Nashville Nightshade

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The Nashville Nightshade are a professional women's ultimate frisbee team based in Nashville, Tennessee. [1] They play in the Premier Ultimate league and were one of the eight founding teams of the league. With the cancellation of the PUL's 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nightshade have only played one season. [2] The Nightshade are a community-owned non-profit organization. [3]

Franchise history

Founded in 2018, the Nightshade began play in 2019, the PUL's first season of play. The Nightshade's second season was scheduled to begin in 2020, however, the COVID-19 pandemic put a pause on most major sports leagues, the PUL included.

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References

  1. "NightShade". NightShade. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  2. comments, Charlie Eisenhood in News with 0 (2020-04-14). "Premier Ultimate League 2020 Season Has Been Canceled". Ultiworld. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  3. "Nashville NightShade". Premier Ultimate League. Retrieved 2020-12-14.