Update 6/04/2009
Congratulations to Pennsbury for defeating Haverford in the State Championship on May 24th! Pennsbury captured their 4th straight State Championship, and 5 out of the last 6.
Congratulations to Lower Merion Girls for their first ever State Championship title! Lady Baba put down Fox Chapel, 12 - 5, and cruised through every game, never allowing more than 5 points. In fact, they were as dominate as Pennsbury, allowing only 10 points in 7 games! Quite a feat!
This was an incredibly successful spring season, plenty of tournaments, playing time, and incredible PHUEL spirit to go around! This summer, keep yourself active, there is plenty of pickup happening at O'Hara, Haverford, Tyler State Park and check the PADA Forums.
All new captains should sign up for the Captains ListServ at the top of this page, old captains, you may remove yourself if you like, or, stay up to date with all the PHUEL news while in college! I hope everyone had a great season, see you at some pick-up, Summer League, or at the Captains/Coaches meeting in the fall! Enjoy the summer!
Update 5/13/2009
Big news this update! Congratulations to Pennsbury for winning UPA High School Easterns! They took out Amherst in the Championship game, and have now won two of the last three Eastern's Championships!
Some other pretty cool news, taking a look at the UPA RRI, it shows that PA is one of the biggest states for youth Ultimate! We have over 40 active Open teams, and lead the NATION with more that 16 Girls teams! That is truly an impressive feat! No doubt about it, Ultimate is growing! There have been several new teams this spring, and several more planned for the fall, including two or three open teams, and another girls team.
State Championships are on the
Update 5/4/2009
City Championships is this weekend at the beautiful Brandywine Polo Grounds, you can find the teams and schedule here, on the UPA page, for division 1, and here for division 2. Girls City Championships will be held at Edgely on May 16th starting at 10 AM, that schedule can be found here. Good luck to all teams!
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Update 4/16/2009
HipHoponPop is this weekend at Edgely, the address is 4001 Edgely Rd, Philadelphia, PA. There are teams competing from PHUEL, NJ and NY leagues, if your team is not involved, you can still come by to check out some great Ultimate. The tournament starts at 8:00 AM, the Open championship round should start around 3:30.
In other news, the City Championship tournament date has CHANGED! Due to several teams concerns, and the availability of a certain field location, the City Championship tournament is now MAY 9th at the unbelievable
Brandywine Polo Fields! Both Division 1 and 2 will be hosted here on the 9th, the Girls Championship will remain on May 16th. Teams must still have their forms, fees and minimum 3 games played by May 2nd to qualify. Contact Tom Cook if you have any questions.
Update 4/6/2009
Standings have been added and updated. Only those scores which have been reported to the PHUEL Score Reporter have been calculated at this point. Please be diligent with reporting your scores to both the UPA and PHUEL.
Update 4/4/2009
With Greens Eggs and Spam over, and Watchung Hills (NJ) once again winning a Philly Tournament and Lower Merion Girls winning the first ever Green Eggs Girls Division, the spring season is underway! To see the rest of the results, check out the Tournaments page.
As games continue to pile up, please remember to report scores on the UPA site and on the PHUEL Score Reporter. Both teams should report on the PHUEL score report in order to collect Spirit scores for the Spirit of the City Award.
Other upcoming tournaments include:
- O The Places You'll Throw
- HipHop on Pop
- O'Hara Invite
- Born2Dive
- City Championships
Update 2/17/2009
The PHUEL Coaches/Captains meeting is set for 10 AM on March 7th at the Edgely Clubhouse. (4001 Edgely Dr, Philadelphia, PA)
At this meeting we will go over the following points, as well as have time to schedule games:
- Process for qualifying as a PHUEL Team
- Submission of Rosters, Waivers and team fees
- Upcoming Tournaments
- Radnor on March 28th
- O'Hara on April 4th
- KitKat on April 18th
- City Championships - Divison 1, 2 and Girls
- State Championships - Division 1, 2, and Girls
- Spirit of the Game
- Scheduling games
- Submitting scores
- Spirit scores
This year, the fee for team will be $75 per team, not per school as in previous years. This means that Cardinal O'Hara, for example, will pay $75 for the open team and $75 for the girls team. If you have an A and a B team, you must pay the fee for both teams. The fees cover insurance for every team and the league for all of our tournaments and individual games. Every player must submit a Waiver again as it is a new year, Waivers are available on the PADA site - www.pada.org - and the PHUEL site, on the
resources page. Rosters, Waivers and fees can be submitted at the meeting. There is also a medical form available on the Resources page that should be filled out by every player and brought with the coach/captain to every game.
If you are unable to make it to the meeting, or forget your paperwork, please email TomCook AT cooksclassroom DOT com to obtain a mailing address for the documents. Deadline for all documents is April 18th.
Team Fees - check made out to PADA - can be mailed to
PADA
PO Box 42708
Phila., PA 19101-2708
To play any games, tournaments, and be eligible for City Championships (Div 1 or 2), or State Championships (Div 1 or 2) you must have all of your paperwork and fees submitted by April 18th. If you have any questions,
please email me.
Update 1/14/2009
It seems like it has been a while since the last update. Sorry for the absence. Updates on the website will be much more frequent during the spring. Some things that are in the works:
- Captains' Meeting
- Spring Tournaments - HipHop, April 18th
- State Championships
These and other plans are beginning to roll. Keep your eyes here and on the PHUEL mailing list. There is now a section at the bottom of the site to join the mailing list, if you are a coach or captain of a PHUEL team, please sign up.
Update 9/14/2008
Updates have been made to the Tournaments and Resources page.
This past weekend, PHUEL captains met for the Fall Organizational and scheduling meeting, an overview of the
meeting can be found here. Captains who were unable to attend should feel
free to contact teams through the league email, and are greatly encouraged to use the Forum to try to arrange
games.
The biggest points from the meeting were encouraging DEVYL, changes in player fees starting in the spring, and
date for States (Most likely Memorial Day weekend). Please check the agenda and email any questions to me.
All players are also greatly encouraged to sign up for DEVYL, the Youth Club league for the Philadelphia and
surrounding areas. Information on the league can be found at
http://scorereport.net/ultimate/devyl08/instructions.html. If any player, male or female, intends on trying out
for the Open or Mixed Youth Club Championship team, they must participate in DEVYL. For more information, check
out the website.
With tournaments in mind, tryouts for the 2009 Paganello World Beach Ultimate cup will be held at Cardinal O'Hara
High School at 11:00 am on Sunday September 21st. Anyone who will not be 21 by August 2009 is eligible to play
on the youth team. The tournament is held in Rimini, Italy from April 8th to the 14th. For more information
please visit www.paganello.com. The team is coached by Tom Cook. All
PHUEL players are encouraged to tryout. Cost is to be determined. Contact tomcook AT cooksclassroom DOT com for more.
Update 9/02/2008
Another great season of Ultimate is upon us. The semi-annual Captain/Coaches meeting will take place on
September 13th at the Edgely Clubhouse at 11 A.M. Please be on time as there will be a lot to go over, as
well as scheduling games. Please contact TomCook AT cooksclassroom DOT com if you have any questions, and
check www.pada.org for directions to Edgely.
Congratulations to Isaac Saul, who is the captain for the Pennsbury Falcons, for his role in bringing a Gold Medal home,
as the U.S. Juniors Team won at the World Ultimate and Guts Championships.
