Sioux Falls Storm | |
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Current season | |
Established 2000 Play in Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota SiouxFallsStorm.com | |
League/conference affiliations | |
Indoor Football League (2000)
National Indoor Football League (2001–2004)
United Indoor Football (2005–2008)
Indoor Football League (2009–present)
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Current uniform | |
Team colors | Navy blue, red, white |
Mascot | Blitz |
Cheerleaders | Lightning Girls |
Personnel | |
Owner(s) | David and Stephanie Richter Patrick and Amber Garry[1] |
President | Amber Garry[2] |
Head coach | Andre Fields[3] |
Team history | |
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Championships | |
League championships (11) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 | |
Conference championships (13) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 | |
Division championships (6) 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 | |
Playoff appearances (20) | |
2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023 | |
Home arena(s) | |
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The Sioux Falls Storm are a professional indoor football team based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.[4] The Storm joined the original Indoor Football League as an expansion team in 1999 as the Sioux Falls Cobras, and first took the field for the 2000 season.[5] They currently participate in another iteration of the Indoor Football League; prior to that, the Storm were in United Indoor Football (UIF), where they won all four of the league's championship games. In the newer IFL, the Storm have won seven of the eleven championships in the league as of 2019.
They play their home games at Denny Sanford Premier Center. In mid-April 2014, the team announced that the 2014 season would be its last at the aging Sioux Falls Arena (also known as the Storm Shelter), originally constructed in 1961. In 2015, the Storm followed the Sioux Falls Stampede of the United States Hockey League to the newly constructed Denny Sanford Premier Center.[6]