{"id":983215,"date":"2026-05-25T05:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/983215\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:28:13","slug":"usa-ultimate-returns-to-rockford-region-for-first-time-since-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/983215\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Ultimate returns to Rockford region for first time since 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LOVES PARK, Ill. (WIFR) &#8211; 20 men\u2019s and 20 women\u2019s collegiate ultimate frisbee teams are in the Rockford region this week for the 2026 USA Ultimate Division I College Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is the first time the Rockford region\u2019s hosted this championship since the Division III tourney came here in 2018. This is also the second time USA Ultimate brought the Division I tournament to Illinois.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis is one of the best events we\u2019ve been a part of. The weather\u2019s been fantastic. The local support\u2019s been fantastic. The competition\u2019s been very good,\u201c said USA Ultimate Managing Communications Director Andy Lee. \u201dWe\u2019ve been growing pre-pandemic pretty steadily then like a lot of sports we\u2019ve hit a bit of a bump in the road. But we\u2019re ramping it back up and we\u2019re coming back to pre-pandemic numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hear more from Lee below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Things conclude Monday with the national championship in both divisions. The women\u2019s championship will kick off at noon between Carleton College and British Columbia followed by Massachusetts and Carleton in the men\u2019s division.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIFR. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOVES PARK, Ill. (WIFR) &#8211; 20 men\u2019s and 20 women\u2019s collegiate ultimate frisbee teams are in the Rockford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":983216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[273406,273403,31488,154994,273404,31913,49,978,659,273405],"class_list":["post-983215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-frisbee","tag-loves-park","tag-national-championship","tag-rockford","tag-sportscore","tag-ultimate","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-usa-ultimate"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}