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Frisbee
About
Ultimate, often called ultimate frisbee, is a relatively new sport. Started in the late 1960's, it has grown in popularity, now with millions of practitioners worldwide. In Ireland the sport is still growing, with under-17,under-23 male national teams,as well as full male and female national teams.
Most major universities in Ireland are involved in the sport with many fielding 2 or more teams.Here at Galway we have enjoyed much success, always finishing in the top half of varsities tables and finishing 3rd in 2009 and 4th in 2010 as well as winning the plate at the Siege of Limerick tournament in 2008 and 2009. If you're interested come along to training and see what you think of it.
Check out this video of the tournament we held here in Galway in 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvGakxWRILk
Remember Ultimate is a unisex sport so everyone is welcome and if you have any queries don't be afraid to drop us an e-mail. Alternatively, you can contact us on facebook (link below), which is probably the fastest and easiest way to get in touch. Here is a link to a wikipedia article on Ultimate, it may help clear up any misgivings you have about the sport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_(sport) And here's a link to the The Irish Flying Disc Association website: http://www.irishultimate.com/
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http://www.facebook.com/galwayultimate
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History
Catapulted from obscurity in 2005
Achievements
Plate winners at the 2008 and 2009 Siege of Limerick tournament.
6th place at the 2008 Ultimate intervarsities. 3rd place at the 2009 Ultimate intervarsities. 4th place at the 2010 Ultimate intervarsities. 5th Place at the 2011 Indoor Ultimate Intervarsities.
2nd at Maynooth Open 2011
Winners of Trinity Beginners Tournament 2011.
Intervarsities
5/6 November 2011 - DCU hosted this season's Indoor Open Intervarsities, it was a good weekend for the Panteras with NUIG 1 finishing 5th and NUIG 2 finishing 11th beating their seeding by 4 places.
7/8 April 2012 - UCC will be the hosts of this years IFDA Open Intervarsities. It promises to be an exciting weekend with UCC looking to win their third title in a row on their home patch NUIG looking to improve on last years 7th place.
This Summer saw two of the NUIG ultimate frisbee club members strut there stuff abroad representing Ireland. Eimear O'Rielly being the first Galway Girl to represent Ireland! She was part of the Irish Junior Ladies team that took part in the European championships in Poland. Eimear was a key player in the teams victory against the host nation. She will be passing on the skills she learnt abroad to the other girls in the club this year.
Our Club Captain, Liam Grant, represented Ireland at the World Championships of Beach Ultimate in Italy this Summer. Liam was a vital member of the team finshing up as Irelands top point scorer of the Tournament.
As the club year starts again we look forward to another fun season of ultimate. First up on the Calender is the Galway Open tournament on the 1st and 2nd of October, hosted by the club. Teams from Ireland, the UK and Italy will travel to Galway to compete to be Galway Open champions 2011!
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
This page was last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012.