2025 SoCal Club Sectionals
Saturday & Sunday, September 6-7
About Club Sectionals:
California Ultimate is proud to host this year’s USA Ultimate SoCal Club Sectional Championships at the San Bernardino Soccer Complex in San Bernardino, CA. Sectionals is the first round of the national Club ultimate postseason structure. This year the SoCal Section will feature over 30 teams battling in the Women’s, Men’s, and Mixed divisions trying to earn a bid to Southwest Regionals, and then Club Nationals.
FULL SCHEDULES & RESULTS
VENUE & PARKING
ADDRESS
San Bernardino Soccer Complex
2500 Pacific St, San Bernardino, CA 92346
PARKING
Please consider carpooling as the venue charges $10/day/car for parking; see below to pre-purchase a parking pass to get into the venue quicker.
AMENITIES
- Permanent restrooms
- Lined grass fields
- Observers
- Water stations
HOW TO GET HERE
- Nearest airports: ONT (24 min), BUR (60 min), SNA (60 min), LGB (70 min), LAX (80 min)
- Please take the 210 to Arden Ave; go south and turn left onto Pacific St; make a left into the facility–local authorities do NOT allow right hand turns into the facility
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.
TOURNEY EXPECTATIONS
- Start times may vary and change as the tournament formats won’t be finalized until August 27th. We are hoping to start Round 1 games at 8:00AM Saturday, and 7:45AM on Sunday so folks can get back on the road to home and make flights. The tournament should finish by 3:30PM on Sunday, but teams are encouraged to book flexible or later travel. All schedules are subject to change due to unexpected circumstances such as but not limited to abnormal weather.
- All fields will have player lines; please respect your opponents by respecting them.
- There may be an observer assigned to your game; there might not be. Always play with the Spirit Of The Game front and center.
- We will have athletic trainers on site starting 75 minutes before games begin each day; athletes who know they need muscles wrapped or taped with specific supplies should bring their own supplies which the trainers can then apply.
- There will be a Wet-Bulb Thermometer to monitor heat stress. USA Ultimate’s heat stress guidelines for altering play are located HERE.
- CUA won’t be providing any complimentary food on site, but we do offer pre-purchased Panera lunches that can be picked up at Tourney HQ each day.
EVENT ADD-ON PUR CHASES & RENTALS
***For the following Add-Ons, please gather all orders from teammates and then submit ONE (1) payment by adding the appropriate quantities to your cart; please do not have teammates pay individually via this platform.***
PARKING PASSES – PURCHASE BY SEPTEMBER 4th
- $20 per car (instead of paying $10/car/day in person) – By displaying your pre-paid parking pass in your window as you enter the venue you’ll be able to enter via the “fast lane” and bypass folks paying in person.
- NOTE: anyone caught trying to enter the complex with a duplicate numbered pass will be charged a $100 penalty for attempting to cheat the system. SOTG applies on and off the field.
RENTALS – PURCHASE BY SEPTEMBER 3rd – pick up & drop off at HQ
- 10’x10′ Sun Canopies: $50 for the weekend
- Coolers: $20 for the weekend
PRE-PURCHASED LUNCHES – PURCHASE BY SEPTEMBER 1st
- $12 each – We are partnering with Panera to offer bagged lunches delivered to the fields. Lunches will include a half-sandwich, bag of chips, and cookie; and will be available for pickup at HQ after Round 2 each day.
- We’ve created this Google Spreadsheet Template for you to make a copy of (under “File”) to collect lunch orders from teammates. Once collected, please pay for all lunches at one time via our payment portal and then send us your spreadsheet of lunches.
FEES, LUNCHES, & RENTALS
EVENT FEES
- TEAM FEE: $850 due by August 27th (includes the minimum 15 player fees)
- LATE TEAM FEE: $1000 due by September 3rd (includes the minimum 15 player fees at the LATE rate)
***The following Player Fees should be paid for all remaining Sectionals rostered players (over the 15 paid for with the team fee) in ONE (1) payment by a team admin/treasurer; please do not have players pay individually via this platform.***
- PLAYER FEES: $10 per player, due by September 3rd
- LATE PLAYER FEES: $20 per player, due by September 5th
- 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. CUA has also embraced USAU’s suggestion to subsidize the Women’s Division to encourage growth and revitalization post pandemic.
- 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 Wednesday, September 3rd. After the 3rd we will not be able to offer any player fee refunds. After August 27th we cannot issue any 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 last year Project Disc Go Disco 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.
- 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 to introduce local communities as well as local and national media coverage to Ultimate, we also weave together our partnerships and hire local staff in untapped areas to plant the seeds of new local orgs. Just this year we ran USAU Beach Nationals (May); and will be hosting the WFDF 2023 World Beach Ultimate Championships from November 1-5 in Huntington Beach, and WFDF 2024 World Masters Ultimate Championships in early November in Irvine.
