Spring 2024 Season Update
Spring Season is underway! You can find the schedules for each team here:
Hopkins Hustle
Hopkins Hustle is quickly approaching! It will be held May 11-12 at the National Sports Center in Blaine.
The detailed game schedule will be posted here the week of May 6th, but plan on the Girls and Boys varsity teams playing on both Saturday (8:30AM-6PM) and Sunday (9AM-3PM) and MSL playing Saturday only (8:30AM-6 PM) so MSL can play their usual league games on Sunday.
The players on each team are responsible for a specific task at Hustle. The Boys' team will be marking the fields after school on Friday afternoon May 10th. The MSL team will be responsible for cleaning up the fields after the games on Saturday (~5-6:30 PM) and the Girls Team will be responsible for cleaning up the fields on Sunday afternoon (~3-4PM).
Baked Goods
A favorite part of Hustle for the players is the Baked goods tent. Hopkins' parents provide cookies, bars, and other baked goods for all the athletes throughout the weekend. Please sign-up on the volunteer sign-up genius below if you are willing to provide some sweet treats for the players. Please note that donating baked goods does not fulfill volunteer duties, we need your help at the tournament as well!
Volunteers
Please sign-up here for your volunteer shifts and baked goods donations:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080C4AA4AA29A64-49005070-hopkins
Each family is asked to sign up for at least one volunteer working shift throughout the weekend (sorry, donating baked goods doesn't replace volunteering). Training is provided for each task and we try to make sure our teams are playing near tournament headquarters to allow volunteer parents to still catch some of the games. We are also still looking for a chairperson for food coordination. That is the first sign-up slot on the sheet. Some work before the tournament will be asked of that volunteer. Please note that MSL parents should sign up for shifts on Saturday since MSL is not playing on Sunday. Sign-up quickly so you get your preferred slot!
Summer Ultimate Opportunities
There are a number of opportunities to play Ultimate over the summer.
Minnesota Ultimate's Summer League offers a 7v7 mixed hat draw competition structure for players who would like to continue to play ultimate during the summer, but do not wish to commit to a full Superior Youth Club season. Summer League is one night per week, and is an excellent space to both improve as a player and make friends with peers in the ultimate community.
Minnesota Superior YCC offers a competitive summer youth club experience. Superior gives athletes the opportunity to play alongside the best youth players in the state, and compete against both youth and adult club teams nationally. For players who are passionate about ultimate, Superior is the best way to experience the game at the next level.
The Loppet Foundation offers a range of classes at various locations around the Twin Cities throughout the summer. You can find more information here.
Weather Hotline
Hopkins Fields are unavailable 5/2 due to weather. Boys Varsity Game and MSL practice are cancelled tonight.
Schedule Links
Important Season Dates
- May 11-12 Hopkins Hustle Tournament (this is our big fundraising event, all teams will play and all families will be expected to volunteer)
- May 18-19 MSL State Tournament
- May 29 - End of Year Banquet
- June 1-2 High School State Tournament
Merch
Click here if you are interested in ordering Hopkins Ultimate Merch.
Supporting HURT
We thank all our gracious sponsors and ask that you visit them often! click the image for links to their businesses.
We are always looking for more company sponsors. If you have a business or know of a business you think might be willing to sponsor Hopkins Ultimate, please contact hurtultimate@gmail.com
Schedule Help
Here are links to each team's practice and game calendar for easy reference. You can click on Family Calendar at the very top of the page to see all the events for your player with a subscribe option to sync to your calendaring app (help on setting up the calendar sync can be found here). There is no program wide calendar available via our new hosting site.
You may receive schedule notification emails from MNU since players are registered through both our site and MNU. Reach out to hurtultimate@gmail.com if you notice a potential conflict between our site and MNU so we can address it if needed.
Crossbar Help
Our new hosting platform, Crossbar, has many useful features including calendar subscription and the ability to associate additional users (players or other family members) with your account. You can find a summary of useful resources for both the website and app here.
We will be managing email communication through crossbar with individual team parents communicating specific team information through GroupMe. By default, only the parent account who registered a player will be sent emails. If you would like to add other accounts to receive emails, follow the instructions here to link accounts.
Why Play Ultimate
Are you considering playing Ultimate? Here are some reasons to sign up:
- Build Endurance: Ultimate combines the athletic endurance of soccer with the passing skills of football.
- Learn Sportsmanship: There are no referee's in Ultimate. Players learn to call their own penalties and work out any differences by communication on the field.
- Low Contact Sport: Players are not allowed to pull, push, or tackle other players. The sport is more about finesse!
- Anyone Can Play: All players encourage and help other players so even the first-time player will be comfortable on the field!
- It's Just Fun! There is a reason why it's one of the fastest growing sports in the country.