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The city and metropolitan area of Rochester, New York has several sports teams. Rochester was named the top minor league sports market in the country by Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal in July 2005, the number 10 "best golf city" in America by Golf Magazine in 2007, and the fifth-best "sports town" in the country by Scarborough Research in September 2008.

U.S Women's Soccer Team in Rochester

The United States Women's Soccer Team has played at Eunice Kennedy Shriver Stadium, Frontier Field and most recently Rochester Rhinos Stadium (under a number of previous names).

Eunice Kennedy Shriver Stadium

  • In 1997 the U.S women's soccer team played a friendly vs the Rochester Ravens in front of 9,131 spectators. Team USA won 8-0.

Frontier Field

  • In the 1998 Nike Cup team USA played vs. Russia in front of 13,125 in a 4-0 win. Also in that tournament Brazil faced off vs Mexico at Frontier Field where Brazil dominated winning 11-0.
  • The largest crowd in Frontier Field history was on September 25, 2004 when the United States Women's National Soccer Team played an International Friendly vs Iceland on September 25. Team USA won 4-3 in front of 14,870 fans.

Capelli Sport Stadium

  • On September 13, 2006, Team USA played Mexico in an international friendly winning 3-1 in front of 6,784.
  • On July 19, 2009, Team USA played Vs. Canada in front of 8,433 winning 1-0 on a goal scored by Rochester native Abby Wambach.
  • On September 1, 2012 the US Women's team played an international friendly as part of their 2012 Olympic championship celebration Vs. Costa Rica in front of 13,208 fans winning 8-0.
  • On September 18, 2014 Team USA played Vs. Mexico in front of 5,680 fans winning 4-0.

Club sports

Rugby

Rochester is home to two men's rugby teams, the Rochester Aardvarks and the Rochester Colonials. Both have long histories, with the Aardvarks celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2006, and the Rochester Colonials celebrating 30 years in 2010. Both rugby clubs are among the few in the country to own their own pitch: Aardvark Park in Henrietta, New York, while the Colonials play their matches at Marianne Cope Parish in Henrietta, New York. The Aardvarks and the Colonials both have hosted local and statewide tournaments and the Rochester Colonials hosted the 2007 USA Rugby National Collegiate All-Star Championships, Rochester's first national tournament, as well as the 2009 NYS Rugby Upstates Tournament and the 2009 New York State High School Rugby Championships. Both teams participate in the annual Can-Am Rugby Tournament in Saranac Lake, New York in early August. Rochester also has a Women's Rugby club, the Rochester Renegades, who celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2008. The Renegades started the New York State Rugby Women's Division.

Other

Rochester Erin's Isle is a gaelic football club located in Rochester.

The Rochester Bicycling Club is a social and fitness bicycling club.

Rochester is also home to Rochester Rhythm the three time champions of the American Extreme Paintball League or AXBL.

The Rochester, New York Region EWGA chapter, homepage [1], organizes leagues, golf training, and golf events and networking for the area's amateur women golfers.

Monroe County supports two adult baseball (hardball) leagues – the Rochester chapters of the Men's Senior Baseball League (MSBL) and National Adult Baseball Association (NABA).

The Rochester Curling Club is the westernmost curling club in New York.

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