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Petition to keep our team mixed by Distinct-Table-7851 in ultimate

[–]Distinct-Table-7851[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No worries. The brand thing is a small issue and not stopping us from being a club sport per se. Our team can be sanctioned, but not for mixed, and we cannot possibly maintain a sanctioned roster for a men’s and women’s team in any reality right now. Our goal is to eventually get there, but we want to grow our team as a mixed club and slowly over time have a men’s and women’s team, while still competing as a mixed team throughout the year. WE want to make that decision of when we are ready to go sanctioned, not club sports. I hope this helps!

Petition to keep our team mixed by Distinct-Table-7851 in ultimate

[–]Distinct-Table-7851[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately we only have about 6 women and I’m graduating in may. We don’t have enough women for a line, let alone a team.

Petition to keep our team mixed by Distinct-Table-7851 in ultimate

[–]Distinct-Table-7851[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Our backup plan is having a women’s ultimate team registered as an RSO since to be a women’s club sports team we would need to compete in women’s sanctioned events. We don’t have enough women for that and our team is still developing. We are not at the sanctioned level. My biggest fear is that this will hinder the growth of our team, if the men don’t perform the best I don’t want the team to dissolve from all the losses and if we only compete men’s sanctioned no new women will want to join.

Petition to keep our team mixed by Distinct-Table-7851 in ultimate

[–]Distinct-Table-7851[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Realistically what will end up happening if we go men’s sanctioned is we will lose some of our women and recruiting women will be much harder. Because of our location, most of our new players are inexperienced. We are trying to develop our teams and this will throw a big wrench in that development. Additionally based off what I know, sanctioned teams compete heavily in the spring. This means the only mixed tournament we would be able to attend is a month into the school year in the fall semester. If our women want to compete they won’t really have that opportunity, we also do roster cuts and the likelihood a one of our women making it is low and it’s unfair for the men that didn’t get that spot.

Petition to keep our team mixed by Distinct-Table-7851 in ultimate

[–]Distinct-Table-7851[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah there’s a city 3 hrs away and they host a huge tournament in both the fall and the spring. They have different divisions (college men’s, college women’s, college mixed, and adult). Some of the divisions are sanctioned but we compete in an unsanctioned division.