2024 SoCal Club Sectionals
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 & 8
ABOUT CLUB SECTIONALS
California Ultimate is proud to host this year’s USA Ultimate SoCal Club Sectional Championships at SilverLakes in Norco, CA. Sectionals is the first phase of the adult club playoff structure for USA Ultimate. This year it will feature over 25 teams battling in the Women’s, Men’s and Mixed Divisions trying to advance to Club Regionals where they’ll then fight to earn a spot at Nationals.
FULL SCHEDULES & RESULTS
VENUE & PARKING
ADDRESS
SilverLakes
5555 Hamner Rd, Norco, CA 92860
PARKING
Please consider carpooling as the venue charges around $12-15/day/car for parking.
AMENITIES
- Permanent & portable restrooms
- Restaurant and bar on-site
- Lined grass fields
- Two sun canopies per field
- Water stations
HOTELS
Check out and book these hotel deals for Club Sectionals participants and spectators!
***This is an old field map which will be updated by September 4th.***
TOURNEY EXPECTATIONS
- Due to an extreme heat wave ramping up this week we are provisionally suggesting for games on Saturday to start around 7:15AM. There will likely be a heat break from 1:00-4:00pm with one or two rounds of play thereafter. We hope to finish the tournament by 1:00PM on Sunday. This is all subject to change pending competition formats and updated weather forecasts on Thursday and Friday.
- All fields will have player lines and equipment lines; please respect your opponents by respecting them.
- There will be two sun canopies by each field; please don’t move them when your team moves. If you’d like to rent an additional sun canopy then you can move that one.
- We have secured 7 observers to work the event. There may be an observer assigned to your game; there might not be. Regardless, always play with the rules and spirit of the game front and center.
- We will have 3 athletic trainers on site starting 90 minutes before games begin each day.
- It will be hot!
- We will provide as many sun canopies as we can plus ample water stations throughout the facility.
- Please hydrate in the days leading up to the event in addition to day-of.
- We have a Wet-Bulb Thermometer to monitor heat stress. We will be using USA Ultimate’s recommended guidelines – as needed – for altering play (mandatory heat timeouts, extra time between points, reduced round times, etc). Please click HERE to see the guidelines.
- CUA won’t be providing any complimentary food on site as there will be food vendors present.
- We expect schedules to be out by September 4th in the early evening if not sooner.
TEAMS
2023-2024 RULES & JERSEY REQUIREMENTS
- Please have all players be well versed in the 2024-2025 rules!
- It’s the post season, so all standard USAU uniform requirements will be enforced, they can be found in the Club Guidelines.
SITE RULES
- Dogs and other pets are not allowed on the fields.
- There is no overnight parking allowed on site.
- No outside alcohol; and no alcohol on the fields.
FEES
TEAM FEE: $400 for Women’s; $800 for Men’s & Mixed – Due September 6th
PLAYER FEE: $16 for Women’s; $32 for Men’s & Mixed – Due September 6th
Teams can pre-purchase Panera bagged lunches (half sandwich, chips, cookie) which can be picked up after 11:30AM each day.
- Use this template to collect order from teammates.
- Pay through the payment portal.
Teams can also rent extra sun canopies (10’x10’) and coolers from California Ultimate through our payment portal, and picked up and dropped off at HQ.
- EXPECTED COST: We believe this event will cost around $62-68 per participant (after dividing the sum of the Team and Player Fees, as explained below); this depends on total number of teams and how many observers we are able to lock in.
- PAYMENT DETAILS:
- Please have one team admin pay all player fees in one payment. Same for parking passes, lunches, and rentals.
- FEE STRUCTURE: CUA has adopted a pricing structure that includes a team fee and an additional player fee to ensure our event costs get covered while providing a more equitable price to smaller (and frequently newer) teams.
- REFUNDS: If for some reason you have a player that becomes unable to attend entirely (injury, etc) after paying, we ask that you inform us by September 6th. After the 6th we will not be able to offer any player or team fee refunds.
WHAT YOU ARE SUPPORTING BY PLAYING IN A CALIFORNIA ULTIMATE EVENT
California Ultimate works year round to promote the sport of Ultimate and your attendance helps support our programs. What do we do? Glad you asked!
- Create innovative programming: in 2020 we created and ran Uplift Ultimate virtual youth camp during the COVID-19 isolation phase in partnership with PGH Ultimate, in 2021 Project Disc Go delivered 1,000 discs to Inglewood and Fresno families and continues to create engaging skills videos on TikTok accessed by the QR code on the disc, and this year Project Disc Go Disco has transformed the average Ultimate warmup into a fun and creative dance session which we plan to teach kids across CA and social media to get them moving and smiling with a disc in hand;
- Develop partnerships to expand youth play: this spring when Inglewood Unified School District had a dearth of Middle School PE teachers we took over all classes at 4 schools for 7 weeks, this summer with LA County Parks we are running a free 8-week Ultimate and disc golf class at Magic Johnson Park in Willowbrook as part of Parks After Dark, and we’ve now trained and certified 15 new coaches (and 20 LA Parks staff!) to introduce kids to Ultimate at over 37 LA City Parks this summer and fall through day camps, Summer Night Lights clinics and leagues, as well as evening classes; and
- Run events to support our youth, college, & club members: from HS States, to Conferences & Sectionals, to Team USA tryouts, we strive to provide fun and exciting opportunities that are hosted in CA;
- Support local orgs: from finding cost-effective shareable services to talking through event calendars and ways to incentivize more participation up and down the state, we strive to facilitate discussion and productivity;
- Build awareness: we strategically bid on and run national and world championships in the hopes local and national media pick up Ultimate, we also weave together our partnerships and hire local staff in untapped areas to plant the seeds of new local orgs.
