Donna Wilkinson Team USA Travel Fund

I am excited and proud to announce that I have been selected as one of 45 players named to represent our country in the first International Federation of American Football (IFAF) Women’s World Championship in Stockholm, Sweden, this summer as a member of USA Football Women's National Team.

This is a great honor and challenge... Women’s tackle football has developed from grass roots efforts by the players like myself who still 'pay to play' the game. The USA Football Women’s National Team is launching the largest fundraising effort in women’s football to cover the related costs.

All IWFL members that have accepted a position on Team USA are expected to pay the team fees and obtain the required funds exclusively from fundraising events and private donations.

The Donna Wilkinson Team USA Travel fund has been set up to support the efforts of #33 in playing for Team USA. Contributions will cover the fees required to play and the additional training and travel costs of participating on the US National Team. I appreciate all the suppport of those who have contributed to the travel fund to this point. Join my Team USA sponsorship team today! With a donation of $100 or more your name will appear on the US National Team banner!

It is an honor and a privilege to represent the United States and YOU! All Donations are welcome and greatly appreciated. Thank you for your participation in the world championship of women's tackle football. Team USA is working very hard to provide the United States with the Gold.

DonnaWilkinsonTeamUSATravelFund

~ Thank You~

Representing Nikken Wellness on Team USA!

I am grateful to share this exciting time in women's football history with my Nikken family around the World. I was introduced to Nikken ten years ago just before my tackle football career was launched with the DC Divas in 2001. I had the perfect opportunity to see first hand what the concept of Nikken Wellness Technology and energy-based products could do for someone who loved to hit and wanted the contact and thrill of football more than anything else! I have played for the past ten years because I LOVE IT! The joy from living my passion goes beyond words. The opportunity to do what I love and do it better because of the work I do with Nikken, makes it all that much sweeter.

I have recovered from chronic back problems using the Nikken products, and during my career playing football I have been able to recover from fractures, dislocations, sprains, bruises, ACL surgery and a broken back in record time with amazing results. Without these products and the advances in energy medicine, ARP Wave technology and mental discipline, I would be very challenged to play the game at all right now. Instead I have come back completely healthy- faster, stronger and making a lasting impact on the game.

Each injury has provided me the opportunity to grow physically, mentally and emotionally. Because I grew through my injury to a new place of being my awareness has grown. My unique perspective, my love for being well and what these products do gives me an opportunity to share and impact the lives of people around the world. I’m grateful to be on the Nikken journey!

This summer I have the opportunity to make history as a member of the USA Football Women’s National Team that will be competing in the Inaugural IFAF Women’s World Championship games in Stockholm.

We will be playing 3 games in one week and I will need the Nikken sleep system, pimag water, magnetics and nutrition to stay recovered and on top of my game. This is a challenge by any football standards and I am looking forward to it.

I have been fund raising since March 14th and am grateful for my Nikken team support! Thank you in advance for sharing this story as part of our Nikken journey. I am honored and blessed to represent the United States and the people I love and work with!

Teams to face off in Sweden

USA Football's Women's National Team will represent the United States in Stockholm, Sweden. USA Football's team will be assembled and managed in partnership with the Independent Women's Football League (IWFL), which consists of more than 1,800 female athletes across 51 teams. This roster will represent the United States' first women's national team in America's favorite sport. According to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, more than 120,000 American females played tackle football at least 26 times in 2008.

Selection for the Canada National Team is down to 90 players that will participate in one of two regional camps during March in Saskatoon, SK, and Oromocto, NB.The selected players will then attend the final camp in Saint John, New Brunswick, before heading to Sweden at the end of June. Head Coach Larry Harlow, who was one of the founders of the New Brunswick Women's Football League, the New Brunswick Jr. Girls Football League and the Maritime Women's Football League, will lead the Canadian team. He is currently the Head Coach of the Saint John Storm, a team he has transformed from last place into undefeated Maritime Champions.

Germany has selected a provisional squad that includes nine players from the two German Ladies Bowl finalists Berlin Kobras and Nuremberg Hurricanes. The Munich Cowboys and Duesseldorf Blades have also contributed nine players, while the Hamburg Amazons provide eight and the Mainz Lady Warriors six. More than 110 players attended tryouts in Cologne. The women's league began in 1990 and the first official German Championship game - the Ladies Bowl - was played in 1992. Since 2008 the German women's league has featured two divisions and for the 2010 season has 20 teams and approximately 750 players.

Women's American Football has been played in Austria since 1997 and the Austrian Football Division Ladies features four teams from two countries: the Black Widows from Graz, Budapest Wolves Ladies from Hungary, Raiffeisen Vikings Ladies from Vienna and Rangers Roughnecks from Südstadt. The Austrian Ladies Bowl was first played in 2000 when the Black Widows won the first of three consecutive titles and since then the Vikings Ladies have won the past seven championship games. Cameron Frickey, a native of the United States and former wide receiver for the Vienna Vikings, will coach Austria.

Women's football has a long tradition in Finland. Women started to play 9-on-9 flag football in the late 1980s, but rules evolved towards allowing contact, which eventually led to a move to tackle football. Finland head coach Teemu Kuusisto has a long history of coaching Finland's national teams and top club teams. The GS Demons and Roosters, both from Helsinki, provide most of the starters for the national team and have dominated Ladies football in recent history, contesting the last seven national finals. Finland has six teams competing in their own domestic league.

Women's football in Sweden is in its infancy with three club teams - Stockholm Mean Machines, Arlanda Jets and Limhamn Griffins - operating since the formation of a national team in 2008. The national team has twice faced neighbor Finland in friendly competition, improving in 2009 with a 36-6 loss following a 64-point shutout defeat a year earlier. Sweden's female players have played flag football and also integrated with country's men's teams for the past decade.

~ Read more ~
Inaugural IFAF Women’s World Championship Announces Groups, Seeding and Schedule
By Michael Preston - March 24, 2010

Vision and Motivation

Whatever you can Vividly Imagine

Ardently Desire and Enthusiastically Act on

Will Surely Come to Pass!

This statement so beautifully describes the creative power of our life experience. I am motivated by the experience of the physical expression of the game of football and the opportunity for growth that provides. I love the mental components of being in the zone, completely one with the moment and in-tune with my body, a team and a goal. Playing for the Women's National Team is the natural progression of a lifetime following my passion and playing the game I have always loved and wanted to play. The opportunity to promote freedom and equality for all genders, races, relilgions, sexual preferences and life as we know it is part of my journey and I'm grateful to be living my dream and sharing this perspective with the world.

Football is one of my outlets and the stage it provides is the opportunity to be the example and live the life, life & football has caused me to become. The game asks you to always move toward excellence, yet requires you to "forget" immediately when you drop a pass or miss a tackle and become present again - you must release the past from your memory and be ready to go again, now! Life is like football and works better when you forgive the past and focus attention and energy into present desires and act with faith and confidence toward what you want.

Its really not a secret that the only thing that can grow is a thing that you give attention to. When you move your attention off the things you don't like and don't want and start focusing on your dream and vision, the whole world moves and shifts and brings the right people, places and circumstances into your life. Believe in it... for you can not create outside of your personal belief system. I believe anything is possible... and I'm living it!

Live your passion and your motivation will always be high!!!