Adopt A Shark

ello all you Shark fans out there! As we embark on our 10th season of tackle football, the Sharks continue to assemble one of the best women's football teams in the country. Every season, each player is responsible for raising approximately $1,500 toward the estimated $100,000 that is necessary to fund our entire season. The most costly expenses include field rental, home gameday expenses and travel to away games.

By participating in this program, you can help one of the players shown below to meet the financial goal necessary to participate on the team. This allows our fans to support a Shark player in a unique and personal way. You would also help to ensure many more years of great women's football in the New York area!

Read their stories, choose your favorite Shark and send her your contribution. In return, we will send you a special "thank you" gift.

We appreciate your continued support of our organization and it's players!

Please make checks payable to: New York Sharks and mail to 104 Sandbrook Headquarters Rd., Stockton, NJ 08559 or go to our on-line store and donate on-line using a credit card.

Leslie Dock on "Whirl with Merle"

On her podcast, Whirl with Merle, Merle Exit interviews Tara Wyss, a member of W.A.G.S. (Wives and Girlfriends of the New York Giants) and Sharks player Leslie Dock about the NFL-JPD clinic.

Tara and her friends helped fund raise to allow the Sharks to transport the girls from throughout New York City to get to the clinic. She also brought along a cameraman to document the event.

To listen to the show, click here.

Andra Douglas on Women's Football Talk

New York Sharks owner Andra Douglas was interviewd on Women's Football Talk this past Monday. She talked about the New York Sharks, the NFL-JPD program, and an update on her upcoming book "Black and Blue". Also on the program was IWFL CEO Laurie Frederick and USA Football's Jack Reed. You can listen to the archived podcast of the show at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wfbtalk.

Also appearing on the Internet airwaves this week was Sharks' defensive back Leslie Dock. She talked about the NFL-JPD clinic in which she participated as a coach on the program Whirl with Merle. You can listen to this podcast at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/merleswhirls

NFL-JPD Clinic for Girls Grows

The New York Sharks hosted their 3rd Annual NFL-JPD Clinic for Girls this past weekend at Giants Stadium. It was a smashing success as over 150 girls signed up for the free clinic. Each year the number of girls attending keeps growing.

Girls from all over the New York City Tri-State area attended the clinic. Sharks coaches and players ran the girls through drills and held sessions to teach them some of the finer points of football.

At the end of each day, the girls tried out some of their new found skills playing flag football.

Also helping out the Sharks was Taya Wyss, who with the assistance of the wives and girlfriends of the New York Giants helped fundraise to provide buses to transport the young football players to the stadium from 3 locations in New York city.

For more pictures from the event, visit www.nysharksfootball.com/gallery/gallery2009.cfm

Hurt Sharks

Defensive linebacker Amber Knighten will be out this season due to a shoulder injury suffered in a flag football tournament. Also former Shark Teresa Schirrippa was serverly injured in another flag football game. Schirrippa was hit in the face and needed emergency surgery. The operation was successful and she is resting at home.

Andra Douglas on Whirl with Merle

Sharks owner Andra Douglas and USA Football's Jack Reed were guests on Merle Exit's Whirl with Merle Internet radio program. The upcoming NFL-JPD program that is being hosted by the Sharks at Giants Stadium was discussed as well as an upcoming international women's tackle football tournament featuring teams from the IWFL to represent the United States in 2010 or 2011.

Listen to the show at: www.blogtalkradio.com/merleswhirls

Chef Josie

Former New York Sharks defensive linesman Josie Smith-Malave made an appearance on Season 5's Top Chef tonight on the Bravo channel.  She had competed in season 2 and was cut half-way through the season.  In tonight's episode they pitted chefs from season 5 against all-star chefs from previous seaons in the first Top Chef Bowl.

The show had a football theme and Josie was pitted against Jeffrey McInnis.  They had 20 minutes to create a dish that reflected the cuisine from the region of an NFL team.  Her region was Miami.  Spoiler alert below.

Sorry that we didn't announce this earlier as we did not know beforehand.  It is always kind of shocking when you see a Sharks player on the screen and you do a double-take.

Spoiler alert: Josie came through with a shutout victory scoring 10 points for her team though it wasn't enough as the Season 5 chefs outscored the Top Chef All-Stars.