Ultimate is an inclusive sport for all students where they can grow in athletic skill, promote good sportsmanship, forge friendships and build character, through positive encouragement with respect for all players.
Our mission is to continue the legacy of the Columbia High School Alumni who founded the sport of Ultimate in 1968, by promoting the sport, teaching, training, and raising the necessary funding to compete in USA Ultimate-Sanctioned tournaments in and out of state while continually demonstrating “Spirit of the Game”.
1968
In 1968, a high school students named Joel Silver learned to play a new frisbee game while at summer camp in Northfield, Massachusetts. He came back to his hometown of Maplewood NJ and taught the sport to his friends at, Columbia High School where they started pick up games and began to develop the first set of rules. Two years later in 1970 The first competitive game was played between Columbia High School and Millburn . Joel and his friends printed and published the rules in 1970 and spread the word to other nearby High Schools. By 1972 the first collegiate game took place between Princeton and Rutgers. The sport has been growing ever since and is now played by over 7 million people worldwide.
Check out this article in the NY Times here.