Spirit of the Game Committee

Jose Amoroso (POR)

Chair, SOTG Committee

José Amoroso is currently the Chair of the WFDF Spirit Of The Game Commission and Chair of the WFDF University and School Sport / Youth and Sport Commission He began his passion for disco sports in 2000 as an Erasmus student in Belgium (Bruges). He was previously President National Association of Ultimate and Sports Disc for 5 years, Over 20 years of professional experience in the field of Physical Education and Sport, having exercised activities in the areas of Education, Pedagogy, and Ethics in sports, PhD. in Physical education and Sports (thesis entitled "ULTIMATE FRISBEE PLAYERS: PLAYING HIGHLY COMPETITIVE WITH GOOD SPIRIT". and Author of: Parasport Wheelchair Ultimate (2021) and Ultimate at Schools Programme Teacher's File (2020)

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Chihiro Ono (JPN)

Chihiro "Senco" Ono started Ultimate in 2001 at University of Tokyo. Since her early stage she has been into Ultimate rules and loved to discuss on and off the field. In 2006 she met a diverse pick up community called "Tokyo Ultimate", which gradually formed itself into IKU, a mixed club team. IKU played WUCC 2010 in Prague. Senco also played WMUCC 2018 in Winnipeg, where she captained a master mixed team Wasabi and won Spirit Award. It was one of the most memorable tournaments for her and she started sharing the knowledge and experience in Japan Ultimate community. Around the same timing she founded JFDA SOTG Committee and joined WFDF SOTG Committee as well. She was also a Game Advisor and served at WU24 2019 in Heidelberg.

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Kate Barabanova (RUS)

• 2001: Started to play ultimate in Veliky Novgorod, Russia • 2002: Moved to Moscow and played for No Nails, Moscow women's ultimate club • 2005: Moved to Kyiv, Ukraine and started a new team with her sister Victoria and friend Tatiana. The team Dyki Krali still plays Ultimate. • 2008: Came back to Moscow, Russia and joined Brilliance Moscow Ultimate Women's Club • 2015–2016: Played for Bivni, Russian mixed ultimate club and won silver and gold at Russian National championships • 2010: Attended her first World Championship in Prague, Czech Republic where she met a lot of international players. • 2011–2017: Organized 5 training camps, started with Seattle Sockeye, and involved elite coaches from USA, the UK, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Germany and Russia, which helped Russian Ultimate to grow and rise to the elite level. • 2011–2013: Volunteer at USA Ultimate. • 2011–2018: RFDF Development Director • 2014–now: Member of WFDF SOTG Committee • 2015–now: Member of RFDF SOTG Committee • Spirit Director at PAUC2015, WCBU2017, EBUC2019; Assistant Spirit Director at WCBU2015; WUGC2016.

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Kate Kingery (USA)

Kate started playing ultimate in college and has been playing and coaching ever since. She has had the honor of competing nationally and internationally over the past two decades. She values Spirit of the Game and hopes to find ways to share her passion through her work on this committee.

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Wolfgang Maehr (SGP)

After his first game of Ultimate in 1999 and struggling to organise local games, Wolf decided to make the availability of Ultimate one of the factors in his choice of location. Since 2004 he has played Ultimate in Europe (Sweden, Switzerland, Norway) and in Asia (India, Singapore) and been fortunate to be able to participate in tournaments at across the globe at all levels from fun tourneys to world championships. The community is what makes Ultimate special and SOTG is what creates the community. Wolf's views on SOTG had been reinforced by his time involved in building India's Ultimate community: Seeing how Ultimate and SOTG more than any sport teach (young) minds about conflict resolution, responsibility and not winning at all cost inspires how Ultimate can change mindsets, behaviour and thus society for a better. He's been an active member for the SOTG committee since 2018, aside from his involvement in Beach Ultimate and organising teams. His goal is to make sure that SOTG survives as an integral and reliable part of the game as the sport gets more popular and more professional. Professionally, Wolf is working as a product, system and organisations architect tackling the exciting challenges and opportunities that a globalised and digitalized world creates. He graduated a software architect from Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences (AUT) and an interaction designer from Chalmers University of Technology (SWE).

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Guo Yang (CHN)

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Samir El Ajraoui (MOR)

Samir is a great fan of flying disc sports, more famous as " SAM SOTG '', he started playing ultimate in 2013 in Morocco. He is the founder of the club ULTIMATE CASABLANCA of which he is a coach and player. In 2015 he was champion of the first ultimate tournament organized in Morocco, in July of the same year he organized the first Hat tournament in the city of Casablanca, and began to participate in tournaments in Spain and Portugal, 2017 he participated in the WCBU in France with the UAE GrandMaster team. Sam has participated in the organization of several local and regional tournaments and has volunteered to run several clinics for the benefit of young people in order to popularize the practice of disc flying sports in several villages. Samir is currently a volunteer member of the SOTG committee and has the goal of playing ultimate on all five continents. In July 2022 Sam flew to Atlanta, USA for a tournament and a game against the German national team that was preparing for the 2022 World Games. He only has Australia and Asia left, to be continued

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Anna Grunewald (GER)

Anna Grünewald is a 25-year-old Ultimate Player from Germany. She is a member of the Spirit Committee of the European Ultimate Federation (EUF). Her home team is Next Generation from Nuremberg. The team is playing in the first league of the mixed division. Besides Ultimate, she is an engineer, working as a project manager for a meter company.

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