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Columbus Lady Shooting Stars

women's soccer club based in Ohio, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5150067 ↗
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The Columbus Lady Shooting Stars were a W-League club based in Columbus, Ohio, US, associated with former the Men's USL team, the Columbus Shooting Stars. The team played in the Midwest Division of the Central Conference, and folded after the 2004 season.

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“Columbus Lady Shooting Stars” enters the record as women's soccer club based in Ohio, US. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Columbus, Lady and Shooting can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Columbus Lady Shooting Stars” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.