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From The News & Observer
Tuesday, November 9, 2003
East Coast Floorbal Tournament
New York and Boston tied atop the round robin standings, but the championship game belonged to Boston in the August 30-31 competition in Morrisville, the sport’s first East Coast tournament. Boston beat NYC 4-0 in the final game of the six-team event, which was hosted by the Triangle Floorball Club Raleigh at the Carolina Sportsplex.
The event included four men and four women from the U.S. national teams, and the competing teams included players from Canada, England, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
NYC and Boston had 13 points each in round-robin play, followed by Toronto, seven; Carolina Alpha, six; Carolina Zeta, four; and Tournament Team, zero. Victories were worth three points and ties one. Games consisted of 22-minute halves, with 5-minute halftimes. The top four teames reached the playoffs where New York topped Carolina Alpha 6-4 and Boston beat Toronto 11-1.
Boston’s Lasse Heikura was the event’s top scorer, getting 11 goals and 15 assists for 26 points. New York’s Peter Davidson had 13 goals and 6 assists for 19 points and Carolina Alpha’s Andreas Runheim put in 10 goals and made 5 assists for 15 points.
“We put the tournament on in part to get the greater floorball community to get to know each other and grow a little closer, as well as to energize the various groups that are out there so that we can all work on growing the sport of floorball in the USA,” said Ollie Rupp, one of the organizers of the tournament. “The TFC Raleigh also just purchased the first floorball rink in the USA... to provide a genuine floorball rink to the floorball community and to visually set the sport of floorball apart from similar looking games like street hockey, deck hockey, or floor hockey.”
The TFC Raleigh is open to all players. Juniors practice and play 8-10 a.m. Saturdays at the Carolina Sportsplex, and seniors (16 and up) practice and play 10-noon on Saturdays. For information, e-mail Sarah Young at trifloorball@yahoo.com or go to www.trifloorball.org.
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Brazil Withdraw But We Fight On!
12.01.17 Unfortunatly Brazil have withdrawn from the World Floorball Championship which means the U.S. and Canada will play each other twice! 
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Team USA for Qualifiers!
12.01.14 The World Floorball Championship Qualifiers are drawing close. More information will come soon but let's start by presenting the team!
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USFbA Spreading Floorball!
The United States Floorball Association is the official governing body of floorball in the U.S.
Since the start we have sent teams to the International Floorball Federations World Championships for both Men and Women. We hope to be able to get a U19 team together in the future but this is still in the works.
Floorball is an easy sport for all to learn and love! Feel free to check out the site and contact us if you have any questions. |
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