The Pittsburgh Hurling Club is an adult co-ed evening and weekend sports club for anyone interested in learning and playing the oldest field sport in the world. It’s fast, fun and challenging. Think of soccer, mixed with baseball, a little hockey with football fieldgoals for points. Sound complicated? It’s not and we’ll help prove it. We’ll teach you the rules, toss you some equipment to use, and maybe even buy you a beer after the day’s through. Drop us a line or stop by one of our open events. The club as we know it started out in 2007 as a group of friends with a common interest. Since then the club has gone from strength to strength, marking new achievements both on and off the field every year. The club has grown from 4-5 enthusiasts to over 25 active regularly attending members and has spawned a sister club at the University of Pittsburgh. The current organisation overseeing the development of the club and the team, the "Pittsburgh Hurling Development Initiative" (PHDI) was founded in 2013 and is a 501(c)3 registered charitable organisation. As a team our first major achievement on the field came in the 2011 Al O'Leary competition in Akron, a competition where we had begun as a team just making numbers and went on to become a force to be reckoned with, since our first victory in 2011 we have not relinquished the title despite the efforts of teams from Akron, Indianapolis and Purdue. Along with these accomplishments we have won the Midwest hurling championship in 2012 and 2013 and went on to represent the Mid-West at our first NACB National Championship in Cleveland, OH. The finals took place on Labor Day weekend of 2013, from an initial pool of 15 teams we got to the semi-final narrowly loosing out to a team from Madison, WI.