Arizona Hawks Explained

Clubname:Arizona Hawks
Fullname:Arizona Hawks Australian Rules Football Club
Nicknames:AZHawks
Founded:1999
Colours: White  Brown  Yellow
President:2024: Darren Batemen
Coach:2024: Darren Henderson
Captain:Darren Batemen
Ground:Fiesta Sports Park / Mesa High School

The Arizona Hawks is a United States Australian Football League team, based in Arizona, United States. It was founded in 1998 by Jess Keller and then fully functional by Andrew Ashworth in 1999, becoming the first Australian rules football club in Arizona.[1]

The Hawks have won the USAFL National Championships Men's Div 2 Grand Final in 2004, the Men's Div 3 Grand Final in 2011, 2021 and were runner up in 2022. The Women's Team were runners up in the Women's Div 1 Grand Final in 2007.

Arizona Hawk Dani Marshall was drafted to the AFLW in 2020 to play the sport professionally in Australia.[2]

Notes and References

  1. https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2019/09/12/australian-rules-football-arizona/ Footy, anyone? Australian Rules Football finds home in Arizona
  2. News: 'Indescribable': American Dani Marshall breaks AFLW ground . 10 February 2020 . The Age. . 10 February 2020.