Kathy Pufahl
2005 UPA Hall of Fame Inductee 
Kathy Pufahl played a crucial role in the 1980s and early 1990s in organizing and overseeing the administrative responsibilities of the UPA.  She oversaw the UPA Championship Series and other tournaments, organized the women’s college division, co-wrote the first update to the Ninth Edition rules, and made sure the UPA Newsletter was published and distributed.  She was the second women’s national director of the UPA from 1985-88 and the first Managing Director of the UPA from 1988-90, setting up and running the first official UPA headquarters in an office near her home on the North Shore of Long Island.  In 1981, she helped start one of the first women’s Ultimate teams, Housewives in Rochester, NY, and later played with Andromeda in Washington, DC and the New York City women’s teams.  On the field, she was a steady player who always got open, who was impossible to cover, and who threw exceedingly strategically and accurately.  Outside of her Ultimate involvement, she was the foremost grower of hard-to-find annual plants in the world and was dubbed “Queen of Containers” by Horticulture Magazine.  Born on December 17, 1958, Kathy was stricken with cancer and died in October 2003.  The annual Kathy Pufahl Spirit of the Game Award for the women’s division at the UPA Championship was introduced in her honor in 2004.  Kathy is survived by husband Kevin Cande and two children.