When someone suggests playing with a "Frisbee" many think of tossing a plastic disc at the beach, backyard or giving the dog a bit of exercise. "Ultimate Frisbee" is different. It is a team sport of seven on a side, played worldwide by enthusiasts who play the game with a passionate dedication. It uses the plastic disc but that is where the similarity ends. It has a spirit of the game, a philosophy of competition that is contrary to most competitive sports. You play the game in a manner where you look to win but also to win the respect of your opponent and the people who play the game is paramount. This spirit was born in the '60s and early '70s and is part of the official rules.

Men and women who went to college then and until today were first exposed to the Frisbee sport on campus. The Ultimate Frisbee game developed in the colleges and has continued to grow since that time both in people participating and geographically spreading to all parts of the world. It has reached such proportion that the CTTV Television Network will telecast Ultimate Players Association College Championships in the 2005-2006 seasons. Shades of early lacrosse.

The Ultimate Players Association (UPA) celebrated its 25th anniversary in Sarasota, FL at the 2005 US Club Championships at the Sarasota Polo Club. This event included the first alumni reunion and induction of the first five members into its "Hall of Fame."

A Manhasset High School graduate, Suzanne "Suz" Fields (1971) was in the first class of inductees. Suzanne showed traces of her athletic prowess at Manhasset as Orange Captain and received an athletic stipend for her first year of college at SUNY Brockport. While completing graduate school at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Suzanne first learned the sport of ultimate frisbee and played on the men's team. Title 9 had not yet kicked in on the ultimate field. Suz was the driving force behind the establishment of a separate women's division for Ultimate play and became the first women's director of the UPA beginning in 1981. Also in 1981, Suzanne captained Boston Ladies Ultimate to the first US women's national title. In 1983, she organized the USA women's team which won the first World Ultimate Championship in Sweden.

Suzanne continued to play with various national caliber teams throughout the 80s and also competed in individual events. Among the contested individual events was distance throwing. Suzanne held the Women's World Distance record for over 10 years and was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for her feat. She was part of the Coed Masters Division World Championship Ultimate team in 1990 that successfully competed to win the first international coed title in Norway. Suzanne is still playing in local leagues in Hawaii and continues to be involved in Ultimate affairs today. The Fields family resides in Manhasset.