Registration for Women’s 2025 Gaelic Football

2025 Program Overview

Our Womens Gaelic Football program, known as the Shi-Ladies, is open to women 17 and older and offers a fantastic opportunity to learn and enjoy the sport of Gaelic games. Our progam is in association with the Town of West Orange Recreation Department and the New York Ladies Gaelic Football League (LGFA). The Shi-Ladies are sponsored by Tullamore Dew. Your registration fee includes 3 seasons of play for the year.

Registration fees for the 2025 season are:

– West Orange Residents: $80 per player

– Non-Residents: $90 per player 

Here’s what you can expect:

Spring Season
Our program begins in the Spring, with weekly practices in West Orange beginning in mid-March and running through early June. Our practice fields include Stagg Field and Minish Field in West Orange. The Shi-ladies will practice on Wednesdays at 6pm with some additional practices scheuled at the coaches’ discretion

All practice times are subject to change.

The focus of practice is to develop player skills through fun-filled drills, games and scrimmages for all levels. We plan have having local 7 on 7 games and we hope that players become interested in “playing up” in competitive travel games with the New York LGFANY.

All players are encouraged to participate in the competitive travel games with the LGFA. The is no additional fee for this activity. The LGFA league features many as 10 teams from across the Tri-State area including Long Island and Connecticut. The games are typically played at Frank Golden Park, College Point (Queens), NY, but there may be games at other GAA venues in the Bronx and Yonkers.

Our Spring season officially ends after LGFA playoffs with a celebration at the Irish Sports Expo on June 22, 2025. The Irish Sports Expo is a fun-filled day of games, picnic, and awards at the Shillelagh Club in West Orange.

Summer Season

The travel LGFA season will continue in July and August with practices at the coaches discretion during the week.

Fall Season
The Fall season will start in September and conclude at the end of October. Schedules will be published in early September.

Uniforms
LGFA travel players will receive team uniform shirt at the field on game day. They must be returned at the end of each games.

All players receive a practice T-shirt which are yours to keep.

Communications
Our coaches use WhatsApp to communicate with players for practice updates, game RSVPs and general communications. Your coaches will invite you to join the Team Group before the start of the season. Players may also use it to communicate with each other for team related messaging (ride-sharing, etc.).

Our executive committee uses Facebook and Constant Contact for communicating to club members and the general and public. The frequency of the emails is about 2-3 per month. Please make sure that you are not blocking messages from us.