The Edmonton Storm are a women's football team in the Western Women's Canadian Football League's (WWCFL) Western Conference. The team is based in Edmonton, Alberta. The Storm are Alberta's oldest competitive women's tackle football club.
Team history
The Storm were founded in 2004. By 2010 there was growing momentum around women's football in Alberta, and the Storm joined together with the Calgary Rockies and Lethbridge Steel clubs to form the Alberta Female Football League (AFFL). The Storm finished atop the league in its lone season. In 2011, the AFFL was absorbed by the WWCFL, which included the Manitoba Fearless and new teams based in Winnipeg, Regina, and Saskatoon. The league began play in 2011 with the Alberta-based teams forming the Western Conference, and the four other teams forming the Prairie Conference.
The inaugural WWCFL season was a successful one for the Storm. The team was undefeated during the regular season, finishing atop the Western Conference. The team ultimately advanced to the WWCFL Final, where they faced the Saskatoon Valkyries in Lethbridge. The Valkyries defeated the storm by a score of 35–7 to become the first WWCFL Champions.[1]
The Storm had a successful run from 2013–2016, a period that saw two new Alberta-based teams join the WWCFL in the Northern Anarchy, based in Grande Prairie, and the Okotokz Lady Outlawz. The Storm did not lose a regular season game for four straight seasons, and they returned to the WWCFL Championship final in consecutive years in 2015 and 2016. However, they lost both finals. In 2015, they lost to the Regina Riot, while they lost again to the Valkyries in 2016.[2][3]
The Storm paused operations ahead of the 2024 season.[4]
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