2011 Spokane Shock season | |
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Head coach | Rob Keefe |
Home field | Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena |
Results | |
Record | 9–9 |
Division place | 2nd NC West |
Playoff finish | Lost Conference Semifinals (Rattlers) 33–62 |
The 2011 Spokane Shock season was the sixth season for the franchise, and the second in the Arena Football League, coming off of their victory in ArenaBowl XXIII. The team was coached by Rob Keefe and played their home games at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. The Shock finished the regular season 9–9, qualifying for the playoffs as the 4th seed in the National Conference. They lost to the Arizona Rattlers in the conference semifinals, 33–62.
The 2011 Arena Football League season was the 24th season in the history of the league. The regular season began on March 11, 2011 and ended on July 23, 2011. The Jacksonville Sharks, in their second year of existence, defeated the Arizona Rattlers 73–70 in ArenaBowl XXIV on August 12, 2011 to conclude the playoffs.
The Spokane Shock were a professional arena football team based in Spokane, Washington, playing their home games at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. The team was part of the National Conference Pacific Division of the Arena Football League. The franchise folded in October 2015. A reorganized ownership group applied for a franchise in the Indoor Football League, known as the Spokane Empire, as the rights to the Shock name belonged to the AFL.
The Arena Football League (AFL) is a professional indoor American football league in the United States. It was founded in 1987 by Jim Foster, making it the third longest-running professional football league in North America, after the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL). The AFL plays a proprietary code known as arena football, a form of indoor American football played on a 66-by-28 yard field, with rules encouraging offensive performance, resulting in a faster-paced and higher-scoring game. The sport was invented in the early 1980s and patented by Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League (USFL) and the NFL.
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Team | W | L | PCT | PF | PA | DIV | CON | Home | Away |
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z-Arizona Rattlers | 16 | 2 | .889 | 1114 | 836 | 5–1 | 9–2 | 8–1 | 8–1 |
x-Spokane Shock | 9 | 9 | .500 | 1057 | 1027 | 3–3 | 6–5 | 7–2 | 2–7 |
Utah Blaze | 9 | 9 | .500 | 1082 | 1117 | 2–4 | 4–7 | 7–2 | 2–7 |
San Jose SaberCats | 7 | 11 | .389 | 1022 | 1080 | 2–4 | 4–7 | 6–3 | 1–8 |
z - Clinched division and conference's best record
x - Clinched playoff berth
The Shock began the season on the road on March 11 against the San Jose SaberCats. Their home opener was against the Cleveland Gladiators on March 19. They visited the Jacksonville Sharks in their final regular season game on July 22. [1]
The San Jose SaberCats were a professional arena football team based in San Jose, California. The SaberCats had been members of the Arena Football League (AFL) since 1995 ; and until 2015, they belonged to the AFL's National Conference. Over nineteen seasons of play, the SaberCats emerged as one of the Arena Football League's most successful franchises; at the conclusion of the 2015 season, the SaberCats boasted a lifetime regular season record of 198–98. Moreover, the SaberCats had won a total of four AFL Championships. Their lifetime postseason record stood at 19–12.
The Cleveland Gladiators are an arena football team based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, currently on hiatus while members of the Arena Football League (AFL). The Gladiators played their home games at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, which they shared with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association and the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League. The franchise was originally based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and then later in Las Vegas, Nevada, before relocating to Cleveland for the 2008 AFL season. The Gladiators qualified for the playoffs eight times in their history, reaching the ArenaBowl in 2014. The Gladiators announced that they would not play the 2018 and 2019 seasons due to renovations on Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse that will require it to close during the offseason.
The Jacksonville Sharks are a professional indoor football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, playing their home games at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. Beginning in 2017, the Sharks began play as charter members of the National Arena League (NAL). They were members of the Arena Football League (AFL) from 2010 to 2016 and won the championship of their division in the first four seasons of their existence.
