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unusual facts about National Women's Football Association


Huntsville Tigers

The exhibition games were a huge success and the league, the National Women's Football Association, expanded to 12 teams in its first full season of play in the spring of 2001.


Allie B. Latimer

According to the Women's Hall of Fame, “FEW’s many accomplishments and activities have impacted the federal workplace and contributed to improved working conditions for all.”

Cobden, Ontario

Cobden is the home town of Susie Laska, former professional hockey player for the NWHL; Lee Fraser, president of Canadians Abroad and Hollywood entertainment executive; Robert Wellington Mayhew, the first Canadian ambassador to Japan, and Brad Pender, Cobden's first professional baseball player with the Trois-Rivières Saints.

Emily Zurrer

On January 11, 2013, as part of the NWSL Player Allocation, Zurrer joined the Seattle Reign FC in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

Fannia Cohn

In 1914 the National Women's Trade Union League (NWTUL), an organization established in 1903, launched a training school for women organizers, a year-long program combining academics and field work.

Janice Murray

The match was held at Wembley Stadium to mark the 20th anniversary of the Women's Football Association (WFA) and was played as a curtain–raiser to the male national team's Rous Cup game against Chile.

Jesse Boone

His sister Amy played basketball and volleyball at George Mason University and played semi-pro basketball for the San Diego Waves of the National Women's Basketball League.

Lauren Sesselmann

Lauren Marie Sesselmann (born August 14, 1983 in Marshfield, Wisconsin) is an American-born Canadian soccer defender and former forward, who currently plays for Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League.

Louise Armstrong

Armstrong was faculty of the Institute of Children's Literature and chaired a committee on family violence for the National Women's Health Network (1979–1984).

Mary Engle Pennington

She is also an inductee of both the National Women's Hall of Fame and the ASHRAE Hall of Fame.

Mary Kenny O'Sullivan

Labor leader and President of AFL Samuel Gompers allowed her time at the microphone to announce the founding of the National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL).

Mike Rawding

In September 1979 the Women's Football Association (WFA) enlisted Rawding to take charge of the managerless England women's national football team for a friendly match against Denmark at Boothferry Park in Hull.

NAACP in Kentucky

William English Walling from Louisville, Kentucky (1877–1936), an American labor reformer and socialist educated at the University of Chicago, the Hull House and Harvard Law School, brought his interest in women's rights to his work with the American Federation of Labor and founded the National Women's Trade Union League.

National Women's Health Network

The NWHN was founded in 1975 by Barbara Seaman, Alice Wolfson, Belita Cowan, Mary Howell, M.D., and Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. as a lobby group for women's health advocacy.

National Women's Invitational Tournament

Begun in the same year as the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women's invitational tournament (which was assumed by the now-defunct Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women in 1972), the NWIT was an eight team, double elimination tournament held at the Amarillo Civic Center in Amarillo, Texas.

National Women's Political Caucus

NWPC was founded in 1971 by Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, Myrlie Evers, several congresswomen, heads of national organizations, and others who shared the vision of gender equality including Dolores Delahanty of Kentucky and writer and journalist Letty Cottin Pogrebin.

Randy Waldrum

Waldrum was named as the first head coach for the NWSL expansion team the Houston Dash ahead of the 2014 season.

Sheila Parker

When the Women's Football Association (WFA) tasked Eric Worthington with constructing the first official England national team in 1972, he selected Parker as his captain after a series of trials.

Starfire Sports

Starfire features fields for indoor and outdoor soccer, and occasionally rugby union games, as well as a 4,500-seat soccer stadium previously used by the USL Seattle Sounders and now used by the MLS Seattle Sounders FC for US Open Cup matches, the Seattle Reign FC of the NWSL, and the Seattle Sounders Women of the W-League.

Sue Law

In what was the final match to be played under Women's Football Association (WFA) control, England lost 3–0 (6–2 on aggregate) amidst farcical scenes.

Taylor Vancil

Taylor Vancil (born 18 May 1991) is an American professional women's soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League.

Tiffany McCarty

McCarty was selected in the first round (second overall) of the 2013 NWSL College Draft by the Washington Spirit for the inaugural season of the National Women's Soccer League.


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