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Professional Indoor Football Coming To Central Oregon

 
PROFESSIONAL INDOOR FOOTBALL HEADED TO CENTRAL OREGON Oregonstorm.com AmericanWestFootballConference.com  
 
The American West Football Conference (AWFC) has approved a brand new professional indoor franchise to be located in Central Oregon.  The new AWFC team named the Oregon High Desert Storm will be brought to you by Platinum Events & Security LLC an Idaho based Limited Liability Corporation.  
 
The AWFC & the Oregon High Desert Storm ownership are  currently in discussions with the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center, to eventually call the First Interstate Bank Center home for the 2021 season and beyond.  The First Interstate Bank Center ?is a 4,000 seat indoor arena located in Redmond, Oregon.  
 
The High Desert Storm will be taking a grass roots approach to bring pro football to the High Desert area.  While a number of upgrades will be necessary to the First Interstate Bank Center prior to play, a planned build out will accommodate the needs of a professional AWFC indoor football team. Planned upgrades include the arrival of a temporary turf field, dasher boards and goal post which would also be required before the team could begin play.  The AWFC  and the High Desert Storm, in conjunction with Deschutes County Fair & Expo officials are  working on a plan to  provide these needed items for a successfully launch as part of the 2021  American West Football Conference season.   While the team plans to begin play for the 2021  season, due to unknowns of the COVID-19 Pandemic the AWFC may be forced to leave room  to have its inaugural High Desert season in 2022 if necessary. 

 
“Our goal is to build a community based team, where the surrounding community can attend an  affordable source of family friendly entertainment.  W?e chose Central Oregon due to  the great community and venue that appears to be a perfect fit for indoor football.  We are  excited to bring professional indoor football to this great community, and look forward to  beginning play as early as the 2021 season” said  Chris Reynolds, Chairman of the AWFC.    The AWFC provides? ?a platform for former collegiate athletes who have  exhausted their college eligibility and fell short of a NFL/CFL/XFL opportunity to continue  striving for that opportunity of reaching the next level.  
 
The High Desert Storm will host their first tryout ?November 21, 2020 at the Deschutes County Expo located 3800 SW, SE Airport Ave Redmond, Oregon?. This will be a closed tryout and  Registration & times will be online only at ?www.oregonstorm.com? ? Additional Tryout dates and times will  be announced soon.  
 
The High Desert Storm? ?are currently in search of interns/volunteers who would love to gain  experience working for a professional organization.  ?Those interested may? ?send resume to ?info@oregonstorm.com? ?to become a part ?of the newest professional team  in Oregon.  
 
The American West Football Conference plans to return for 2021 with the league opener kicking  off mid-March.   The current teams in the league are the Wenatchee Valley Skyhawks  (Wenatchee, WA), Yakima Canines (Yakima, WA) and last year's undefeated Champions 13-0  Idaho Horsemen (Nampa, Idaho) with possibly more expansion teams coming in.  ?2021 will be the AWFC sophomore season as 2020 was cancelled due to COVID-19  
 
All the member teams are continuously preparing and striving to play in 2021 through this  COVID pandemi?c, and are working with officials in each community for a return to safe competition as early as health officials deem it safe. 
 
 
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