Baltimore Washington Eagles
Baltimore Washington Eagles Australian Rules Football Club, known as the Eagles, is a USAFL team based in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. Founded in 1998, the club has both men's and women's teams that compete nationwide. Some players have played for the USA national team in the AFL International Cup, held every three years in Melbourne.
The Eagles have won two Division II championships (1999 and 2006), were Division I runners-up in 2008, and won the 2017 Arctic Cup in Iceland. They run a kids program and support Ausball, a lighter, tackle-free version of the sport. The club is affiliated with the West Coast Eagles and is one of the two USAFL teams to share the AFL club’s name and colors.
In 2017, the club decided to split into two independent clubs: the DC Eagles and the Baltimore Dockers. The team has a history of early success as a founding USAFL club, followed by a period of decline, a revival in 2016 under Australian coaches Dannie Seow and Dean Vigus, and a move back up to Division II that year. Since then, recruitment has helped grow football in the DC–Maryland–Northern Virginia area.
The Baltimore Dockers and DC Eagles play a regular “Battle of the Beltway” series five times a year, with the rest of the season spent in USAFL games against eastern-region teams like the New York Magpies, Boston Demons, North Carolina Tigers, and Philadelphia Hawks. The Lady Eagles have been part of the club since the beginning; while there isn’t a separate women’s team, women compete as part of other teams and hold leadership roles. The club remains focused on developing women’s footy in the area.
A kids program called Saturday Morning Footy runs on weekend mornings in spring and summer to introduce Australian football and promote sport, fitness, and a healthy lifestyle.
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