Minnesota

The Minnesota Freeze kicked off the 2012 Fitness through Footy program today.  Fitness through Footy is a grass roots community based initiative that provides free fitness workouts for women of all ages, shapes, and fitness levels. Incorporating the skills of Australian Football provides a unique, challenging component to the work outs that can tailored to any fitness levels.  Its fun and challenging for beginners to elite athletes.

Stateside Footy presents a pair of Australian Rules Football matches, played on October 8, 2011 at the USAFL Nationals Tournament in Austin, TX. The first half of the show features Women's Footy as a combined team featuring the Boston Lady Demons (along with players from Baltimore-Washington and Columbus) plays a 2x20 Women's Footy match against the Minnesota Freeze Women's team. The second half features a 2x20 Division 4 match between a mixed team featuring reserves from Boston, San Diego and Seattle taking on a mixed squad of players from Dallas, Austin and Portland.

On the Denver leg of his odyssey, Brett Kirk led a training session and spent the day at the Mile High Challenge.