Category: Announcement

Registration opens up Tuesday, December 10th!

We are making a change to our registration system and will be working through the Falmouth Community Program to handle sign-ups. To register for both the intramural program and the Rogue travel team, please visit their website and choose the appropriate program. Parents ALSO need to register here- intramural registration and Rogue registration. Both processes are quick and easy.

If you are new to FMS Ultimate, here’s a quick run-down on our we are structured. There are two teams to choose from- the intramural program (grades 2-8) and the Rogue travel team program (grades 4-8). Intramural practices start after April vacation and are held twice a week. The Rogue team starts at the beginning of April with indoor weekend pre-season practices and then meets four times a week after April vacation. Both programs end on June 7th with a combined all-Falmouth tournament and ice cream party. Kids do NOT need to have played before to join the Rogue team and there are no try-outs- they just have to want to play more ultimate. We also don’t really travel particularly far- our games are scheduled against towns like Gorham, South Portland, and Cumberland. There are two weekend tournaments in South Portland and Cumberland that run a single half-day each.

One fun aspect of our program is that the intramural and travel teams practice together twice a week during the regular season- on intramural days- Mondays and Wednesdays – both programs mix-in together and play more relaxed ultimate against one another, while on Tuesdays and Thursdays Rogue players compete in games against other towns and have more focused practice sessions.

If you have any questions about registering or the program, please email coach Shea Gunther at sheagunther@gmail.com.

Intramural is CANCELLED tonight due to rain and thunder


We are going to cancel ultimate this afternoon due to the weather. There is a decent enough chance of thunderstorms to be concerned and it looks like it will be raining and in the 40s right when we are set to play. 

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Those are challenging conditions so we’ll just play it on the warm and cozy side. Thankfully the weather forecast is looking good for Monday, so we’ll circle back to ultimate then. 

Stay warm and dry!

– Here is a stellar ultimate highlights reel from a recent college tournament: 

– Also! Don’t forget to sign up for the May 18th Maine Ultimate clinic before the Portland Rising professional ultimate game: https://maineultimate.org/e/mu-youth-day-may-18th

Parents can buy tickets for the Portland Rising game for themselves here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portland-rising-vs-dc-shadow-tickets-823199701467?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Registration is open for both Falmouth Rogue and Intramural!

There are a number of local players representing Maine in the U-24 program!

It’s time to get excited about ultimate!

I am very excited to open up registration for the 2024 season for both Falmouth Rogue (grades 4-8) AND our intramural program (grades 2-8)! 

In the past, we’ve staged the two sign-ups so that Rogue travel team players registered a month or so ahead of intramural but this year we are changing that up and starting registration for both teams at the same time- now! 😀

That makes it super important that parents understand the difference between the two programs As our FAQ has it,

“The biggest difference between the two teams are the level of commitment expected. Falmouth Rogue players start practicing at the end of March and have two practices a week during the pre-season and then play or practice four days a week once we get outside on the grass after April vacation. In contrast, the Intramural players start after April vacation and plays twice per week. Intramural practices and games are also much more mellow than Travel Team practices, where players will be expected to show up ready to learn and to get in shape. We take the game a little more seriously on Travel days. One fun aspect of our program is that Travel team players play with Intramural team players on Intramural days.”

In addition, Rogue travel team players get uniforms and hats. Both programs participate in the end-of-the-year ice cream party and tournament and Rogue travel team players actually spend two days of their practice week playing in the intramural program, so there is a lot of good overlap between the two programs. 

If you have any questions or need clarification about anything, please email me at sheagunther@gmail.com. 

One note for travel team players- we are going to be using our uniform design from last year for one more season, so any Rogue players from last year should figure out if they need to order a new kit or of last years set still fits. 

>> To register your player for the 2024 intramural program, set to start after April vacation, click here. 

>> To register your player for the 2024 Rogue travel team program, set to start at the end of March, click here.  (REGISTRATION FOR 2024 ROGUE IS CLOSED, but you can still register for Intramural.)

Roll Falmouth!!

Register for the 2023 Travel team!

It’s time for another awesome and exciting season with Falmouth Rogue! This year marks the 11th year that Falmouth has had a youth ultimate team and is my tenth year leading up the program, and I am about as excited as can be.

