Yakima Valley Warriors
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The Yakima Valley Warriors are a professional indoor football team that will begin play in the American Indoor Football Association in the 2010 season. The Warriors are based in Yakima, Washington
, with home games to be played at the Yakima SunDome
.
The Warriors are Yakima's first indoor football team since the National Indoor Football League
's Yakima Shockwave, which played in only the NIFL's inaugural 2001 season before folding.
The team will not participate in the league in 2011 and aims to concentrate on 2012 instead.
Yakima, Washington
Yakima is an American city southeast of Mount Rainier National Park and the county seat of Yakima County, Washington, United States, and the eighth largest city by population in the state itself. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 91,196 and a metropolitan population of...
, with home games to be played at the Yakima SunDome
Yakima SunDome
The Yakima SunDome is a 6,195 seat multi-purpose arena in Yakima, Washington. It was built in 1990, on the Central Washington State Fairgrounds and often serves as an exhibit hall during the fair. Bea Noel of Yakima developed the first vision of building a multi purpose facility on the Yakima Fair...
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The Warriors are Yakima's first indoor football team since the National Indoor Football League
National Indoor Football League
National Indoor Football League was a professional indoor football league in the United States. For their first six years, the league had teams in markets not covered by either the Arena Football League or its developmental league, af2, however, that changed briefly with their expansion into AFL...
's Yakima Shockwave, which played in only the NIFL's inaugural 2001 season before folding.
The team will not participate in the league in 2011 and aims to concentrate on 2012 instead.