Week | Day | Date | Kickoff | Opponent | Results | Location | Report | ||
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1 | Friday | March 11 | 7:30 p.m. PST | at San Jose SaberCats | L 48–76 | 0–1 | HP Pavilion at San Jose | [2] | |
2 | Saturday | March 19 | 7:00 p.m. PDT | Cleveland Gladiators | L 55–61 | 0–2 | Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena | [3] | |
3 | Friday | March 25 | 5:00 p.m. PDT | at Iowa Barnstormers | L 42–43 | 0–3 | Wells Fargo Arena | [4] | |
4 | Friday | April 1 | 8:00 p.m. PDT | Kansas City Command | W 64–31 | 1–3 | Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena | [5] | |
5 | Bye | ||||||||
6 | Friday | April 15 | 2:00 p.m. PDT | at Utah Blaze | L 62–69 | 1–4 | EnergySolutions Arena | [6] | |
7 | Saturday | April 23 | 4:30 p.m. PDT | at Orlando Predators | W 70–58 | 2–4 | Amway Center | [7] | |
8 | Saturday | April 30 | 7:00 p.m. PDT | Arizona Rattlers | W 70–69 | 3–4 | Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena | [8] | |
9 | Saturday | May 7 | 5:00 p.m. PDT | at Pittsburgh Power | L 41–51 | 3–5 | Consol Energy Center | [9] | |
10 | Saturday | May 14 | 7:00 p.m. PDT | Dallas Vigilantes | W 71–49 | 4–5 | Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena | [10] | |
11 | Friday | May 20 | 8:00 p.m. PDT | Tampa Bay Storm | L 42–51 | 4–6 | Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena | [11] | |
12 | Saturday | May 28 | 5:00 p.m. PDT | at Kansas City Command | L 42–45 | 4–7 | Sprint Center | [12] | |
13 | Bye | ||||||||
14 | Friday | June 10 | 5:00 p.m. PDT | Philadelphia Soul | W 75–54 | 5–7 | Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena | [13] | |
15 | Saturday | June 18 | 7:00 p.m. PDT | Chicago Rush | W 63–60 | 6–7 | Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena | [14] | |
16 | Saturday | June 25 | 5:00 p.m. PDT | at New Orleans VooDoo | W 75–54 | 7–7 | New Orleans Arena | [15] | |
17 | Saturday | July 2 | 5:05 p.m. PDT | at Arizona Rattlers | L 46–68 | 7–8 | US Airways Center | [16] | |
18 | Saturday | July 9 | 6:00 p.m. PDT | Utah Blaze | W 76–49 | 8–8 | Joe Albi Stadium | [17] | |
19 | Saturday | July 16 | 7:00 p.m. PDT | San Jose SaberCats | W 63–61 | 9–8 | Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena | [18] | |
20 | Friday | July 22 | 5:00 p.m. PDT | Jacksonville Sharks | L 56–75 | 9–9 | Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena | [19] |
Round | Day | Date | Kickoff | Opponent | Results | Location | Report |
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NC Semifinals | Friday | July 29 | 7:00 p.m. PDT | at Arizona Rattlers | L 33–62 | US Airways Center | [20] |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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Shock | 14 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 48 |
SaberCats | 27 | 21 | 7 | 21 | 76 |
at HP Pavilion at San Jose, San Jose, California
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Gladiators | 14 | 14 | 13 | 20 | 61 |
Shock | 7 | 21 | 6 | 21 | 55 |
at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington
Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena is a multi-purpose arena in the western United States, located in Spokane, Washington. It is home to the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League.
Spokane is a city in Spokane County in the state of Washington in the northwestern United States. It is located in eastern Washington along the Spokane River adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills—92 miles (148 km) south of the Canada–US border, 18 miles (30 km) west of the Washington–Idaho border, and 279 miles (449 km) east of Seattle along Interstate 90.
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Shock | 14 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 42 |
Barnstormers | 12 | 6 | 19 | 6 | 43 |
at Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa
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Command | 6 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 34 |
Shock | 17 | 21 | 10 | 13 | 61 |
at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington
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Shock | 7 | 14 | 14 | 27 | 62 |
Blaze | 13 | 21 | 14 | 21 | 69 |
at EnergySolutions Arena, Salt Lake City, Utah
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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Shock | 21 | 14 | 14 | 21 | 70 |
Predators | 7 | 21 | 10 | 20 | 58 |
at Amway Center, Orlando, Florida
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Rattlers | 7 | 21 | 14 | 27 | 69 |
Shock | 7 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 70 |
at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington
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Shock | 13 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 41 |
Power | 14 | 0 | 20 | 17 | 51 |
at Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Vigilantes | 20 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 49 |
Shock | 13 | 28 | 16 | 14 | 71 |
at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington
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Storm | 7 | 24 | 0 | 20 | 51 |
Shock | 13 | 9 | 0 | 20 | 42 |
at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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Shock | 7 | 7 | 13 | 15 | 42 |
Command | 13 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 45 |
at Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri
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Soul | 7 | 21 | 6 | 20 | 54 |
Shock | 27 | 7 | 14 | 27 | 75 |
at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington
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Rush | 14 | 13 | 12 | 21 | 60 |
Shock | 14 | 28 | 14 | 7 | 63 |
at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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Shock | 21 | 20 | 14 | 20 | 75 |
VooDoo | 7 | 7 | 7 | 33 | 54 |
at New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Shock | 6 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 46 |
Rattlers | 6 | 28 | 14 | 20 | 68 |
at US Airways Center, Phoenix, Arizona
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Blaze | 14 | 21 | 7 | 7 | 49 |
Shock | 14 | 35 | 13 | 14 | 76 |
at Joe Albi Stadium, Spokane, Washington
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SaberCats | 21 | 14 | 6 | 20 | 61 |
Shock | 6 | 21 | 7 | 29 | 63 |
at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington
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Shock | 8 | 18 | 14 | 16 | 56 |
Sharks | 13 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 75 |
at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida
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(4) Shock | 7 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 33 |
(1) Rattlers | 7 | 14 | 14 | 27 | 62 |
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