DiscNW

Our Mission

Serve as a regional resource, promoting growth in the sport of Ultimate and instilling the spirit of sportsmanship at all levels of play.

It is intrinsic to DiscNW's mission to promote and teach mutual respect and fair play, demonstrate the value of team sports for health and social benefits, and perform outreach in the community. The notion of sportsmanship or the "Spirit of the Game" has guided the agency and defines the organizational culture. Our goal is to be the leading provider of recreational Ultimate Frisbee Events in the Northwest.

Core Purpose

To promote and celebrate spirited play, competition, and interaction in our community.

Core Values

• Equity and accessibility
• Stewardship and service to the community and to the sport of ultimate
• Fairness and Spirit of the Game, on and off of the field
• Play and healthy competition

Ultimate Frisbee combines the non-stop movement and athletic endurance of soccer with the aerial passing skills of football. A game of ultimate is played by two seven-player squads with a 175g plastic disc on a field similar to football. The object of the game is to score by catching a pass in the opponent’s end zone. A player must stop running while in possession of the disc, but may pivot and pass to any of the other receivers on the field. Ultimate is a transition game in which players move quickly from offense to defense on turnovers that occur with a dropped pass, an interception, a pass out of bounds, or when a player is caught holding the disc for more than a ten-second count. Ultimate is unique amongst competitive sports in that games are governed by Spirit of the Game™ - a tradition of sportsmanship that places the responsibility for fair play on the players rather than referees. Ultimate is played in more than 42 countries by hundreds of thousands of men and women, girls and boys.