MORE than 20 people have now signed up with a Banbury sports club that claims to be the town’s first ever Ultimate Frisbee team.

The Banbury Big Worms, run by coach Noemie Huvelin from France, started in the town last summer when she and a few friends threw flying discs around after work at Spiceball Park.

Soon after, Miss Huvelin was running training twice a week in teaching the art of Ultimate Frisbee from her competitive experiences playing in France, Australia and Holland.

The non-contact sport involves two teams of seven passing the disc to each other. A goal is scored when a team has thrown the disc into the last 18 metres of a field which is named the ‘end zone.’ Players must stand still when in possession and opposing teams can gain possession by either intercepting the disc or waiting for it to hit the ground.

Food technologist Miss Huvelin, who started playing the sport in 2008, said she was only aware of it being played at Oxford University and believes it is Banbury’s first ever Ultimate Frisbee team.

She added: “More and more people liked it because in the beginning it was more of a social thing.

“But some people started to take it a bit more seriously and then we played in the Spice Hall indoors. They really like it because before taking up the sport a few had started to play for fun, but now they are joining our team.

“I love the team spirit and fair play because there is no referee for each team, it is down to the player to decide and it works pretty well.

“At the end of the match you have to give a team a rating on how fair they have been so at the end of a championship you have the rank of the fair play team.

“This is the first Banbury club.

“We have had a lot of people saying they wanted to do it but couldn’t find a team.”