The West Virginia Wildfire is a

women's American football Women's gridiron football, more commonly known as women's tackle football, women's American football, women's Canadian football, or simply women's football, is a form of gridiron football (American or Canadian) played by women. Most leagues play ...

team in the

Women's Spring Football League The United States Women's Football League (USWFL) is a full-contact women's American football minor league that opened with exhibition play in 2010 and subsequently played its first regular season in 2011.https://www.uswfl.net/copy-of-schedule- ...

since 2011. The first women's football team in West Virginia, the Wildfire is based in the city of Belle. In their inaugural season, the WildKats were known as the West Virginia Wonders and played in the

National Women's Football Association The National Women's Football Association (NWFA) was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades ...

. After that inaugural season, the team was originally set to play in the

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for 2009 as the West Virginia WildKats, but then they decided to take the next two seasons off to reorganize further. In 2012, the Wildfire won their first ever championship, winning the WSFL's 8-man division title.
In 2013, the Wildfire beat the Binghamton Tigercats 44–8 to win their second consecutive WSFL 8-man title.

Season-by-season

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External links

West Virginia Wildfire website
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