We’re super excited to be running our first summer camp this year with the Falmouth Rec. Department. Our day- camp will run from 9am to 1:30pm Monday through Thursday the week of June 26 and will feature a lot of fun ultimate, disc sports, and ice cream. You can sign up here. The cost of the camp is $185; campers will get a disc and a reversible jersey. Scholarship funds are available for any family in need- finances should NEVER get in the way of a kid playing ultimate.
Roll Falmouth!
We will start up intramural ultimate right after April vacation, with intramural practices running on Mondays and Thursdays from 5:30-7pm on the fields behind the greenhouses across from the Falmouth High School. Falmouth students in grades 3-8 are welcome to sign-up with no experience required.
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:
May:
June:
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
There are few things better for your ultimate game than watching top-level ultimate be played. Click here to see all of our past posts with videos of games and highlights.
Unfortunately the fields are too soggy to play on today, Wednesday April 27th, so intramural is cancelled. Travel team players will have practice again tomorrow, assuming the fields are dry enough to play on.
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.
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
We’re back! We’ll be back to running our Travel program- Falmouth Rogue- this year! Register here.
Note: Registration for Intramural-only starts opens up in April.
Given *All The Things*, we’ll be going all-intramural this year with Falmouth Rogue, with plans to return to also running a travel program next year.
You can register your player here! Girls and boys in grades 2-8 welcome to play!
Email coach Shea Gunther at sheagunther@gmail.com with any questions.
And please share the news widely that we’re up and running!
Roll Falmouth!
Dr. Anthony Fowlci everyone!
Falmouth Rogue is very very lucky to have the wise Dr. Anthony Fowlci join the program this year as an advisor. Our new 2021 disc design has Dr. Fowlci catching Rogue up on all the facts and information they need to forge ahead with a safe and fun season. We’re all very lucky to have Dr. Fowlci.
HUGE thanks to team artist John Rioux for this amazing work! Check out his website!
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