DiscInformation for the Garden State (sm)

You can zoom to information on tournaments, pickup games or summer leagues, or you can scroll down to learn what I know about teams and disc in Jersey. Or you can read why I made this mess in the first place. If you have a team, or some other disc thing happenin' in or around the Jersey area, please let me know, and I'll see if I can work you in here!

Garden State Ultimate

Where can you play frisbee in New Jersey? Any number of places -- if you know who to ask ... To my surprise, as a transplanted New Englander, NJ is (or has been in the past) a major player in the Ultimate scene -- and Maplewood, NJ is the "Cooperstown" (the Hoboken, if you will) of Ultimate -- as the sport was invented by students at Columbia High School in Maplewood. I've tried to provide in this listing a variety of contacts which should be useful in tracking down playing opportunities on a casual basis. Obviously, to move beyond casual play, that's up to you and the team to work out.

In recent years, while the Garden State has provided a modest harvest of club teams, for the most part, competitive frisbee in the NJ area -- at least as far as concerns the variant known as Ultimate Frisbee -- has been primarily a college students' game, and most of the organized activity centers around colleges and college towns. As a result, if you can get to New Brunswick or Princeton, your chances of getting into some kind of game on a regular basis is pretty good. However, as more players have graduated (or at least moved on with their lives), many have continued to play, in more or less organized clubs (these are frisbee players, not exactly the most bureaucratic personality types) -- and these clubs have expanded the playing opportunities for us who are at some distance (geographically or chronologically) from college.

Some of the club teams I have been in touch with are okay with folks showing up at practices -- or more than ok, as drop ins can become members ... but obviously you should check with the team to see if particular practices are open, closed, meaning by invitation or members only, or if the practices are preempted by a competition for a particular date/period. College teams tend to have less flexibility, with the limited school year schedule, so you should definitely not assume that practices for college teams -- especially late in the season -- are open to casual drop-ins. It can also be assumed that an "organized" team may intend some structure to practices -- like DRILLS!!! So you should not expect to treat their practices as a pickup game. Specific comments for organizations are provided, where available.

In addition, you can check out the Ultimate Players Association (UPA), which organizes tournaments nationally, including some here in NJ. The UPA has a pickup list, and lists of upcoming tournaments and teams around the country and around the world, and much more!

Club Teams

Havoc
New Brunswick
An Open Division "A" level team. Contact and other info at their website

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/4420/havoc

Thrash Badgers (formerly known as Groove, fka Bottom Feeders, fka What Exit?)
A coed team ... they practice and play a pickup game on Sundays and Wednesdays in Montclair, NJ. Follow the link to the team page for details and directions.

R.I.P.

There is now a juniors club team in town, based in Maplewood, the birthplace of rock and roll!, oops, sorry, the birthplace of Ultimate (sorry, Joel!). I don't have a current link, sorry.

College Teams (since college kids come and go ... EVENTUALLY!!!, these contacts may not be up to date ... hey, I know they're out of date, unless these guys are on a college career plan!!!).

Drew University Bovine Intervention

Princeton University

(disks available for sale ... )

Men's Team

Women's Team contact:

Rutgers University .

Men -

Women -

You can buy their discs!

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High School Teams

Hey, HS teams have their own page! Click it out!

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Tournaments

From Swamp Thing to Wildwood to the Jersey Shore Coed Ultimate Festival to Swamp Thing (yes, it happens TWICE ~~ most years). Click through to check out NJ area tournaments.

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Summer Leagues

There are now Summer Leagues in Mercer County, Far Hills and the Jersey Shore Ultimate League. Click through to check out summer league action in NJ!

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Pickup

Nearby Organizations, Friends, etc.

Check out my friends' pages ... the Philadelphia area (really overlapping with the South Jersey area, I suppose) group, PADA, and the North American Coed Ultimate Page.

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