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2016 USAFL National Championships Sarasota, Florida | |
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League | United States Australian Football League |
Sport | Australian rules football |
Duration | 15–17 October 2016 |
Men champions | Austin Crows (3rd premiership) |
Women champions | San Francisco Iron Maidens (1st premiership) |
The 2016 USAFL National Championships were the 20th installment of the premier United States annual Australian rules football club tournament. The tournament as held at the Premier Sports Campus in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, on October 15–16. The tournament saw a total of 41 teams representing 34 USAFL clubs and three from AFL Canada.
The Austin Crows picked up their second consecutive Men's Division 1 premiership by sweeping the group stage and then defeating the Golden Gate Roos 39-13 in the Grand Final. The Roos' appearance in the Final was their first at the D1 level since 1999. Nolan Cox, brother of Collingwood Football Club player Mason Cox, was named most consistent for the tournament in helping the Crows to their third D1 flag in three years. Austin's 4-0 record completed a perfect 18-0 season, and extended their win streak to 23 games, the second longest in Men's USAFL history. Elsewhere, the Calgary Kangaroos won their second ever Division 2 title, the Portland Steelheads became the first D3 team to win back to back titles, and the Ohio Valley River Rats won their fifth Division 4 premiership. [1]
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or even less formally the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Formed in 1892 in the then-working class Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, the club played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) before joining seven other teams in 1896 to found the breakaway Victorian Football League. Originally based at Victoria Park, Collingwood now plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with its training and administrative headquarters located at Olympic Park Oval and the Holden Centre.
Mason Cox is an American professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Playing as a ruckman and key forward, he first played Australian rules football in April 2014 before making his AFL debut just two years later in April 2016. Cox had previously played basketball for Oklahoma State University in the Big 12 Conference. On debut, he became the tallest player in the history of the AFL, overtaking Aaron Sandilands in height.
In Women's Division 1, the Denver Lady Bulldogs saw their six-year streak of National Championships snapped, falling to the San Francisco Iron Maidens. The Maidens, who are the women's arm of the Golden Gate Australian Football League, beat Denver 9-6 in their first game on Sunday afternoon, then defeated the Minnesota Freeze 16-6 to finish the round robin competition at 4-0 to clinch the title. The Division 2 Women's competition, made up of three combined teams, was won by the team with players from the Portland Sockeyes, Seattle Grizzlies, Arizona Hawks, and Tampa Bay ARFC. [2]
Special guests on the weekend were Hawthorn Football Club greats Dermott Brereton and Chris Wittman, who held a coaches clinic on the Friday before the tournament, and also provided broadcast commentary. A record 30 matches were broadcast live via the USAFL's YouTube channel, including all twelve Men's Division 1 group matches, all fifteen Women's Division matches, and the Men's Division 1, 2, and 3 Grand Finals. [3]
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL and has won thirteen VFL/AFL premierships. It is renowned as the only club having won premierships in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. The team play in brown and gold vertically striped guernseys. The club's Latin motto is spectemur agendo, the English translation being "By our deeds let us be known".
Dermott Hugh Brereton is an Australian former professional Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League (AFL), regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation. Of Irish descent, he was known for his aggressive style of play. Brereton kicked 464 goals and played in five premierships for Hawthorn during his 211-game career. He is a former director of the Hawthorn Football Club and is currently an AFL commentator on Foxtel's 24-hour AFL channel Fox Footy, as well as on radio station SEN 1116.
Chris Wittman is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL/AFL.
Round 1 (Pool A) | |||||
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Sat, 15 Oct (9:00am) | Austin Crows 4.4 (28) | def. | Quebec Saints 1.3 (9) | ||
Sat, 15 Oct (11:00am) | Los Angeles Dragons 4.2 (26) | def. by | Denver Bulldogs 8.2 (50) | ||
Round 1 (Pool B) | |||||
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Sat, 15 Oct (10:00am) | New York Magpies 7.9 (51) | def. | Dallas Magpies 0.1 (1) | ||
Sat, 15 Oct (12:00pm) | Golden Gate Roos 10.12 (72) | def. | Orange County Bombers 0.0 (0) | ||
Round 2 (Pool A) | |||||
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Sat, 15 Oct (2:00pm) | Los Angeles Dragons 4.9 (33) | def. | Quebec Saints 2.2 (14) | ||
Sat, 15 Oct (3:00pm) | Austin Crows 5.10 (40) | def. | Denver Bulldogs 1.0 (6) | ||
Round 2 (Pool B) | |||||
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Sat, 15 Oct (4:00pm) | New York Magpies 9.7 (61) | def. | Orange County Bombers 0.2 (2) | ||
Sat, 15 Oct (5:00pm) | Golden Gate Roos 8.11 (59) | def. | Dallas Magpies 0.0 (0) | ||
Round 3 (Pool A) | |||||
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Sun, 16 Oct (11:00am) | Austin Crows 7.5 (47) | def. | Los Angeles Dragons 0.5 (5) | ||
Sun, 16 Oct (12:00pm) | Denver Bulldogs 3.1 (19) | def. by | Quebec Saints 3.4 (22) | ||
Round 3 (Pool B) | |||||
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Sun, 16 Oct (9:00am) | Orange County Bombers 8.5 (53) | def. | Dallas Magpies 4.2 (26) | ||
Sun, 16 Oct (10:00am) | New York Magpies 1.3 (9) | def. by | Golden Gate Roos 3.6 (24) | ||
Group A
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USAFL Grand Final (Division 1 Men's) | |||||
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Sunday, 15 Oct (4:00pm) | Austin Crows | def. | Golden Gate Roos | Premier Sports Campus Lakewood Ranch, FL (crowd: 1,200) | |
6.2 (38) 6.3 (39) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 0.1 (1) 2.1 (13) | |||
Rank | Team | Change | State |
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1 | Austin Crows | — | Texas |
2 | Golden Gate Roos | California | |
3 | New York Magpies | New York | |
4 | Denver Bulldogs | Colorado | |
5 | Los Angeles Dragons | California | |
6 | Orange County Bombers | California | |
7 | Quebec Saints | Quebec | |
8 | Dallas Magpies | — | Texas |
9 | Calgary Kangaroos | Alberta | |
10 | Columbus Jackaroos | Ohio | |
11 | Houston Lonestars | Texas | |
12 | Chicago Swans | Illinois | |
13 | Boston Demons | Massachusetts | |
14 | Baltimore-Washington Eagles | N/A | Maryland |
15 | Minnesota Freeze | — | Minnesota |
16 | Sacramento Suns | California | |
17 | Portland Steelheads | — | Oregon |
18 | North Carolina Tigers | North Carolina | |
19 | Seattle Grizzlies | N/A | Washington |
20 | San Diego Lions | California | |
21 | Philadelphia Hawks | Pennsylvania | |
22 | Fort Lauderdale Fighting Squids | Florida | |
23 | Cincinnati Dockers | Ohio | |
24 | St Petersburg Starfish | N/A | Florida |
25 | Nashville Kangaroos | Tennessee | |
26 | Atlanta Kookaburras | N/A | Georgia |
27 | Des Moines Roosters | Iowa | |
28 | Tulsa Buffaloes | Oklahoma |
Rank | Team | Change | State |
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1 | San Francisco | California | |
2 | Denver Bulldogs | Colorado | |
3 | Minnesota Freeze | — | Minnesota |
4 | Sacramento Suns | California | |
5 | New York Magpies | New York | |
6 | Portland Sockeyes | N/A | Oregon |
7 | Montreal Angels | N/A | Quebec |
8 | Columbus Jillaroos | N/A | Ohio |
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