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The Premier Ultimate League (PUL) is a professional women's ultimate league that formed in 2019. The mission of the PUL is "to achieve equity in the sport of ultimate by increasing accessibility to the sport for, and visibility of women, transgender, intersex, non-binary, genderqueer, and genderfluid people through high-quality competition, leadership experiences, and community partnerships".
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 the west coast including games between Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver-based teams and between Los Angeles and San Diego–based teams.
The Atlanta Soul is a professional women's ultimate frisbee team based in Atlanta which competes in the Premier Ultimate League (PUL). The team joined the PUL for the league's inaugural 2019 season. [1] The team is also noteworthy for their sponsorship of the Color of Ultimate: ATL game, the first Color of Ultimate showcase game. [2]
Considered a clear front-runner for the 2019 regular season, [12] the Revolution lived up to pre-season expectations and defeated the Atlanta Soul 30–20 in the first ever pro women's ultimate game in Colombia [13] [3] and again 24–17 in Atlanta, [14] the Raleigh Radiance 16–13, [14] the Columbus Pride 18–16, [15] and the Indianapolis Red 16–6. [15]
On December 3, 2019 the PUL, which had held its inaugural season in 2019, [4] [5] announced that it would be adding four new teams including the Milwaukee Monarchs, Washington DC Shadow, Portland Rising, [6] [7] and Minnesota Strike.
Portland Rising formed for the 2020 season as part of a 4 team expansion to the PUL. [3] [4] [5] The team is owned by Chloë Rowse and is the first professional sports team to feature women, non-binary, trans, and genderfluid athletes in Maine. [3]
The Cascades compete in the Ultimate Frisbee Association (UFA) as a member of the West Division. The team is named after the mountain range that runs through the Pacific Northwest; their mascot is a Sasquatch named Casey. [1] 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. [2]
DC Shadow is a Premier Ultimate League (PUL) professional women's ultimate team based in Washington, D.C. [1] They joined the PUL as part of the 2020 expansion [2] [3] but as a result of the league's decision to cancel the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic [4] they did not compete in a full season until 2022.