World Footy News

WorldFootyNews.com and USFootyNews.com are teaming up to present the 2008 USFooty Top 10 Poll. To kick things off we are having a Top 10 Countdown for the Preseason Top 10. Who are the best teams in USFooty?

Minnesota Freeze are Number 6 in the WFN/USFN Poll. 2007 was a break out season for the Freeze.

They finished the year with the Division II National Championship. The Freeze were 7-1 and finished 7th in the World Footy News Poll. With their B-team finishing runner’s up in the Reserves at Nationals 2007 was a pretty good year.

The big question is whether they can repeat the performance or even improve in 2008. In order to do so, Head Coach Jason Becker, is hoping for a tough schedule to get his young charges ready to compete for the Division I National Championship in Colorado Springs in October. The Freeze have joined the Championship Division of the Mid-American Australian Football League. The MAAFL season has the Freeze hosting the Kansas City Power, the Nashville Kangaroos and the Milwaukee Bombers. They are traveling to St Louis and Chicago to take on the Blues and the 2007 MAAFL Champions, Chicago United.

Over the last couple of years, the Freeze have developed a close relationship with St John’s University in Minnesota. St. Johns students have been heading to Perth, Australia to attend Notre Dame University. In Australia, “the Johnnies” not only get exposed to footy culture but they also go through a development program which includes professional coaching and games with Western Australian clubs. "Tony Fairhead and I talk regularly and he gives me the inside scoop on the new recruits and we make sure they have a place to land upon their return. Some Johnnies from previous trips have stepped into leadership roles and are making sure the new guys are quickly included in mid-week indoor training sessions at St. Johns. The Johnnies are also involved in an intercollegiate competition to be played later this March in Nashville,” says Coach Becker.