Youth Divisions Competition Update and Consultation

We are tremendously grateful to everyone that is involved in organising teams, clubs, schools groups and competitions for young ultimate players. It takes a huge amount of work for everyone involved.

We’ve had some feedback / suggestions / requests in a number of areas and have written this document - with associated feedback form - to outline some changes that we are making and/or preparing to make.

We would love input on some of these questions to help guide timing.

Summary

1. We are introducing some changes to the junior division eligibility rules.

2. We are refining the wording on age-definitions and will start including a minimum age in each division.

3. We are requesting input on whether / when to introduce Under-11 divisions, and whether to attempt to do anything with our structure to help teams whose players straddle the Under-14/Under-17 boundary.

4. We are preparing to add women’s outdoor divisions in all age groups, and would like some input on whether to introduce this change (and which age-groups) in 2025.

5. We are preparing to move the U20 divisions to a different date to the other age-groups, and would like some input on whether to make this change in 2025, and some input on implementation.

Please see this document for more details and background information. There is a feedback form at the end of the document.