USAFL News

Aug 17, 2007

BLAST FROM THE PAST - #9

The first USAFA National Tournament was held in Santa Cruz over the ANZAC Day Weekend. Three teams from the newly formed California Australian Football League attended and ensured the tournament was a success. The following match report let’s us all in on the action.


The next National Tournament will be held in Kansas City on the weekend on May 30th. Hope to see you there.


'Roos Victorious In First ANZAC Cup!

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Aug 15, 2007

US Freedom Jumper Auction


The jumper was signed by the entire USA Freedom team during their historic weekend of footy in Vancouver Canada where they overwhelmed the Canadian Eagles team to win both women's international games.

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Aug 14, 2007

USAFL Announces New Ambassadors

The President of the United States Australian Football League, Robert Oliver, is delighted to announce that two more distinguished Australians - Leigh Matthews & Wayne Clark - have agreed to become members of the newly formed USAFL Ambassadors Program. 


Leigh and Wayne join Robert  DiPierdomenico (aka ‘Dipper’), Colin Carter, Ian Dicker, Michael Voss and Rodney (Grilla) Grljusich as USAFL Ambassadors.

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Aug 12, 2007

Grilla is coming back to Nationals!

Rich Mann, National Tournament Director for the 2007 Nationals, is pleased to announce that Rodney 'Grilla' Grljusich will be returning to the US to amuse, delight and enthrall us with his play by play announcing and commentary.


The United States Australian Football League' s premier tournament returns to the heartland of the rapidly growing multi faceted organization's origins this year - Louisville, Kentucky - to culminate a season of congratulations and celebrations in a star spangled 10th anniversary.

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Aug 10, 2007

British Columbia thanks US players and supporters

To the US AFL:


On behalf of the British Columbia Australian Rules Football League, I would like to express a huge thank you to all your players and supporters that participated, and helped support the BC Footy Cup and International competition, over the past weekend, in Vancouver.


The weekend without a doubt was a tremendous success and the attendance of your teams in the event confirmed that the growth of Australian Rules Football is heading in the right direction in North America.

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Aug 8, 2007

Revolution versus Northwind – 2007 Edition

The sun shone down on the magnificent ThunderBird Stadium in Vancouver. The grass was as green and smooth as any seen in North America. The stands held the biggest crowd yet to see a USFooty match – with representatives from both countries women’s and junior teams waiting eagerly for the game to commence.

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Aug 8, 2007

Photos of USA Freedom Team

Congratulations to the victorious USA Freedom Team who defeated the Canadian Eagles in Vancouver, British Columbia on August 4 - 5.


Please go to http://womensfooty.com/album/freedom for more photos.  Photos are being regularly updated on that site.



 


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Aug 6, 2007

USA Freedom Versus Canadian Eagles – Womens Footy

It was an historic day in Vancouver, British Columbia, where the first Womens International between the USA and Canada took place.


The USA Freedom were the first to take the field splendid in their new uniforms emblazoned with Americas most famous woman, the Statue of Liberty. Soon after the Canadians joined them on the field to a huge applause from the parochial crowd.

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Aug 6, 2007

Nationals player fees can now be paid on web!

We now have the facility for player payment up and running on the web site.  Players can pay their $50 fee ($30 for full time 2007-2008 students) at https://www.usfooty.com/usfooty/clubs/nationalsrego.aspx -  you will note that this is an https site, ensuring a secure transaction.




- Office Manager
(981)

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Aug 2, 2007

USFooty Nationals Sportzfan Radio Interview


Check out the Sportzfan Radio interview with USAFL President Rich Mann and Seattle Grizzlies Coach Andrew Donlen.  Rich and Andrew were interviewed by Mark Seymour from Sportzfan Radio in Australia. The radio show aired Sunday 20 July and talked about the upcoming National Championships.


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Aug 2, 2007

Big Weekend of International Footy

World Footy News has a great article on this weekends Canada vs USA games - read all about it here.


Our Womens section also has a preview of their game against Canada - you can read all about it here.




- WFN
(959)

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Aug 1, 2007

Office Manager’s father passing

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Jul 30, 2007

Nationals Umpires Needed

The USAFL will be culminating its 10th Anniversary with our Nationals Championship to be held in Louisville, Kentucky on the weekend of October 12-14.


The National Championship brings together players and fans of Aussie Rules from around to USA. This year we anticipate 32 teams to compete across 4 men’s divisions and one women’s division. And over 70% of the players are American. It is truly a celebration of the sport.

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Jul 25, 2007

Great response to Nationals invitation

We are delighted to announce that the following clubs have registered to play at Nationals 2007:

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Jul 24, 2007

Footy Boots for South Africa

G’day! I’m Heather O’Keeffe, Plugger’s daughter, and I am on a mission to collect old footy boots to send to South Africa. All you have to do is collect your old gear and mail it to me, then I will then send them on to the South African Australian Football League. Over the years my dad as acquired enough old boots to fill a large box and we would greatly appreciate a larger collection to donate.

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