Malissa Lundgren, Ultimate Canada’s 2011 Female Athlete of the Year and one of the captains of the Capitals, a women’s ultimate team from Toronto/Ottawa Ontario, Canada, talks about the unintended consequences of playing in USA Ultimate’s Triple Crown Tour in 2013 because they are talking about offering prize money to the winning teams.
What this means is that they are essentially professional players and as such, health care won’t cover physio and other treatment which is currently covered and for the amount of money that is being proposed to the winning teams, it raises some interesting questions about whether or not it’s worth the cost/risk of traveling to compete.
More information on the Triple Crown can be found online: https://tct.usaultimate.org/.
Informative article, just what I was looking for.