Archive | 2011

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Lady Pies named in USA Freedom Team!

NY Lady Pie players Christina Licata, Drea Casillas , Siobhan McHale and Monica Robbins were recently selected to the USA Freedom team, which will play in the inaugural 2011 AFL International Cup in Australia later this year.  Six women’s teams from the USA, Canada, Papua New Guinea, Italy, Ireland and an Australian Indigenous team will […]

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ANZAC Day 2011 – Get your tickets now!

It’s that time of year again for one of NYC’s not-to-be-missed events! This year is the 11th annual ANZAC Day Bash and it promises to be bigger and better than ever! We will have plenty of cheap Aussie Beer, Jacob’s Creek Wine and a great line-up of live music all day. Entry includes: FREE all-you-can-eat […]

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Australian Prime Minister meets NY Magpies

During her recent trip to the USA, the Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, dropped into our great sponsor, The Australian, where she thanked the Australian expat community for their fundraising efforts for recent flood victims. The Prime Minister not only shared a beer with The Australian’s owner and NY Magpies supporter, Matt Astill, but […]

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2011 Season Kicks Off

After months of waiting, the 2011 season has finally begun! With the chill still felt in the New York air, the Magpies took the first training indoors running drills and increasing fitness at the local DaPolito Community Center. Magpies winter recruiting appears to be paying off with strong attendance at the first practice session with […]

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Magpies taking it to the Kids

As part of the NY Magpies effort to grow AFL in NYC and the US, the Pies took it to the kids at The Allen-Stevenson School on the Upper East side, last weekend, as part of their International Day.  Regarded as one of the best all-boys schools in NYC, it was an honor for the […]

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‘Like’ the NY Magpies on Facebook

NY Magpies have recently made some large changes to their Facebook profile to optimize the continually updating benefits of social networking.  In the last couple of months, we have not only created a Twitter account, upgraded our Facebook page from a Group to Fan page, but to align with the major improvements the social network […]

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