Our NUTC Staff
In 2001, we launched the first overnight ultimate camp in the United States with only 28 campers! Since then, we have grown to over 20 years of success with thousands of campers joining #NUTCNation.
The National Ultimate Training Camp (NUTC) is open to boys and girls ages 14-18. From daily drills to evening games/events, these campers will spend five intensive days and nights immersed in the sport of ultimate frisbee. Tiina Booth is assisted by her skilled counselors and guest instructors, who have spent many years playing and coaching their favorite sports.
About Tiina Booth
Our camp director, Tiina Booth, moved to Amherst in 1989 when she was hired as an English teacher at Amherst Regional High School. In 1992 she founded the Amherst Invitational, the oldest high school ultimate tournament in the U.S. She coached the boys’ varsity team at ARHS and in 1997 was featured in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” for her coaching achievements. In 1998 Booth co-founded the Junior National Ultimate Championship, which her team eventually won. For the next four years, her team finished in the top four, with runner-up finishes in 2001 and 2002. The following year, the Hurricanes won the national title again in Birmingham, Alabama; they repeated in 2004 in Corvallis, Oregon. In 2005 they won the Easterns Championships in Pittsburgh and finished second at YCC in Minneapolis.
Booth also coached the U.S. Juniors Boys Team at the World Ultimate Championships in 1998 and 2000, winning the gold and bronze medals respectively.
In 2004, she coached this team again with Michael Baccarini and they took home the gold, with a victory over the Canadian juniors in the finals. She has recently finished writing a book about ultimate with Michael Baccarini, titled Essential Ultimate which is available now.
Additionally, Tiina Booth was inducted into the Ultimate Hall of Fame in 2016 for contributing to the development of ultimate and gender equity in the sport.
Since then, Tiina spent her time coaching the UMass Amherst Men’s Ultimate Frisbee team as well as numerous club programs in the New England region. She has recently redirected her efforts toward supplemental mental toughness and coaching courses to develop the next generation of players and coaches.
About Our Counselors
We work to hire the best staff available for our campers. We recruit top notch players from around the country, many of who have won college, club, and international championships as well as individual talent awards such as POTY, Callahan, Donovan, Coach of the Year, and Spirit Awards.
Our counselors are teachers first, and a large part of our hiring process revolves around that concept. Our staff are trained by a proven system to pass on their knowledge on to our campers. The days they spend at camp are focused on instilling as much information to all our campers as possible.