I spent all last week teaching the kids in Falmouth how to play ultimate in their gym classes and I know there are a lot of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders looking forward to playing more of the sport this spring. Here is how our 2023 season is going to roll out:

Kids have two options for playing ultimate in Falmouth this spring- they can join either the Intramural team or the Travel team. The Intramural team starts playing in May and will be meeting twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to play against one another.

The Travel team is for players who want to play ultimate as their main sport and will be meeting four times per week in our regular season and on weekends in April. The Travel team starts practicing on Saturday morning and Sunday afternoons in April before moving outside to a four-day-per-week schedule in May, once the fields dry out and we can run around on the grass. The Travel team also gets uniforms and plays regularly scheduled games against other towns like Portland, Gorham, South Portland, and Cape Elizabeth.

One fun feature of our schedule is that players on the Intramural and Travel teams will be playing all together on Intramural days, with the other days of the week for travel-only practices and games.

In summation, it looks a little like this:

April:

  • Travel team practices indoors on Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons.

May:

  • Intramural team starts playing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays once the grass is dry. Travel team players join in with the Intramural program on Mondays and Thursdays while also meeting to play against other towns and and to practice separately on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

June:

  • Both programs wrap up with an in-town hat tournament/ice cream party where all the Falmouth kids get put on random teams and play against one another for an hour or so before eating too much ice cream.

If your player is going to join the Intramural team, you do NOT need to sign up yet. Intramural team sign-ups start in April after our Travel program begins.

If your player is going to join the Travel team, you DO need to sign up now. You can click here to begin that process.

If you have any questions about the program or how things work, do not hesitate to email me at SheaGunther@gmail.com.

Roll Falmouth Rogue!

Coach Shea

Intramural registration is open!

Registration is now open for intramural ultimate, open to students living in Falmouth in grades 3-8. Intramural will start on Wednesday, April 27th, running every Wednesday through June 8th. There will be an ice cream social tournament to wrap up the season the weekend of June 11th/12th, with exact timing TBA.

You can register for Intramural here.

Please note: NO player will EVER be turned away for financial reasons. Scholarship funds are available for any families unable to cover the team fee. If you are in need of financial assistance, please indicate so on the player/parent form.

Information for new parents

Welcome new parents!

I’ve been teaching lots of kids how to play ultimate this week at Falmouth Elementary (big thanks to Mr. Sprague!), so I wanted to share some quick basic information for parents who kids might be interested in playing ultimate.

We have two basic programs for kids to choose from, depending on their grade level. Our intramural program is for students in the 3rd-8th grades and is just one day-a-week, starting up in May when we can get outside to play on the grass. Intramural runs from 6-7:30pm on Wednesdays and is for kids who play other sports or who just want to play a little bit of ultimate. It’s relaxed and mellow and focused on fun.

Our travel program, also known as Falmouth Rogue, is for kids in the 4th-8th grades who want to play and learn more about the fine points of ultimate. Kids do not need to try out for the travel team nor do they need previous experience playing- the travel team is for kids who just want to play more. The travel team starts up in April, with weekend practices, before transitioning to a four-day-per week schedule in May. Travel team players either practice or play games against other towns Monday through Thursday, though on Wednesday the travel players just play in the intramural program, so that’s their easier day in the week.

There is more running and training involved with the travel team and we generally expect travel players to take the game more seriously, even while we’re having lots of fun getting awesome. Travel players also get uniforms and hats and more frisbees. We also expect that travel players do not play other sports during the season, or if they do, they make ultimate a priority if there is ever a conflict.

There is one tournament for the travel team in Amherst, Massachusetts in the middle of May, but otherwise we play against local teams, so there isn’t actually that much travel to the travel team.

Another important note is that sign-ups for the travel team close out on Tuesday, March 29th, after which time registration for intramural opens. There is no deadline to sign up for the intramural team.

Sign ups now open for Intramural!

If you have any other questions after reading through this, you can check out our official FAQ and/or get in touch with me directly at sheagunther@gmail.com.

Roll Falmouth!

Coach Shea