I am happy to announce that the date for the 2009 St. Johnsbury Academy Invitational has been set and bids are now being accepted! 

The tournament will take place on May 16th and 17th at St. Johnsbury Academy and Lyndon Institute. There will be 16 girls teams and 24 open teams. The tournament will be UPA sanctioned, cost $325, and all teams will be guaranteed at least 6 games. There will be a dinner/dance/trade night on Saturday evening, lots of gear for sale, and lined fields.

For complete tournament information, see the menu to the left.

Step 1) Fill out the online camper registration form right here.

Step 2) Download, print, and fill out the medical authorization and liability waiver forms. (PDFs)

Step 3) Mail your completed medical authorization and liability waiver forms, along with a check for $100 made out to "St. Johnsbury Academy" to Josh Seamon, 1000 Main St., St. Johnsbury, VT 05819. Make sure to write your camper's name in the memo section of the check.

Forms and checks are due in St. Johnsbury by Friday, June 20th. 

Who: The camp is run by SJA Boys Varsity Ultimate coach Josh Seamon and SJA Girls Varsity Ultimate captain Kate Desrochers. All questions about the camp should be directed to Josh Seamon. He can be reached by email at jseamon at gmail dot com or by phone at 802.748.9857.

What: The camp is for children entering grades 6 through 9. Topics covered at the camp include, but are not limited to, the rules of the game, throwing and catching mechanics, playing with spirit, the stack, person defense, zone defense, and proper marking technique. We have space for 28 campers.

Where: The camp will take place on Cary field located on the St. Johnsbury Academy Campus.

When: The camp will run from 10am to 2pm on Monday July 21st through Friday July 25th.

Cost: $100

Each camper will receive a camp team jersey as well as a disc.

Each day every camper needs to bring:
1) A bag lunch
2) A dark and a light t-shirt
3) Cleats (not 100% required, but strongly recommended)
4) Shorts
5) A large water bottle

The 2008 SJA Ultimate Camp will run from Monday 7/21 through Friday, 7/25. Camp will run from 10am to 2pm each day. The camp is open to anyone entering grades 5th through 9th in the Fall of '08 and will cost $100. More information coming soon.

Hello everyone,

Thank you, thank you, thank you for such a wonderful weekend of Ultimate!

As much as I plan, connive, bribe, and maneuver, the success of the SJAI really comes down to the teams that end up attending. It was a pleasure to organize, interact with, coach against, watch, and cheer with all of you.

In this email you will find information regarding:

+ROSTERING PAPERWORK
+POST TOURNAMENT SURVEY
+MEDIA
+NUMBERS
+NEXT YEAR

ROSTERING
Overall you did a GREAT job at getting paperwork in. That being said there are still some liability waivers, player dues, and chaperone waiver forms that need to be sent in to the UPA. Remember that a chaperone waiver form needs to be sent in for EVERY UPA event that you attend. As far as I know the following teams need to send one in: Beacon, Belmont Hill, Columbia B, Lincoln Academy, NMH Girls, Milton, Newton South, Spaulding, St. Paul's, Stuyvesant, Watchung Girls, Watchung Boys. You can download the chaperone waiver form right here (PDF). As for liability waiver forms and player dues, do me a favor and recheck your rosters. Some of you have players that are missing one of those items. Some of those players didn't end up attending the tournament, but some did. If someone is missing an item and didn't attend the event, please email Melanie ( ) at the UPA and ask her to drop the player from your roster. When you email her make sure to give her your team name, the player name, and their UPA # if possible. Please, please take care of this NOW. Please?

+POST TOURNAMENT SURVEY
I've put a post-tournament survey online right here. The survey will only take 5-10 minutes to complete and the information you provide is SUPER, SUPER, SUPER helpful. So, if at all possible, please complete the survey and let everyone on your team know about it.

+MEDIA
We made the local paper this morning. The article can be found online right here. As for our own media, SJA photographers took over 4,000 pictures throughout the weekend... but we'd like to get our hands on more! If you took photos or video of the event it would be wonderful if you could either send me a link pointing me to where they are posted online, or send me the data on a CD or DVD. My mailing address is Josh Seamon, 1000 Main St., St. Johnsbury, VT 05819. Links to all of the photos that we put online will be posted on the media page.

+NUMBERS
We managed to collect scores for 108 of the 109 games played. Even more mind boggling is the fact that we managed to collect spirit score sheets from 35 of 35 teams. Thank you for being so good reporting yours game and spirit scores! Links to each of the score reporter pages (including spirit scores) can be found on the results page.

+NEXT YEAR
Yah, that's right, it's never too early to start planning :) I don't have anything set quite yet, but I am looking at the same weekend in May next year: 5/16-17.

That's it, I'm off to nap.



- Josh

PS. I still take full responsibility for the weather :)