The Seattle Cascades are a professional ultimate team that competes in the Western Division of the American Ultimate Disc League ( AUDL ) with an open roster. They also compete as a mixed squad in various exhibition games. The team is named after the mountain range that runs through the Pacific Northwest and their mascot is a sasquatch (bigfoot) named Casey. The team's stated core values are integrity, community, and athletic excellence.
8-614: The club first competed in 2015 as an open AUDL team, and added a mixed roster in 2017 and a women's roster in 2018. The women's team, which competes in the Western Ultimate League (WUL) , changed its name to the Seattle Tempest in 2020. During the season, the Cascades play 12 regular season games, with up to four post-season games dependent on results. In its inaugural season in 2015 , the team placed 2nd in
16-719: The Premier Ultimate League (PUL), another women's ultimate league established in 2019, with an eye toward a future merger. The WUL shares resources and communicates closely with the PUL. The WUL started with a 2017 and 2018 series of women's and mixed showcase games affiliated with the American Ultimate Disc League (now the Ultimate Frisbee Association), and a 2019 series of professional women's showcase games along
24-485: The 2018 season. They have also competed internationally: they defeated Melbourne Ellipsis in 2019. Western Ultimate League The Western Ultimate League ( WUL ) is a professional women's ultimate league in the Western United States . It was founded in 2020. The WUL's stated mission is to "promote visibility, opportunity, and equity within women's ultimate". The WUL was formed to parallel
32-711: The AUDL West Division, losing in the final round of the playoffs to eventual champion San Jose Spiders . In 2016 the team beat the San Francisco FlameThrowers to win the West Division and advance to AUDL Championship Weekend in Madison, Wisconsin . There the Cascades staged a victory against the hometown favorite Madison Radicals and advanced to the championship game, where they lost to the undefeated Dallas Roughnecks . In 2017 ,
40-496: The Cascades placed third in the West Division and did not qualify for the divisional playoff. In 2018 , they placed fifth (last) in the West Division and did not qualify for the divisional playoff. In 2019 , they again placed last (fourth) in the West Division and did not quality for the divisional playoff. The 2020 AUDL season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The Cascades mixed gender roster includes players from both
48-762: The Portland Swifts announced they were withdrawing from the WUL. The six remaining WUL teams first competed in December 2021 at the Winter Cup in San Diego. The Utah Wild emerged victorious, and two plays from the Winter Cup were featured by ESPN SportsCenter . After the Winter Cup, the league announced the addition of a seventh team, the Oregon Onyx. The first regular season was conducted in 2022, with
56-622: The open and women's rosters. This roster competes in periodic mixed showcase competitions, such as the annual Cascades Cup in Seattle. The first Cascades Cup was held in 2017 and was attended by more than 850 people; the San Francisco Flamethrowers mixed roster defeated the Seattle Cascades 17-16. This event provided motivation for the Cascades to commit to creating more playing opportunities for women beginning in
64-542: The west coast including games between Seattle , Portland , and Vancouver -based teams and between Los Angeles and San Diego -based teams. The inaugural 2020 Western Ultimate League season began with tryouts in January and February 2020 with seven teams. Competition, which had been set to begin in March 2020 and continue through May, was postponed and then canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In January 2021,
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