It's easy to feel overwhelmed at the prospect of helping to expand a game that is already reaching worldwide status. What can one person do? Plenty.

When opportunites arise for you to make a difference, we hope you'll step up and take advantage of them. To assist you in this goal, DiscLife.com will keep you up to date on some of the ways that you and your local club can help.

Wham-O Pulls Out Of Junior Frisbee® Disc Championships

Information courtesy of Greg "Q" Quiroga / San Francisco DGC and Shrednow.com

Due to budget cuts, Wham-O has cancelled the 2000 Junior Frisbee® Disc Championships. We see this annual event as an important disc sports outreach program, and invite you to email Wham-O and encourage them to continue to support programs like this in the future.

From 1968 to 1999, Wham-O sponsored the World Junior Frisbee® Disc Championships, which provided young athletes the chance to test their skills against thousands of other FRISBEE disc players throughout the world.

Each year, schools and parks would host local Frisbee disc competitions throughout the United States. Top performers from local contests then had the opportunity to win their way onto the US team by sending an audition tape to Wham-O. International competitors were chosen at events hosted by international distributors of the Frisbee brand of flying discs. Invited players competed for the World Championship in overall play and in six different flying disc events (discathon, golf, distance, SCF accuracy and freestyle)

The Championships were expanded in 1998 to include age divisions for players under 16 (Juniors) and players age 16-20 (Collegiate).

Recycling Your Old Disc Golf World News Magazines

Fred Hallaman of Birmingham, AL wrote in to suggest we all donate our uneeded DGWN magazines to a local doctor's or dentist's office.

"It would be a very subtle promotion for disc golf, but what could it hurt," said Fred. "There would be no cost to anybody. Instead of throwing the magazine away we could just donate them to whoever might get the most usuage of it. I think a doctor's office, physical therapist, sports medicine clinic and such would be the ideal places for obvious reasons. We could make it into national campaign of sort."

Great idea Fred! Thanks for the suggestion.

ESPN Feedback: Cast Your Vote Now

ESPN - A worldwide leader in sports coverage - is asking for feedback from sports enthusiasts. We encourage you to send them an email now and ask them to include disc golf in their overall scope of coverage.

Some of the information you should consider including:

Subject: Suggestions
Your Name
Your Age
Your Email
Comments: (copy and paste one of the options below, or tell them about disc golf in your own words and how much you would like to see them cover the sport)

"The game of disc golf is growing fast, and my friends and I would love to see ESPN begin to provide coverage. Thank you."

"With annual growth of over 15 percent, when is ESPN going to sieze the opportunity to be the first sports network to provide true coverage of disc golf? If you guys are the best, here's another chance to show your leadership. Thanks!"

"If sports are an addiction, disc golf is my heroin. I can't get enough of it! Please help to feed my habit and start covering this awesome game. Thank you."