2025 Fishers Freight season

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2025 Fishers Freight season
OwnerJim Hallett
General manager Dixie Wooten
Head coach Dixie Wooten
Home stadium Fishers Event Center
Results
Record1–0
Conference place4th Eastern

The 2025 season is the Fishers Freight's inaugural season in the Indoor Football League (IFL) and the first IFL season for the state of Indiana. The team is led by general manager and head coach Dixie Wooten.

Contents

Founding

On October 24, 2023, the Indoor Football League (IFL) announced an expansion team, tentatively known as "Indy Indoor Football", that would play at the brand-new Fishers Event Center and begin play in 2025. [1] On December 15, the team was named the Fishers Freight. [2]

Staff

2025 Fishers Freight staff

Front office

  • Owner – Jim Hallett
  • President/CEO – Larry McQueary
  • General manager – Dixie Wooten
  • Vice president of operations – Matthew Louck

Head coaches

  • Head coach – Dixie Wooten
  • Assistant head coach – Chuck Miller

Offensive coaches

  • Offensive coordinator/offensive line – Dixie Wooten III
Defensive coaches
  • Defensive coordinator – Chuck Miller
  • Defensive backs – Kiante Northington

Special teams coaches

  • Special teams coordinator – Kiante Northington

Strength and conditioning

  • Head strength and conditioning – Bob Buckland
  • Head athletic trainer – Madison Sikyta

Coaching staff
Front office

Roster

2025 Fishers Freight roster
Quarterbacks (QB)

Running backs (RB)

  • John Gay
  • Jon Lewis
  • Morian Walker

Wide receivers (WR)

Tight ends (TE)

  • None
Offensive linemen (OL)
  • Johari Branch
  • Kaleb Brewer
  • Jeremy Cooper
  • AJ Forbes
  • David Munoz
  • LaQuinston Sharp
  • Geor’Terrius Spivey

Defensive linemen (DL)

  • Tamar Heart
  • Robert Horsey
  •  0 Krystapher Oakley
  • Kwame Sutton
  • Jaylin Swan
  • Brayden Utley
Linebackers (LB)
  • Trajan Stephens-McQueen

Defensive backs (DB)

  • Kareem Gaulden
  • Devin Hafford
  • AJ Felton
  • Aaron Jackson
  • Chris Jefferson
  • Tyrell Pearson
  • Jaiden Roe
  • Shawn Steele II
  • Greg Thomas Jr.

Special teams (ST)

  • Michael Baloga
Rookies in italics
30 active

Regular season

Schedule

WeekDateOpponentResultRecordVenueRecap
1 Bye
2March 29at Northern Arizona Wranglers W 41–291–0 Findlay Toyota Center Recap
3April 4 Tulsa Oilers Fishers Event Center
4April 12at Massachusetts Pirates Tsongas Center
5April 19 Bay Area Panthers Fishers Event Center
6April 26at Iowa Barnstormers Wells Fargo Arena [a]
7May 3 Quad City Steamwheelers Fishers Event Center
8 Bye
9May 17at Jacksonville Sharks VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
10May 24 Jacksonville Sharks Fishers Event Center
11May 30at Green Bay Blizzard Resch Center
12June 7 Massachusetts Pirates Fishers Event Center
13June 14at Quad City Steamwheelers Vibrant Arena at The MARK
14June 21 Green Bay Blizzard Fishers Event Center
15June 28at Tulsa Oilers BOK Center
16 Bye
17July 12at Iowa Barnstormers Casey's Center [a]
18July 19 San Diego Strike Force Fishers Event Center
19July 25 Iowa Barnstormers Fishers Event Center
Notes:
* Intra-conference opponents are in bold text.
Legend:
   Light green background indicates a victory.
   Light red background indicates a loss.

Standings

Eastern Conference
WLPCTGBCONFPFPASTK
Quad City Steamwheelers 201.000-2–07670W2
Jacksonville Sharks 101.0000.51–04625W1
Green Bay Blizzard 11.5001.01–18986W1
Fishers Freight 101.0001.00–04129W1
Tulsa Oilers 101.0001.00–02820W1
Iowa Barnstormers 01.0001.50–14752L1
Massachusetts Pirates 02.0002.00–25883L2

Notes

  1. 1 2 Wells Fargo Arena was renamed Casey's Center on July 1, 2025. [3]

References

  1. Van Beek, Eric (October 23, 2023). "INDIANAPOLIS TO JOIN IFL IN 2025". Indoor Football League. Retrieved February 4, 2025.
  2. "Kicking off March 2025..." Fishers Freight. December 15, 2023. Retrieved February 4, 2025.
  3. "Wells Fargo Arena to be renamed Casey's Center July 1". Iowa Events Center. October 21, 2024. Retrieved February 7, 2025.