Vassar Ultimate has 70 active members, practices 3x a week for a total of 9 hours, attends highly competitive tournaments in an ever-growing sport, and holds great significance to many Vassar alumni. An inability to secure, and retain, adequate spaces for holding practices and tournaments has hampered Vassar Ultimate's ability to function as a VSA org. Without the VSA's support, Vassar Ultimate is left to its own devices in dealing with administrators in the athletics department, to whom we are not a priority.

This year in particular, the college has been unreliable in remaining faithful to their agreements, using our status as a non-Varsity sport as an invitation to abruptly remove practice/tournament spaces.

"Ultimate is a legitimate sport with a national governing body... taught in schools, parks and recreation departments, boys and girls clubs, churches, colleges and through youth and adult leagues," according to USA Ultimate, and "the Sports & Fitness Industry Association (formerly the SGMA) continues to report Ultimate as one of the fastest growing team sports in the country." As such, our ability to function and grow as a team, and as VSA organization, is vital to our capacity to represent Vassar College around the country.