of Ultimate! A comprehensive camp where beginners learn the ins and outs of Ultimate and experienced players sharpen both technical and tactical skills.

Have players register now at: https://www.luther.edu/programming/camps/frisbee/

Bring five or more campers and receive a team discount!

Next Level

http://www.nextlevelultimate.com/

Next Level Ultimate offers high school players the opportunity to partake in a 5-day overnight summer camp focused on improving at Ultimate Frisbee. Players local to our camp sessions also have the option to attend as day-commuters at a reduced admission price. This next summer, Next Level will also be offering a day clinic for both boys and girls in Minneapolis, MN. Our overnight camps attract high school players on both a national and international level.

Boys: July 9-14, 2011

Edgewood College
Madison, WI

Girls: July 23-28, 2011
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR

Boys: July 23-28, 2011
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR

Clinics:

Boys/Girls: August 18-20, 2011
Minneapolis, MN
Lake Nokomis Park
9:00am - 4:00pm

A note for Parents about State

Hurt family,

As with all tournaments, State relies on the efforts of volunteers to run smoothly. As I'm sure you noticed with Hustle, a lot of the work that needs to be done does not necessarily interfere with your ability to watch Hopkins teams play (set up on Friday, parking attendant in the am etc.).

Please take a moment to visit http://mnhsultimate.org/volunteeruc.aspx to see if there is anything you're able to help with, and forward this on to Alumni and anyone else from our family who wants to support us at State.

Simply put: State can't happen without Volunteers.

Thank you for all that you do, your kids and the coaches appreciate you!

Erin

JV Game vs. Sibley A

We have 13 players for tomorrow's game who are available to leave early. We will be meeting at Lindbergh at 3:40, leaving at 3:45. This should give us plenty of time to travel to Sibley and have a decent warm-up before game-time (about 5pm).

- If you are not listed and want to come to the game, please post in the comments.
- If you want to come, need a ride, but cannot be at Lindbergh by 3:40, please post in the comments. We'll try to figure something out.

Drivers: Raskin (4), Taylor (4), Lovagnini (4), Locketz (2)
Players: Raskin, Lovagnini * 2, Margolis, Krelitz, Kaminsky, Shear, Franklin, Herzog, Brandys, Taylor, Locketz, Mintzer

Thanks again for your patience and flexibility.

JV Game vs. Sibley A - Take Two

Many players who had an opinion on Thursday's game vs. Henry Sibley failed to register them on the blog, as requested. I had to hear about scheduling conflicts second hand at practice. You have one more opportunity to register your availability for the game.

This is a big game against a competitive varsity opponent. It may also be our last league game before State. Please make every attempt to make it.

Players, if you intend on attending Thursday's game, please post the earliest time you can meet at Lindbergh for departure by 5pm tomorrow. We'll come up with something that works for the majority of the team.

Here is the information from the previous commenters:

Drivers: Raskin (3 players), Locketz (4 players?), Lovagnini (4 players), Lieberman (tentative, unknown capacity, possibly late departure).

Players:
As early as 3:30: Raskin, Lovagnini * 2
Not specified (presumably OK for early departure): Margolis, Krelitz, Kaminsky, Shear, Franklin, Herzog
Potential timing issues (more details required): Locketz, Lieberman

We could definitely use more player commitments, but we can't plan a carpool without knowing how many players will be attending. Likewise, we won't force an early start if it doesn't work for the team, but we need to know your plans ASAP.

JV State Participation

Our State Tournament rosters need to be finalized ASAP. Please post your intent to participate in the State Tournament (June 4-5) in the comments, particularly if you know you are unable to come.

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JV Schedule this week - Response Needed

Based on your feedback, we've added an additional JV practice this week. Monday's practice will be at the Minnetonka Civic Fields at 5:00pm, and Tuesday's practice will be the usual at HHS at 6:15pm.

The JV is scheduled to play at Henry Sibley A this week. They have asked us if we would be willing to move the game earlier in the evening. I realize this may cause transportation issues with our team and may involve leaving shortly after school. Please relay your thoughts about 1) whether you can drive, and 2) how early you can depart. I'd like to get back to Sibley no later than Tuesday.

Update: 2pm Monday - JV Practice ends at 7pm tonight.

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