Grades 9-12

The high school summer league

The High School Summer League runs late June through early August at three sites — Lexington, Newton, and Boston — with divisions for grades 9-10 and 11-12. It's coached, weekly, and built for both school-team players keeping sharp and brand-new players catching up fast. Registration is per-site, pricing is call-your-own-fee like every BUDA youth program.

Fall, winter, spring

School-year options ring the calendar: fall 9-12 leagues in Lexington, Newton, Somerville, and Hopkinton; the High School Winter Indoor League in two sessions on the turf; and the spring school season itself, when most school teams compete. Many players stack all three — winter indoor is where the throws you'll use in May get built.

No team at your school?

Two answers. Short term: join a nearby town program — they take players from anywhere. Long term: start the team. BUDA's new team checklist walks through field space, school registration, and recruiting (find who just got cut from soccer), and we can send a guest coach to your first practices and donate starter discs. A surprising number of Massachusetts school teams began exactly this way.

States and chaperones

The High School State Championships are a USA Ultimate event, so the rules shift: every team needs an official chaperone, an adult over 21 with a background check and a USA Ultimate membership. Your coach can be your chaperone; you just need a qualified adult with you to compete. USA Ultimate's Gender Inclusion Policy applies at states, rather than BUDA's own matchup policy.

Toward club and college

Players who want more than a school season feed into the youth club track — tryouts each June for the U17 and U20 teams that travel nationally. And college is closer than it looks: Boston's college scene and the schools that fund ultimate players are both on the resources page.