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Team Canada Tryouts – World Junior Ultimate Championships

The WFDF 2024 World Junior Ultimate Championships (U20) is taking place in Birmingham UK in July 2024. Ultimate Canada will be hosting the Western Team Canada (Women’s, Open, Mixed) tryouts at Burnaby Lake Park as follows:

October 28th 11:00am-5:00pm
October 29th 8:30am-2:30pm

How to apply:
To apply for the National Teams attending the 2024 WJUC, one MUST:

  • Complete the online application form
  • Be a 2023 UC Competitive Registered Athlete in good standing. If you competed at CUC (Seniors or Juniors) 2023 you will have already completed this step.
  • Sign up for the Fall tryouts : Registration
  • *Optional* submit a fitness testing video here.
More information can be found here. 
 
The deadline for tryouts and applications for the Western session is October 13th. 

2023 BCU Bursaries

BC Ultimate would like to thank all the student athletes who applied for our annual Bursary program. Each year BC Ultimate awards $750 Bursaries to Grade 12 students involved in ultimate who are continuing their educations at post-secondary institutions.

This year we got a record setting 25 applications. Considering the interest, the BCU board voted for this year to award 6 rather than our normal 4 Bursaries for a total contribution of $4,500.

The 2023 BCU Bursary award recipients are:

  • Susan Crosby-Schmunk: Ucluelet Secondary, Tofino
  • Samantha Donato: New Westminster Secondary, New Westminster
  • Aaliyah Fernandes: Queen Elizabeth Secondary, Surrey
  • Adam Lemaire: Pleasant Valley Secondary, Armstrong
  • Isabella Lin: Moscrop Secondary, Burnaby
  • Bryelle Wong: Burnaby North Secondary, Burnaby

BC Bids to CUC & Increase Junior Ultimate Divisions

Today Ultimate Canada announced final bids for Canadian Nationals 2023, which will be hosted in Surrey’s Newton Athletic Park, Aug 13-20.

In the Senior Division, BC will receive 4 Mixed Division, 3 Women’s Division and 2 Open Division bids.

For Juniors, BC is getting 7 Junior Open and 6 Junior Women’s bids to Nationals. Along with the bid announcement Ultimate Canada has set the total field for CUC Juniors at 20 Women’s and 24 Open teams, making 2023 the largest CUC Juniors on record. BCU is happy to lead the country in bids to CUC Juniors with almost 30% of the attending teams.

BCUC Juniors and Senior Open will take place July 8/9 at Newton Athletic Park

BCUC Senior Mixed and Senior Women’s will take place July 15/16 at Burnaby Lake Park