FEES
TEAM FEE: $600 due September 2nd
PLAYER FEE: $10 per player, due September 7th
2022 NorCal Club Sectionals
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 & 11
ABOUT CLUB SECTIONALS
California Ultimate is proud to host this year’s USA Ultimate NorCal Club Sectional Championships at the Cherry Island Soccer Complex in Rio Linda, CA near Sacramento. Club Sectionals is the adult playoff structure for Ultimate. This year it will feature over 30 teams battling in the Women’s, Men’s and Mixed divisions trying to advance to Club Regionals, and eventually Club Nationals. CUA will only be hosting the Men’s & Mixed Divisions in NorCal this year.
FULL SCHEDULES & RESULTS
VENUE & PARKING
ADDRESS
Cherry Island Soccer Complex, 2429 U St, Rio Linda, CA 95673
PARKING
Please consider carpooling as the venue normally charges $10/day/car for parking…plus, like…the earth.
AMENITIES
- Permanent & portable restrooms
- Grass fields with painted lines
- Water stations
TOURNEY EXPECTATIONS
- Start times may vary and change as tournament format won’t be finalized until September 7th. We anticipate games starting at 9:00AM on Saturday and the tournament finishing by 4:00PM on Sunday.
- 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 90 minutes before games begin each day.
- It will likely be hot.
- Please hydrate in the days leading up to the event in addition to day-of.
- During down time please seek out shade
- CUA will not be providing any complimentary food on site. There are a few restaurant options nearby including a Subway.
- Bid allocations to Regionals are expected to be set on Sept 2.
SITE RULES
- Dogs and other pets are not allowed on the fields.
- There is no overnight parking allowed on site.
TEAM SPIRIT SCORES
2022-2023 RULES & JERSEY REQUIREMENTS
- If you haven’t played in a competitive event in awhile, please reacquaint yourself & your team with the 2022/2023 rules!
- It’s the post season, so all standard USAU uniform requirements will be enforced.
GETTING TO CHERRY ISLAND
- PAYMENT DETAILS:
- To pay only the team fee at this point, click the red button for your division, then in the Cart set the # of players to 0.
- Please be sure to update your Cart after changing the number of player fees and before continuing to pay.
- Please have one team admin pay all player fees at once.
- 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 Wednesday, September 7th. After the 7th we will not be able to offer any player fee refunds. After the 2nd 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 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.
