18th Annual Amherst Ultimate Invitational Tournament will
take place on Saturday and Sunday May 2-3, 2009. The Tournament will be held at the Ultimate fields at ARHS and Hampshire College.The ARHS Boys team enters the tournament witha 15-1 record.
On Saturday, games will be played from 9:45am to 5pm at both venues; on
Sunday, games will run from 8am to 4:30pm at ARHS. Combining 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 high-tech plastic disc on a field similar to football. Amherst is steeped in the history of Ultimate, acknowledged to be to be the
birthplace of the sport by an Amherst College student in 1967. Ultimate has grown precipitously over the following 40 years to over 4.9 million competitiveUltimate players around the world (2008). For schedules, times, locations, and much more information on the tournament,see: http://www.amherstultimate.org/ai/2009
