The new year is upon us and it is time to start planning for another year of great footy.
The first order of business is to kick off the season with our Annual General Meeting.
Mark your calendars for Sunday, March 4, 11 AM at The Local.
There is important club business to attend to: Read more »

The Minnesota Freeze will be celebrating the 2011 season at our annual end-of-year awards banquet, Best and Fairest night.   This is a celebration of our club's successes, an opportunity to close the season with good food, drink, and friendship. Several season and national tournament awards will be handed out. Hope to see every player there. Friends and family are welcome.

The Minnesota Freeze want to pass along thanks, again, to those that provided prizes for our annual raffle. It was a very successful fund-raising effort.

Congratulations to our prize winners:

Flight Lesson: Stephanie Schmitz

Two Gingers whiskey: Stephanie Schmitz

Kieran’s Gift Certificate: JoAna Cramblit

Appliance Smart Gift Card: Many Bambenek

DeGidio’s Gift Card: Jeff Grier

Linder’s Gift Card: Scott Johnson; Johnny Kropf

Target Gift Certificate: Helen/Eddie Phillips; Brian Larson Read more »

They play their footy over 15,000 kilometres from the MCG, making the Minnesota Freeze one of the most distant outposts of Aussie rules football in the world. Yet surprisingly, they are part of a growing, robust footy subculture emerging in the United States.

The Freeze plays in the United States Australian Football League (USAFL). The competition was founded in 1997 and now boasts 33 teams from coast to coast.

Unsurprisingly, it is fuelled by the passion of Aussie expats, but is attracting quite a few American converts, including Freeze president Brian Driscoll. Read more »

The critically acclaimed documentary "We Will be Brothers" is now available on Hulu at http://www.hulu.com/watch/235710/we-will-be-brothers

In August of 2008, 35 American men from all over the country left their families, their jobs, and their homeland to live out a dream in Melbourne, Australia. These 35 individuals joined together to form the United States National Australian Football team-the American Revolution. No lucrative contracts, no endorsement deals, no fame, not even funding for the trip to Australia. Each participant paid their own way to play one of the most physically taxing games in the world, purely for a love of the game and for the opportunity to represent their country. "We Will Be Brothers" is their story...

Over the course of nine months, three tryouts, and five matches, not only do the players strive to win, but they also find a deeper meaning in the game beyond wins and losses. The aging veteran Donnie Lucero, talented rookie Jay Levesque, family man Ryan Marx, and fiery Head Coach Rob Oliver tell the story of America's quest to earn a spot in the Grand Final to be played at the 100,000 seat Melbourne Cricket Grounds. Highlights include matches against Denmark, China, South Africa, Nauru and Japan, as well as cameos from multiple AFL legends, and a visit with kids at an elementary school. The story that unfolds is about competition, brotherhood, and most of all... life.

Written by Jeff Purcell and Daren Woolsey

The Minnesota Freeze Australian Rules Football Club will be hosting a 5K run/walk event to raise relief funds for the recent devastating floods in Queensland, Australia.  The 5K run/walk will be held at 10:00 AM on July 17 at Lake Phalen Park in St. Paul, MN. Race-day registration will begin at 9:00am. The registration fee for the race is $25 pre-event (online or by mail) and $30 if you register at the race. Read more »

Minnesota Freeze sent a large contingent of men and women to Austin Texas to participate in the US Revolution and US Freedom training camps/tryouts.  All the players in attendance are hopeful of making their respective squads to represent the US in the 2011 International Cup which will be contested in Sydney and Melbourne this August.

Revolution Candidates

1. Andrew Werner
2. Danny Hansen
3. Zach Weaver
4. Brent Mergen
5. Steve Fashant
6. Ryan Sutherland

Jason Becker is an assistant coach for the Revolution Read more »

The Kansas City Power will be traveling to Minnesota to avenge their 2010 loss.

There will be a women's exhibition match at 12:00.

KC vs Freeze to begin around 1 PM.

Match Report

1st Quarter
Minnesota 3.3.21
Kansas City  1.1.7

2nd Quarter
Minnesota 4.3.27
Kansas City 2.2.14

3rd Quarter
Minnesota 6.5.41
Kansas City 3.5.21

Final
Minnesota 7.8.50
Kansas City 3.7.25 Read more »

In their final regular season matches of the 2011 campaign, the Minnesota Freeze will taking a road trip to Kansas City to compete against the Power and perennial USAFL powerhouse, Denver.
This will be a round robin tournament, with three matches of 2 x 20 minute halves.
MN vs KC         Noon
MN vs Denver  1 PM
KC vs Denver   2 PM.
The location is the Polo Grounds south of Overland Park. (Kenneth Road, Kansas City, Missouri)  Read more »