Alaska Wild Back on Track for 2007 Season
November 3, 2006 - Intense Football League (Intense)
Alaska Wild News Release
ANCHORAGE- There's been another turnover for Anchorage's first professional indoor football organization: The Alaska Wild announced today that it has joined the Intense Football League (IFL) allowing the organization and the team to be ready for play in 2007.
David Weatherholt, president of Alaska Professional Sports Inc., owner of the Alaska Wild, said the IFL consists of eight teams including the new additions of Anchorage, as well as Frisco and Katy, Texas. The Alaska Wild's first game will be played at the Sullivan Arena on April 12, 2007. The Wild schedule will be announced later in the month.
"With the season around the corner the next few months should be pretty exciting. We have a great staff on board and are starting to organize the rest of our team," Weatherholt said.
After announcing the Alaska Wild would not join the Arena Football 2 League, team management was contacted by IFL executives with the offer to join the Texas-based league, Weatherholt said.
"While there has been some delay in getting football off the ground in Anchorage, once the right league was identified, things started clicking into place," said Weatherholt. He cited concerns about becoming part of a high quality league as one of the major delays. "Our goal is to operate as closely to the standards of a major-league sports team as possible and the IFL has those same standards."
Anxious Alaskan fans had reserved over 1,300 season passes when the Alaska Wild announced its intentions to play in the 2007 season, but a variety of complications related to joining the Arena Football 2 League forced team management to postpone to 2008 and consider other leagues. Season pass reservations can still be made at www.akprosports.com
Weatherholt said the organization is moving forward with player and staff recruitment. Cheerleading tryouts, he said, are scheduled for Nov. 18. Interested players and cheerleaders can apply at the Alaska Pro Sports website.
The IFL was founded in 2003 and consists of eight professional indoor football teams, two of which are located outside of Texas, the Louisiana Swashbucklers of Lake Charles, LA and the Alaska Wild of Anchorage. Texas teams include the CenTex Barracudas of Belton, Corpus Christi Hammerheads, Odessa Roughnecks, San Angelo Stampede Express and recently added teams from Katy and Frisco. The Odessa Roughnecks are the defending league champions after winning the Intense Bowl in August of 2006. For more information on the IFL, please visit www.intensefootballleague.net
The Alaska Wild is Alaska's first professional football team and one of two professional sport teams based in Anchorage. Alaska Wild is owned by Alaska Professional Sports, Inc. For more information on Alaska Wild and Alaska Professional Sports, Inc., please visit www.akprosports.com
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