2005 IWFL Champion Sacramento Sirens Host Media Day Sirens to Face Redding Rage in First Preseason Game by Kathleen Poe, PR/Media Director SACRAMENTO, March 24, 2006 - The 3-time National Champion Sacramento Sirens invite all media to Sirens Media Day, taking place at Foothill High School on Saturday, April 8 from 11a to Noon. Players, coaches and owners will be available for interviews and photographs, and will chat about the team and goals for 2006. Refreshments will be served and a media kit provided, including a DVD featuring print-quality photographs and 2005 game highlights. SIRENS MEDIA DAY Date: Saturday, April 8, 2006 Time: 11:00 am - Noon Location: Foothill High School, 5000 McCloud Dr., Sacramento (Off Hillsdale, near Elkhorn) The Sirens will also play their first preseason game of 2006 against the Redding Rage this same afternoon at 3:00 pm. For many Sirens rookies, it will be their first taste of hard-hitting women’s tackle football. The Sirens open their regular season at home on April 29th at 6:00 pm at Foothill High School. They will battle one of the toughest teams in the league, the Atlanta Xplosion, whom they defeated for the 2005 IWFL Championship. All Sirens regular season home games will be played at Foothill High School on Saturdays and start at 6:00 pm. Individual game tickets for the preseason and all regular season home games, are now available in the online team store on SacramentoSirens.com. Season tickets are also available and include the preseason game and four (4) regular season home games. SIRENS FACTS The Sacramento Sirens announced a new head coach for 2006. “Diamond” Lill Jarrell, MVP of the 2005 Championship game, and co-owner of the Sirens, has assumed head coaching duties and will also assist on the defensive side of the ball. All of the Sirens previous MVP’s have retired. In 2006, more Sirens rookies are in the starting lineup, than at any time since the team was incorporated in 2000. The Sirens have lost one game in 4 years, producing a 45-1 record. (Defeated in 2003 by the now defunct San Francisco StingRayz at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco) The team has never lost at home. The Sirens have had several home fields since the team began: ?(2001) Consumnes River College (2002), Del Campo High School (2003), Capital Christian High School (2004) and Foothill High School (2005, 2006). In 2002, the Sacramento Sirens defeated the Arizona Caliente for the national championship in the WAFC Conference, while being an exhibition team for the IWFL. Since joining the IWFL, the Sirens have won 3 consecutive championships. Defeated opponents include the New York Sharks in New York, New York (2003), the New York Sharks in Sacramento, California (2004), and the Atlanta Xplosion in New Hampshire, Connecticut (2005). Back