Other Sports
The Cardiff Devils play in the Elite Ice Hockey League, the highest level of ice hockey competition in the United Kingdom.
Australian rules football is a growing sport with several clubs starting up in the mid 2000s. Wales has a national team the Wales Australian rules football team, they are the holders of the Dragon Cup after beating England 179-93 on aggregate on 18 October and 25 October 2008. Wales also competes as part of the Great Britain Australian rules football team in the Australian Football International Cup, which is essentially a World Cup for all countries apart from Australia which is the only place where the sport is played professionally.
The Tiger Bay Brawlers are a roller derby league based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded in April 2010, the league has a two publicly bouting A and B teams, as well as as two Intraleague teams, the Merchants of Menace and the Bruise Birds (not yet debuted publicly). The league plays using the Women's Flat Track Derby Association rules set.
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“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)