Hello everyone. In Germany, our best Ultimate Youth program has been the well organized Junior National Ultimate Championships structures and organization provided by the German federation and supporting structures through the stronger clubs in the different regions. These clubs host the other teams in their regions and both benefit by having single day qualification tournaments prior to the Championship event.
With regional tournaments ALL teams, small teams trying to start a team and stronger teams, can participate with a reasonable travel distance. The qualification is often a single day tournament without needing to stay overnight. Low cost and easy to host! If the distances are not so far or if there are very few teams, maybe a National Championship event welcoming all teams (and Pickup players) would be appropriate. The German Federation provides the online registration platform for the teams to play in the qualification events in the different regions. The best teams then travel to the 2 day Championship event to find the Champion in each Junior division. These regional events provide the opportunity for new developing teams to play and the best teams support the efforts to develop Ultimate in the regions. If no one wants to host a qualification tournament, the region (or country) is doomed to insignificance in the future! As always, it is the individuals with the Ultimate dream creating the opportunities for the kids to play Ultimate! ...But they need the tools and organization platform to get organized. This follows the lessons learned concept that: New players just need to "Play Ultimate"!! I think the example here in Germany shows that the federation needs to provide the opportunity for the teams to get organized, but the local Ultimate people need to do the work! Dine Fischer, Geschäftsführerin Ultimate-Abteilung (Operating Manager of the Ultimate Branch in the German Federation) has used the federation tools to encourage junior development in the different regions. She contacts the existing Ultimate clubs early in the indoor and outdoor seasons using the National Frisbee Sport discussion platform (Wurfpost) to get the teams involved. Make sure you have a list of clubs in your region (including neighboring countries maybe?). Small one day tournaments for everyone. Easy! Just do it! Greetings from Southern Germany Mark Kendall State Frisbeesport Federation Baden.Württemberg. The Kids - TSV Massenbach president <[email protected]> schrieb am Fr., 24. Apr. 2026, 13:16: > Hi > > Do you know? > > Who might have some programs to share?? > > Grazie e ciao > Oddi > > > Beginn der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > > *Von: *Žiga Orešič <[email protected]> > *Datum: *24.04.2026 um 13:12 > *To: *Andrea Furlan <[email protected]>, Andrea Furlan < > [email protected]> > *Betreff: Examples of youth programs in Europe* > > Hello Oddi, > > in our effort to establish a modern youth development program in Slovenia > at the level of the national frisbee federation, I would like to ask > whether you have any documents within EUF that could serve as examples of > good practice? > > We are particularly interested in general youth programs, as well as > programs designed for countries where ultimate frisbee is not yet as > developed, which is currently the case in Slovenia. Any knowledge or > resources would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you in advance. > > Kind regards > > Žiga Orešič > > President of the Frisbee Association of Slovenia > > email: [email protected] > > phone: +386 68 176 773 > > Frizbi zveza Slovenije > > Šmartinska cesta 72 > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/%C5%A0martinska+cesta+72+1000+Ljubljana?entry=gmail&source=g> > > 1000 Ljubljana > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/%C5%A0martinska+cesta+72+1000+Ljubljana?entry=gmail&source=g> > > > Spletna stran <https://frizbi.si/> Ultimate frizbi > <https://ultimate.frizbi.si/> Disk golf <https://golf.frizbi.si/> > Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/FrizbiZvezaSLO> Instagram > <https://www.instagram.com/frizbi_zveza/> > > _______________________________________________ Wurfpost mailing list [email protected] https://wurfpost.de/mailman/listinfo/mail Unsubscribe: [email protected]
