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An amateur club, membership is open to players aged 16 and up, with a current age range of members from 16 to 50+. Founded in 2007 by a group led by Jason Kenney, Bill Jones, Chris Lane, Tom
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Madison, completing a spring hurling and football league. In 2017, the club returned to Breese Stevens Field for its spring series, organizing a series of all-star matches and a triple-header and Gaelic sports expo which featured the hurling and men's and women's Gaelic football hosting visiting
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In 2008, the club focused on growing membership and by spring was able to participate in a developmental tournament held in
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In 2019 the club entered both a Jr. A level hurling panel and a Jr. D level hurling panel in the USGAA National
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National Champions. It is believed to be the first time that a single hurling club has won two divisions of the North American National Tournament in the same year, repeated again by the club in 2022.
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The club added a men's Gaelic football team in 2015 and a women's Gaelic football team in 2016. In 2016, in its second year of competition, the
Madison men's Gaelic football team reached the quarterfinals of the USGAA finals in
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at downtown Madison's Capitol Square, where they met Jones. The three held the club's first practice a few weeks later and were soon joined by Lane, Isenbarger and Bares. The first year ended with the club traveling to
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tournaments were held at Olbrich Park in Madison. In 2010, the tournament was held at Heistad Park, before moving to its permanent home at the Wisconsin Rugby Sports Complex in Cottage Grove in 2011.
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