Golden Gate Roos

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Golden Gate Roos
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Names
Full nameGolden Gate Roos Australian Rules Football Club
Club details
Founded1998
Competition USAFL Western Regionals
PremiershipsUSAFL D-1 men’s (1): 2017 USAFL women's (1): 2016
Other information
Official website http://www.ggafl.com/

The Golden Gate Roos are a United States Australian Football League team, based in San Francisco, California, United States. The team was founded in 1998. Its mascot is the Australian marsupial kangaroo adopting the nickname of the Kangaroos club in the Australian Football League. Golden Gate won the USAFL National Championship in 2017. [1]

The club's women's side is known as the Golden Gate Iron Maidens and area dominant women's side in the history of the USAFL National Championships, [2] having won it in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022.

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References

  1. Ward, Courtney (2 November 2017). "Dowdell guides Golden Gate Roos to USAFL glory". South Coast Register. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  2. Australian rules football clubs from North America put their best footy forward by Thomas Neumann for ESPN 19 Oct 2016