Editing Goaltimate (section)

==History==
Goaltimate was invented by players of ultimate in Wellesley, Massachusetts. It was invented on Christmas Day around 1980, on hard-pack snow, after not enough players for ultimate showed up. It was originally played between the lower spars of a set of H-shaped [[American football|football]] uprights. Jim Herrick, one of the Boston inventors,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usaultimate.org/about/history/hall_of_fame/jim_herrick_class_of_2005.aspx|title=Jim Herrick (Class of 2005)|website=www.usaultimate.org|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref> brought the game to San Diego, where it was further developed and replaced the uprights with a large hoop made with [[Polyvinyl chloride|PVC]] pipes. In 1999, Rick and Bibbi Conner, San Diego entrepreneurs with interest in the sport, subsidized a goaltimate tournament with a [[United States dollar|US$]]30,000 purse for the winners, inviting top players from competitive ultimate teams. The San Diego team took the prize, defeating a team from Boston in the finals. Through this introduction, the sport rapidly spread across the US as a [[Pick-up (gaming)|pickup]] alternative to ultimate.

In 2016, [http://usagoaltimate.org USA Goaltimate], the national governing body for the sport, was launched.<ref>[https://ultiworld.com/2016/01/26/deep-look-team-usa-tryouts-usa-goaltimate/ Ultiworld:Deep Look: Team USA Tryouts, USA Goaltimate]</ref>