Post by Gene on Dec 20, 2007 16:00:02 GMT -5
Native American Player Signs with Pro Indoor Football Team
Full blooded Native American football player Toqua-Hanai Ticeahkie who is an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma has signed a contract with the Arizona Adrenaline of the American Indoor Football Association.
Ticeahkie, 27, a lineman who Adrenaline head coach Andrew Moore says will be the premier nose tackle and might play on the other side of the ball, played his high school football at Warren High School in Downey, Calif. and was named Central League Defensive Line Player of the Year in 2006 while playing for the semi-pro Oklahoma Rebels in Lawton, Okla. and just finished playing semi-pro for the Soboba Warriors on the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians reservation in the Labelle Community Football League in southern California where he was the best interior defensive lineman in the league. "It's a great opportunity for me," Ticeahkie said of signing for the Adrenaline, a first-year professional indoor football team based in Prescott Valley, Ariz. "Not just to prove myself at this level, but also to help get me ready for the next level."
The 16-team AIFA regular season begins in early March and runs through the end of June. Teams will play a 14 game schedule, with the Adrenaline's seven home games being played at Tim's Toyota Center, which will hold approximately 5,000 fans for indoor football.
The 2008 Adrenaline schedule has not yet been released, but season tickets are now on sale by calling 866-443-8849, or online at www.gettix.net.
Full blooded Native American football player Toqua-Hanai Ticeahkie who is an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma has signed a contract with the Arizona Adrenaline of the American Indoor Football Association.
Ticeahkie, 27, a lineman who Adrenaline head coach Andrew Moore says will be the premier nose tackle and might play on the other side of the ball, played his high school football at Warren High School in Downey, Calif. and was named Central League Defensive Line Player of the Year in 2006 while playing for the semi-pro Oklahoma Rebels in Lawton, Okla. and just finished playing semi-pro for the Soboba Warriors on the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians reservation in the Labelle Community Football League in southern California where he was the best interior defensive lineman in the league. "It's a great opportunity for me," Ticeahkie said of signing for the Adrenaline, a first-year professional indoor football team based in Prescott Valley, Ariz. "Not just to prove myself at this level, but also to help get me ready for the next level."
The 16-team AIFA regular season begins in early March and runs through the end of June. Teams will play a 14 game schedule, with the Adrenaline's seven home games being played at Tim's Toyota Center, which will hold approximately 5,000 fans for indoor football.
The 2008 Adrenaline schedule has not yet been released, but season tickets are now on sale by calling 866-443-8849, or online at www.gettix.net.
