After packing up my classroom and home office, I found many wonderful artifacts. One that I thought was worth sharing is the STJ Ultimate 2004 Yearbook. I founded the club Ultimate program in 2003, but we didn’t start traveling to play other schools until the spring of 2004. That spring we played 33 games and traveled 3,707 miles :)
As an added bonus, here are some photos that were up on the Ultimate board in 2005 and 2006.
Here’s how we wrapped up the 2013 St. Johnsbury Academy Ultimate season:
Photos of the event can be found right here.
You can download a PDF copy of the 2013 team yearbook right here.
This summer I am spectacularly excited to be returning to Israel to work at CampUP, a youth Ultimate camp run by a phenomenally amazing organization called Ultimate Peace.
For those of you that like things short and sweet, here’s the outline of what’s going on:
– This summer I’ll be in Israel from June 18th to July 16th, working with Ultimate Peace at two consecutive 5-day overnight camps for Arab, Jewish, and Palestinian youths.
– In addition to coaching two teams of my own, I will be continuing my work as the Director of Ultimate and Coaching. In this position I am responsible for the training of more than 50 Ultimate Peace coaches.
– You can find read all about Ultimate Peace at http://www.ultimatepeace.org/.
– Ultimate Peace operates fully by donations, and each coach is responsible for raising substantial funds to make the camps happen.
– Every last little bit helps, even if it is to just spread the word!
– I will be blogging about all of my Ultimate Peace experiences at www.UltimateJosh.com.
– On 3/28/13 I gave a presentation at the Catamount Arts theater as part of the Osher Lecture Series. My presentation was called “Building peace in the Middle East: One game of Ultimate at a time”. I spent an hour talking about my experience working with Ultimate Peace as well as answering questions from the audience. You can watch the presentation in it’s entirety right here.
– The most recent Ultimate Peace promo video can be viewed right here.
– Please consider supporting us at www.ultimatepeace.org/donate/. If you do make a donation on my behalf, please put down my name on the online donation form where it says “in support of”. Donations are tax deductible.
If you are up for the long version, or want to know why I’m taking the uncomfortable step of asking for money, please click here.
Hope all is well,
I just launched a new annual prize at St. Johnsbury Academy that will be given out at each Last Chapel. From the prize’s charter document:
The Spirit of the Game prize will be given to a St. Johnsbury Academy girl and boy annually who have participated in two or more years of Ultimate Frisbee, shown a strong work ethic, and who have always practiced good sportsmanship in true embodiment of the Spirit of the Game.
Here’s the video of me presenting the inaugural awards: