Role of the WFDF Sport for All Commission
04 May 2017
- to advise the WFDF Board of Directors on Sport for all and Development issues
- to co-ordinate efforts to increase global participation in Flying Disc sports
- to develop ideas and initiatives to promote Flying Disc sports on all continents
- to ensure representation of the continental associations within WFDF governance structures
- to deliver advocacy on development questions in Flying Disc sports
- to develop ideas and initiatives for the development of Flying Disc sports on a Sport for all/grassroots level
Chair: Gabriele Sani (ITA) WFDF Development Director, Europe
Deputy Chair: Caroline ‘Caz’ Malone (QAT) WFDF Board member, AFDF Deputy Secretary General, Asia
Caz fell in love with flying disc sports and the wonderful community of players the moment she picked up an Ultimate Frisbee disc in Indonesia in 2008. She’s since played in local, regional and international tournaments across Asia, Europe and the Middle East: with UAE’s mixed team at WCBU in 2011, Qatar’s open team at WCBU in 2015, and is in Currier Island women’s masters squad for WCBU 2017.
Caz helped co-found the Ultimate Players Association of Qatar, and is currently UPAQ President. She developed the ‘Ultimate United’ mixed club team, which sent a squad to Jordan for the 2016 Middle East and North Africa championships. Along with the UPAQ tournament committee, she helped host Qatar’s first international ‘St Hatricks’ tournament in 2017.
Caz believes passionately that sport is a force for good across the world. She strongly supports the development of equal- opportunities disc sports into new places and for all people, no matter their gender, age, background or ethnicity.
In 2016, she was elected to the WFDF board as a Director-at-large, and more recently as Deputy Secretary General for the Asian Flying Disc Federation.
Brian Gisel (CAN) WFDF Board member, Advisor
Brian has played and served the sport of Ultimate for the past 20 years, at the local, national and international levels.
He has been a leader in growth of the Vancouver, British Colombia Ultimate scene since he started playing in the early 1990s and has helped to build the Vancouver league to one of the largest in the world. A member of the WFDF Ultimate Committee, he currently serves as Championships chair and has served as tournament director for numerous Canadian and WFDF World Championships. He has recently been named Operations Manager for the MLU Vancouver Nighthawks and works as operations manager for the British Colombia Medical Association.
Brian is from Vancouver, Canada. He is WFDF Ultimate Committee chair, and a former Chair of the WFDF Sport for All / Development Commission.
Alex Matovu (UGA) AAFDF President, Northern and Central Africa
Alex Matovu is more commonly known as Papa Q by Ultimate Frisbee Players in East Africa. He started playing Ultimate in 1995 in Uganda. In 1998, he organized the first Tournament in Kampala. In 2000, he officially launched Kampala Ultimate Frisbee Club, with 2 tournaments a year. In 2006, he attended the first Kenyan tournament NUFF-(Nairobi Ultimate Frisbee Fest) and supported Nairobi Ultimate to become an official association.
In 2008 he was part of starting the 7-Hills Classic, which is now the biggest grass Ultimate tournament in East Africa bringing players from all 5 East African Countries. In 2009 we began a journey of getting Ultimate as a National Sport, and became officially known as Uganda Ultimate Frisbee Association in 2010. In 2011, Uganda were not able to get visas to send a team to Italy for WCBU 2011. But with his support they succeeded in 2015 in got to WCBU2015 in Dubai.
In 2017, Papa-Q became President and co-founder of the continental body Africa Flying Disc Federation.
Jesus “Chuchin” Loreto (VEN) PAFDF President, South America
“Disc sports changed my life… for me the concept of Spirit of the Game is a lifestyle that has to be applied on and off the field and in all sports.”
Jesus has been involved with disc sports since 1980. He introduced the sport of Ultimate to Venezuela in 1984, and is the proud President and Founder of ‘Yanomami Ultimate’, which is the first ever South American team to play in a WFDF event in 1991.
As a member at large of the WFDF Board from 2007 to 2011, he helped with the unprecedented growth and development of the sport in the South American region. He’s still active in the regions of Central, South America and the Caribbean supporting development and growth with the goal of changing the lives of many kids, spreading the teachings of the sport of Ultimate and the concept of the Spirit of the Game. He’s traveled to many countries because of his involvement with disc sports and his main motivation is ‘The Community’ - sharing on and off the field with players, their families and spectators from different countries where there are no language, religious, political or race barriers.
Jesus was born in Venezuela, and lives Miami, USA. He speaks Spanish & English. He is a coordinator of volunteers for Spanish translations of the WFDF Ultimate Rules and Documents: 2002, 2013 & 2017. He is President of the PAFDF Panamerican Flying Disc Federation 2014-Present, Member of The Board of Director in the UP Ultimate Peace Program 2015-present and an active member of the WFDF Sport for All and Development Commission 2014-Present.
Patrick Fourcampré-Maye (UAE) Middle East
Introduced to Ultimate in 2009, Patrick Fourcampré-Maye co-founded the UAE’s Ultimate sporting federation United Arabian Ultimate. Playing in the UAE’s first international tournament on the UAE Mixed team at WCBU2011, lead onto his Tournament Director’s role for WCBU2015 in Dubai.
Patrick is an active member of the ultimate playing scene in the UAE with ‘The Flying Carpets’ team. Having organised numerous local tournaments, clinics and events, he is also active outside of playing, volunteering and working behind the scenes at WFDF events such as WUCC2014, WUGC & WUJC2016. Patrick will be playing for the UAE Grand Master’s team at WCBU2017 and acting as the WFDF Tournament Technical Director for AOUGCC 2017 in Manila later this year.
Nicholas Zaloumis (RSA) Southern Africa
Nick is based in Cape Town, South Africa. He plays for a mixed club team called Catch 22 Ultimate. He’s been playing for almost 8 years, mostly within South Africa, but also overseas a few times. He helped start his old university club, the first university Ultimate club in Africa at the University of Cape Town and was part of the substantial growth, energy and development that it brought into the South African community, and it is still a strong development force. He has always enjoyed teaching the sport to new players and has taken as much time as possible to participate in outreach programs to spread the amazing sport.
Nick has been part of the South African Flying Disc Association since 2012 and attempted to play a large role in helping to facilitate the development of the sport around the country. He was part of a team of two that first initiated and then brought into realization the first U23's (now U24's) team that South African has sent overseas: ‘The Wild Dogs’ Mixed Division.
Nick is passionate about the sport, seeing its growth within his country and across the rest of Africa, and hopes to use his position to facilitate as much growth as he can across this continent.
Johanna von Toggenburg (LIB) WFDF Sustainability Officer
Johanna has been playing Ultimate Frisbee in the UK, France, Belgium, Italy and the US since 2003. She has participated in numerous tournaments, including the European Ultimate Championships in 2007 in Southampton, UK. In 2013 she began coaching youth as part of the Ultimate Peace Program in Palestine. After moving to Lebanon in early 2015, Johanna started and coached the first Ultimate Frisbee teams in the country. She founded the Lebanon Flying Disc Association and is currently acting as its President, and acts as liaison for the organization ‘Ten Million Discs’,
Johanna is also WFDF’s Sustainability officer: she is an environmental and sustainability expert, using communication to bridge the gap between science and policy. She works with the United Nations providing policy advisory and capacity building on Sustainable Development to governments in the Arab Region. Since 2012 she’s been advocating for sustainable water and land management in the Middle East and coordinates national and regional knowledge exchange platforms, to fight water scarcity and pollution problems.
Thierry Fulconis (LUX) Small states and member associations
Thierry is a French-American citizen of the world, originally from New York. He spent 23 years in banking/finance and just recently decided to jump into entrepreneurship and transition to a new career in the hospitality business. He discovered Ultimate in college in 1992 and never stopped loving it. Over the years he has coached & captained multiple teams, and continued to play competitively.
In 2007, he was elected president of the Luxembourg Flying Disc Federation to promote disc sports in Luxembourg, where he resides. He has wonderful help from the LFDF Treasurer and Secretary, as well as great support from team members.
