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Denis has been involved with the Washington Baltimore Eagles since 1998. He was appointed Coaching Director and assistant coach to the Revolution in 2001, and traveled with the team to London for the inaugural Atlantic Alliance Cup. The next year he stepped up as Head Coach of the Revolution team for their trip to Melbourne, Australia, for the first ever International Cup of Australian Rules Football where they came fifth of 11 teams.

Denis stepped down from National coaching duties to concentrate on introducing Australian Football into the US culture. He recognized that the best starting point was the US Physical Education curriculum and has developed US Footy Kids accordingly. Denis lives in Baltimore with his wife, Crystal and son Quinn.

Paul, otherwise known as Plugger, has been involved with the United States Australian Football League since it's inception in 1997 and was the founding President of the League.

Paul is a Senior Manager with Accenture, a Management Consulting Firm and his clients include Harley-Davidson, Case New Holland and MillerCoors Brewing company. Paul specializes in HR Strategy and large scale systems implementations.

Paul lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife Tiffany and two children. His daughter Heather plays football with the Milwaukee Lady Bombers and and his son David takes on the role of D.J. at the National Tournament each year alongside commentator Rodney 'Grilla' Grljusich. | More on Plugger >

Seth, his wife Claire, and children Anika, Olivia, and Ethan, live in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he teaches college mathematics. Seth has been a footy fan since he first saw it on TV back in 1981. In 1997, he founded the North Carolina Tigers. He also served as President of the South Eastern Australian Football League.

Seth started umpiring when the Tigers' regular umpire got lost on some Carolina backroads on the way to a match. Seth took notice that he received many more compliments for his umpiring than he ever did for his play at full forward. It was then that Seth realized his true calling. He umpired at the 2001 Nationals and has been a full time umpire ever since. In 2006, Seth became only the second American to gain an AFL Level Two Field Umpire certification.

Andrea Casillas began playing with the Arizona Lady Hawks in 2005. Upon getting accepted into law school in New York she knew that she wanted to continue playing, but traveling back to Arizona would not feasible.

Once in New York, she founded the New York Lady Magpies which is in its third season. Even though the team is still young, it has boasted eight players on Freedom and recently hosted its first tournament.

Matt is Victorian born, spending most of his childhood and football career in Central Queensland. Matt now resides in Sacramento, California with his wife Amy. As well as coaching the Revolution, Matt is also the current coach of the Golden Gate Roos and prior to moving to California, was the coach of the Baltimore Washington Eagles.

Matt has lived in the United States since July 2005 and has played and coached senior football in both Brisbane and Sydney.

A veteran of over 400 Australian Rules Football games around Melbourne, country Victoria and now the USA, Wayne Kraska is one of the sports leaders in Atlanta Georgia. Wayne has served as President, Secretary and Head Coach of the Atlanta Kookaburras since settling there in 2002, and has coached the Atlanta Lady Kookaburras for the past 6 years and three National Championship wins.

Wayne's other achievements include, Tournament Director of the most successful USAFL National Championships in Atlanta in 2004 and receiving the Paul O'Keefe Award for Administrators Excellence in the USAFL.

As the National Head Coach of the USA Freedom Team since 2007 his efforts enabled the team to tour Australia in 2009 playing 4 games as the first International womens footy team to tour Australia.