The Atlanta Soul is a professional women's

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which competes in the Premier Ultimate League (PUL). The team joined the PUL for the league's inaugural

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. The team is also noteworthy for their sponsorship of the Color of Ultimate: ATL game, the first Color of Ultimate showcase game.

Franchise history

The Atlanta Soul formed in 2018 for a series of women's professional games featuring matches between teams from

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(Red),

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(Torch). The Medellin Revolution also played one game in this series. Most of these teams, including the Atlanta Soul, went on to become founding members of the PUL. The Soul is one of the original eight teams in the Premier Ultimate League, which had its inaugural season in 2019. The Soul is co-owned by Angela Lin and Maddy Frey. The team would have played its second season in 2020, but the PUL cancelled the season due to the

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. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the PUL elected to hold a limited 2021 competition season with games occurring across three weekends in August 2021, but the Soul opted not to compete.

Record

In their 2019 regular season, the Soul defeated the Austin Torch 19-15 and the Nashville Nightshade 23–16. They fell to the Medellin Revolution 20-30 and 17–24, and to the NY Gridlock 19–21. In the playoffs semifinal game, the Soul fell to the Medellin Revolution in a tightly contested double-overtime rematch, 26–27.

Current coaching staff

* Coach - Aileen Thomas * Coach - Meredith Leahy

Roster

The team's 2020 roster was as follows: *captain

Color of Ultimate

The Soul, along with the

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, sponsored and supported the first Color of Ultimate game, held in

on June 22, 2019. The Color of Ultimate showcase games are a project of the Atlanta Flying Disc Club (AFDC) Project Diversity initiative aimed at raising the profiles of elite ultimate players of color from around the world.

References

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