The 2011 Colorado Ice season was the team's fifth season as a football franchise and third in the

Indoor Football League The Indoor Football League (IFL) is a professional indoor American football league created in 2008 out of the merger between the Intense Football League and United Indoor Football. It has one of the largest number of currently active teams am ...

(IFL). Founded for the 2007 season as part of

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, the

Colorado Ice Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the ...

became charter members of the IFL when the UIF merged with the

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before the 2009 season. One of 22 teams that competed in the IFL for the 2011 season, the

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-based Colorado Ice were members of the Mountain West Division of the Intense Conference. In their final season under original head coach Collins Sanders, the Colorado Ice played their home games at the

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in Loveland, Colorado. The team recorded an 11–3 record, won the Mountain West Division title, and reached the playoffs.

Schedule

Key:

Preseason

Regular season

Postseason

Standings

Awards and honors

On March 23, the Indoor Football League named running back Terry Washington as its offensive player of the week. The league cited his four-touchdown effort in the team's win over the

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in making the award. On April 6, the Indoor Football League named defensive back Tyrone King its defensive player of the week. The league cited his "clutch performance" in Colorado's victory over the Bricktown Brawlers.

References

External links

Colorado Ice official statistics

{{Colorado Ice seasons

Colorado Crush (IFL)