May 11, 2013 - Towanda, PA - 'CATS CLINCH 2013 WSFL NORTHEAST DIVISION TITLE WITH WIN AT HOME!

May 04, 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA - TIGER CAT'S HIT THE ROAD AND BRING HOME A 38-30 DOUBLE OVERTIME WIN!

April 13, 2013 - Fayetteville, NC - TIGER CATS OPEN 2013 WITH A 20-14 WIN OVER THE CAPE FEAR THUNDER!

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The Tiger Cats are proud to provide Women in the Northern Pennsylvania & Southern New York area the opportunity to

play competitive contact football. Please contact us if you are 16 & older and would like to play for the Tiger Cats in 2013.

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Offense: Stacey Hardnett, Jess Alexander
Defense: Nicci Vaughn, Tanya Burnett
Special Teams: Jessi Middendorf, Mary Canfield

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11 Woman Championship: New Jersey Titans vs. Dallas/Fort Worth Xtreme 7:00 PM

Stadium opens at 1:30 PM, $10 for an All Day Pass (access to both games), Ages 12 and under FREE!

Towanda, PA- The Tiger Cats have announced that all of their home games in 2012 will be played at the

Endless Mountains Sports Complex on the campus of Towanda Area High School at 1 High School Drive, Towanda, PA 18848.

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The Tiger Cats are offering all Women ages 17 and over the opportunity to play REAL TACKLE FOOTBALL!

Break out of the daily routine and come and play for us. NO EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY,

WE WILL TEACH YOU THE GAME! Be a pioneer and try something FUN, UNIQUE and EXCITING!

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The American Football Association is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax exempt corporation in its 31st year of

operation and is dedicated to the advancement of adult (semi-pro) football from coast-to-coast. Our slogan is Semi Pro & Proud®.

We are not affilliated with any other national semi-pro/minor league organization.

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BINGHAMTON -- Sophronia Sallard rushed for 145 yards and three touchdowns as the Binghamton Tiger Cats women's

football team opened its season with a 40-12 victory over the Pittsburgh-based Three Rivers Xplosion at Binghamton

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Independent Women's Football League Eastern Conference All-Star team. Brittanny Dunbar and

Heather Peck were both selected as linebackers while Stacey Hardnett was chosen as a wide receiver

even though she played quarterback and running back. Dunbar, who led the Cats in tackles this season,

attended Tioga Central and Athens schools. Peck teaches at Tioga and is the varsity field hockey and

bowling coach there. Hardnett graduated from Syracuse Nottingham. Peck also played running back

and Dunbar was a tight end. Hardnett split time between the quarterback and running back positions.

All three players served on Binghamton’s special teams. The Tiger Cats were 0-8 this season, beset by

player shortages, injuries and inexperience, but made continuous progress throughout the season.

The all-star game will be held during the IWFL Championship Weekend, on July 25 at 10 a.m.

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"My first thought was, 'Women play football?'" said John Evans, the Tiger Cat's head coach.

Evans had his own stint in the NFL and coaches full time for a college men's team. At first, he found the idea of teaching women to play football to be comical.

"I kinda came over thinking it was a joke. And when I got over, it was like they were great athletes, they were eager to learn."

The Tiger Cats is one of the newest sign-ons to join the Women's Football Alliance, a competitive national league of professional women football players. The team is made

up of women ranging in age from 17 all the way up to their oldest member, Carol Czimback. "I'm 48," said Czimback.

The defensive linesman says playing helps her cope with her degenerative disc disease and the opportunity to suit up has been a long time coming.

"Title nine didn't come in until I was in junior high so I never got a chance to play sports."

The coaches say age really hasn't been a factor with the team because they all have such a strong work ethic. Though they have yet to win any games, their biggest challenge, they say, has been

lengthening their roster. Right now, 42 women play for the Tiger Cats. They hope to get that number to 65 next year.

"It's been very challenging, I have to say, but it's a great tight knit group of girls here, so I'm having so much fun," said wide receiver, Kelly Burnham.

The Tiger Cats play their final home game at the Greater Binghamton Sports Complex against Baltimore next week, and then they're on the road for their final game in Philadelphia.

In August, they'll back on the turf training for the 2010 season.

For more information about the Tiger Cats, you can visit their website binghamtontigercats.com/default.aspx

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Tiger Cats impressive despite loss
By: By Michael Sharp
Updated: 04/26/2009 at 2:07 PM
Binghamton Press -

BINGHAMTON - A high school junior, McKay Ross spends her winters on the Whitney Point basketball court, playing in front of her head coach Sarah Jensen.

On Saturday, as the first signs of summer arrived in the Southern Tier, Ross found herself in something of a juxtaposition.

There she was as a fan, on the sidelines of the Greater Binghamton Sports Complex, watching her coach play quarterback for the Binghamton Tiger Cats.

"It was interesting," Ross said afterward. "It was scary at times, when the girls were going after her."

She added soon after: "It's different. It's a lot more aggressive than I was expecting."

And so, amidst a few big hits, a few long passes, a healthy dose of running plays and, yes, a few rookie mistakes, women's football arrived in the Binghamton area Saturday night.

Let the record show the Tiger Cats dropped their home opener 34-20 to the visiting Keystone Assault, their second straight loss to open this inaugural season.

But let the record also reflect their first home crowd stood somewhere in the neighborhood of 400-450 fans, stretching from end zone to end zone along one sideline, and running three, four and five deep at spots. There were tailgaters in the parking lot beforehand, and younger fans raced in and out of a bounce house, set up well beyond one end zone, during the game.

"The crowd tonight was unbelievable," said offensive coordinator Don Dunbar Sr., who served as Tiger Cats head coach on Saturday.

"I mean, from goal line to goal line we had people. And they were vocal, loud. They cheered the girls. And it was great to play at home. I mean, I think this is our home for a long time, so it was great."

And decked out in Tiger Cats T-shirts and sweatshirts - some featuring players' last names and numbers, others proclaiming "Expect No Mercy" - those fans saw a team comprised largely of football rookies continue to make strides.

Yes, they struggled at times with fumbled snaps. With turnovers. With an Assault reverse that went 37 yards for a second-quarter touchdown, helping stake the visitors to a 14-0 lead.

But Jensen also connected with former Ithaca College basketball player Jessica Poole for three touchdown passes, including two in the final four minutes.And Kelly Burnham, a former Union-Endicott and Binghamton University soccer player, wracked up 126 yards rushing on 23 carries, plus 81 receiving yards on three catches.

"We made a lot of mental errors, little things," Jensen said. "I mean, I had two interceptions, and beginning snaps, I kept fumbling.

"But, it's second game in the whole entire season, ever, of all of us playing. So I thought we did some good things."

She wasn't alone.

With his face painted as a tiger's, colored with orange, black and white, Garry Knisely, 25, of Horseheads gave the team high marks as he walked across the artificial turf afterward.

"One of the big things I noticed is that if they made a mistake, they didn't make it twice," he said. "That one reverse (Keystone) pulled on them, it didn't happen again. They're learning really, really quickly. And for their first year, I think they're going to turn out outstanding."

Or, as 24-year-old Lindsay Welch of Endicott put it: "I absolutely love it. I think it's an awesome change and switch-up from men's football (as) opposed to women's football. Because it's so alike, but yet so different at the same time."

Women's pro football team wraps up first season

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- It's the reaction that team members of the Binghamton Tiger Cats have come to expect.