The Long Beach Aftershock is a women’s professional football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 team.

The Aftershock was founded in May 2002, by many players who won the first Women’s World Bowl as part of the California Quake

California Quake

The California Quake is a women's semi-professional tackle football team based in Los Angeles County, California. The Quake currently play in the Western Conference, Tier 1 Pacific Southwest Division of the Independent Women's Football League. Home games are played at Downey High School's Allen...

, of the now disbanded Women's American Football League

Women's American Football League

The Women's American Football League was a women's football league that was formed in 2001. After disbanding, the teams merged with the Women's Affiliated Football Conference , the Independent Women's Football League and the American Football Women's League , itself now disbanded.-Teams:*Arizona...

 (WAFL).

In their first season, the Aftershock won the only championship of the AFWL in 2002 led by head coach Anthony Bartley beating the San Diego Sunfire by a score of 12-7. Then they joined the Women's Professional Football League

Women's Professional Football League

The Women's Professional Football League is the original and longest operating women's professional American football league in the United States. Now with teams across the United States, the WPFL had its first game in 1999 with just two original teams: the Lake Michigan Minx and the Minnesota...

 (WPFL) in its 5th season. The WPFL is the longest running women’s tackle

Tackle (football move)

Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle. The primary purposes of tackling is to disposses an opponent of the ball, to stop the player from gaining ground towards goal or to stop them from carrying out what they intend....

 league

Sports league

League is a term commonly used to describe a group of sports teams or individual athletes that compete against each other in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete on weekends; at its most complex, it can be an...

 in the U.S.

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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